'Is he not responsible for his words? If he incites violence, is he not responsible for those words?' asked CNN's Victor Blackwell about President Trump.
President Donald Trump has been heavily criticized in recent days for repeated negative and inflammatory comments and social media posts about Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, particularly after the Muslim legislator from Minnesota was found to be the target of a death threat from a Trump supporter. But one member of the Trump campaign claimed today that the president has"never, ever" endorsed violence against anyone.
"We certainly will never, ever endorse anyone committing an act of violence against anyone," responded Rogers."Look, we say things and we express our freedom of speech. We're not responsible, Victor, for the actions of other people. You and I can take something we say on the air and some crackpot will take what we say and turn it around to try to justify their actions."
"This is not about the president of the United States, okay," said Rogers, without actually answering the question. "People are responsible for their own actions. It's easy to say 'That person made me do this,' 'That person made me do that.' I spent 38 years in law enforcement and all I heard from criminals was, 'Well, you know what I was forced to do it because someone made me do it.' The president is not responsible for the actions of other people.
"That is absolutely untrue," Blackwell responded, repeating the statement for emphasis. He then once again brought up the president's own previous statements as evidence. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on Friday that she believed Omar's"life is in danger. For our colleagues to be silent is to be complicit in the outright, dangerous targeting of a member of Congress. We must speak out."
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