Peter Baker on Kirk’s Killing: Trump Has Taken a Strong Point of View, That Violence in This Country Is a ‘One-Sided Affair’

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BAKER: "Well, he has been all. Over. The map on this. At one. Point he says he is only for nonviolence. Another point, he says, we need to beat the hell out of the the left. That’s the phrase he uses now. Politicians use words like beat the. Hell out of. Your opponents all the time. They don’t mean it physically or in terms of violence. But at a. Moment when everybody is sort of on edge, you know, it was a it was a choice of words that got a lot of attention. And he has talked about the radical left, the radical lunatic left. And when challenged even by Fox News hosts to say, look, there are people who are radical on the right and potentially violent as well as we’ve seen over the last number. Of months and years. Where Democrats like Republicans have been targeted. He dismissed that. He said, well, no, the. Radicals on the right are only mad because of crime. And that’s the real problem is the radicals on the left. So he has taken a very strong point of view that violence in this country is a one sided affair. He doesn’t talk about his own rhetoric or his own, you know, White House’s rhetoric. He talks about how unfair it was to call Charlie Kirk all these names at the same time. He calls his opponents names that are not that different. And it’s not a reflective moment, and it’s not the kind of moment you see most presidents, most presidents come out in a case like this and talks about tamping down the rhetoric. In a general sense. They don’t use it as a way of attacking their opponents. But but Donald Trump has often been somebody who is more about one side than the other."