Sean Hannity on Tuesday incorrectly stated each would-be assassins of Donald Trump had been Democrats. (Watch the video under.)
Earlier than he apparently misspoke, the Fox Information host was including to the refrain of Republicans, led by Trump, blaming Democratic rhetoric for inciting political violence.
Hannity performed a supercut of President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and different Democrats in politics and media calling Trump a “menace to democracy.” The montage included the president being likened to Adolf Hitler.
“Now, two psychotic Democrats took that rhetoric to coronary heart and now tried to homicide Donald Trump,” Hannity stated.
The declare seems to be false within the cloudy concern of political alliance. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the gunman who grazed Trump’s ear and killed a rallygoer in July earlier than he was shot lifeless by the Secret Service, was a registered Republican. He had looked for marketing campaign stops by each Trump and Biden within the hunt for a “goal of alternative,” the FBI decided. In 2021, nonetheless, Crooks did make a donation to a progressive political motion committee.
Ryan Routh, the suspect in what the FBI has stated “seems to be an tried assassination” of Trump on his golf course final week, was beforehand a registered Democrat in North Carolina however modified his occasion option to “unaffiliated” in 2002, PolitiFact and USA Today reported.
Routh voted within the Democratic major there and has most just lately donated to the Democratic Celebration, the shops stated. He indicated he voted for Trump in 2016 however “made a terrible mistake.” Routh can be registered to vote in Hawaii, the place voters don’t give a celebration desire on their registration type.
