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In the wake of the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump, the former president and current presidential candidate is blaming the rhetoric of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump argues that their “highly inflammatory language” incited these violent actions against him.
TheinterviewoccurredMondaymorning,justadayafterTrumpwasswiftlyevacuatedfromTrumpInternationalGolfClubinWestPalmBeach,Fla.,whentheSecretServicediscoveredgunmanRyanWesleyRouth’sriflepokingthroughthebushesintothegolfcourse.Routh,armedwithascopedAK-47-stylerifleandequippedwithaGoProcameraandtwobackpacks,fledthescene,butpolicelaterapprehendedhimonI-95.
“HebelievedtherhetoricofBidenandHarris,andheactedonit,”TrumptoldFoxNewsonMonday.“Theirrhetoriciscausingmetobeshotat,whenIamtheonewhoisgoingtosavethecountry,andtheyaretheonesthataredestroyingthecountry—bothfromtheinsideandout.”
TrumphighlightedBidenandHarris’pastportrayalofhimasa“threattodemocracy”whilesimultaneouslyclaimingtobe“unity”leaders.Tru
