Democrats have been warning that Donald Trump is a threat to the democracy of the United States and should not be allowed to win another term in the White House.

Republicans, including former President George W. Bush, claimed that their hatred of Trump inspired Ryan Routh, a Trump-hater, to travel to West Palm Beach. He hid for hours in the bushes with a scoped AK-47, and pointed it at the golf course Mr. Trump was playing on.

In an interview with Fox News Digital on Monday, Mr. Trump stated that the gunman “believed the rhetoric of Biden & Harris and he acted upon it.” “Their words are making me the target of gunfire, but I’m the one saving the country. They are the ones who are destroying it from within.”

The FBI reported that Mr. Routh has not revealed his motive for fleeing the scene after an agent of the Secret Service fired at him. His actions are being investigated and he has not disclosed a motive.

Democrats have dismissed the notion that their language could provoke assassination efforts against Mr. Trump.

“That is ridiculous,” said Senator Christopher A. Coons of Delaware, a Democrat who was also the co-chairman of the Harris-Walz Campaign.

In 2023, Mr. Routh wrote a book calling for the assassination of Mr. Trump and expressing his regret at having voted for him in 2016. Routh adopted the same rhetoric that Democrats have used against the former President. He is accused of being a dictator and a threat to democracy if he were to win the White House.

Harris wrote on her social media pages in early April that “Trump poses a danger to our democracy and freedoms fundamentals.”

In a post on X dated April 22, Routh wrote that the campaign of then-President Biden and Harris “should be named… Keep America Democratic and Free” while Mr. Trumps’ campaign should be called, “Make Americans slaves once again master.”

In the same post Mr. Routh said: “DEMOCRACY on the ballot, and we cannot win. We can’t afford to fail. “The world depends on us to lead the way.”

Mr. Routh, a West Palm Beach resident, was charged Monday with two felonies firearms violations in a federal courtroom. Ronald L. Rowe Jr., the acting Secret Service director, said that Mr. Routh had been staking out the area near the Trump International Golf Course’s sixth hole in West Palm Beach for several hours. Secret Service agents moving in front of Mr. Trump’s party spotted Mr. Routh poking his AK-47 through the trees and fired at him. Mr. Rowe stated that Mr. Routh did not fire his weapon, and he had no line of sight to the former president.

The Trump campaign tried to place the blame for the second assassination attempt on Trump’s life on his political enemies.

The article listed dozens instances where Democrats described Mr. Trump’s as a danger who needed to be stopped.

One example cites Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Ms. Harris’ running mate. Tim Walz, Ms. Harris’ running mate.

In a press release, the Trump-Vance Campaign said that Democrats “used increasingly incendiary language against President Trump during the weeks and months preceding the two assassination efforts.”

Some Democrats dismissed the assassination. Some Democrats and journalists said that Mr. Trump could have instigated the assassination attempt with his rhetoric, especially claims made by Mr. Trump, and his running mate Sen. J.D. Vance, of Ohio, claimed that Haitian immigrants were killing and eating street animals in Springfield, Ohio. This included cats and geese.

During the debate on Sept. 10, Mr. Trump stated that “they are eating the pets” of the people living there.

Since then, the FBI has been investigating threats made against Haitians who live in Springfield. Democrats accuse Trump of spreading anti-immigrant xenophobia.

In a blog post on X Mr. Trump railed at Democrats for their immigration policy, their rhetoric against him, and what he called lies and political lawfare, in the form four criminal prosecutions.

Trump stated that “because of this Communist Left Rhetoric the bullets are already flying and will only get worse!”

Charles E. Schumer (a New York Democrat) toned down the intensity of his recent attacks on Mr. Trump, who he had warned “threatens American Democracy”.

“There’s no place for political violence in America at any time,” said Mr. Schumer. He called on Congress for adequate funding of the Secret Service.

The FBI and the agency did not reveal many new details about the assassination attempt, the motives of the man or if he was charged with attempting to kill the ex-president.

The social media of Mr. Routh, which has been scrubbed now, shows his evolution from being a Trump backer in 2016, to becoming a staunch critic of the former President and a supporter of the Harris/Walz ticket.

Since 2002, he has been involved in numerous run-ins and convictions for felony crimes.

Mr. Routh who lives in Hawaii has spent the last several years obsessed by Ukraine’s war with invading Russia. He begged for international assistance and tried to attract mercenaries to defend the country from President Vladimir Putin’s troops.

Routh encouraged Iran to assassinate Trump in his 2023 self-published book “Ukraine’s Unwinnable War”.

He called Trump “brainless”, and regretted voting for him in 2016. He referred to Mr. Trump’s decision ending the Obama-era Iran Nuclear Deal.

Routh wrote: “You can assassinate me and Trump for this error of judgment, as well as the demise of the deal.” No one in the U.S. has the courage to use natural selection or unnatural selection.

Mr. Trump campaigned for a quick end or settlement to the war between Ukraine & Russia that has cost the United States hundreds billions in military aid and killed millions.

The moderators of the ABC debate on Sept. 10 framed Mr. Trump’s position by asking: “Do you wish Ukraine to win this conflict?”

Moments later, Ms. Harris said: “I think the reason Donald Trump claims that this war will be over in 24 hours is that he’ll just give up.”

She said that if Mr. Trump was president, “Putin is sitting in Kyiv at this very moment.”

Tim Kaine, 2016 Democratic Vice Presidential nominee from Virginia, says Mr. Trump is incorrect to blame Democrats for an assassination.

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