Monday’s Inside Politics featured CNN host and congressional Republican stalker Manu Raju providing a despicable minimization of political violence on the left with a horrendously deceptive graphic portray each side as equally victimized and a visitor accusing anybody who says the left has an issue of “cherry choose[ing]” whereas Trump has inspired and “glorified violence.”
And, when it got here to ABC host Jimmy Kimmel’s vile smear final week wishing demise on President Trump, one other panelist defended Kimmel by arguing the First Woman and President didn’t instantly converse out.
He started the phase by lamenting Trump had achieved away along with his “conciliatory tone with reporters” from Saturday instantly after the White Home Correspondents Dinner (WHCD) taking pictures.
As an alternative, Trump threw away his “kumbaya second” by criticizing CBS’s Norah O’Donnell for studying from the suspect’s manifesto that, in Raju’s description, “[laid] out an array of grievances.”
CNN’s Manu Raju whines Trump’s “array of grievances” towards the media returned solely 24 hours after the #WHCD taking pictures, destroying his “kumbaya second on Saturday night time” pic.twitter.com/1GPzv5uwms
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Correspondent Jeff Zeleny fretted that “we’ve realized many issues within the Trump period,” together with “that issues don’t final for a very long time.”
Raju shifted to the subject of political violence and huffed Trump has been “going after Democratic hate speech and downplaying the quantity — saying that, you realize, this has occurred — that is — this sort of — these form of incidents have at all times occurred, however we actually have seen the rise over the past decade or so on focusing on each side, political violence, focusing on each side of the aisle.”
He then positioned on-screen the deceptive graphic displaying alleged acts of political violence as some form of personal to Trump: “Simply you’ll be able to see right here in your display quite a lot of actually troubling episodes that simply exhibits the second that we’re in proper now. However the President sees it in a different way.”
WATCH: CNN says “each side” are equally victims of political violence, arguing it’s irresponsible for President Trump to “cheery choose” and say it’s an issue on the left when he “has glorified” and inspired “violence”….
CNN’s Manu Raju: “[Trump is] going after Democratic… pic.twitter.com/zgveDmC7Ub
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026
Our good friend and 2025 MRC Bulldog Award winner Erick Erickson fact-checked it in his Tuesday morning Substack column, noting the instances of the CDC taking pictures, Paul Pelosi, and Minnesota lawmakers required extra context and couldn’t merely be labeled right-wing terror.
Notably, the graphic (seen on the high of this weblog) “ignored the tried assassination of Brett Kavanaugh and the violent assaults on ICE amenities final 12 months in three Texas cities that killed some and left others wounded.”
Again on CNN, Politico partisan device Eli Stokols shoveled the disinformation, grousing “it’s not shocking that he would, you realize, cherry choose the Democratic rhetoric in an occasion the place he was gave the impression to be the goal.”
Stokols introduced up the Minnesota lawmakers and, after all, January 6 to counsel the fitting has a power challenge, deeming it “extremely selective” to say the left has an issue:
But it surely’s obtrusive. You set up that graphic and also you see all these examples. You already know, you suppose again to Melissa Hortman being shot on her doorstep in Minnesota. The President didn’t have a lot to say about that. And it is a President who, you realize, all of these things is public. You may return and pull the clips, glorify — has glorified violence amongst his supporters, has threatened violence towards demonstrators in the summertime of 2020 with the George Floyd protests. There’s clearly January 6 and his function in instigating what was in the end a really violent conflict on the Capitol. So, you realize, it’s not shocking as a result of we’ve seen it earlier than. However his response to the rhetoric and singling out Democratic violent rhetoric and blaming solely Democratic rhetoric is extremely selective.
They went to interrupt by defending Kimmel with Raju dubbing the previous’s “expectant widow” comment towards the First Woman as merely a “crack….when he was talking, pretending like he was giving a speech on the White Home Correspondents Dinner.”
WATCH: CNN’s Betsy Klein DEFENDS Jimmy Kimmel calling Melania “an expectant widow,” arguing First Woman Melania Trump by no means stated something instantly after the episode aired on Thursday.
Manu Raju downplays Kimmel, calling it merely a “crack” at Melania pic.twitter.com/TtxDR15h84
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) April 27, 2026
CNN White Home reporter Betsy Klein went to the mat for Kimmel when requested in regards to the First Woman’s X submit demanding Disney take motion towards “Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric” (click on “broaden”):
RAJU: Betsy, you cowl the First Woman very intently. What do you make of her popping out like this so aggressively?
KLEIN: Effectively, I believe it’s positively notable — and it’s notable, too, that we didn’t hear from her within the 48 or so hours after Jimmy Kimmel gave that monologue. And he or she was remarkably silent within the rapid aftermath of this taking pictures incident. The President had spoken for her, he stated of his spouse, it was a somewhat traumatic expertise on the Washington Hilton. We all know that safety and security has been high of thoughts for the First Woman, and this actually marked the primary time that she was beside her husband when he was aggressively evacuated by Secret Service.
RAJU: Yeah, it’s a superb level.
To see the related CNN transcript from April 27, click on right here.
