The House speaker talked about politicians turning down the “temperature and the violent rhetoric,” and critics said the same scathing thing.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) was slammed for hypocrisy after he argued that political leaders should not use violent rhetoric against their opponents, while conveniently forgetting that President Donald Trump does it all the time.
Johnson on Tuesday said the assassination of right-wing activist Charlie Kirk had proven the need for political leaders of all stripes to “turn down the temperature and the violent rhetoric.”
It’s “not helpful,” he said.
“Leaders cannot call their political opponents ‘Nazis’ and ‘fascists’ and ‘enemies of the state’ because they disagree with their policy priorities. I mean, this is something we should have learned in grade school,” Johnson told reporters. “This type of language spurs on depraved people, deranged people, who take that as a cue and this tragic phenomenon played out this week in Utah.”
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