RedState has reported extensively on the Biden-Harris Justice Department's public release of a chilling letter allegedly written by would-be Trump assassin Ryan Routh in which he offered "$150,000 to whomever can complete the job."
As I reported earlier on Tuesday, Bill Barr, former attorney general in the Trump administration, said he was "dumbfounded" by Attorney General Merrick Garland's DOJ's decision to release the letter, saying, "It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence."
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As I wrote in the article, I don't believe the former AG meant to suggest that Merrick Garland DOJ's release of the letter was an intentional attempt to incite further violence, but to Barr's point, what other purpose could it serve? To further divide the country, perhaps?
Enter, CNN and MSNBC
An unforeseeable contrast happened on Monday when CNN and MSNBC took divergent paths in their respective reports on Routh's ominous letter. While CNN expectedly put up the part of the letter in which the would-be assassin offered the $150,000, MSNBC unexpectedly refused to do so.
During CNN’s "Inside Politics," senior reporter Katelyn Polantz ended her report on the latest developments in the case by not only mentioning the bounty, but CNN being CNN, the Trump-loathing network put up that part of the letter on the screen.
A civilian witness who was given by Routh a box of materials. In that box, a letter from Routh that was opened after Routh was picked up by the cops. Writing: “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump, but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.”
That piece of evidence, now, very likely, being discussed in court as prosecutors want to keep him behind bars.
And host Dana Bash being Dana Bash added her two "duh" cents:
Boy, is that chilling. Thank you so much Katelyn for that report. I appreciate it.
Please. If it's "chilling," which of course it is, why publicly expound on it? The question is rhetorical.
As I wrote earlier, MSNBC refused to share details of Routh's "bounty" on Trump.
In the letter, according to federal prosecutors, he [Routh] does reference an assassination attempt against Donald Trump and says that he's sorry that he failed. It's not clear why he writes that this is a failed assassination before he even undergoes this potential effort ... so that remains a bit of a question as far as the timing goes as far as the timing of all this.
There's a call to action and some other things in the letter which we're not gonna share because there's not reason to encourage any sort of potential violence ... but that's at least the focus on this letter.
Wow. The network of Trump-hating Joy Reid, Rachel Maddow, Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Hayes, and Nicolle Wallace refusing to share that part of the letter, while CNN jumped all over it in a proverbial heartbeat.
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