“Norah O’Donnell may have reached the low point in disgusting and inhumane demagoguery disguised as journalism,” Gingrich said in a Monday statement on X.
“The idea that you would take the vicious dishonest and disgusting words of a would-be killer who had been blocked by the Secret Service but would otherwise have killed a lot of people and you would dignify them by putting them on the air and asking the President of the United States to comment is about as destructive as anything a major reporter has done in a long time,” he wrote, adding that the journalist should be fired for ”demeaning her entire profession and being the mouthpiece of a would-be killer.”
On Monday, Cole Allen, 31, of California, was charged with attempting to assassinate the president after he allegedly charged a security checkpoint outside Saturday’s WHCA dinner while armed with multiple weapons.
Trump joined CBS News’s 60 Minutes for the first time in either of his terms to discuss the shooting on Sunday.
During the interview, O’Donnell read parts of the manifesto that the suspect allegedly wrote before the shooting regarding Trump, and one line accused him of being a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor.”
TRUMP CLASHES WITH 60 MINUTES’ NORAH O’DONNELL OVER SHOOTER MANIFESTO
“I’m not a pedophile,” Trump responded. “You read that crap from some sick person? I got associated with old stuff that has nothing to do with me. I was totally exonerated. Your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that were involved with, let’s say, Epstein or other things.”
He also called the people of CBS News “horrible” and said O’Donnell was “disgraceful.”
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