Republicans took to social media to denounce two-time losing presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for further escalating political tensions when she claimed in an MSNBC interview on Monday that former President Donald Trump was a “danger to our country and the world.”
Trump said on Monday that rhetoric by Democrats and the media claiming he is a “threat to democracy” fuelled the second assassination attempt on his life. “I'm being shot at because of what they're saying. I'm in a position to save my country and they're destroying it from the inside and out,” Trump told Fox News, commenting about the suspects.
Body camera footage: Suspect arrested in attempted assassination of Donald Trump
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After Trump's remarks, Clinton appeared on MSNBC and continued to stoke tensions: “I don't understand why it's so hard for the press to report consistently on how dangerous Trump is…[He is a] “It's a danger to our country and the world,” she said.
Citing the alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Clinton suggested that political opponents should face censorship by law enforcement: “I believe there are Americans who are engaging in this kind of propaganda, and I think that prosecuting them civilly, or even criminally, would be a greater deterrent.”
“Hillary Clinton knows exactly what she's doing here,” Donald Trump Jr. said. Posts About X. “The day after a Democratic donor and Kamala Harris supporter tried to kill my father, she is knowingly fanning the flames of left-wing violence and putting my father's life even more at risk.”
Trump Jr.'s comments: Next In response to Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio, he asked, “Hillary Clinton is calling for civil and criminal penalties for speech she doesn't agree with, but why stop at just jailing her opponents?”
“Hillary is calling for censorship, but she's actually calling for violence. Reject censorship, reject violence,” Vance said.
Stephen Miller, former speechwriter for President Trump, said Clinton's “comments are reprehensible”
“It's dangerous, it's reckless, it's vile, it's insane and it's insane,” he said.
“Hillary Clinton is further preparing for her assassination,” says Federalist Magazine editor-in-chief Molly Hemingway. Posts.
“This is evil,” says Republican strategist Tim Murtaugh said“The day after Trump survived his second assassination attempt, Hillary Clinton is trying to make a third.”
Caroline Leavitt, national spokesperson for the Trump campaign, Suggested Vice President Kamala Harris should be asked if she will condemn Clinton's “violent rhetoric.”
“We are waiting for every mainstream journalist to ask Kamala Harris if she will condemn Hillary Clinton's violent comments, less than 48 hours after President Trump was nearly assassinated (for the second time) for these comments,” she said.
Newsmax host Rob Schmidt said “He's [Trump’s] Still alive.”
Democrats and the media have long argued that Trump is an “existential threat” who must be “removed” and “totally destroyed.”
Trump is “a destroyer of our democracy and must be removed,” said Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.). said 2023. “It's not enough to just defeat Trump,” Harris adviser David Plouffe said in 2016. “We have to destroy him. We can't allow someone like him to rise again.”
Harris has repeatedly argued that Trump is “the greatest national security threat to the United States.” Claimed“There is one existential threat: Donald Trump,” President Joe Biden said. said“They're going to have to put a bullet in Donald Trump.” said Rick Wilson of the Lincoln Project.
Authorities arrested Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, on Sunday on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Trump while he was golfing in South Florida. Routh appeared to be a Trump supporter in 2016 but became anti-Trump in 2020, posting in early 2024 that he would “enslave Americans again.” Routh reportedly had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on his truck in front of his Hawaii home and donated to the Democratic fundraising machine.
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