After surviving a second assassination attempt just 90 days after the first one in July, former President Donald Trump, in an interview with Fox News, placed the blame for the attacks squarely on the shoulders of President Joe Biden and his sidekick, Vice President Kamala Harris — the Democratic presidential nominee — as they continue to ratchet up the fear mongering with the rhetoric they use to rile left-wing feathers to vote against him in November.
On Sunday, authorities in the state of Florida arrested Ryan Wesley Routh, a 58-year-old male Democratic Party donor with a lengthy criminal history, after he hid in the bushes at Trump’s golf course with a rifle similar in style to an AK-47 and shot at the former president. Fortunately, no one was hurt.
“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said during the interview. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”
“These are people that want to destroy our country,” he continued. “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat.” He then stated that Democratic Party politicians and the propagandists within the mainstream media have incited these attempts on his life through a mix of the actions they have taken against him which includes pushing lies and extreme rhetoric along with all of the indictments made against him.
“These are the things that dangerous fools, like the shooter, listen to — that is the rhetoric they listen to, and the same with the first one,” he said, later going on to add: “The media is made up of fools that will spew [Democrats’] garbage and spew their sick philosophies and will protect them at all costs, and they can’t believe they get away with it. Democrats are totally protected by the media.”
And for all of those on the left who are denying that they have used this extreme rhetoric against the former president, Trump’s campaign put out a statement to drop the receipts.
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President Trump drops the receipts on the Democrats whose disgusting rhetoric directly led to another assassination attempt pic.twitter.com/BfebMgFP5u
— Monica Crowley (@MonicaCrowley) September 16, 2024
Here’s a sample of some of the names you’ll find on the list:
- Kamala Harris
- Joe Biden
- Tim Walz
- Gwen Walz
- Nancy Pelosi
- Jasmine Crockett
- Liz Cheney
- TJ Ducklo
- Maxine Waters
- Steven Horsford
- Mike Levin
And with each of the names on the list, Trump included the statements they made that have been instrumental in radicalizing many Democrats on the left like Routh and Thomas Matthew Crooks, the first assassin that tried to take his life.
Former congresswoman Liz Cheney, for example, said, “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
Harris herself said, “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.” On another occasion she said, “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses.” Even more shocking is the time she stated, “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
And how about the time when Biden said that it’s “time to put Trump in a bullseye.” Or when he referred to the former president as a “threat to this nation.”
The list of statements is lengthy. Take a look at the post from Monica Crowley. ‘Nuff said.
It’s time for leftists both inside and outside of the media to take responsibility for the rhetoric they have pushed for years against Trump. It’s pretty clear the left is full of unstable individuals who are being fear mongered into thinking they have to take action to prevent Trump from becoming president or else we’ll have the second coming of Hitler to contend with. This has to stop.