‘That Does Scare Me’: Trump’s Post-Assassination ‘Fight’ Talk Disturbs Jen Psaki And Elizabeth Warren

MSNBC host and ex-Biden press secretary Jen Psaki told Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that former President Donald Trump’s “fight, fight, fight” talk in the wake of assassination attempts scares her. Warren blasted Trump’s rhetoric — which “puts us all at risk.”

Shots were fired at Trump International golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, Sunday afternoon in what turned out to be a failed assassination plot allegedly carried out by suspect Ryan Wesley Routh , who is in custody. The suspect fired no shots and never had a line of sight to Trump.

Sunday’s incident occurred two months, almost to the day after the July 13 assassination attempt that left Trump bloodied and Trump supporter/former firefighter Corey Comperatore dead.

On Monday’s edition of MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki , Psaki asked Warren about Trump and his supporters using the assassination tries as rallying points, telling Warren, “That does scare me a little bit,” and asking Warren for her thoughts:

PSAKI: One of the things that struck me is, to your point, they’re trying to change the subject.

WARREN: Yes.

PSAKI: And you hear this “Fight fight, fight” chant, which you heard Trump do right after the shooting in Butler. You have seen — we saw that once again on TRUTH Social.

That does scare me a little bit.

WARREN: Yes.

PSAKI: How do you feel about that?

WARREN: So, I have to say, look, I’m a fighter. I have written books that talk about fighting.

But I mean with words. That’s all that this means. In a democracy, we need to be able to go back and forth with our words. We need to be able to disagree and to put those issues in front of the American people.

That’s how we inform people about our positions. That’s how we get back in and make a decision that the majority of Americans want. And it’s only by talking about those. But that is very, very different from a man who incited an insurrection, a man who refers to his political rivals as vermin, a man who has said just in recent days that he wants to lock up the people who don’t agree with him.

That is a very, very different kind of approach not just to politics, but to democracy, and one that ultimately does put our democracy at risk, puts us all at risk.

Look, just as you stated, I want him to be fully protected. I want Kamala Harris to be fully protected, no doubt about that. But we have to keep the space open to talk about the issues and to draw the contrast with Donald Trump. He is responsible for the things he has said, in the same way Kamala Harris is responsible for what she has said, for every plan she’s put out there, for every idea she’s put into the public space.

We need to keep this open so people talk and people are able to make a decision. Do you want a candidate who’s embracing a nationwide abortion ban? He wants to lie about it, wants to pretend, because he knows it’s unpopular, but won’t say that, no, he would — he would veto an abortion ban? No, he’s not going to say that.

He’s still going to wink and nod at his extremist groups? Or do you want someone who just flatly puts it out there and says, give me a chance, as Kamala Harris does, and I will sign protection for access to abortion and IVF into law?

PSAKI: It’s a huge, huge difference between them.

WARREN: Yes.

Watch above via MSNBC’s Inside With Jen Psaki .