Heilemann: ‘Preponderance of Violence’ on the Right, ‘This Behavior Can Clearly Be Pinned on Trump’

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HEILEMANN: “The Democratic leaders were right beside their Republican colleagues extending their condolences, extending their best wishes, their sympathies to Steve Scalise and condemning the bomber. There was no daylight between Republicans and Democrats at the highest levels and at the rank and file level on that question. What we are seeing now is a totally different circumstance in which the thing that served as the predicate to this behavior can be more clearly pinned on Donald Trump and the party and the culture and the movement that he has created and the way in which he has handled it on the backside and his party have handled it frankly, although there have been some Republican voices that are spoken up appropriately, but many in his party, including we mentioned Kevin McCarthy early today, who in the wake of George Soros having gotten a bomb sent to his home still had a pinned tweet on his Twitter feed with obvious anti-Semitic overtones attacking Mike Bloomberg, George Soros and Tom Steyer. You have Kevin McCarthy who could be next Speaker of the House. That party led by Donald Trump have done nothing like what Democrats did in the wake of Steve Scalise’s shooting.”