MAGAs Shameless Bid to Exploit Trump Shooting Takes a Darker Turn
In the days after the horrific effort to assassinate Donald Trump, MAGA figures have widely sought to exploit this moment of national crisis, by\xa0arguing\xa0that Democrats invited or even encouraged the shooting. The leading proponent of this absurd claim is Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, and on Tuesday, Trump announced that Vance will be his running mate. We talked to Alex Shephard, a senior editor at\xa0The New Republic\xa0and author of a\xa0great new piece\xa0on this new MAGA agitprop, about why the Vance pick\u2014and other assorted signs\u2014suggest that the politics around the shooting are going to get a lot more poisonous. Listen to this episode\xa0here.\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices