Ben Shapiro tells Trump to ‘stop’ complaints about bombs
Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro said President Trump should stop complaining about package bombs blunting the GOP’s political momentum on Friday, hours after the president first made the complaint.
“STOP,” Shapiro wrote in retweeting the president’s tweet.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 26, 2018
“OK, let’s all take a step back here,” Shapiro said on his daily live video broadcast. “Everyone is overheated. It needs to stop.”
“Basically, everyone is acting badly here,” Shapiro added in mainly referencing Trump and the media coverage of this week’s events.
“Everyone is acting as badly as can be, which has become the usual state of affairs in America politics. It’s really quite awful.”
Two more bombs were intercepted on Friday. The two packages were addressed to Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper.
Both have been critical of Trump, as have the other targets of the bomber.
An arrest in connection with the bombs was made later on Friday.
Trump earlier in the day complained on Twitter that the bombs were stalling GOP momentum ahead of next month’s midterm elections.
“Republicans are doing so well in early voting, and at the polls, and now this ‘Bomb’ stuff happens and the momentum greatly slows — news not talking politics. Very unfortunate, what is going on. Republicans, go out and vote!” wrote Trump to his more than 55 million followers.
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