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In a post on X, the US Senator from Ohio said, “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”, he added.
Vance also pointed out the legislation introduced in April this year which would strip off Secret Service protection for convicted felons who have been sentenced to prison. Trump was found guilty of 34 felony crimes in May in the hush money trial.
“Remember this? I do. Kick his ass out of Congress. Absolute scumbag,” Vance said responding to a user’s post about the article.
‘It wasn’t totally a shock’
Not taking any names directly, Vivek Ramaswamy said, “First they sued him. Then they prosecuted him. Then they tried to take him off the ballot. The only thing more tragic than what just happened is that, if we’re being honest, it wasn’t totally a shock.”
“Biden’s inevitable ritual condemnation of political violence today (when it comes) will be insufficient and irrelevant. No amount of verbiage today changes the toxic national climate that led to this tragedy,” he added.
The Republican also said that the incident highlighted the “next President’s” true character.
“If any good comes of today, let it be this: Americans just had the chance to see our next President’s true character, unvarnished. He took the fire, he took the hit, he felt the blood, and then he stood right back up for the people he was put here to lead”, he said.
Meanwhile, the 20-year-old attacker Thomas Matthew Crooks was ‘registered Republican’, the Washington Post reported. The shooter and an attendee died.