CBS’ Brennan, Samantha Vinograd Worry of Right-Wing ‘Retaliatory Violence’ Against Biden in Response to Trump Shooting

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VINOGRAD: "At this hour, leading officials within the U.S. Government still don’t know what transpired, and it is frankly unpatriotic at this moment to be stoking the flames when we know that we are sitting on a cauldron of tensions. We know that tensions were already high before this incident, and the counterterrorism officials and Homeland Security officials that I’ve spoken to in the last few hours are deeply concerned that this event will be used as a rallying cry to launch attacks against individuals associated with the Biden campaign and lead to broader domestic distress. So right now, the goals are to investigate the incident, both the perpetrator and the security failures, as well as to try to tamp down any tensions that may arise coming out of it. Now, in this country, there is a First Amendment, and what we’re seeing on Twitter, while it is First Amendment-protected activity, I will say again is unpatriotic in the sense that we know this kind of rhetoric has a nexus to violence. We saw that on January 6, we saw that in the attack against Nancy Pelosi's husband, and multiple other instances."

(via NewsBusters)