Speaker Mike Johnson on Trump shooting: ‘Everyone needs to turn the rhetoric down’
Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday told NBC News that former president Donald Trump’s shooting on Saturday is evidence that Americans need to “turn the rhetoric down.”
Speaker Mike Johnson on Sunday told NBC News that former president Donald Trump’s shooting on Saturday is evidence that Americans need to “turn the rhetoric down.”
“We’re all Americans, and we have to treat one another with dignity and respect,” Johnson said while casting some blame on President Joe Biden, who told supporters on a campaign call last week that it was time to refocus the presidential race away from his age and back onto Trump.
Part of the president’s remarks on the call included comments like, “We can’t waste any more time being distracted. I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. … I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that,” and “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
“I mean, I know that he didn’t mean what is being implied there,” Johnson said Sunday about Biden’s comments, but added, “That kind of language on either side should be called out.”
“We can have vigorous debate, but it needs to end there,” Johnson said.
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