With less than four months to go until the presidential and congressional elections, yesterday the 78-year-old presidential candidate Trump was hurried away, his face covered in blood, from a campaign rally in the town of Butler, Pennsylvania, where a twenty-year-old man opened fire with a semi-automatic rifle, wounding the former president , killing one supporter and seriously injuring two others, before being shot dead by police snipers.
Although the motive of the young assailant remains unknown so far, not a few Republicans have raised the index finger and pointed it at their political opponents.
“The central agenda of the Biden campaign is that (former) President Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs. This rhetoric led directly to the attempted assassination of (former) President Trump,” asserted via X the day before Saturday, right-wing American senator J. D. Vance, pre-anointed to be the tycoon’s vice-presidential candidate.
“For years, and even today, left-wing activists, Democratic donors and Joe Biden himself have made sickening comments and descriptions of Donald Trump’s gunmanship,” said Chris LaCivita, an executive with the former president’s campaign team. .
The message was echoed yesterday Sunday by Mike Johnson, the Republican speaker of the House of Representatives: “No political figure in American history, much less in modern history, possibly since Lincoln, has been so demonized and persecuted by the media, the elites of Hollywood, other politicians and even the judicial system”.
“And when the message is constantly being broadcast that the election of Donald Trump would be a threat to democracy, that democracy would end, that inflames spirits,” he added.
Republican Rep. Steve Scalise, who in 2017 narrowly escaped a fatal shooting, also accused Democrats of fueling “inflammatory rhetoric.”
“Joe Biden gave the order,” argued House Republican Mike Collins, demanding that Joe Biden be prosecuted for “incitement to murder.”
Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green over-examined: “we are in the middle of a battle between good and evil,” she said (once once more), adding that “the Democratic party is simply absolute evil and yesterday it tried to assassinate (s.s. .former) president Trump”.
Some, however, preferred to appear more restrained. The chairman of the party’s National Committee, a staunch ally of Mr. Trump’s, Michael Whatley, was repeatedly asked regarding the attempt during an interview with Fox News, but declined to go into script.
“We don’t know all the details” “and we will have time to investigate,” he said. “But for now, I think all Americans should stop, pause, reflect on what’s really important,” he said.
Joe Biden and Donald Trump both called on Americans for unity yesterday as conspiracy theories flooded social media.
American political life has become polarized in recent years to such an extent that the atmosphere is sometimes unfit to breathe.
Some experts note that violent acts once morest American electors have increased dramatically since Donald Trump took office in January 2017.
For Jacob Ware, a Washington-based security expert at the think tank Council on Foreign Relations, “any inquiry” into attribution today would go nowhere. After this “dark day in our history” what is needed is for “Americans to come together and reject the forces of division and violence,” he said.
“Democrats have not hesitated to talk openly regarding the threat that Trump represents,” said Michael Bailey, a political science professor at Georgetown University in Washington. “Incendiary rhetoric” has been adopted “on both sides,” he continued, acknowledging, however, that Republicans are “more prone to marry that rhetoric with gun imagery.”
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