Former President Donald J. Trump says the latest man to try to assassinate him “believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it.” Ryan Routh, suspected of lying in wait for the America First leader with an AK-47-style rifle at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday, is a Democrat donor and regurgitated Biden and Harris’s rhetoric about the former president being a threat to democracy on social media. Pictures also show a truck at his address sported a ‘Biden-Harris’ sticker.
“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,” Trump said of the Democratic president and his deputy.
He highlighted comments from the pair casting him as a “threat to democracy” and themselves as “unity” leaders.
“They are the opposite. These are people that want to destroy our country,” Trump said, explaining: “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat.”
During the debate between Trump and Harris, the Vice President claimed there would be no “guardrails” restraining Trump if he is reelected and that “It’s up to the American people to stop 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,” Trump said, referring to Thomas Crooks, who shot him through the ear in Butler, Pennsylvania.
“They use highly inflammatory language,” he added.