Democratic strategist Donna Brazile clashed with former Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus after he defended Eric Trump’s assertion that Democrats were to blame for assassination attempts on his father, former President Donald Trump.
During a panel discussion on ABC Sunday, host George Stephanopoulos asked Priebus if Eric Trump had been wrong to blame Democrats for assassination attempts on the former president’s life.
“The fact of the matter is, if Donald Trump’s head was one tiny twist the other direction, he would be dead right now,” Priebus opined. “So yeah, when your dad almost gets killed and when he gets shot again, look, I’m not suggesting the Democrats are doing it, but the rhetoric that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy was a Democrat talking point.”
“Look, I got to say something to you,” Brazile told Priebus moments later. “I come out of the civil rights movement. Nonviolence was our touchstone.”
“There’s no, no, and I mean this, there’s no place for violent rhetoric,” she continued. “And when you threaten election workers, when you threaten to execute your quote unquote former Joint Chief of Staff, Mr. Milley, when you mock Nancy Pelosi’s husband being beaten by a hammer, I don’t want to be lectured by Eric Trump.”
Brazile insisted that there was no place for violence.
