Rep. Mikie Sherrill says Trump assassination attempt is the "confluence of two bad things" going on in the GOP.

Rep. Mikie Sherrill (D-N.J.) tore into Republicans as many of them blame the Democrats’ rhetoric for the second assassination attempt on former President Trump.

Trump was the target of an apparent assassination attempt while he was golfing at his resort in Florida on Sunday. No one was hurt, but Trump has since blamed Democrat rhetoric for the second attempt on his life in just two months.

CNN’s Jim Acosta on Monday asked Sherrill Monday whether the protection around the former president needs to change in the wake of the latest incident. She suggested that the attempted assassination stemmed from the GOP’s rhetoric and the availability of assault rifles in the country.

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  • ResoluteCatnap@lemmy.mlEnglish
    301·
    3 months ago

    He had a self published book calling for the assassination over trump’s political acts as president and out of fear what a second term would mean. There’s no party rhetoric there.

    Ryan Routh, the man arrested in connection with an apparent attempt to shoot Donald Trump on Sunday, urged in a self-published book the assassination of Trump over the former president’s decision to withdraw from a diplomatic agreement restricting Tehran’s nuclear program.

    The 2023 book, a rambling diary of Routh’s attempts to join Ukraine’s fight against Russia and his political views, describes his growing disillusionment with Trump as well his anger at the 2021 U.S. exit from Afghanistan and other foreign-policy decisions he describes as blunders.

    “I must take part of the blame for the removed child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless, but I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake and Iran I apologize,” Routh wrote, criticizing Trump for leaving the deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, in 2018.

    “You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal,” he said in a passage apparently directed at Iran’s government. “No one here in the US seems to have the balls to put natural selection to work or even unnatural selection.”

    • wsj article titled “Suspected Gunman in Apparent Trump Assassination Attempt Said He Was Willing to Fight and Die in Ukraine”
    • Boddhisatva@lemmy.world
      431·
      3 months ago

      This is what I think needs to be pointed out more often. He is a former Trump supporter who feels betrayed by Trump’s actions in office. A former cult member woke up and realized that Trump was a threat to the nation. Of course, being a former cult member, and lacking the strongest of connections with reality, he decided that hiding in the bushes and trying to shoot him was a reasonable solution.

      The article however says, “Routh’s past online posts suggest the suspect has not been consistent about his politics in terms of supporting Democrats or Republicans.”

      All these articles are trying to say he wasn’t really a Republican or a Democrat and trying to run cover for the GOP. But that’s not true. The fact is that he’s a former Trump supporter, a former Republican, who realized that Trump was full of shit but he still had a head full of the GOP’s and Trump’s violent rhetoric. Being a consistent supporter of one party or the other is irrelevant. This had nothing to do with Democrats and everything to do with the GOP and Trump promoting violence and availability of deadly weapons like the one he used.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        7·
        3 months ago

        Yeah. His actions were unwise and influenced by the violent rhetoric of the far right, but he was right to feel betrayed. I want other trump cultists to come to those realizations, but instead of choosing violence to choose to stand up, speak to those still in, and try to help heal this country and bring it onto the right path.