Conservative sports media podcaster Jason Whitlock is questioning whether CBS or Fox bothered to report the second attempt on Donald Trump‘s life during Sunday’s NFL broadcasts.
‘The timing of 60 Minutes piece on Trump and J/6 couldn’t be worse,’ Whitlock wrote on X after the CBS News magazine aired a segment about the ongoing investigations into the US Capital riot on January 6, 2021.
‘A second attempt on his life today,’ the vocal Trump supporter continued. ‘I feel bad watching sports all day. Did any NFL broadcast mention the attempt on Trump’s life?’
Other viewers agreed with Whitlock, but their anger at CBS and Fox might be misplaced. Some CBS viewers explained on X that the network reported the botched assassination attempt during halftime of Sunday’s Chiefs-Bengals game.
DailyMail.com has reached out to Fox Sports and CBS Sports for clarification on the matter.
The FBI says the former President and current Republican candidate for the Oval Office was the target of an attempted assassination on Sunday at his club in West Palm Beach, Florida. He was uninjured while the alleged shooter, Ryan Wesley Routh, was arrested.
This is the second failed assassination of Trump during the 2024 campaign after he previously survived a shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania on July 13.
That shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, missed Trump but killed Corey Comperatore, a 50-year-in attendance at the rally. Crooks was ultimately killed by Secret Service snipers.
While Whitlock was upset not to see more Trump coverage during Sunday’s NFL games, many football fans were quick to dismiss the shooting in favor of their favorite teams.
‘Not even a second Trump assassination attempt is enough for major networks to interrupt NFL football,’ one fan remarked.
‘Trump trying to rack up sympathy Votes while NFL Sunday on is just disrespectful,’ another added, baselessly suggesting the shooting was a hoax.
The former President was already dominating the news during NFL play on Sunday after writing ‘I HATE TAYLOR SWIFT’ on Truth Social.
Swift’s recent endorsement of Kamala Harris’ presidential bid drove a reported 338,000 visits to Vote.gov, a federal voter registration website that she linked to in last week’s Instagram post about the Vice President.
Trump had already criticized her this week, saying that he likes ‘Mrs. Mahomes much better,’ in a reference to Brittany, the wife of Chiefs quarterback Patrick. Brittany recently voiced support for Trump’s 20-point platform by ‘liking’ one of his campaign’s Instagram posts. She has since been praised and criticized by conservatives and liberals over her support for Trump.
