MSNBC Anchor Says Trump Should Tone Down Rhetoric After Potential Second Assassination Attempt

MSNBC anchor Alex Witt questioned whether former President Donald Trump should consider “toning down” his rhetoric Sunday following what may have been an assassination attempt on the former president.

Secret Service agents evacuated the former president from the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida after Secret Service agents reportedly fired at a man carrying a semi-automatic rifle who got within 500 yards of Trump, who was playing a round of golf. Witt and MSNBC political analyst Elise Jordan discussed whether Trump would urge his supporters to “take the temperature down.” (RELATED: Liberal Media Botches Initial Headlines, Downplaying Trump Assassination Attempt)

“We have seen, Alex, just the cycle of political extremism at play, unfortunately, over the last, you know, really, decade of American politics. Polling, the Lincoln Democracy Institute did a great poll on political extremism last year and one of the findings was that over 50% of Americans no longer see the political opposition as trustworthy opponents, they see them as untrustworthy enemies,” Jordan told Witt hours before law enforcement confirmed that Trump was the target of an assassination attempt. “And so, on the scales of radicalization by what, you know, after 9/11, the scales that were used to gauge radicalism and extremism in the Middle East, by that criteria, almost 13% of Americans are actually political extremists that are radicalized and it’s very scary.”