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Former “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd on Friday opened up in regards to the regarding penalties of President Donald Trump attacking him in his first time period when requested in regards to the safety dangers that come consequently.

“There was direct correlation, right? He’d call your name out, you’d get weird phone calls, you’d get weird death threats, I got my tires slashed in front of my house,” Todd advised Times Radio’s Maddie Hale.

Todd, who left NBC News after practically 20 years again in January, advised Hale that he had “conversations” with Trump relating to his name-checks of individuals that aren’t in “the public square.”

“He goes, ’Oh, isn’t it good — he views it as, ‘Oh, it’s good publicity,’” Todd recalled.

He later continued, “I don’t think he’s doing it to create a security problem for these people but what he wants to do is deflect blame, ‘Just remember, you blame them you don’t blame me.’ That’s always what he’s looking for. But the reality is, Maddie, it creates a security problem.”

As Trump continues to embark on a revenge tour in his second time period — going after his political foes and their associates — judges, their households, elected officers and extra of his perceived enemies have confronted elevated threats main them to spice up their safety.

Moments earlier, Hale requested Todd in regards to the president’s response to 3 judges on a federal commerce court docket who struck down his sweeping tariffs in a ruling final week (a federal appeals court docket would go on to reinstate them in a call the subsequent day).

Trump — in an unhinged rant on his Truth Social platform — took intention on the commerce court docket judges (considered one of whom he appointed) earlier than making a dig at “sleazebag” Leonard Leo, a former ally who handpicked most of his appeals court docket and Supreme Court nominees.

Todd, later within the interview, claimed that extra public officers in Washington have their very own safety element now greater than any level of his many years masking the nation’s capital.

“And it’s simply because of the name-checking [and] threats that takes place now by him,” he careworn.

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