House Speaker Mike Johnson urged political leaders on Tuesday to “tone down the temperature” in the wake of the assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk — he but was met with questions about President Donald Trump’s own rhetoric.

While speaking to reporters on Tuesday, Johnson said that congressional leaders have an “increasing tendency to frame simple policy disputes as some sort of existential threat to our country.” He then appeared to take aim at Democrats who critique Trump and his administration through the use of certain labels.

“Leaders cannot call their political opponents Nazis and fascists and enemies of the state because they disagree with their policy priorities,” Johnson said. “This is something we should’ve learned in grade school.”

Several critics, howev

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