House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) has called on all sides to “turn the rhetoric down” in the wake of the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump at his Pennsylvania rally on July 13.
“We’ve got to turn the rhetoric down. We’ve got to turn the temperature down in this country,” Mr. Johnson said in an interview with NBC News on July 14. “We need leaders of all parties, on both sides, to call that out and make sure that happens so that we can go forward and maintain our free society that we all are blessed to have.
