Democratic politicians are being singled out for clutching their pearls over Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting — while eagerly contributing to the rhetoric critics say leads to acts of political violence.
The lefty lawmakers practically tripped over each other to be first in line to condemn the attempted mass shooting, in which crazed accused gunman Cole Allen, 31, barged into the Washington Hilton intending to kill President Trump and other administration officials.
But dozens of pols’ past comments highlighted by RNC Research after the attack show that Former President Joe Biden’s limp 2024 call to “lower the temperature’ of American politics after the first assassination attempt against President Trump has gone unheeded by the political left.
Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-Mich.) wrote on social media that she is “grateful the President and all the guests from last night’s event are safe, and no one was seriously injured,” adding that “political violence has no place in America.”
RNC Research shared her X post, pointing out that she’s called the president an “existential threat to democracy,” and blasting her for her choice of language that is “inciting violence” against President Trump and Republicans.
Failed 2024 vice presidential candidate Tim Walz, also the embattled outgoing governor of Minnesota, put out a cookie-cutter statement that “political violence has become all too prevalent in America.”
Few Democrats can claim to have attempted to sow more fear in Americans about President Trump than Walz, who has routinely compared him and his administration to fascists and Nazis.
“No one has ever been more dangerous to this country than Donald Trump, and he is a fascist to his core,” he said during a campaign rally in Green Bay, Wisconsin, in 2024.
In response to the attack, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), issued a statement saying only that he was “monitoring the unfolding situation” at the gala and that he was “grateful” for the work of law enforcement.
RNC Research points out that Schumer has yet to condemn the “radical leftist” who tried to assassinate the president.
Brooklyn Democratic Congressman Hakeem Jeffries thanked law enforcement and proclaimed “the violence and chaos in America must end” on X.
Just three days earlier, Jeffries called for “maximum warfare” against President Trump and the administration.
