Trump blames Biden and Harris ‘rhetoric’ for assassination bids

Donald Trump blames his election rival US Vice President Kamala Harris and US President Joe Biden after he was targeted in a second apparent assassination attempt, saying their “rhetoric” about him endangering democracy is to blame.

Trump — who was not hurt in Sunday’s event — tells Fox News Digital that rhetoric from Biden and Harris “is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country.”

Trump, 78, referred to frequent comments that he poses a “threat to democracy.”

Trump — whose main election message against Harris is built on dark warnings about immigrant “invasion” and claims that the United States is a “failing nation” that only he can save — says his opponents “use highly inflammatory language.”

“I can use it too — far better than they can — but I don’t,” he adds.

In a later post on his Truth Social network, Trump says, “The bullets are flying, and it will only get worse,” before launching into an all-caps attack on immigrants.