Eric Trump, Jeanine Pirro agree that his dad’s radical ethnonationalism can’t be blamed for attacks
Pirro herself has touted George Soros conspiracies for years
OCT 28, 2018
After three acts of right-wing violence in a week, President Donald Trump’s son Eric turned to a friendly forum to swat away the notion that his father might bear any responsibility for his fellow-travelers’ penchant for killing the people he vilifies.
Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro talked to the younger Trump by phone on Saturday night’s show, offering him a chance to shrug off the obvious connections between radical speech from the White House and radical actions from right-wingers. People should not see Trump’s influence in the killing of 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue or the so-called “MAGAbomber” in Florida, he said.
“Listen, America, America mourns, right? I mean, this whack job destroyed lives, he upended a community,” Trump told Pirro.
The pair did not acknowledge the week’s third act of right-wing terrorism, the apparently racially motivated murder of two black shoppers at a Kentucky grocery.
“As we look at the news in the past week, is it a sign of the times…is this a sign of the rhetoric and the outrage that people are hearing?” Pirro asked.
“Listen, there might be, and there might not be,” Trump replied. “It seems like we’ve gotten to a point in life and society where everything has to be politicized.”
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