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September 18, 2024 – 07:04
(Keystone-ATS) “Only important presidents get shot,” former US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday, campaigning in Michigan two days after being targeted by a second assassination attempt. He called for fervour from his supporters.
The Republican presidential candidate in November linked the assassination attempt to his plans for heavy tariffs on auto imports from Mexico and China in Flint, a city bled dry by auto plant closures. “And then people wonder why I’m getting shot,” the 78-year-old billionaire said.
Her Democratic rival, US Vice President Kamala Harris, who was traveling in Pennsylvania, called the Republican 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,” the source said. “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, Donald Trump said Tuesday. On Monday, he said the suspect arrested Sunday in Florida for the alleged assassination attempt against him “adheres to the narrative of Biden and Harris and acts 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.
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’d be the first one to dive into the middle of the bullets.”
” Genius “
During this campaign rally, Donald Trump presented himself as the savior of the automobile industry in the face of foreign competition: “If a tragedy occurs and we don’t win, there will be no automotive jobs, no manufacturing 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 everything holds together.”
“This is not rambling, this is genius,” the Republican said, shortly after launching into a rant about hydrocarbon exploitation in which he mentioned a deposit in “Bagram, Alaska,” which is said to 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 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 complete outrage,” she said of the turmoil that has rocked the city since then, with bomb threats and closures of public places. “You can’t be entrusted with the responsibility of being president of the United States when you’re participating in this kind of hateful speech.”
Tensions around this already extraordinary campaign rose another notch this weekend, following a new assassination attempt against Donald Trump, the second after the one in July.
On Sunday, while he was on the course of his golf club in Florida (south), several Secret Service agents “opened fire on an armed man” who was near the edge of the course. The man, identified as Ryan Routh, did not shoot according to the police, and was then arrested.
