Donald Trump Jr. tells CNN that 'media has radicalized' people who want to assassinate his father

In a tense interview with CNN, Donald Trump Jr. said Tuesday that the media is partly to blame for recent assassination attempts against his father, former President Trump, by spreading false narratives that radicalize his critics.

In the broadcast room following the CBS News vice presidential debate, Trump Jr. agreed with CNN's Kaitlan Collins that the event was “civil” and noted that Sen. J.D. Vance, the Ohio Republican and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz even acknowledged they agree. The CNN host then asked, “Should we see more of this on the debate stage when your dad is up there?”

“You know what? I'd like to see that across the board,” said Trump Jr. “We've all heard about Trump Derangement Syndrome, we've seen what they lied about… 'I was an agent of Russia, but Hunter Biden's laptop was totally Russian disinformation.' It turned out to be the opposite.”

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Donald Trump Jr. and CNN's Kaitlan Collins after the CBS News vice presidential debate.

“The media did this, they created a lot of this environment. The media radicalized the people who are trying to kill my father. I've had to deal with that twice in the last two months,” he said. -he continued. “I've had to have this conversation with my five young children twice in the last two months about someone trying to shoot their grandfather.”

Trump Jr. then said “this didn't happen by magic” and accused the media of creating a “fake Russia scenario” to tarnish his father.

“They used it for years, even when it was disproven, they still used it. You know, this environment wasn't created just by Donald Trump,” Trump Jr. said.

Collins retorted: “Everyone wants your father to be safe. No one wants threats against his life to happen, but you can't blame the media for those threats. There's no proof.”

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Former President Trump was injured in an assassination attempt at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

The former president's son disagrees.

“When someone allows someone 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, it's a fact,” Trump Jr. said.

When Trump narrowly survived the assassination attempt on him in July, a bullet grazed the former president's ear and the shooter killed Corey Comperatore, 50, a husband, father and former fire chief with the department Buffalo Township Arson Department. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, also seriously injured two other rally participants.

Just two months later, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, was arrested on September 15 after allegedly pushing the muzzle of an AK-47 through the chain-link fence outside where Trump was playing golf in Florida. No shots were fired at Trump after the Secret Service spotted the would-be shooter and opened fire; the suspect fled and was arrested a short time later.

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Hanna Panreck of Fox News Digital contributed to this report.