Shades of Hillary's deplorables! Scratch a liberal, and disdain for the great unwashed masses of Trump supporters will often emerge. Just as it was in 2016 when Hillary let "deplorables" slip, so it was with Michael Steele Saturday, co-host of The Weekend on MSNBC. After playing a clip of Trump suggesting that Kamala Harris might have been given the debate questions in advance, and had something in her ear transmitting instructions, Steele said: "The fact he is running close in this race, to me, is offensive. Because it says a lot about us as Americans if you believe this guy." Yes, those Trump believers are offensive to Steele. He forgets Salena Zito's brilliant observation on Trump in 2016: "The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.” The people in Las Vegas cheering Trump didn't necessarily believe that Kamala got the debate questions in advance, or had an ear device transmitting instructions. Instead, many were surely expressing their support for Trump's bigger message: that the liberal media has things stacked against him.  Anyone watching the debate could see that it was three against one, with "moderators" Muir and Davis fact-checking Trump at every turn, while never challenging any of Kamala's false claims. And it's a fact that in 2016, Donna Brazile, then with CNN, leaked questions to Hillary in advance of CNN-sponsored events. Steele suggests that it reflects badly on people who are, by implication, dumb enough to believe Trump. Steele is offended that there are enough of them around to make this a close race. Steele's contempt only reinforces the belief of Trump supporters that the liberal elites truly do disdain them, and that the deck is stacked against them. Note: After the clip was played of Harris bobbing her head as she spoke at a rally, Steele—facetiously we presume—said he thought she wasn't well and that he was on the verge of calling emergency services. He added, "I'll pay for that later"—which might not have been facetious!  Here's the transcript. MSNBC The Weekend 9/14/24 8:01 am EDT KAMALA HARRIS: You know, in the midst of this moment where there are people trying to divide us as a nation, trying to make people feel small and feel alone, these are moments that remind all of us that we are all in this together. We need a President of the United States who works for all the American people. [ Applause ] Just stop with all the trying to divide us. Like, people are exhausted with that stuff. SYMONE SANDERS TOWNSEND: Joining us now is DNC Chairman Jaime Harrison. I'm not going to lie, the High School Musical song just jumped into my head at that moment [presumably a reference to the song "We're All In This Together."] MICHAEL STEELE: She was, she was bobbing along there. I, of course, thought she wasn't well. I was about to grab emergency services. [ Laughter ] Chairman, welcome to the table, happy to have you with us this morning. I'm going to pay for that later, folks. Look, I think we're all kind of curious and excited about this New Way Forward battleground tour. I think it's smart politics to get out on the street. It puts her in space with real people. It has her having a direct conversation with the American people about her plans. And sort of gives her a chance to, again, drill down on some of the economic issues that are front and center for a lot of voters. But, of course, in the backdrop, there is this noise. And I want to play for you Donald Trump on Friday in Las Vegas. Talking about the debate and what he thought happened. DONALD TRUMP: She can't talk about it without maybe getting the answers, what's the story with that? Did she get the questions? Do you think? So I hear she got the questions, and I also heard she had something in the ear, a little something in the ear. No, Kamala, do this. Say it this way, Kamala. Okay, be quiet. STEELE: So, I just, I play that because, to the Vice President's point, this man is unserious. JAIME HARRISON Yes. STEELE: So the fact he is, he's running close in this race, to me, is offensive. Because it says a lot about us as Americans if you believe this guy.

In the immediate aftermath of a second attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump in 9 weeks, with the shooter’s barrel not yet cold there are already efforts to blame Trump for getting shot at. Watch as MSNBC anchor Alex Witt and Obama admin official now-analyst Elise Jordan blame Trump, Trump’s supporters, and the Trump Era for the “extremism” in rhetoric that led to Trump getting shot at (click “expand” to view transcript): WATCH: MSNBC blames Trump for getting shot at YET AGAIN, places sole onus of "lowering the temperature" and "toning down the rhetoric" on him. pic.twitter.com/4MlWACRvkB — Jorge Bonilla (@BonillaJL) September 15, 2024 ELISE JORDAN: We have seen, Alex, just this cycle of clinical 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 in America 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. And do, on the scales of radicalization by what, you know, after 9/11, the scales that were used, you know, to gauge radicalism and extremism in the Middle East, by that criteria, almost 13% of Americans are actually political extreme- extremists who are radicalized. And it's very scary. And it- how have we gotten to this point when the, you know, the demonization of the other side where we simply- ah, you know, it is no longer politics, it’s gotten bigger than that. The calls for violence. You know, rhetoric and then look at what happens and it, you know, this heated rhetoric can only go so far before, unfortunately, it, you know, it has led to violence on both sides of the aisle and so I think it’s just something that Democrats and Republicans have to be very cognizant about. What can we all do to take the temperature down? ALEX WITT: Yeah. Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to do that? Because, he’s going to reach out to his supporters and say “let's take this down”? We do not know, again, the source of any gunshot or gunshots. We don’t know who is responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed from start to finish, how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric? Toning down the violence? Or would that be atypical of the former president? JORDAN: Alex, Remember back to the assassination attempt from President Trump's life and how, you know, there was talk of a new tone and then the Republican convention was, by Trumpian standards, muted and it did seem like he was, you know, just trying to take it down a few notches, but then by the end of his convention speech, you know, we were kind of back to where we started. So I don't know how long this could l- you know, this moment of unity for the country where we come together and we say, “I don't want any political opposition to be under threat of violence. It’s not OK, any threat of violence, you know, we don’t want”. I would love for us to have a unity type moment, but it’s probably gonna be pretty fleeting, as we’ve seen in the past.    The shooter’s barrel had not yet fully cooled when these two were already trying to blame Trump. Jordan tries to be coy but everybody knows, especially given the Harris campaign’s positioning as a change against the incumbent Trump Era, that “the last decade” is really a giant dog whistle for MAGA broadly, and Trump specifically. There is also the broad smearing of the population as “extremists”, and the denunciations of the vague “calls for violence” and “threats” that in reality only go one way.  If memory serves, it was a deranged MSNBC viewer that almost killed Congressman Steve Scalise (R-LA) and a Capitol Police officer. Time will tell whether and how this shooter was also radicalized by “rhetoric”. This is a developing story subject to further updates.            

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Advertisement OPINION: This article may contain commentary which reflects the author's opinion.Former President Donald Trump is safe and uninjured after an individual reportedly opened fire at his golf…

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