White House blames ‘left-wing culture of hatred’ for correspondents’ dinner assassination attempt

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed Democrats and certain members of the media for promoting a “culture of hatred” that inspired Cole Allen’s attempted shooting at Saturday night’s White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.

Leavitt, who was present at the dinner, opened her Monday press briefing by thanking U.S. Secret Service agents and other law enforcement officers for their rapid response to Allen’s attack. The press secretary added that the incident was the direct result of escalating political rhetoric from the Left.

“This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, by elected members of the Democrat Party and even some in the media, this hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years, has helped to legitimize this violence didn’t bring us to this dark moment, those who constantly falsely libel and slander,” she stated. “The left-wing cult of hatred against the president and all of those who support him and work for him has gotten multiple people hurt and killed, and it almost did so again this weekend.”