In an all-too-predictable development, ABC’s Good Morning America reacted Wednesday to a lunatic charging at Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) the night prior by dying him to President Trump considering Omar has been a “frequent target” of the President as well as the source of “conservative anger.”
Of course, ABC and fellow broadcast networks CBS and NBC have nothing to say about Omar’s rhetoric. Nothing to see here! Her bomb-throwing is seen as entirely acceptable!
Co-host and former Clinton official George Stephanopoulos was spinning in the tease: “A man attacks Minnesota Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis...The frequent target of President Trump sprayed with an unknown liquid.”
Least shocking thing ever: ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’ went on Wednesday and tied President Trump and “conservative anger” toward Democrat Congresswoman Ilhan Omar to a psycho charging her at a town hall and spraying her with a liquid pic.twitter.com/VTW2zvA890
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Later, congressional correspondent Jay O’Brien had the story on the “alarming scene” as “a man rush[ed] Democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis just as she was condemning ICE and the Homeland Security Secretary.”
“Overnight, a chaotic scene at a Minnesota town hall. A man charging Congresswoman Ilhan Omar moments after she took the podium and called for ICE to be abolished and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem to be removed from office,” he added.
Following video of the ordeal and O’Brien saying she was sprayed by “an unknown strong smelling liquid” (which we learned was apple cider vinegar), he said the man was “arrested and charged with assault” and even though “the exact motive...remains unclear,” Trump was an unmistakable part:
Omar has been a frequent target for conservative anger. President Trump has called her garbage and mocked her Somali heritage. Asked by our Rachel Scott if he saw the attack, Trump said he had not seen the video, going on to accuse Omar without evidence of orchestrating the incident, saying “she probably had herself sprayed knowing her.” Omar, the only Somali American in Congress, fled the country’s civil war as a child.
He concluded after an Omar soundbite that the incident “comes as new data from the Capitol Police shows that the threats they track against members of Congress jumped by more than 50 percent just last year.”
Just for good measure, Stephanopoulos kept pouring on the anti-Trump invective: “And facing declining poll numbers and rare criticism from Republicans, President Trump is promising to de-escalate the situation in Minneapolis while continuing to pin blame on Alex Pretti.”
Virulent Trump-hating correspondent Rachel Scott said she called Trump and spoke with him on Tuesday night, observing Trump had “a notable change in tone” about immigration enforcement operations in Minneapolis at a time “fierce scrutiny after Border Patrol agents shot and killed Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse” and Republican senators joining Democrats in demanding Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem resign.
Over on CBS Mornings, featured co-host Vladimir Duthiers called the fallout from it “new uproar in Minneapolis” while chief correspondent Matt Gutman relayed Omar — “a frequent target of President Trump” — was attacked in a “frightening moment”
“Just as Congresswoman Ilhan Omar called for Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem to step down....police say 55-year-old Anthony Kazmierczak charged at her during that town hall Tuesday night using a syringe to spray an unknown substance before being tackled to the ground. Despite safety concerns, Omar insistent, continued the event,” Gutman said.
Thankfully, NBC’s Today didn’t seek to connect President Trump to this hooligan. In an opening tease, co-host Craig Melvin called it “a frightening moment” and co-host Savannah Guthrie added Omar was “assault[ed]...in the middle of a speech...as tensions in Minneapolis remain high.”
Guthrie later said “[t]he assault, of course, adding more anxiety and tension to this already tense city.”
National correspondent Morgan Chesky first stated the news Tuesday was “some federal agents will be departing Minneapolis” before arguing “residents” remaining “absolutely fearful” of the future, “fueled by what happened inside a Minneapolis town hall last night in a chaotic attack caught on camera.”
Here was how Chesky framed what happened (click “expand”):
CHESKY: Overnight in Minneapolis, a man arrested after confronting democratic Congresswoman Ilhan Omar at a town hall, spraying an unknown liquid from a syringe.
OMAR: DHS Secretary Kristi Noem must resign or face impeachment. [APPLAUSE] [SHOUTING]
CHESKY: President Trump, who has often publicly attacked Omar, telling ABC News overnight that he hadn’t seen video of the incident, adding, she probably had herself sprayed, knowing her. Omar posting, “I am okay. I don’t let bullies win.” And tensions are running high throughout Minneapolis over the Trump administration’s immigration policies, with new details emerging about the death of 37-year-old U.S. citizen, Alex Pretti.
NBC rehashed this in the second hour with Chesky telling viewers:
[E]ven with the news that some federal agents will be departing Minneapolis, residents here tell me that they are still anxious and fearful, uncertain of what exactly will come next. And those feelings absolutely fueled by what happened in a Minneapolis town hall meeting late last night, when a man rushed the podium where Congresswoman Ilhan Omar was standing, spraying her from a syringe with an unknown liquid before security guards tackled him. That man now facing assault charges. Omar not injured, sharing later that she stands up to bullies.
To see the relevant transcripts from January 28, click here (for ABC), here (for CBS), and here for NBC).
