donald trump attacks them. we do have to get to the bottom of it. i agree. instead of jumping to conclusions why can t you condemn what the rhetoric s rhetoric has been? his rhetoric has been wrong and dividing americans. please just do that. i think the rhetoric on both sides. i m sorry. i have to say i take this kind of personally because i know people who were targeted for murder today. the idea that you re going to both sides is ridiculous. not a whole group of republicans who have been targeted for murder. steve scalise was targeted for murder. and almost killed. he s a friend of mine. no political leader spoke out saying let s go call steve scalise a terrible monster. it was a terrible thing that happen and every one condemned it including democrats. i can condemn it. president trump attacked eric
fortunately, unsuccessful endevour. it s the nation of the intended recipients that suggest this is an act of political terrorism. that s because the targets are a whose who of president trump s enemies list. the first bomb was fund at a mailbox of george soros on monday. today bombs went to the obamas and the clintons in washington and new york. they were intercepted by the secret service. a bomb intended for eric holder went to a bogus return address landing in florida at the office of u.s. congresswoman debbie wasserman schulz. a package to maxine waters was intercepted at a mail facility. a bomb addressed to john brennan was delivered to cnn s headquarters up in new york. cnn was covering the wave of suspicious packages when they were forced to evacuate.
trump whips these crowds up into a frenzy. he acts like that should be completely divorced from the reality of bombs being sent to news organizations and his political enemies. so i think what s happened here, what trump has exacerbated is this really alarming trend in american society and politics where if i disagree with you politically, you re a bad person. you re not just on the other side of the issue you re a horrible human being and you should be demonized and punished. parallel with the 30s, the words precede the action. thank you to my panel. when we return, i ll finish tonight with trump watch. you re watching hardball.
in these times we have to unify. we have to come together and send one very clear, strong us mistakable message that acts or threats of political violence of any kind have no place in the united states of america. welcome back to hardball. that was president trump earlier today calling for unity. tonight the president is holding make america great again rally in wisconsin. the calls for unity stand in contrast to his divisive rhetoric about his political opponents. in their quest for power, the radical democrats have turned into an angry mob. anybody that votes for a democrat now is crazy when you look at what s coming up. remember hillary s slogan. she paid like a million dollars for somebody to make the slogan. come together or something terrible. she s a great unifier. great. great unifier. let s bring in tonight s
while. i think that trump did the right thing by speaking out and i think he needs to continue to speak out because i think this will become important. you don t see a pattern in this list in. of course you see a pattern. you think it s someone unhinged. i don t know what their motivation was. i d like to get to the bottom of it. i think the question is where did they get the list from. we don t know. do you not see a connection between all the people donald trump targets where his rhetoric, all the people he targets and this and every one who has received a pipe bomb. two presidents, a former secretary of the state and people like maxine waters and george soros. who would know who those people were if it wasn t for donald trump targeting them. anybody who watches television knows that. because donald trump attacks them. they get more attention because