“Last week, I took a bullet for democracy,” former President Donald Trump said at a campaign rally in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on Saturday, responding to leftists calling him a “threat to democracy.”
“They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy,’ and I say, ‘What have I done to democracy?’ I took a bullet for democracy last week. What have I done to democracy? It’s insanity,” Trump said.
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Donald Trump: “They keep saying, ‘He’s a threat to democracy’… What have I done to democracy?”
“Last week I took a bullet for democracy.”🔥
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) July 20, 2024
Last week, gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to assassinate President Trump while he was speaking at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Notably, the assassination attempt on Crooks came nearly a decade after Democrats, left-wing activists, celebrities and the mainstream media had called Trump a “threat to democracy,” likened him to a dictator and openly fantasized about his death.
As Breitbart News reported, President Joe Biden’s social media posts had referred to Trump as a “dictator” minutes before a gunman attempted to take the 45th president’s life, firing eight shots at Biden from a rooftop less than 500 feet from the stage where Trump was speaking.
Trump was shot above his right ear before Secret Service agents swooped on the former president behind the podium. With blood streaming from his face, Trump stood and addressed his supporters, pumping his fist in the air and yelling, “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
The assassination attempt was condemned by Democrats, including some of the most progressive members of Congress’ “Squad,” though some were hesitant to specifically name Trump.
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) I wanted AOC praised Trump for his “speedy recovery,” which many took as evidence that the congresswoman, who has regularly denounced the 45th president as an emissary of “fascism,” doesn’t actually believe what she’s saying. AOC then called Trump a “neo-Nazi” again, less than a week after his attempted assassination.
Two days after the assassination attempt, President Trump attended the Republican National Convention (RNC) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he formally accepted the Republican presidential nomination and gave his first public speech since the attack on Thursday.
Meanwhile, questions continue to grow about what happened to the Secret Service at Trump’s July 13 rally, after the agency discovered Crooks on the roof 10 minutes before Trump’s speech was to begin, only to then reveal he let Trump onto the stage.
There have been several other reported Secret Service failures which you can read about here , and multiple investigations are currently underway.
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle, who has faced calls for her resignation but said she has no plans to step down, is scheduled to testify before the House Oversight Committee on Monday.
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