Republican candidate blames Joe Biden and Kamala Harris’ ‘rhetoric’

In the wake of a possible assassination attempt against him, Donald Trump is blaming his opponents in the Democratic camp. The Republican candidate for the White House stated on the conservative Fox News channel on Monday, September 16, that the suspect “adhered to Biden and Harris’ rhetoric and acted accordingly”. “Their rhetoric gets me shot”denounced the former American president. On the social network X, he also wrote: “Because of this communist left rhetoric, bullets are flying, and it’s only going to get worse!”

“I have always condemned political violence. I will always condemn it,” Joe Biden replied. “In America, we settle our differences peacefully at the ballot box, not at gunpoint.”said the President of the United States. On Sunday, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris had also assured on X that the violence had not “no place in America”“.

Donald Trump had already blamed his political opponents for his first assassination attempt, when a gunman, whose precise motive is not known, injured the candidate in the ear during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania in mid-July. “I probably got shot in the head because of what they say about me,” he had launched, describing his opponents as “threat” for democracy.