Trump blames ‘rhetoric’ of Biden, Harris for possible assassination attempt

Former president Trump, who has a long history of inflammatory rhetoric and warned of a “bloodbath” if he loses in November, repeated the claim on his social media platform Truth Social.

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Former president Donald Trump on Monday blamed the “rhetoric” of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for the potential assassination attempt he faced Sunday. “[The suspected gunman] believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said in a Fox News interview published Monday morning. “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.

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