Trump Breaks Silence to Say Who He Blames for Assassination Bid

Donald Trump says the “rhetoric” of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris led to a gunman showing up at his Florida golf course Sunday in an incident that authorities are treating as a second assassination attempt.

Trump was not harmed in the incident and the alleged gunman—identified as Ryan Wesley Routh—was engaged by the Secret Service at the course where Trump was playing in West Palm Beach before he was later arrested. “He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said of the gunman in an interview with Fox News Digital.

“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,” the former president continued.

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