Former President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that he might have been shot because his adversaries label him as a “threat to Democracy,” while FBI investigators continue to search for the motive behind his near-assassination that occurred over two weeks ago.
“They say I’m not Democratic, I’m not Democratic. I’m a threat to Democracy. It’s just a sound bite, it means nothing to them to say it,” Trump stated during the “Sid & Friends in the Morning” radio show.
“Maybe it’s the reason I was shot. Who knows? Rhetorically, it’s a terrible thing to say about somebody like me, but they say it all the time,” he added.
The FBI has not yet determined why 20-year-old gunman Thomas Crooks shot Trump at a rally on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The agency continues to investigate and has discovered that Crooks searched for the distance between Lee Harvey Oswald and President John F. Kennedy during that assassination. Additionally, Crooks may have made “antisemitic and anti-immigrant” posts online.
Crooks fired at Trump from a nearby roof during the rally, wounding Trump in the ear and fatally shooting firefighter Corey Comperatore.
The gunman was killed by Secret Service agents after he fired at the former president.
In the radio interview, Trump accused the Democratic Party of being the true “threat” to Democracy because Democratic National Committee delegates – not voters – will select the party nominee after Biden suspended his campaign.
“And actually, they’re the threat. Joe Biden is incompetent and then they took his 14 million votes and gave it to somebody else instead of going to a primary system,” Trump said.
The GOP nominee criticized Vice President Kamala Harris – whom Biden endorsed as his successor – as being “far more incompetent” and “more radical” than the current president.
He also asserted that Harris “doesn’t like Israel” and “she doesn’t like Jewish people,” citing her frosty remarks to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu.
Harris has centered her campaign on “prosecuting” Trump for his policies and past actions, drawing on her background as a prosecutor in San Francisco.
{Matzav.com}