Former President Donald Trump blamed Vice President Kamala Harris for the assassination attempts on him while speaking to Fox News on Monday — demanding a de-escalation of "rhetoric," while at the same time escalating his own language against her.
"He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," said Trump while speaking to 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."
There is no evidence so far that the alleged gunman spotted on the Mar a Lago golf course with an AK-47 over the weekend, Ryan Wesley Routh, was motivated by President Joe Biden Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris' rhetoric. His since-deactivated account on X claimed that he had voted for Trump in 2016, but later turned on him, supported Tulsi Gabbard in the 2020 Democratic primary, and wanted a Nikki Haley/Vivek Ramaswamy ticket this year.
Trump, however, has blamed the violence on Democratic arguments that have painted the ex-president as a "threat to democracy" because he sought to prevent the electoral count in 2020.
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"These are people that want to destroy our country," Trump claimed on the interview. "It is called the enemy from within. They are the real threat." He added that Democrats "use highly inflammatory language. I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t."
Trump's loyalists reacted to the previous assassination attempt, which led to him being injured by a rooftop gunman at a rally in Pennsylvania, by blaming Democratic rhetoric as well, although the deceased shooter in that incident does not appear to have been motivated by politics at all based on current evidence.
