In the opening segment of Tuesday’s CNN This Morning, host Audie Cornish and her panel defended Jimmy Kimmel’s “expectant widow” comments and also discussed the aftermath of the third Trump assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The panel blamed Trump as the reason for the political violence, which Cornish called the debate over violence and rhetoric “nonsensical” after she played a clip of Charlamagne tha God.
One panelist, The Wall Street Journal’s Sabrina Rodriguez, even echoed the words of Jimmy Kimmel from Monday night, where the late-night host told Melania Trump to tell her husband to tone down his rhetoric amid the violence against him.
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