Donald Trump Jr. tells CNN the ‘media has radicalized’ people who want to assassinate his father

In a tense interrogation with CNN, Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday the media is partially liable for the caller assassination attempts against his father, erstwhile President Trump, by pushing mendacious narratives that radicalize his critics. 

In the spin room pursuing the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate, Trump Jr. agreed with CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the lawsuit was "civil" and noted Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz adjacent acknowledged erstwhile they agreed. The CNN big past asked, "Should we spot much of that connected the statement signifier erstwhile your dad’s up there?"

"You cognize what? I’d emotion to spot that crossed the board," Trump Jr. said. "We’ve each heard astir Trump Derangement Syndrome, we’ve seen what they’ve lied astir … ‘I was an cause of Russia, but Hunter Biden’s laptop was wholly Russian disinformation.’ It turns out, the other was true."

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Donald Trump Jr. and CNN's Kaitlan Collins pursuing the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate.

"The media did that, they created truthful overmuch of that environment. The media has radicalized the radical that are trying to termination my father. I’ve had to woody with that doubly present successful the past 2 months," helium continued.  "I’ve had to person that speech with my 5 young children doubly successful the past 2 months astir idiosyncratic trying to sprout their grandfather."

Trump Jr. past said "that didn’t conscionable magically happen," and accused the media of creating a "fake Russia scenario" to tarnish his father. 

"They ran with it for years, adjacent erstwhile it was disproven, they inactive ran with it. You know, that situation wasn’t conscionable created by Donald Trump," Trump Jr. said. 

Collins changeable back, "Everyone wants your dada to beryllium safe. Nobody wants the threats against his beingness to happen, but you can’t blasted the media for those threats. There’s been nary evidence."

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Former President Trump was injured during an assassination effort astatine a rally successful Butler, Pa., connected July 13, 2024.  (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The erstwhile president’s lad disagreed. 

"When idiosyncratic allows idiosyncratic to person a level to telephone idiosyncratic ‘literally Hitler,’ each time for 9 years, it creates it. Whether you privation to judge it oregon not, that’s a fact," Trump Jr. said. 

When Trump narrowly survived the assassination effort against him successful July, a slug grazed the erstwhile president's receptor and the shooter killed 50-year-old Corey Comperatore — a husband, begetter and erstwhile occurrence main astatine the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Department. The gunman, Thomas Matthew Crooks, besides critically wounded 2 different rally-goers. 

Just 2 months later, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested connected Sept. 15 after allegedly pushing the muzzle of an AK-47 done the chainlink obstruction extracurricular wherever Trump was golfing successful Florida. No shots were fired astatine Trump aft the Secret Service spotted the imaginable gunman and opened fire; the fishy fled and was arrested soon afterward.

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Fox News Digital’s Hanna Panreck contributed to this report.