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.
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