Trump's “fight” talk worries Psaki and Elizabeth Warren

MSNBC host and former Biden press secretary Jen Psaki said Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) that the former President Donald Trump's She is frightened by the “fight, fight, fight” talk following the assassination attempts. Warren criticized Trump's rhetoric – which “puts us all in danger.”

Shots were fired at the Trump International golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday afternoon in what turned out to be a failed assassination attempt allegedly carried out by a suspect. Ryan Wesley Routhwho is in custody. The suspect did not fire any shots and did not have visual contact with Trump at any time.

Sunday's incident occurred two months, almost to the day, after the July 13 assassination attempt that left Trump bloodily injured and Trump supporter/former firefighter Corey Comparatore – Translation dead.

On Monday output by MSNBC Inside with Jen PsakiPsaki asked Warren if Trump and his supporters were using the assassination attempts as a rallying point. She replied, “That does scare me a little bit,” and asked Warren for her opinion:

PSAKI: What I noticed is that, to your point, they're trying to change the subject.

WARREN: Yes.

PSAKI: And you hear that “fight, fight, fight” rhetoric that you heard Trump using right after the Butler shooting. You saw that – we saw that again on TRUTH Social.

That scares me a little.

WARREN: Yes.

PSAKI: How do you feel about that?

WARREN: Well, I have to say, look, I'm a fighter. I've written books about fighting.

But I mean with words. That's all it means. In a democracy, we have to be able to contradict our words. We have to be able to disagree and put these issues before the American people.

That's how we inform people of our positions. That's how we get back in the game and make a decision that the majority of Americans want. And the only way to do that is to talk about it. But that's a very, very different thing from a man who incited an insurrection, a man who called his political rivals vermin, a man who just in the last few days said he wanted to lock up people who disagreed with him.

This is a very different approach – not only in politics, but also in democracy – and one that ultimately puts our democracy, indeed all of us, at risk.

Look, just like you said, I want him to be fully protected. I want Kamala Harris to be fully protected, there's 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 said, just as Kamala Harris is responsible for what she said, for every plan she put out there, for every idea she put out there.

We have to keep the issue open so people can talk and make a decision. Do you want a candidate who supports a nationwide ban on abortion? He wants to lie about it, wants to pretend to because he knows it's unpopular, but he won't say that. No, he would – he would veto an abortion ban? No, he won't say that.

He's going to keep giving his extremist groups a wink and a nod? Or do you want someone who will just come out and say, “Give me a chance,” like Kamala Harris does, and I'll enshrine protections for access to abortion and IVF into law?

PSAKI: There's a huge difference between them.

WARREN: Yes.

Watch above via MSNBC's Inside with Jen Psaki.

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