Joe Biden Tries To Defend His 'Bullseye' Comment To Lester Holt: 'I Didn't Say Crosshairs'

Posted • July 16, 2024: On Sunday, we covered how Joe Biden said “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye” last Monday. You know, before someone attempted to murder Donald Trump. According to a Politico article which was based on a recording of Biden’s words, he said: “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye[.]” As we said at the time, a reasonable person understands that he wasn’t literally calling for someone to harm Trump, but the Democrats were never that charitable to conservatives or Republicans like Sarah Palin or Chaya Raichik, a.k.a. Libs of TikTok.

We’ll speak more on that in a moment, but as you might know, Biden has done an interview with Lester Holt to air at 9 p.m. tonight. And as is typical with these big interviews, they are intentionally leaking out clips from the interview to drum up interest in the full interview. Our own Brett T. covered one of those clips, but we are more shocked at this new clip, because Lester Holt actually seems to have committed journalism in it: Lester Holt: "You called your opponent an existential threat & said to put Trump in a bullseye" -- Biden: "I didn't say crosshairs" (…)

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