He believes the suspect was influenced by the rhetoric of his political opponents. Donald Trump on Monday blamed his alleged new assassination attempt on the “rhetoric” of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris.
The Republican candidate told Fox News that the suspect “accepted the narrative of Biden and Harris, and acted accordingly.” “Their rhetoric is getting me shot,” the former US president denounced.
Donald Trump has escaped an alleged assassination attempt for the second time in two months, and the FBI announced the arrest of a suspect who appeared to have targeted him on a golf course in Florida on Sunday.
Support for Democrats
The man arrested on Monday is Ryan Wesley Routh, 58. His social media accounts show a keen interest in current events; he has often criticized Donald Trump. According to the American press, he voted in the Democratic primary in March in the state of North Carolina. Federal funding records also show that he gave more than $100 to the Democratic Party via the ActBlue fundraising platform.
CNN has discovered that the suspect posted messages on X directly to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris encouraging them to visit those injured in the assassination attempt on Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania last July. He also asked the vice president, now the Democratic presidential nominee, to attend the funeral of the former firefighter killed that day, something the Republican billionaire “would never do,” according to him.
Video“Alleged assassination attempt” against Donald Trump: who is the suspect arrested?
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris said they were “relieved” that Donald Trump was “safe and sound.” According to a White House statement, the president and his vice president “will be kept regularly informed by their teams.”
“I was informed of the shooting near former President Trump and his Florida property and I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America,” the Democratic presidential candidate wrote on X on November 5.
The incident comes in an already crazy campaign that has seen in a matter of weeks the Republican candidate escape an assassination attempt, Democratic President Joe Biden throw in the towel and his vice president Kamala Harris replace him at short notice. Since then, the campaign has taken a very acrimonious turn between the billionaire and Republican tribune and his 59-year-old rival, a former prosecutor and senator from California.
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