Last Tuesday, at a Senate hearing on political violence, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) lamented that Donald Trump, who he says has talked about punching people in the face, has never apologized for it. Well guess what, Cory Booker has said that sometimes he wants to punch Donald Trump, and I have yet to see an apology from him. Booker also falsely stated that Chuck Schumer had "apologized" for what many had perceived as a threat to Supreme Court Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Neil Gorsuch. Unfortunately, the media failed to point any of this out.
On June 22, 2019, Booker, appeared on NBC's Late Night with Seth Meyers and informed the audience that "Donald Trump is a guy who you understand he hurts you. And my testosterone sometime, makes me wanna feel like punching him." The macho man then bragged, "Which would be bad for this elderly out of shape man that he is if I did that. This physically weak specimen." Booker has pretty much gotten a pass for his violent talk.
As for Schumer, he spoke at a rally outside the U.S. Supreme Court in 2020 focused on a Louisiana abortion rights case. "I want to tell you Gorsuch, I want to tell you Kavanaugh, you have unleashed the whirlwind, and you will pay the price...You won't know what hit you, if you go forward with these awful decisions." Two years later, in June of 2022, a man attempted to assassinate Justice Brett Kavanaugh at his home. Schumer did say he regretted the words he used, but did not apologize.
At the hearing, Booker responded to Republican Senator John Cornyn, who had earlier presented Schumer's statements threatening Gorsuch and Kavanaugh, by falsely stating, "Chuck Schumer was very wrong in what he said....but you know what they never say, that he came out and apologized for it...Chuck Schumer, using self interrogation said I was wrong." He then turned to Donald Trump, "I've never seen the President of the United States, who has spoken about punching people in the face... has never given himself that type of self interrogation." Says the man who said he wanted to punch Trump! Booker did at one point admit, "To hear quotes that I've even said that need to be tampered down." Big deal!
Unfortunately Booker was not called out by the media for any of this. In fact, ABC, NBC, CBS, and PBS all took a pass on covering this hearing on their evening newscasts. Only Fox News's Special Report with Bret Baier reported on it. David Spunt handled the piece, but not only did he not include Booker's claim that Schumer had apologized for his threats, he made no mention of the chutzpah exhibited by the Senator, for ripping Donald Trump, for allegedly doing exactly what he himself had done back in 2019, saying he wanted to punch the President.
So far Cory Booker has gotten away with his 2019 remark. I can state with great certainty, that if a Republican Senator had gone on late night TV and talked about wanting to punch Joe Biden, or Barack Obama, it would be brought up to that senator's face, time and time again. And can you imagine what would happen if that dem ever took that same President to task for using violent rhetoric? All hell would break loose in the liberal media, as it should here with Booker.
