NewsNation’s Vittert Torches Liberals Dismissing D.C. Crime by Invoking January 6

Curtis Houck | August 13, 2025
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Tuesday night on his show On Balance, NewsNation host Leland Vittert lambasted progressives and their media allies dismissing concerns about crime in Washington D.C. by invoking President Trump’s role in the events of January 6, 2021 as a way to shutdown debate, calling it a “playbook” hell bent on “hijack[ing]” debate to “something four years ago that has absolutely nothing to do with the topic at hand.”

 

Vittert began by throwing back to a fiery segment from Monday’s show with Zeteo founder Mehdi Hasan, formerly of al-Jazeera and MSNBC:

Democrats playbook against President Donald Trump is very simple: Oppose everything he does and if you can argue the facts, just pound the table and yell about January 6th...The strategy was on full display Monday in our segment about Trump’s surging federal law enforcement and sending in the National Guard to Washington, D.C.

During said throw down, Vittert tore into Hasan’s cheap shots by labeling the left’s strategy to “noun, verb, January 6.”