Former Attorney General Bill Barr said the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was the logical conclusion of the "apocalyptic and hysterical" rhetoric of the Democratic Party. "When someone is demonized to the extent Trump was being demonized, you are putting a target on them," Barr said during a Sunday FOX News interview with Jesse Watters - BILL BARR: I think this trying to pin down the precise motive, and how much of it was a mental imbalance or emotional imbalance and how much of it was political, is a bit of a fool's errand. There is a mixture of things they are. The bottom line I think is that when someone is demonized to the extent Trump was being demonized, you are putting a target on them, and you are increasing the risk they are going to become a target for someone who has a mixture of these factors -- imbalance, some potential political element to it. They become the target. What was concerning me was that -- and I understand the people on both sides engage in extreme rhetoric, occasionally. But what was bothering me was the thrust of the Democratic narrative for this election year had become that Trump was a mortal danger to our democracy, and if he wins the country is going away. When you take that position, that is an apocalyptic and hysterical position it is bound to lead to violence, eventually. -
