On "Forbes Newsroom," Rep. Harriet Hageman (R-WY) spoke about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.
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00:00So, we don't know much about the suspected shooter, but here's what we do know.
00:04His name was Thomas Matthew Crooks.
00:06He was a registered Republican who did give a small donation to a Democratic-leaning group.
00:12And in the wake of the shooting, Republicans have criticized Democrats for their central
00:16messaging be that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy.
00:20What do you make of all of this information that's coming out, A, and that blame on Democrats?
00:27One of the other questions that I think needs to be asked is what kind of medications was
00:31this young man taking?
00:34Was he on prescription medication?
00:36Was he on antipsychotics?
00:38I believe that any time we have events like this, whether it is some kind of a mass shooting
00:43or a terrorist act or this kind of a situation, we're going to have to start getting to the
00:47bottom of what kind of meds these people are on.
00:51The other question that I think is absolutely legitimate for Republicans and Democrats for
00:57their rhetoric, they have been escalating it and escalating it and escalating it.
01:02And what I mean by that is just this last week, there was a magazine that had Donald
01:07Trump on the cover as Adolf Hitler.
01:09I'm going to say this again, and I'm going to keep repeating this.
01:13Donald Trump is not Adolf Hitler.
01:15There is only one Hitler.
01:17There is only one Third Reich.
01:19There is only one government that was like the Nazis during the Second World War and
01:25prior to when it started.
01:27When we equate people to Hitler, I think we are inviting this kind of action, because
01:34I would bet that this kid perhaps thought that he was going to be a hero by taking out
01:39what the Democrats are describing as a Hitler.
01:42That's one of the problems.
01:43But the other problem is that when we equate a disagreement in politics, a disagreement
01:49in governing, I am a conservative.
01:52That doesn't make me a fascist.
01:53In fact, it's just the opposite.
01:56I believe in a limited government.
01:58I believe in liberty.
01:59I believe in freedom.
02:00I believe in responsibility.
02:01I don't want the government telling me what to do, what car I can drive, where I can go,
02:06how I can travel, what I can eat, and how I can eat my food and keep my home.
02:10Yet that's exactly what the Democrats do.
02:13But they turn around and they claim that Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler and that if you're a
02:18conservative, you're a fascist.
02:19And then you turn around and you have people like this who tried to kill Donald Trump.
02:25The Democrats and their rhetoric are to blame for the escalation of this kind of political
02:34situation in our country.
02:36They need to knock it off.
02:38But in addition to that, equating Donald Trump or myself or any other conservative or Republican
02:44to a fascist or being like Hitler completely downplays what happened with Hitler in the
02:51Third Reich.
02:52Hitler was an evil, evil, evil man who killed over 6 million Jews.
03:00And just because I believe in limited government or Donald Trump believes in limited government,
03:06it's crazy.
03:07But it completely downplays what happened with Hitler in World War II.
03:12So people need to knock that off.
03:15That magazine should be forced out of business tomorrow for putting that picture on the cover
03:22and having an article that electing Donald Trump is going to be like electing the Third
03:27Reich in the United States of America.
03:30It's ridiculous.