The Rich Zeoli Show- Hour 1:

• While speaking at a campaign event in Ohio over the weekend, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump predicted that there would be an economic “bloodbath” for the automotive manufacturing industry if he didn’t win the 2024 presidential election in November. Of course, Democrats and dishonest members of the media took the statement out of context—instead suggesting that Trump had openly called for a “bloodbath”, or a massacre, should he lose. A selectively trimmed nine-second clip was reposted by numerous social media accounts belonging to members of the political left, including: Biden-Harris HQ and Joe Scarborough (who quickly deleted his post). The strategically edited audio inaccurately makes it appear as though Trump is calling for violence. On Monday, morning shows on ABC, CBS, and NBC all promoted the fake narrative as well.
• A montage posted to social media by Tom Elliot features members of the media routinely using the term “bloodbath” to refer to elections. The clip features: Rachel Maddow, Charles Blow, Mika Brzezinski, Van Jones, Jake Tapper, Joe Scarborough, Ali Velshi, Don Lemon, Joy Reid, Brian Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Andrew Yang, Simone Sanders, Michael Steele, and David Frum. Notably, Goldberg and Scarborough are now explicitly saying that the use of a term like “bloodbath” is outside the bounds of acceptable behavior.
• In response to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s campaign speech in Ohio where he used the term “bloodbath” to describe what could happen economically to the American automobile industry, the Biden-Harris campaign released this over-the-top and purposefully misleading statement: “Tonight, Donald Trump said there would be a 'bloodbath' if he wasn't elected and that if he lost there would be no more elections. After opening the general election by meeting with authoritarian leaders and rallying alongside conspiracy theorists, Donald Trump continues to praise dictators, promise to pardon political violence, and launch racist attacks against Black and brown Americans. It's why last night, Trump's own former Vice President Mike Pence, who Trump supporters called to hang for not overturning the election, came out against Trump. This is who Donald Trump is: a loser who gets beat by over 7 million votes and then instead of appealing to a wider mainstream audience doubles down on his threats of political violence. He wants another January 6, but the American people are going to give him another electoral defeat this November because they continue to reject his extremism, his affection for violence, and his thirst for revenge."