Team Trump Blames Assassination Attempts on ‘Communist Left Rhetoric’ and Brings Receipts to Prove It
The Trump-Vance Campaign declared on Monday that left-wing hate speech was to blame for the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, and provided dozens of examples of the Democrats’ “increasingly incendiary rhetoric.”
On Sunday, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, a Biden-Harris supporter, Democrat donor and pro-Ukraine activist with an extensive criminal background, attempted to shoot Trump through a fence at his International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
After Trump’s Secret Service detail fired at Routh, he took off in a black Nissan, leaving his backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle behind. He was quickly apprehended speeding away on I-95.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Sunday night that the State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation into this latest attempted assassination of Trump.
“I understand that the feds are involved but I do believe that there were multiple violations of state law,” he said during a press conference. “We also believe that there is a need to make sure that the truth about all this comes out in a way that’s credible.”
DeSantis added that a separate investigation was needed because the Biden regime has a perceived conflict of interest.
“I look at the federal government with all due respect to them—those same agencies are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this? I just think that that may not be the best thing for this country,” he said.
Team Trump, meanwhile, appears to have developed its own theory as to the motive of the suspect.
“Make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years,” the Trump Campaign said in a press release, Monday.
On social media, Routh appeared to have been influenced by the Biden-Harris regime’s incessant messaging about Trump being a “threat to Democracy.”
“Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free,” he posted on X in April. “Trumps should be MASA …make Americans slaves again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.”
In a 2003 self-published book, Routh described the former president as a “fool” and “buffoon” because of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot and the “tremendous blunder” of leaving the Iran nuclear deal.
“You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh wrote in his book, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War.”
In the press release, Team Trump provided dozens of examples of Democrats and media personalities using “increasingly incendiary rhetoric” against the Republican presidential nominee.
- Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
- Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses.”