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Reason
Robby Soave

Heated Political Rhetoric Is Usually Not Fatal

Having survived a second assassination attempt in as many months, former President Donald Trump knows precisely whom to blame: his political enemies, the media, and the Democrats. (Three sides of the same coin.)

"He believed the rhetoric of [President Joe] Biden and [Vice President Kamala] Harris, and he acted on it," Trump told Fox News—referencing Ryan Wesley Routh, the 58-year-old would-be assassin who was apprehended on Sunday after camping out at the Trump International Golf Course. "Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country—both from the inside and out."

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