‘They are the real threat’

The former President of the United States Donald Trump has accused the president Joe Biden and the vice president and Democratic candidate for the White House, Kamala Harristo use a ‘rhetoric’ that motivates He has already been shot twice in recent months.“They are the real threat,” he said.

For Trump, the shooting suspect when he played golf at his country club in Florida this Sunday, Ryan Wesley Routh“believed in the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and acted accordingly.”

“Their rhetoric is making them shoot me, when I’m the one who’s going to save the country and they’re the ones who are destroying it from the inside and the outside,” the Republican candidate for the White House said during an interview on Fox News. “They’re the real threat,” he said.

“These are the things that dangerous fools like the shooter hear; that’s the rhetoric they hear and the same goes for the first one,” Trump said, also referring to the attacker who shot him in July at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Trump has pointed out that the “combustible language” Democrats used during the campaign allowed these two episodes to occur. “I can use it, much better than they can, but I won’t,” he warned.

The President of the United States, Joe Bidensaid in a statement that he was “relieved” to hear that Trump was unharmed, and praised the work of the Secret Service. Through X, the vice president and Democratic nominee, Kamala Harriswho faces Trump at the ballot box in 51 days, said he was glad the former president was safe. “Violence has no place in the United States,” he noted.

The attackRyan Wesley Routh58-year-old with a criminal record, has been arrested on two federal charges of illegal use of a firearm. Routh had voted Republican in 2016 but was “disappointed” with his tenure.

The suspect was arrested on Sunday in possession of an AK-47 assault rifle after firing a series of shots through one of the fences surrounding Trump’s golf club grounds in West Palm Beach.

The events took place around 1:30 p.m. local time (7:30 p.m. in the Basque Country), when Secret Service agents spotted a man with a gun next to the fence of the golf course where Trump was playing 300-500 meters.

The Secret Service opened fire on the alleged attacker and he ran from some bushes where he was hiding to the vehicle in which he tried to escape, a black van whose license plate a witness managed to photograph.

As a result, the person was apprehended in his vehicle a few minutes later. The gun was found in the bushes, as well as two backpacks and a GoPro sports camera.