Former US President Donald Trump has suggested the rhetoric coming from the Democratic party that depicts him as a threat to electoral democracy has probably contributed to the recent attempt on his life.
On Sunday, the Secret Service spooked a gunman who was hiding in bushes at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach, Florida. The suspect fled in a car and was detained nearby shortly afterward, thanks to an eyewitness who described the vehicle to the police.
In a lengthy interview on X Spaces on Monday, Trump offered his account of the dramatic events and commented on the fact that it evidently was a second attempt to kill him in the span of roughly two months. The first incident occurred at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania in mid-July, when a bullet fragment grazed Trump’s ear.
”Well, there’s a lot of rhetoric going on right now. A lot of people think that the Democrats, when they talk about ‘threat to democracy’ and all of this… And it seems that both of these people were radical lefts,” Trump said, referring to the suspects in each instance.
n previous remarks about the incident in Pennsylvania, he had likewise suggested that political attacks on him could have influenced the perpetrator. The leadership of the Democratic Party has been branding the Republican candidate as a would-be tyrant bent on destroying the US political system, urging voters to side with their candidate to safeguard the nation’s future.