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Holt Blasts Biden for 'Bullseye' Remark: 'This Doesn't Sound Like You're Turning Down the Heat' [Watch]

By Eric Bolling Staff

Can it be? Mainstream media figures challenging President Biden?

NBC’s Lester Holt pressed President Biden on his violent rhetoric in an interview Monday night — particularly recent reports of a private donor call in which Biden said it’s time to put Trump in a “bullseye.”

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“Have you taken a step back and done a little soul-searching on things that you may have said that may incite people who are not balanced?” Holt asked.

“Well, I don’t think … look, how do you talk about the threat to democracy — which is real — when a president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody?” Biden responded.

“Look, I, I, I have not engaged in that rhetoric,” he continued. “Now, my, my, my opponent has engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about there be a bloodbath if he loses to talking about how he’s gonna forgive all the, uh, uh, [unintelligible] suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to jail because of what happened at the Capitol.”

(The “bloodbath” quote has been debunked many times over.)

“Let’s talk about the conversation this has started, and it’s really about language, what we say out loud and the consequences of that,” Holt began. “You called your opponent an ‘existential threat’ on a call a week ago. You said, ‘it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.’ There’s some dispute about the context, but I think you appreciate—”

”I didn’t say crosshairs,” Biden responded. “I was talking about focus on. Look, the truth of the matter was, what I guess I was talking about at the time was there’s very little focus on Trump’s uh, agenda”

”Yeah, the term was ‘bullseye,’” Holt corrected.

“It was a mistake to use the word,” Biden said. “I didn’t say, I didn’t mean crosshairs, I meant bullseye, I meant focus on him,” a confused Biden fired back.

Watch the clips below:

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