OHIO, USA — U.S. Senator from Ohio J.D. Vance says the apparent assassination attempt of Donald Trump at a campaign rally on Saturday can be directly traced back to rhetoric from the Biden campaign.
Vance tied the Biden campaign to whomever shot the former president, stating on a post:
“Today is not just some isolated incident.
The central premise of the Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped at all costs.
That rhetoric led directly to President Trump's attempted assassination.”
Vance has been near the top of most pundits' lists of potential running mates for Donald Trump.
Vance’s initial social media posts in the minutes after shots rang out at a Butler, Pennsylvania Donald Trump campaign rally asked people to pray for Trump and the people at the rally.
In a subsequent social media posts on X, Vance condemned media reports by CNN whose headline read “Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after he falls at rally”, characterizing the news organization as “ghouls” for using the word “falls” in the headline.
Vance then expressed in another post thankfulness that Trump was okay and hope that everyone else was safe.
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