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Tim Robbins condemns drawing parallels between his ‘Bob Roberts’ film and Trump assassination attempt
By By Lisa Respers France, CNN,
1 day ago
(CNN) — Tim Robbins wants conspiracy theorists to stop trying to tie his 1992 film “Bob Roberts” to the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
The political fiction movie from three decades ago includes a plotline in which a candidate for office stages an assassination attempt to help his chances. In a strongly worded post on X, Robbins addressed comments by some who suggested the events in Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday were a political ploy.
“To anyone drawing a parallel between my film Bob Roberts and the attempted assassination of Trump, let’s be clear,” Robbins wrote on Sunday. “What happened yesterday was a real attempt on a presidential candidate’s life.”
In the movie, which Robbins wrote, directed and starred in, the main character is a conservative politician running for a the US Senate seat.
“Those that are denying the assassination attempt was real are truly in a deranged mindset,” Robbins wrote in his post.
“A human being was shot yesterday. Another killed,” he added. “They may not be human beings that you agree with politically but for shame folks.”
Trump suffered an injury to his ear in the shooting and firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed. Two other people, David Dutch, 57, of New Kensington, Pennsylvania, and James Copenhaver, 74, of Moon Township, Pennsylvania, were critically injured and are now in stable condition, state police said in a news release.
Robbins ended his post with a call for unity.
“Get over your blind hatred of these people. They are fellow Americans,” he wrote. “This collective hatred is killing our souls and consuming whatever is left of our humanity.”
Tim Robbins, shown here in a 2020 interview with CNN, wants conspiracy theorists to connecting his 1992 film “Bob Roberts” to the attempted assassination of former President Trump.
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