One day after another assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow she didn’t understand “why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”

On Monday night, Maddow asked Clinton if she had an “antidote” for the media to realize “that the more offensive he (Trump) is, the more he can dominate the media space entirely.” 

Clinton responded that the media covers the former president for "his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world."

She told Maddow, “Sadly, the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should. They careen from one outrage to the next. What was outrageous three days ago is no longer on the front pages, even though it threatens the physical safety of so many people, particularly, as you point out, immigrants that he and Vance have decided to demonize.”
 
Clinton continued, “And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is. The late, great journalist Harry Evans one time said that journalists should really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover ‘the object.’ Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump, his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world, and stick with it.”

Clinton claimed the media was “merciless” following President Joe Biden's disastrous performance at his debate with Trump this summer and called for him to step down, adding, “I believe Donald Trump has disqualified himself over and over and over again to be a presidential candidate, let alone a president.”
 
Barack Obama’s former secretary of state added, “Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally. He has said what he wants to do. He and his allies with Project 2025, his desire to be a dictator, at least on day one, all of that is in the public record, and I believe that more Americans have to be willing to endure what, frankly, is discomforting and to some extent kind of painful, to take him at his word and to be outraged by what he represents.”
 
She then claimed that “more and more Americans are rejecting the kind of chaos that he represents. We can't go back. That's what the Harris campaign says all the time. We're not going back. We're not going back to what he failed to do to protect American lives during COVID. We're not going back to the romance with dictators that puts innocent lives at risk and America's security in danger. We can't go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world.”

During the interview, Clinton also suggested civilly or criminally charging Trump supporters who posted "propaganda," claiming there needed to be a "deterrence."  

Earlier in the day the liberal network questioned whether Trump's campaign would call for "toning down the violence," following the attempt on his life, despite the suspect having been identified as a Democrat who donated to ActBlue and attempted to register foreign fighters to take up arms for Ukraine.

The alleged suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, was able to get onto the golf course where Trump was playing on Sunday and was less than 400 yards away from the former president. US Secret Service agents saw his gun barrel through a chain link fence near the edge of the golf course and opened fire. The suspect fled in an SUV and was arrested in the neighboring county after police shut down the highway and scanned for his license plate, which was reported by a witness who saw him drive off.

Monday morning, the Trump campaign released a list of all the violent rhetoric used by Democrats against Trump. The Trump War Room posted on X, “Democrats’ rhetoric inspired another attempt on President Trump’s life.” The list of quotes was pages long.