Donald Trump Jr says Hollywood actor would have done the same thing if he was in his shoes
By Kehinde Okeowo
The Son of former American President, Donald Trump Jr, has mocked Alec Baldwin’s ‘Rust’ movie set shooting tragedy.
Alec Balwin had fired a prop gun on Thursday, while on a movie set, the gun was handed to him by an assistant director who did not know it contained live ammunition.
The fatal shot, unfortunately, hit and killed, a cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, and injured the movie director, Joel Souza, who was behind her, while Halyna died, Sousa survived with injuries.
Alec Baldwin, who famously skewered Donald Trump on “Saturday Night Live.” is a longtime family foe of the Trumps, and Donald Trump Jr. considered the tragic incident as a payback time.
He milked the situation by hawking a T-shirt that uses a tragic movie set shooting. A tee declaring “Guns Don’t Kill People, Alec Baldwin Kills People” and sells for $27.99 on a merchandise site linked to him.
According to The Sunday Morning Herald, the T-shirt Trump Jr. is pushing is in line with anti-Baldwin comments a former reality TV judge made on social media over the weekend.
He suggested Sunday that Baldwin, a politically active progressive, would blame the gun for Hutchins’ being shot. Some like-minded Instagram users weighed in to suggest, without any evidence, that the killing was no accident.
A lot of Americans, however, who felt the situation was too sensitive to be made an avenue for setting scores, and berated Trump Jr, who stuck to his guns amid criticism.
According to him, if Baldwin was in his shoes, he would do the same thing.
Screw all the sanctimony I’m seeing out there,” he said on Instagram. “If the shoe was on the other foot Alex (sic) Baldwin would literally be the first person p–sing on everybody’s grave trying to make a point. F*ck him!” he said.
Donald Trump Jr was not alone in this adventure, right-wing pundits, Candace Owens accused Baldwin of the “murder” of “innocent people,” which she later corrected.
Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance of Ohio also mocked Baldwin, asking that Donald Trump be reinstated on Twitter so he could address his TV tormentor.
Vance’s statement was criticized by his Democratic rival in Ohio, Rep. Tim Ryan, who tweeted “Someone died, you a–hole.”
Even Fox News host Janice Dean could not hold back, she urged Vance to take down his tweet.
Meanwhile, Hilaria Baldwin, Alec’s wife, sent her sympathies for Hutchins’ family, via her verified Instagram account, while also consoling her husband.