Two days after the alleged new assassination attempt against him, Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail and visited Flint, Michigan, a city hit by auto plant closures.
“Only important presidents get shot,” Donald Trump said yesterday, Tuesday, before his supporters.
“It’s a dangerous job being president,” he said. “She’s kind of dangerous. You know, they think driving a race car is dangerous. No. They think the rodeo is scary enough, right? No. This is a dangerous job (including being president),” he added.
First thanks, then attack Harris
Trump told the gathered supporters that he received a phone call yesterday from his presidential opponent, the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harriswhich he called “very, very good, we appreciate it.”
A White House official said Harris, who is in Pennsylvania — a key swing state along with Michigan — called the Republican “to tell him personally that she is glad he is safe and sound.” Their conversation was “cordial and brief.”
“I told him what I have said publicly: There is no place for violence in our country,” Harris, 59, said in an interview with the NABJ Association of African American Journalists in Philadelphia, commenting on the call.
But earlier, the Republican candidate, speaking on the (Republican-friendly) Fox News network, blamed the rhetoric of Democrats and Harris for the attack on him.
“Because of the rhetoric of the communist left, the bullets are whistling and it’s only going to get worse,” Trump, 78, complained, though he avoided repeating those accusations at a campaign rally in Flint.
“It’s because of their rhetoric that they’re shooting at me when I’m the one who’s going to save the country and they’re the ones who are going to destroy it,” he told Fox News.
Trump supporters, for their part, say the attacks on him have only made them more determined to vote for him. “They want to kill Trump so he can’t serve a second term,” said Donald Owen, 71, who attended the Flint rally. “If someone shoots Trump, I’ll be the first one running to stop the bullets,” he added.
During this campaign event, Trump presented himself as the savior of the auto industry in the face of foreign competition and stressed: “If there is a tragedy and we don’t win, there will be no jobs in the auto industry, or in manufacturing.”
The Republican candidate said that if elected, he would impose high tariffs on auto imports from Mexico and China.
With information from Reuters, APE-MPE
