'As non-partisan as possible': CNN host forced to tranquilize panel over ex-Trump adviser’s comments

An emotional former Donald Trump adviser on Sunday morning sparked intense conversation with a fellow panelist when he blamed President Joe Biden for Saturday's assassination attempt on the MAGA hopeful.

"Listen, it's all sides. I mean, just a couple of days ago, we heard President Biden in a conference call with his donors saying we need to put a target on president Trump, or that he was going to put the target and president Trump," Bryan Lanza told CNN host Katie Hunt. "Listen, Sarah Palin was wrong when Gabby Giffords was an assassination attempt on her by putting the target of her and a bunch of other Democrats on the list and that sort of triggered somebody. President Biden was wrong talking about that language. The Washington Post is wrong, we're all guilty of this language. I'm guilty of that myself. I'm ashamed of it. You know, I'm shaking, I had to explain to my six-year-old son what an assassination attempt is."

The former Trump adviser added, "I had to explain that there are some people who use language and there are some people who are triggered whether it's the far-right or the progressive left that think the violence is the answer to where we are at this particular state. Violence isn't the answer. I mean, I come from a rough neighborhood — violence only escalates. We need an off-ramp for this. Hopefully last night was the off-ramp. So we'll see what the convention brings up, but I think you're going to see a very, very defiant convention."

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"The guy, [Trump] was just, you know, he's been targeted," Lanza added. "We've been talking about this, the leftists fantasizing assassinations. You've got a major donor from the Democratic Party, if not the largest donor Democratic Party saying, he proudly be a martyr taking out Donald Trump."

Former Hillary Clinton spokesperson Karen Finney then replied, "Let's be sure we be very fair about that."

"Listen, there was an assassination attempt," Lanza said.

Hunt interrupted, saying, "I would like to keep this as non-partisan as possible, okay? So we are going to stay in the realm of deploring the violence as you have."

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