Jo Cox’s husband reacts to Trump rally shooting: ‘He has some culpability’

Jo Cox's husband reacts to Trump rally shootingSource: LBC

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00:00While, of course, you know, and we're talking about this, politicians are often the victims

00:05of this, they're the first victims of it.

00:07There's also, of course, politicians who are ramping this up, who are building a narrative

00:13of them and us, who are building outside groups and inside groups, who are building a politics

00:20where violence does become more likely, as you know, as I talked about this morning,

00:26in the context of Donald Trump, let's be 100% clear that the attack on him was outrageous,

00:32completely unacceptable, and there is zero justification for it.

00:37But let's also be very clear that he has consistently incited and inflamed political violence himself,

00:44whether that's the January attacks on the Capitol or his wider demeanor towards protesters

00:51in the audience.

00:52He has sullied our politics, so yes, I feel sympathy, I feel pain for the fear that his

00:59family must have felt at that moment, and I feel real fear for the American political

01:04system, and that attack was clearly and utterly wrong, but he also has some culpability in

01:11creating an environment where violence is more likely.