Lisa Boothe Owns Judith Miller In Debate Over Who To Blame For Mass Shootings

Two journalists debated about who is to blame for mass shootings on Fox News Thursday, with one noting that no one should be blamed for the attacks.

Lisa Boothe, a contributor for Fox News, debated Judith Miller, a former New York Times reporter, on Fox News’s “America’s Newsroom Thursday.” Miller said the left has “every right to mention” President Donald Trump’s “incendiary language” when talking about who is to blame for mass shootings.

“That is fair game,” Miller, who is currently a Foreign and Urban Policy Expert at the Manhattan Institute, said.

Boothe hit back at Miller and asked if she would “lay the Dayton shooting at the feet of [Sens.] Elizabeth Warren [of Massachusetts] or Bernie Sanders [of Vermont].”

The Dayton, Ohio, shooter is believed to have a Twitter account where he referred to himself as a “leftist” and showed support for Warren and Antifa. Boothe also mentioned the policies found in the suspected El Paso, Texas, shooter’s alleged manifesto “predated President Trump.”

“That is the logical conclusion that you would draw if you are laying the blame of the El Paso shooting at President Trump’s feet,” Boothe said after Miller suggested it was fair to blame Trump for the shootings. “I hate to even bring this up because I don’t think we should give any of these killers any sort of attention, but even the manifesto says that the policy positions on immigration predated President Trump.”

“So I think trying to somehow make sense of these killers who clearly have something wrong with them is a disturbing trend,” Boothe continued. “And then by the same logic, you would have to lay the Dayton shooting at the feet of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, which is insane.”

Two shootings killed 31 people over the weekend in El Paso and Dayton, sparking new debate on gun control. Some have blamed Trump for the attacks because of alleged anti-immigration and racist rhetoric.