The statements ended a brief lull in the heated political atmosphere immediately after U.S. Secret Service agents and local law enforcement officers stopped the attempt on Trump.
Assassination attempt of Trump at his golf course in West Palm Beach
The second assassination attempt on Donald Trump came at his West Palm Beach golf course on Sunday, Sept. 15. Suspect, Ryan Routh, is in custody.
The moment of civility that followed the July near-miss attempt on Donald Trump’s life was not replicated following Sunday’s second assassination attempt.
On Monday afternoon, Trump rifled a vitriolic social media saying that “because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!” He called Vice President Kamala Harris “Comrade Kamala Harris” and claimed without details that she had used “Rhetoric, Lies, as exemplified by the false statements” during what he called the “rigged and highly partisan ABC Debate” held on Sept. 10.
Trump also raged against undocumented immigrants, writing in all capital letters, that “THE TERRORISTS, CRIMINALS, AND MENTALLY INSANE, IMMEDIATELY REMOVED FROM AMERICAN CITIES AND TOWNS, DEPORTED BACK TO THEIR COUNTIES OF ORIGIN.”
Sunday’s attempted assassination followed a week of heated rhetoric
The statement came after Trump’s repeating of baseless claims during the debate in Philadelphia that immigrants in an Ohio town were eating their neighbors’ pet cats and dogs and taking the geese from the town’s park. The bombastic comments were vociferously debunked by officials in Springfield, who then had to deal with bomb threats that temporarily closed City Hall and two elementary schools.
Trump’s campaign on Monday followed with an email citing dozens of comments by Harris, President Joe Biden, Democratic elected officials and news reports it said “egged on” the would-be assailant.
The statements ended a brief lull in the heated political atmosphere immediately after U.S. Secret Service agents and local law-enforcement officers in Palm Beach and Martin counties had stopped the attempt on Trump and arrested the suspect.
Harris on Sunday said she was “deeply disturbed” by the news and added: “I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence.”
Biden said he was “relieved” to hear Trump was safe and further stated that “there is no place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country.”
White House candidates back on campaign trail soon
But the politicking went on, nonetheless.
The vice president’s campaign went ahead with a Monday morning call intended to “slam Trump’s ‘concepts of a plan’ to repeal” the Affordable Care Act.
Trump is scheduled to hold campaign rallies in Uniondale, New York, on Sept. 18 and in Wilmington, North Carolina, on Sept. 21. Harris will meet with the National Association of Black Journalists in Pennsylvania on Sept. 17 and then will attend a livestream event with Oprah Winfrey in Michigan on Sept. 19, followed by a rally in Madison, Wisconsin, on Sept. 20.
By contrast, after the July 13 shooting at a Trump rally, in which Trump was wounded, one attendee was killed and two others seriously injured, Harris called off a planned campaign event in Palm Beach County. It was never rescheduled.
As for Trump, those close to the GOP presidential candidate — including his son Eric — said the close call with death at the Pennsylvania rally had changed and humbled him as the former president prepared to deliver his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
Trump later said his “nice man” demeanor didn’t last long.
“When I got hit, everybody thought I was going to be a nice guy, and they thought I’d change,” Trump said at a rally July 31. “They all said Trump is going to be a nice man now. He came close to death. And I really agreed with that — for about eight hours or so.”
Antonio Fins is a politics and business editor at The Palm Beach Post, part of the USA TODAY Florida Network. You can reach him at afins@pbpost.com. Help support our journalism. Subscribe today.
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