Former President Donald Trump said that extreme rhetoric from President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris directly led to a second assassination attempt on his life over the weekend.
Authorities arrested 58-year-old Ryan Routh — a Democrat donor with a criminal history — on Sunday as he hid in shrubbery with an AK-47-style rifle hundreds of yards away from the Republican presidential nominee at Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach.
“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump told Fox News on Monday morning. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”
“These are people that want to destroy our country,” he added. “It is called the enemy from within. They are the real…
