Officials including a senior British government spokesman, Trump ally Nigel Farage and former British Prime Minister Liz Truss expressed gratitude that Trump remained unharmed after yet another assassination attempt.
Former president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump survived another assassination attempt while playing golf at a West Palm Beach golf course on Sunday, and the FBI announced it was investigating the incident as an “assassination attempt.”
This comes just over eight weeks after Trump narrowly survived another assassination attempt, when he was shot in the upper right ear during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Following Sunday's incident, former British Prime Minister Liz Truss said: said“I'm glad Donald Trump is safe. But what's going on in America?”
“These attempts to undermine democracy must be stopped,” the former British leader said.
UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, a government post that oversees the Interior Secretary and Homeland Security Secretary, also responded to this latest act of violence against President Trump on Monday morning, saying it was “horrifying to see political violence taking place” on television and insisting that political violence has no place in a democracy.
Cooper, who has never been described as politically sympathetic to former President Trump, continued: “We're all glad that the former president is safe and that, whatever happened, this attempt was not successful.”
Perhaps Trump's strongest supporter and ally in the UK, and indeed across Europe, is Nigel Farage, the Brexit architect and now member of parliament and leader of the Reform UK Party. Farage himself has been physically attacked several times during his political career. Reflecting on “this new attempt on Mr Trump's life”, he called the shooting “absolutely appalling”.
Liz Truss has become one of Trump's most outspoken supporters in Europe since leaving office, arguing earlier this year that the very fate of the Western world depended on the former US president returning to power in November.
“I believe that to save the West it is crucial that we get a Republican back in the White House,” Truss said at the Future of Europe Forum in Warsaw in March.
Like her US counterpart, Trump, Truss has accused the UK political system of subverting the democratic will of the British people and claims the Westminster bureaucracy and the City of London are trying to undermine her government's policies.
Trusses are also Claimed Her removal from her role in a Downing Street coup by the Conservatives in October 2022 came as a result of pressure from the political and financial elite, including the Bank of England, after she attempted to make high tax and spending cuts.
She resigned after just 50 days in office – the shortest tenure of any British prime minister – and was replaced by Rishi Sunak, a former Goldman Sachs banker who Conservative voters clearly rejected in the last leadership election.
