Launching a fiery attack against Democrats, Donald Trump on Monday said that US President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ “rhetoric” is responsible for the second assassination attempt against him since July.
In an interview with Fox News, the former US President said that the suspected gunman “acted” on the “highly inflammatory language” of Democrats. The Republican nominee’s sharp remarks came a day after he escaped an attack at International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
‘He believed the rhetoric of Biden, Harris’
The US Secret Service found a gunman, identified as Ryan Wesley Routh, in the bushes with an AK-47-style rifle pointed toward the green, a GoPro camera, and two backpacks. Media reports said that Routh fled the scene but was later pulled over and arrested on Interstate 95. US federal authorities are treating the episode as an assassination attempt against Trump.
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“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said of the gunman. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”
‘Threat to democracy’
Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting him as a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are “unity” leaders. “They are the opposite,” Trump said. “These are people that want to destroy our country.” He added, “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat.”
Routh’s background check revealed that he currently lives in Hawaii and has faced numerous run-ins with police since the 1990s. He previously echoed Biden and Harris’ anti-Trump comments on his social media pages, stating that “Democracy is on the ballot” and that Democrats “cannot lose.”
Trump also slammed the media, saying, “The media is made up of fools that will spew [Democrats’] garbage and spew their sick philosophies and will protect them at all costs, and they can’t believe they get away with it.” The latest assassination attempt came after Trump was shot in the ear at a Pennsylvania rally by a gunman who killed one person and wounded others before being fatally shot by police on July 13.
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