NewsNation host Chris Cuomo disclosed Tuesday that he was satisfied by Vice President Kamala Harris’ November loss because of left-wing individuals minimizing the July 13 assassination attempt against President-elect Donald Trump.
After Trump was shot in the ear while speaking at his rally in Butler Township, Pennsylvania, some on the left downplayed the incident by claiming he was struck by glass fragments from a teleprompter rather than a bullet. Cuomo, on “The Chris Cuomo Project,” expressed disgust and outrage over the reaction, suggesting Harris’ loss was a deserved political consequence.
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“What I found completely appalling and outrageous was how unimpressed lefties were by Trump getting shot in the head and how many of you would say, ‘Will you stop saying he got shot in the head? It just nicked his ear.’ Once again, to my earlier point: fuck you. You get nicked in the ear by a bullet and tell me that it’s ‘No big deal. I’m good. I’m good.’ Nah, nah. That’s crazy,” Cuomo said. “If that had happened to Harris, you guys would have talked about it for three days nonstop about how we’re in Helter Skelter mode or whatever it is. And then you go and call me a bigot for saying that. This is why you lost the election. That’s exactly why you lost the election.”
“You are out of touch. You lost the plot about how people feel in the majority. That’s what you did, and that was a perfect example of it, that situation. ‘Oh, I think it was just a teleprompter.’ You would have never assessed it that way if you didn’t wish the guy had died,” he continued. “How fucked up up is that? That you wished he had died? That you play down that he was shot at? It was disgusting. And I, for one, felt a measure of satisfaction that you were punished for it politically because there is no place for that. ‘Oh, he would have.’ He is not the standard of any kind of virtue, okay? And he still beat you.”
MSNBC pundits Michael Steele, Ari Melber and Joy Reid all cast doubt about what struck Trump and the severity of the injury in the days following the assassination attempt.
Though the incident resulted in one rally attendee’s death and two injuries, a third of President Joe Biden’s supporters indicated they were open to believing the conspiracy theory that the assassination attempt was staged and not intended to kill Trump was credible, according to a July Morning Consult poll. Former volunteer fire chief Corey Comperatore was killed during the assassination attempt and two rally attendees, 57-year-old David Dutch and 74-year-old James Copenhaver were injured.
Trump also faced a second assassination attempt in September, but experienced no injury as a Secret Service agent fired shots at a man with a semi-automatic rifle, who was located near where the president-elect was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach.
Cuomo said in September that he extended condolences to Trump after the second attempt on his life.
“I reached out to Trump. I wanted to just say, ‘Listen, I’m really sorry that this is going on and it’s being dealt with this way.’ Not because I’m in favor of his politics or what he says — I criticize him all the time. That’s my job, and he deserves it. But he doesn’t deserve this,” Cuomo said. “A guy pointing an AK-47 at him while he’s playing golf, and we take solace in the fact that the guy didn’t get any rounds off. That does not work for me.”
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