{"id":43690,"date":"2024-08-28T15:57:57","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T15:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=43690"},"modified":"2026-07-10T02:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:43:16","slug":"trump-without-evidence-blames-biden-and-harris-for-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/08\/28\/trump-without-evidence-blames-biden-and-harris-for-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump, without evidence, blames Biden and Harris for assassination attempt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Donald Trump\u00a0has blamed\u00a0Joe Biden\u00a0and\u00a0Kamala Harris\u00a0for last month\u2019s failed assassination attempt against him by accusing them of making it difficult for the Secret Service to protect him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Republican presidential nominee\u2019s claim \u2013 for which he offered no evidence \u2013 was made on the television talkshow Dr Phil, hosted by Phil McGraw, on Tuesday. The remarks follow disclosures that several Secret Service agents from the Pittsburgh field office had been\u00a0placed on administrative leave\u00a0after the 13 July shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At a campaign rally in Butler,\u00a0Pennsylvania, last month, Trump was grazed on the ear by a bullet after a 20-year-old gunman opened fire from the roof of a nearby building. One rallygoer, Corey Comperatore, was killed and two others were seriously wounded. The gunman was shot dead by a\u00a0Secret Service\u00a0officer at the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen this happened, people would ask, whose fault is it?\u201d Trump told<\/a> McGraw. \u201cI think to a certain extent it\u2019s Biden\u2019s fault and Harris\u2019s fault. And I\u2019m the opponent. They were weaponising government against me, they brought in the whole DoJ to try and get me, they weren\u2019t too interested in my health and safety.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey were making it very difficult to have proper staffing in terms of Secret Service<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Secret Service admitted<\/a> in the days after the attempt on Trump\u2019s life that the former president\u2019s security detail had complained about a lack of security and personnel in the previous two years, acknowledging that they denied some requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency\u2019s protection of Trump has been stepped up since the episode, with agents being diverted from Biden\u2019s previous campaign security detail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The agency\u2019s director, Kimberly Cheatle, resigned after a heated Capitol Hill hearing in which Republican members of Congress assailed her for failing to adequately answer questions over possible security failings leading to the attempt against Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, there has been no evidence that Biden and Harris, who both condemned the attempt, were directly involved in or interfered with the Secret Service\u2019s arrangements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Biden, who was still the Democratic presidential nominee at the time of the shooting before later withdrawing, made<\/a> several public statements in its aftermath and called for a cooling down of the political rhetoric.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his interview on Tuesday, Trump appeared to blame Biden and Harris for that rhetoric and suggested it may have inspired the attempt on his life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThey\u2019re saying I\u2019m a threat to democracy,\u201d he said. \u201cThey would say that, that was standard line, just keep saying it, and you know that can get assassins or potential assassins going. That\u2019s a terrible thing \u2026 Maybe that bullet is because of their rhetoric.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The FBI has said the gunman acted alone and that it has found no evidence that he was driven by ideological motives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump\u2019s comments were his most direct yet about the Biden administration\u2019s supposed responsibility for the episode. He previously wrote on a post in his Truth Social network that it failed in its duty to protect him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Biden\/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy. IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!\u201d he wrote 10 days after the shooting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump previously made unfounded claims that Biden was weaponising the government against him, accusing the president of unleashing the justice department and orchestrating the multiple criminal investigations he has faced since leaving office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also accused FBI agents of being \u201clocked and loaded\u201d and ready to kill him in a 2022 raid on his Mar-a-Lago home in Florida to retrieve classified documents. The bureau said the raid had been timed to ensure the former president was not present and that its agents had been armed in line with standard operation procedure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Harris campaign has been contacted for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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