Rep. Dan Meuser (R-Pa.), who was at the rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday where former President Trump faced an assassination attempt, said Tuesday that speakers at the Republican National Convention should “tone it down ” after the events at the rally.
In an interview on “CNN News Central,” the channel’s Boris Sanchez said there were speakers the night before at the convention who called Democrats “dangerous” and President Biden “senile.”
“Do you wish this hadn’t been part of the process?” Sanchez asked.
“Absolutely,” Meuser replied. “I do my best not to include this in my vernacular, in my vocabulary. Now, I’ll tell you what, sometimes it happens, it gets a little hot out there in politics, but we all need to make a conscious effort to cool it down, to tone it down, and we need to see examples of that.”
Trump faced an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday night, with Meuser saying he witnessed “panic and sadness” that day at the rally.
“People ducking, people falling onto the deck, the Secret Service coming out, telling everyone to get down. Panic and sadness,” Meuser said after the shooting in a phone call to The Hill. “A lot of people were crying because they were afraid the president was going to get shot.”
“We had someone call a doctor because another person was shot right in the area where I was,” he added. “So it was chaos.”
In his Tuesday appearance on CNN, Meuser criticized Democrats for their rhetoric, stating, “There’s also a lot coming from the left.”
“I mean, just last Friday, Biden was stating how Donald Trump was nothing less than [Nazi leader Adolf] Hitler,” said Meuser.
In remarks from the Oval Office on Sunday, Biden said “the political rhetoric in this country has gotten very heated.”
“It’s time to calm things down,” Biden said in the comments. “This places an additional burden on all of us, as no matter how strong our convictions are, we must never fall into violence.”
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