Trump Alleged Assassination Attempt: How Toxic Rhetoric Fuels Violence | Amanpour and Company
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- Опубліковано 17 вер 2024
- Complication is rife this election season, in view of Trump's indictments, Biden bowing out, Kamala Harris stepping in, and now an apparent second assassination attempt against the former president at his Florida golf course. Presidential historian Timothy Naftali talks to Walter Isaacson about the events of this weekend and what they say about American politics today.
Originally aired on September 17, 2024
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Toxic rhetoric like Trump calling his opponents “vermin” and quoting Hitler.
I know right lol
JD Vance claimed it was in part because democrats called Trump a fascist. Like Trump said 72 hours prior about Harris. Crazy people are trying to kill Trump because he is a threat to nation, not because we say he's a threat to nation.
I like presidential candidates that are not draft dodgers or convicted felons that engage in whataboutism on a daily basis.
Come on!!!! Enough with the 'both sides' BS. Trump is responsible for the dramatic increase in toxic political rhetoric.
Absolutely.
Exactly, it's Trump and Vance telegraphing talking points to foreign actors who have something to gain by America coming apart at the seams. I would just hate it if I had to use the word Russians
Thank you
Agreed!
I think so. Trump read and exploited the anger and disquiet many Americans felt and still do. The likes of Rush Limbaugh and Fox news are also complicit. And then many in both houses of congress and beyond. It is like a contagious disease. But as I have been saying since the Trump era began, he lifted the rock and set the worst of us loose. I feel so powerless over what's tearing us apart. But am involved and am excited to vote as soon as my ballot arrives. I am scared yet hopeful and taking a little action most days helps me to get through.
Except for the RNC that called out 6 Jan as legitimate political discourse. Come on, man!
Walter Issacson is an apologist. And his friend here was lame. It's not like the '60s it's like the '70s and early '80s when there were bs assasination attempts that the right wing capitalized on. It's Nixon and Reagan on steroids.
Just skip over how Trump's rhetoric lead to a violent coup attempt 4 years ago. Treating the two parts like they behave the same right now takes a lot of mental gymnastics and disconnection from reality.
“There’ll always be another election.” Except if you believe the words that literally came out of drumph’s mouth…
EXACTLY. Talk about passivity at a time when we need all hands on deck. Ridiculous interview.
drumph’s been spewing the hate for more than a decade. We’re not toning down anything until the orange menace is far in the rear view.
Long before that.
I bet Putin is happy
Who is it?
@balsarmy your boss
Putin just wants a stable USA that minds its own business
It’s almost as though someone made violent rhetoric great again.
Ironically, it is his rhetoric that is fueling the fire in which he burns.
only briefly as he knows the fox machine and corporate media is deeply anti Biden, anti Sanders and uses donald for advertising money -- they're sunk so they think-- without him.
“ I’m not blaming everything on the right” what country have you been watching?
And what world for that matter? The far right has had decades since Nixon to de-establish the establishment as a backlash against the New Deal and the Marshall Plan. And that is the John Birch Society which IS the Heritage Foundation. This was a useless, apologist interview.
To save democracy VOTE FOR HARRIS AND VOTE BLUE UP AND DOWN THE ENTIRE BALLOT!🗳☑️💙🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
no
@@user-ib3ln8mk8z yes
“As you sow, so shall you reap…”
Someone has to say it: I think Trump didn’t just ask for it by his actions, he was _begging_ for it…
He likes to use it to get sympathy, money, and votes
The outlandish conspiracy theories are to blame for the rhetoric that reflects vicious intent.
Ultimately, the failed individual makes their failure known - starting with projection and expanding from there. The only question is how successfully they exploit it to control others before it eats them up from the inside.
I had not thought about the “our very democracy is in danger” rhetoric as apocalyptic. But he has a point. The right doesn’t own all apocalyptic rhetoric… but it should own the vast majority of it.
Because donnie planned and executed a failed insurrection...he alone is to blame.
There has come a point where our democracy truly is at risk; it's not apocalyptic today; it's real and present danger. I don't find it extreme at all; I do find it shocking and unprecedented, but it is a real possibility now.
@@virginiamoss7045 I keep hoping, perhaps foolishly, that someone or a group will step up and say that enough is enough.
It is NOT given Project 2025 which was not mentioned although the John Birch Society was and presented as if they didn't exist when that's the freaking Heritage Foundation. This is appalling. This show can do better. (or can it.... :( )
@@neilifill4819 The group that is doing that is on the far right and funded by the Kochs and that is the Heritage Foundation which is primarily the John Birchers who this guy just sort of mentioned in passing as if they didn't exist anymore. This is a pathetic interview. It's like Issacson wants trump to win.
Political rhetoric of TRUMP!
Roger Stone is so happy you are covering this.
especially the WAY it's being covered. Stone is happy to have Nixon's fully racist and paranoid backstage rhetoric fully realized into action.
Since We are footing the bill for SS to protect the felon worm, I propose that SS notify the worm he is not allowed to be places where they cannot assure his safety or better yet, He can PAY for his Own security if the Worm insists on playing golf or being out and about . We should have a say how our Money is spent on a nonserious candidate who obviously is triggering the severe weirdos that at one time voted for Him. The head sets the tone, and the Worm has set the table, Donald Owns this.!
You are dehumanizing people. When you dehumanize people it is a dangerous path
Especially when a candidate files to run ~2 years ahead of the election in order to use campaign donations to pay for hundreds(?) of millions of legal fees
I worry for the people of Springfield, OH
"Violence is not acceptable" - heard over and over - seems too weak a phrase, nor does it really address the issue. Conspiratorial based violence is not acceptable - perhaps more descriptive.
Where has this guest been? Another election? That was the point of January 6th. Trump will not give up power. Hasn't he heard of the 2025 playbook and the immunity decision?
These interviews by Isaac son and his books are… milktoast. Nothingness. He says and asks nothing.
Nice both sides Walter 🥱
he's useless and pointless unless you're a technofascist.
How can you say are not violent with our mass shootings?
Damn. That poor man tried his best to apologize for asymmetric radicalization and polarization on the right without compromising his own genuine perspectives regarding where the actual difficulties lie. Sad. Tragic, actually, to see a clear thinker like Naftali squirming like a bug on a pin board.
More normalizing and sanewashing from CNN
Unsubscribed. Either this is a click bait title about it not being caused by Democrat words or you are blaming Democrats words either way fu
Will we have another chance? Between Project 2025 and the MAGA SCOTUS, Trump can become a dictator.
and all that through the Birchers who are STILL quite active and just leading the way and paying for tons of top Google searches as the Heritage Foundation. The Kochs fund so much on PBS, now wondering if they have their hands on Issacson. Clearly, tech libertarians do.
“Putting out the fire with gasoline!” Bowie
Nixon resigned with Watergate but Trump would never think of doing that.
And he was BEGGED to do that. Nixon is cheering on from the grave how trump has taken on Nixon's backroom racism and paranoia and put it out front for all to see. Cheney can't handle that it's not a secret anymore. And Dick knows full well that he's seen as establishment which is what trumpers don't want.
Would you say that about MLK, JFK, RFK, Lincoln?
Forgot George Wallace
Apparently he thinks little about violent American foreign policy which has created mass migration that we cannot handle and violent treatment of the environment which has caused worldwide chaos from a melting Arctic. But hey, we're just innocent and peaceful and busy mowing our lawns and watching CNN while it's someone else's problem...nothing to see here. I think I'll buy more Koch products, invest in more oil, ignore oil subsidies and excuse the Proud Boys at the Manhattan Institute. Ain't no thang. Nothin' to see here. or "I see nothing!"
Or a LONG history of attempted presidential assassinations since and before... don't forget Teddy Roosevelt who kept supporting Debs' points on trust busting for 48 minutes AFTER he was shot in the chest.
Each month here in 2024 “like no other”.
Thus has been going for over a decade since ignorance and hate became mainstream 2011?
He's an apologist. And appalling apologist.
Second Amendment! Hello! Don't 400 million American guns have something to do with the tension! Think!
Only 30% of Americans even own a gun but that 30% have enough deadly weapons for every American to own at least one. However, they won't share.
The Y chromosome ...males discussing the male rulers/killers etc ...who are out of control,. No discussion will end this. Only matriarchal rule.
Apparently it works for fundraising.
For sure healthy political competition is prefferable
Seems deliberate. Knowing that the trees and tall bushes on the other side of the fence could easily hide a threat why aren't there surveillance cameras on the perimeter? At the very least one would think that the Secret Service would patrol the perimeter before and during trump's golf game.
The only way you can punish bad behavior is by refusing to vote. My vote is not Free to the least bad candidate. They have to earn my vote by being normal.
The both sides argument is bull sht. The supposed party of personal responsibility need a serious reality check.
Issacson is an apologist for surveillance capitalism and technofascism. He never met a Koch to interview. His books are hagiography.
Wait until AI is pushing this to you.
It already is with so many bot comments on cable and network sites/channels. It already has its own websites. Truth S, et al.
It's nice to see to civilize people having a discussion in this political climate
AM talk radio y’all!
The two would be assassins have a lot in common. Does anyone else think these guys are/were shills? The reds are so dishonest and manipulative it would be natural for them to try a stunt like this.
P Diddy didn’t kill himself.
When you are calling a person “Hitler” what would you expect.
I would expect people to take heed when someone is called out for using Hitler's rhetoric casually.
I am still at a loss
Why doesn't the Secret Service 'secure the perimeter' wherever any POTUS happens to be ?
How hard would it be for Police Canine Teams to 'patrol the perimeter' ?
How many agents would be required to secure the perimeter of a country club golf course? Aren't police canine teams needed to protect the rest of us from smugglers and such?
@@scottkrater2131I jog 5 miles every day with my dog; how hard would it be for two agents and their Belgian Malinois's going in opposite directions around the fence, before POTUS gets there ?
Better yet, how about POTUS playing golf away from Urban/Suburban Congestion (where Safety is far more easily maintained) in the first place !
Remember when Bill Clinton wanted to go jogging down Pennsylvania Avenue and wanted to stop at McDonalds, so the Secret Service was pulling their hair out the whole time ?
@michaelboguski4743 Wouldn't know since I'm not employed by the Secret Service. Relatively sure a sitting President has a much larger detail than a former president. They aren't providing much protection if they're hundreds of yards away on the perimeter instead of within a short distance of the protected individual. Maybe they did "pull their hair out". They forgot to send me a memo. And apparently they didn't need dogs to see a rifle barrel. Just sayin.
How is it that both shooters are "former" Republicans...? How is it that they're consistently such bad shots and know where he is all the time?
Was a shot even fired ?
The only way to keep him safe is to ban him from ever playing golf again
Trump's mouth.
Terrible things
Like gaza.
I think it is rude calling Republicans weird. Gender mutilating therapy is also weird. Homeless situation in California is weird. There is a lot of weirdness in both political parties right now. The system needs to change. I wish I could run in a third party.
@dalepetersen1166 You can, they get nowhere, but there are 3rd parties. They just have little to almost non existent support.
@@scottkrater2131 I think corporate media suppresses third parties. They like the easy content with the drama in the current system.
Kamunism.
I'm staying home this November. I'm tired of the media manipulating me to vote for one candidate or the other. Professional media is always telling me the sky will fall if their person doesn't win. I'm disappointed in Trump and I'm disappointed in no primary on the left. No first trimester abortion is crazy and gender mutilating therapy is crazy. I'm staying home in November
STAYING HOME IS THE PROBKEM. DI YOUR HOMEWORK, KNOW THE ISDUES, AND TAKEVA STAND. VOTE...OR YOU MAY LOSE IT FOREVER. BE AMERICAN. VOTE WISELY.🇺🇸
😂 You are proving yourself incapable of critical thought & and decision-making, so you certainly should stay home. We don't need you mucking things up. 🤙🏾
Many states have mail-in ballots so that you can stay home and still vote. There are two major candidates, so they are focusing the coverage on those two. If you're disappointed in Trump there is a viable alternative.
There are ZERO abortions after 20 weeks that aren’t due to mother dying or baby having died or dying. And on gender stuff, that is a state’s issue. Trump is literally chaos. Wake up. Inflation is the same everywhere in the world and our gas is cheaper.
@@gregoryamour3388 I, sadly, agree with this post...it is such a chaotic shit show and nothing is really as it seems on the surface..both parties have in many ways inverted their positions...I was going to vote RFKJ but now he has bowed out, I won't vote plus I am not in a swing state, so it wouldn't make any difference with the electoral system, though neocons and the Ukraine situation is truly frightening but Trump is too loose a cannon. We also have to stop thinking like children that parental authority is going fix things and people need to start unitiing locally and clean shit up, which start's with one's personal life.