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MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video) - 09-17-2024-223739

MSNBC Rachel Maddow (video)

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4.412.2K Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2024

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Through her unique approach to storytelling, Rachel Maddow provides in-depth reporting to illuminate the current state of political affairs and reveals the importance of transparency and accountability from our leaders. Maddow works with unmatched rigor and resolve to explain our complex world and deliver news in a way that's illuminating and dynamic, connecting the dots to make sense of complex issues. Maddow also conducts thoughtful interviews with individuals at the center of current news stories to provide important perspective.

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0:00.0

Vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance has a new line he likes to repeat on the campaign

0:05.2

trail.

0:06.2

You know the big difference between conservatives and liberals is that we have no one has tried to kill Kamala Harris in the last

0:15.9

couple of months and two people now have tried to kill Donald Trump in the last

0:19.9

couple of months I'd say that's pretty strong evidence that the left needs to

0:23.9

tone down the rhetoric. Two assassination tips attempts in as many months and I

0:29.4

think that it's time to say to the Democrats, to the media, to everybody that has been

0:34.8

attacking this man and trying to censor this man for going on 10 years, cut it

0:39.2

out or you're going to get somebody killed. In the wake of the latest apparent assassination attempt against Donald Trump, his

0:48.0

running mate, J.D. Vance, wants the public to believe that it is the left's inflammatory rhetoric that has motivated these

0:55.0

attacks. Donald Trump has taken it a step further directly blaming Vice President

1:00.3

Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden for the attacks. President inflammatory language. I can use it too, far better than they can, but I don't.

1:16.5

Now so far there is no public evidence to support the claim that rhetoric from Harris or

1:20.8

Viden was in any way implicated in either of these attacks.

1:24.4

In fact, Trump's first would be assassin didn't even appear to have a political motive.

1:30.2

He was remembered in his community as a conservative with no discernible animosity toward Trump.

1:36.0

And there is some evidence that suggests he may have also explored opportunities to attack President Biden.

1:42.0

The latest alleged assassin... to attack President Biden.

1:43.4

The latest alleged assassin does appear to have a history of political animus against Trump,

1:48.1

but it doesn't necessarily mean that he was a Democrat.

1:51.2

His social media profile suggests he was a disillusioned former Trump

1:55.2

supporter in 2016 who then supported Nicky Haley and Vivek Ramaswami in

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