Martha Raddatz Demands Guests Condemn Trump Remarks on Kirk Assassination, Goes 0-for-4

MARTHA RADDATZ: And Governor, just lastly, you immediately talked about Democrats who had already been targeted. President Trump said nothing about the political violence against Democrats. In fact, he blamed the radical left. What’s your reaction to that? Is that something you think he should be doing?

SPENCER COX: Look, President Trump is very angry. And Charlie is his close personal friend. There is a lot of anger on the right, on my side of the aisle. And I’ve certainly felt that. In this case, it does appear that that’s true. Again, more- more information is coming and we’ll learn more over time. I don’t know that that matters as much as the radicalization piece. I brought up the Democrats who were assassinated recently and how quickly we move on from these things, but the body count is piling up. And so, I’m so concerned about this radicalization piece. And that’s what we are trying to understand. Again, this person made a choice. And it was this person’s choice and this person will be held responsible. And we have to make different choices. And we also have to figure out how it came to be that a kid with a 4.0, with 34 on the ACT, with a full ride scholarship at my alma mater, who didn’t even last a semester, drops out and ends up doing something like this. We need to understand that and we need to figure out how to stop it.

Of course, President Trump DID, in the past, address the murder of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman. But that fact is inconvenient to the partisan factual basis that Raddatz is trying to establish and for which she is eliciting condemnation from her guests. Cox sees through all of that and reminds everyone that, contrary to the media’s wishes, the true villain of the shooting remains the shooter.

Moving on, Raddatz tried to get Colorado Governor Jared Polis, a Democrat, to condemn Trump: with similar results.