Kamala Harris on Monday accused Donald Trump of becoming “increasingly unstable and unfree,” days after an armed man was arrested outside the former president's Coachella rally. The sheriff claimed it was the third assassination attempt.
“Donald Trump is becoming more and more unstable and less free,” the vice president told supporters at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania.
“He wants unlimited power,” Harris continued. “That's what he's looking for. He wants to send the military after American citizens.”
The 59-year-old Democratic candidate's new line of attack against Trump, who has been the subject of at least two assassination attempts in recent months, comes as the former president previously faced an attempt on his life in Palm Beach. This comes after he blamed Harris and President Biden for their comments. Florida, last month.
Trump, 78, told Fox News in September that “I'm going to get shot because of their rhetoric.”
“He believed in the rhetoric of Mr. Biden and Mr. Harris and acted on it,” the Republican candidate said of Ryan Routh. Routh is suspected of setting up a sniper's nest outside President Trump's Palm Beach golf course last month with the intention of shooting the former. president.
A California sheriff believes his deputies thwarted a third assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday when they arrested an armed man at a checkpoint outside Trump's rally in the Coachella Valley.
“We truly believe we were able to thwart another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters Sunday, the day after Bem Miller, 49, was taken into custody.
Local authorities said Miller attempted to enter the rally with a fake press pass, a shotgun, a loaded handgun, a high-capacity magazine, and several fake passports and driver's licenses.
The FBI and Secret Service are investigating the incident, but have not ruled it out as an assassination attempt.
Miller, who claims to be a Trump supporter and denies planning the attack, was charged with weapons charges and released on bail.
Back in Erie, a battleground state with a history of predicting the winner of Pennsylvania elections, Harris may have stolen another page from Trump's playbook when she played a montage of the former president's soundbites during her rally. It looked like.
Trump regularly plays clips of his Democratic opponent's flip-flops and word salad to rally attendees, but this appears to be the first time Harris has used this tactic.
The 45th president previously accused Harris of canceling some of his campaign and policy strategies, including a tip tax exemption and a pledge to keep U.S. Steel domestically owned.
The footage Harris played highlighted several instances in which Trump warned about the “enemy from within” in the country at various rallies and media interviews.
“He's talking about enemies within the state of Pennsylvania,” the vice president charged.
President Trump first deployed the “enemy from within” line during an interview on September 16th. fox newsthe same one that condemned the rhetoric from Harris and Biden in the wake of the second assassination attempt.
