“Only important presidents get shot!” Donald Trump called on his supporters to rally their support on Tuesday, September 17, 2024, two days after being targeted by a second assassination attempt.
The former Republican president linked the effort to his plans for heavy tariffs on auto imports from Mexico and China, speaking in Flint, Michigan, a city reeling from auto plant closures.
“And then people wonder why I’m getting shot.”launched the 78-year-old candidate.
Her Democratic rival Kamala Harris, who is traveling in Pennsylvania – which, like Michigan, is a decisive state for the November 5 election – called the former president on Tuesday. “to tell him directly that she was happy that he was safe and sound”a White House official said.
” Kind “
The conversation was “cordial and brief”according to the same Source.
“I told him what I had already said publicly: there is no place for violence in our country.”the 59-year-old Democrat later reported during an interview in Philadelphia with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).
The Democrat showed herself “couldn’t be kinder” during this call, Donald Trump judged on Tuesday.
On Monday, he ruled that the suspect arrested Sunday in Florida for the alleged assassination attempt against him, “adhered to Biden and Harris’ rhetoric and acted accordingly”.
“Because of this speech from the communist left, bullets are flying and it’s only going to get worse.”had launched the Republican candidate, who did not repeat these accusations on Tuesday in Flint.
His supporters say they are galvanized by the attacks on their champion.
“They want to kill Trump so he can’t run for a second term” Donald Owen, 71, who attended the public meeting, told AFP, adding: “If someone were to shoot Trump, I would be the first to dive into the middle of the bullets”.
” Genius “
During this public meeting, Donald Trump presented himself as the savior of the automobile industry in the face of foreign competition and declared: “If a tragedy happens and we don’t win, there will be no auto jobs, no industrial jobs.”
He also responded to attacks from the opposing camp on his sometimes incoherent digressions: “I respond with long and sometimes very complex sentences and paragraphs, but it all holds together.”
“This is not rambling, this is genius”launched the Republican, shortly after launching into a disquisition on the exploitation of hydrocarbons during which he mentioned a deposit at “Bagram in Alaska”which would be “bigger than all of Saudi Arabia”.
Donald Trump apparently confused Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan with an area in Alaska called the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR).
Billie Eilish
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are crisscrossing the six or seven “swing states”, the pivotal states, while the Democrat seems to benefit from a slight rebound in the polls since the debate of September 10, during which she generally dominated her opponent.
The candidate, already supported by star Taylor Swift, received the support of an immensely popular pop artist, Billie Eilish, on Tuesday.
In her interview in Philadelphia, Kamala Harris condemned Donald Trump’s role in spreading false information about Haitian migrants eating dogs and cats in a small Ohio town, Springfield.
“It’s a real scandal”she said of the turbulence that has been roiling the town, where bomb threats and public closures have been rife. “You cannot be entrusted with the responsibility of being president of the United States when you participate in this kind of hateful speech.”.
Tensions around this already extraordinary campaign rose another notch this weekend, following an assassination attempt against Donald Trump in July.
He was on the course of his golf club in Florida (south) on Sunday afternoon when several Secret Service agents “opened fire on an armed man” who was near the edge of the field. The man, identified as Ryan Routh, did not shoot, according to police, and was later arrested.
