Looks like Trump went too far for his apologists on Fox this time. I always wonder which contemptible, vile, illegal, vulgar, disgusting latest move out of the narcissist is finally going to be a bridge too far for the sycophants to continue to sit silently, or worse yet condone and make excuses for Trump, and his vile behavior and doubling down on it following the tragic death of Rob Reiner and his wife may finally be one of them.
Here's Bret Baier and his panel from this Monday night discussing Trump's comments, with all of them tossing him under the bus.
BAIER: Howie, know on this other story, Rob Reiner and his wife being killed in their home in Los Angeles. You have interviewed uh Rob Reiner before.
KURTZ: Yeah, and I got to know him a little bit, he, you know, tremendously successful movie actor, director, son of the comedy legend Carl Reiner, and yet there was an everyman quality about him. He hung out at the same Santa Monica restaurants that everybody else did, and he was a mensch.
And he spoke out and denounced the murder of Charlie Kirk and had very gracious things to say about his widow, Erika.
Now, it's no secret, I sparred with him about this on the air in the first term, that Rob Reiner was a very liberal Democrat who had very strong criticism of President Trump.
And yet, I have to say that for the president of the United States to take this family tragedy, in which both Reiner and his wife were killed, and say that it's because of Trump derangement syndrome, I thought was well beneath him and beneath the office. And I think it would have been better if the president had made no comment.
BAIER: Yeah, Talking Points USA actually posted that clip with Piers Morgan. Take a listen.
MORGAN: When you first heard about the murder of Charlie Kirk, what was your immediate gut reaction to it?
REINER: Well, horror. Absolute horror. And I unfortunately saw the video of it. it's beyond belief what happened to him. That should never happen to anybody. I don't care what your political beliefs are. That's not acceptable.
BAIER: Turning Points, posting that Guy. Meantime, there are Trump supporters out posting criticism. Robbie Starbuck is a conservative supporter of the president. "What happened last night to Rob Reiner and his wife was a savage butchering of two human lives. I don't care what their politics were or how they felt about Trump. No law abiding human deserves this. We should pray for and send condolences to his loved ones and NOT make it political."
Here's SenatorJohn Kennedy.
KENNEDY: I don't think the president should have commented. When the president says this kind of stuff, it detracts from his policy achievements and from his agenda.
BAIER: So he's getting push back, Guy.
BENSON: As he should. There's a time and a place for politics and for trolling. A man being viciously murdered along with his wife, allegedly at the hand of their own son, is not that time or that place. And for the president to have put this out the way that he did achieves nothing and reflects poorly.
And Stef he did put it out and then he was asked about it and said basically the same thing publicly.
KIGHT: Yeah, Trump has continued to double down on his comments despite, you know, hearing from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle who have been pretty clear in condemning the president's tone. And it is unfortunate to have the president of the United States taking a tragedy like this and inserting politics into a situation as sad as the one that led to the Reiner's death, especially after the year we've had, especially after political violence has been such a big issue this year, whether it was the killing of the state lawmakers in Minnesota earlier this year to the killing of Charlie Kirk.
This has been a conversation, so it is unfortunate, especially after a weekend of so much tragic news that we would hear from the president of the United States and that he would decide to insert politics into this discussion.
It's more than "unfortunate." It's disgusting. And it's not about politics. It's about himself, because he has to make everything about himself.
They all know he's a sick, broken, sorry excuse for a human being, but none of them are ever going to go that far with telling the truth about Trump.


