'Disgusting and gross': Dems slammed for 'wish-casting' for Trump’s death

Republican strategist Scott Jennings slammed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz for playfully alluding to a viral rumor that President Donald Trump had died over Labor Day Weekend, telling a crowd at a festival on Monday that he understood why they were furiously checking their phones for deathwatch updates.

“Look, I get it. You get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things. And although I will say this, the last few days, you woke up thinking there might be news. —Just saying, just saying. There will be news, sometime. Just so you know, there will be news.”

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The small crowd at the Labor Day picnic in Duluth giggled and clapped at the comment, before Walz went on to urged the crowd to stand up for democracy.

“Don’t let them take our kindness as weakness,” Walz told the crowd. “We can be kind and still kick the living s—— out of them.”

Earlier this year, Trump told reporters he was refusing to call Walz after a mass shooting in his state, saying: “I think the governor of Minnesota is so whacked out, I'm not calling him. Why would I call him?”

Jennings made no mention of that, however.

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“What I'm worried about are people making irresponsible statements and wish-casting about the president's health,” Scott told CNN anchor Kate Bolduan. “… that is the governor of Minnesota, the Democratic candidate for vice president, wishing for — wishcasting — the death of the president of the United States. I don't care how much you hate your political opponent ,wishing death upon them and joking about it means you're a broken brained s——, and that's what he is.”

Bolduan pointed out that Trump often made light of former president Joe Biden’s age on the campaign trail, and CNN commentator S.E. Cupp called it “disgusting and gross” when political leaders “foment that among the electorate.”

“Now, Donald Trump foments it all the time, okay — so he is not, like, removed from this conversation, but that doesn't mean that Democrats need to join in,” said Cupp. “It's gross.”

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