Team Trump Blames Assassination Attempts on ‘Communist Left Rhetoric’ and Brings Receipts to Prove It

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The Trump-Vance Campaign declared on Monday that left-wing hate speech was to blame for the second assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life, and provided dozens of examples of the Democrats’ “increasingly incendiary rhetoric.”

On Sunday,  Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, a Biden-Harris supporter, Democrat donor and pro-Ukraine activist with an extensive criminal background, attempted to shoot Trump through a fence at his International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.

After Trump’s Secret Service detail fired at Routh, he took off in a black Nissan, leaving his backpack, GoPro camera and AK-47 style rifle behind. He was quickly apprehended speeding away on I-95.

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced Sunday night that the State of Florida will be conducting its own investigation into this latest attempted assassination of Trump.

“I understand that the feds are involved but I do believe that there were multiple violations of state law,” he said during a press conference. “We also believe that there is a need to make sure that the truth about all this comes out in a way that’s credible.”

DeSantis added that a separate investigation was needed because the Biden regime has a perceived conflict of interest.

“I look at the federal government with all due respect to them—those same agencies are prosecuting Trump in that jurisdiction are now going to be investigating this? I just think that that may not be the best thing for this country,” he said.

Team Trump, meanwhile, appears to have developed its own theory as to the motive of the suspect.

“Make no mistake, this psycho was egged on by the rhetoric and lies that have flowed from Kamala Harris, Democrats, and their Fake News allies for years,” the Trump Campaign said in a press release, Monday.

On social media, Routh appeared to have been influenced by the Biden-Harris regime’s incessant messaging about Trump being a “threat to Democracy.”

“Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free,” he posted on X in April. “Trumps should be MASA …make Americans slaves again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose. We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way.”

In a 2003 self-published book, Routh described the former president as a “fool” and “buffoon” because of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol Hill riot and the “tremendous blunder” of leaving the Iran nuclear deal.

“You are free to assassinate Trump,” Routh wrote in his book, “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War.”

In the press release, Team Trump provided dozens of examples of Democrats and media personalities using “increasingly incendiary rhetoric” against the Republican presidential nominee.

• Kamala Harris — repeatedly: “Trump is a threat to our democracy and fundamental freedoms.”
• Kamala Harris: “It’s on us to recognize the threat [Trump] poses.”
• Kamala Harris: “Does one of us have to come out alive? Ha ha ha ha!”
• Joe Biden: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
• Joe Biden: “I mean this from the bottom of my heart: Trump is a threat to this nation.”
• Joe Biden: “There is one existential threat: it’s Donald Trump.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump is a genuine threat to this nation … He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump and MAGA Republicans are a threat to the very soul of this country.”
• Joe Biden: “Trump and the MAGA Republicans represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic … and that is a threat to this country.”
• Tim Walz: “Are [Republicans] a threat to democracy? Yes. … Are they going to put peoples’ lives in danger? Yes.”
• Gwen Walz: “Buh-bye, Donald Trump.”
• Rep. Nancy Pelosi: “[Trump] is a threat to our democracy of the kind that we have not seen.”
• Rep. Jasmine Crockett: “MAGA in general — they are threats to us domestically.”
• Rep. Dan Goldman: “He is destructive to our democracy and …  he has to be eliminated.”
• Disgraced Harris staffer TJ Ducklo: “Trump is an existential, urgent threat to our democracy.”
• Top Harris surrogate Liz Cheney: “Trump presents a fundamental threat to the republic and we are seeing it on a daily basis.”
• Rep. Steve Cohen: “Trump is an enemy of the United States.”
• Rep. Maxine Waters: “Are [Trump supporters] preparing a civil war against us?”
• Rep. Maxine Waters: “I want to know about all of those right-wing organizations that [Trump] is connected with who are training up in the hills somewhere.”
• Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Trump is an “existential threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Adam Schiff: Trump is the “gravest threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Gregory Meeks: “Trump cannot be president again. He’s an existential threat to democracy.”
• Rep. Dan Goldman: “Trump remains the greatest threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Jake Auchincloss: “What unifies us as a party is knowing that Donald Trump is an existential threat to Democracy.”
• Rep. Abigail Spanberger: “Trump is a threat to our democracy … the threats to our democratic republic are real.”
• Rep. Annie Kuster: “Trump and his extreme right-wing followers pose an existential threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Becca Balint: “We cannot underestimate the threat [Trump] poses to American democracy.”
• Rep. Jason Crow: “Trump is an extreme danger to our democracy.”
• Rep. Raul Grijalva: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
• Sen. Michael Bennet: Trump is “a threat to our democracy.”
• Rep. Stacey Plaskett: Trump “needs to be shot.”
• Rep. Steven Horsford: “Trump Republicans are a dangerous threat to our state.”
• Rep. Gabe Vasquez: “Remove the national threat from office.”
• Rep. Mike Levin: “Donald Trump is a threat to our nation, our freedom, and our democracy.”
• Rep. Eric Sorensen: “He is the greatest threat to law and order we have in our country.”
• Rep. Greg Landsman: “The threat is not over.”
• Rep. Pat Ryan: “Trump is an existential threat to American democracy.”
• Rick Wilson, The Lincoln Project: “They’re still going to have to go out and put a bullet in Donald Trump.”
• Former Harris-Biden staffer Kate Bedingfield: Democrats should “turn their fire on Donald Trump.”
• The Trump Campaign noted that the above list does not even “include the dangerous rhetoric against President Trump spewed by deranged Democrats during the 2016 and 2020 elections, the impeachment hoaxes, and the Summer of Love [the 2020 George Floyd riots].”

The press release went on to note that the “commentary from Democrats and the Fake News in the aftermath of the latest assassination attempt has been even worse.”

• Rep. Hakeem Jeffries: “We must stop [Trump].”
• Rachel Vindman, wife of disgraced impeachment hoax ‘witness’: “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.”
• Rep. Mikie Sherrill: “This really seems to be the confluence of two very bad things going on in the Republican Party … the attempts to divide, to enrage the population.”
• State Rep. Steven Woodrow (D-CO): “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil but here we are.”
• Lester Holt, NBC Nightly News: “Today’s apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail. Mr. Trump, his running mate JD Vance, continue to make baseless claims…”
• Alex Witt, MSNBC: “Do you expect there to be calls from within the Trump campaign to [tone it down]?”
• Phil Bump, The Washington Post: “Another chance for Trump to frame Democrats as dangerous has emerged.”
• Bill Kristol, The Bulwark: “Vance … incite[s] potential violence with lies.”
• Ron Filipkowski, liberal commentator: “Was the golf course guy with the gun a migrant?”
• David Frum, The Atlantic: “Trump and his running mate have spent the past week successfully inciting violence … today they want to present themselves as near-victims of violence.”
• Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine: “Trump is a threat to democracy, and saying so is not incitement.”
• The Cincinnati Enquirer: “The former president, Donald Trump, brings a lot of this stuff on himself.”
• USA TODAY: “Hope in America.”
• NBC News: “Golf course incident.”
• Bloomberg: Trump “seizing on assassination attempt.”

Rachel Vindman has since deleted her post on X, calling it “flippant” of political violence.

Rachel Vindman is the wife of retired Lt. Col.  Alexander Vindman, the left-wing “star witness” in the Democrats’ 2019 impeachment farce against President Trump over his phone call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenksy.

Team Trump called on Democrats and their allies in the media to “immediately cease their inflammatory, violent rhetoric against President Trump.”

In a statement posted on social media following Sunday’s close call, Trump said: “Because of this Communist Left Rhetoric, the bullets are flying, and it will only get worse!”

Later Monday, Trump took to social media to express his appreciation to well-wishers, his Secret Service detail, and local law enforcement for keeping him safe.

“I would like to thank everyone for your concern and well wishes – It was certainly an interesting day! Most importantly, I want to thank the U.S. Secret Service, Sheriff Ric Bradshaw and his Office of brave and dedicated Patriots, and, all of Law Enforcement, for the incredible job done today at Trump International in keeping me, as the 45th President of the United States, and the Republican Nominee in the upcoming Presidential Election, SAFE. THE JOB DONE WAS ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING. I AM VERY PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN!” Trump said.