Following CBS News’ vice presidential debate on Tuesday night, Donald Trump Jr. criticized CNN and others in the media for radicalizing those who are trying to kill his father, 2024 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump.

"On the debate itself, it was very civil. I mean, they acknowledged when they agreed, they gave each other the benefit of the doubt. Should we see more of that on the debate stage when your dad's up there?" CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked.

Trump Jr. said he would "love to see that across the board" but sometimes "the political climate isn’t that, much," citing "Trump derangement syndrome" and the way people have "lied about my family." Such lies included that Trump Jr. "was an agent of Russia, but Hunter Biden’s laptop was totally Russian disinformation. Turns out, the opposite was true."

"You know, the media did that. They created so much of that environment. The media has radicalized the people that are trying to kill my father. I've had to deal with that twice now. In the last two months, I've had to have that conversation with my five young children twice in the last two months about someone trying to shoot their grandfather.

"You know, that didn't just magically happen. That's not him. That's a media-created fake Russia scenario. They ran with it for years, even when it was disproven, they still ran with it. You know, that environment wasn't just created by Donald Trump."

Collins responded that "everyone wants your dad to be safe, no one wants the threats against his life to happen" but added, "You can’t blame the media for those threats. There’s been no evidence that’s what drove those," before Trump Jr. jumped in.

He said that "it allows people to have a platform to call someone literally Hitler every day for nine years. It creates it, whether you want to believe it or not, that's a fact."

In the wake of two assassination attempts on Donald Trump’s life, pundits and politicians have continued to call Trump a "threat to democracy." Rep. Jasmine Crockett, when confronted on Capitol Hill, said that "These are the facts," and Trump "is a threat. Period. Point-blank." MSNBC’s Stephanie Ruhle said that Kamala Harris, the Democrat candidate, does not need to be a "perfect" candidate because she is running against Trump who is a "threat" to democracy."