Former Trump Adviser Rips President's Indefensible' Comments on Rob Reiner

"First of all, my condolences go out to the Reiner family. It's a terrible tragedy that they've suffered here and the president's tweets his Truth Social post is indefensible by anybody. I don't know how anyone can defend it. I think the president had the opportunity, was given the opportunity this afternoon to clean it up and say something to the effect that, you know, All those things I disagreed with him, we were political enemies, but you know what happened to him was a tragedy and my sympathy is with his family."

"And it just rings so badly, especially in light of what just happened with Charlie Kirk. You know, I thought after Charlie Kirk's assassination we, as a country, reached a consensus on how we respond to these things on the right and the left. I thought that one of the few good things that came out of Charlie Kirk's death was that people came together and recognized that the people who were celebrating Charlie Kirk's death should be condemned. Rob Reiner, in fact, actually praised Erika Kirk's statement and condemned the shooter there and said, you know, What happened to Charlie Kirk was horrific. And so I've just been thinking about that and, you know, it's just saddening because the president does a lot of good things, this administration does lots of good things, but yet these kinds of posts, these kinds of actions by the president detract from all of that. I think the president forgot elections are about addition, one plus one plus one, and as we head into the midterms I'm wondering how many Republicans were added to the voter rolls today. I think none."

David Urban expressed condolences to the Reiner family and called the president's tweets and Truth Social post about Rob Reiner's fatal stabbing indefensible. Urban said the president missed an opportunity to clean up his remarks and offer sympathy despite political differences. Urban contrasted the reaction to Reiner's death with the national consensus after Charlie Kirk's assassination that celebrating a death should be condemned, noting Rob Reiner had condemned that shooter. Urban said such posts detract from the administration's accomplishments and questioned whether the comments helped attract any new Republican voters ahead of the midterms.

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