During a rally in Flint, Michigan, Donald Trump returned to the alleged assassination attempt in Florida on Tuesday, September 17.
“Only important presidents get shot!” Donald Trump called on his supporters to rally on Tuesday, September 17, two days after an alleged assassination attempt and two months after being shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
The former Republican president linked the alleged assassination attempt 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,” said the 78-year-old candidate.
A call with Kamala Harris this Tuesday
Her Democratic rival Kamala Harris, who was traveling in Pennsylvania, 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. The conversation was “cordial and brief,” according to the same Source.
“I told him what I’ve said publicly before: 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 was “very kind” during the call, Trump said Tuesday.
On Monday, he ruled that the suspect arrested Sunday in Florida for the alleged assassination attempt against him, “adhered to the speech of Biden and Harris and acted accordingly.”
“Because of this rhetoric from the communist left, bullets are flying and it’s only going to get worse,” said the Republican candidate, who did not repeat these accusations on Tuesday in Flint.
