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Officials in Florida confirm they are investigating Sunday’s attempted shooting of former President Donald Trump as an assassination attempt.
Markenzy LaPointe from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Florida also confirmed the two federal firearm charges Ryan Routh faces at this point.
LaPointe said the Secret Service found an SKS a Soviet-era rifle, backpack, and video camera where Routh was staked out in the area along the tree line of the Trump golf course. The FBI also confirmed Routh was at the scene for 12 hours before the event unfolded, and that the investigation is still in its infancy.
Upper Peninsula Congressman Jack Bergman is reacting to the assassination attempt, placing much of the blame at the feet of Democrats who he says are fanning the flames by using anti-Trump statements, such as him being a dictator, and comparing Trump to former German mass-murderer Adolf Hitler.
“This is not a surprise, given all of the rhetoric that’s out there, especially on the left, about how dangerous a second Donald Trump presidency would be for the country,” Bergman said in an exclusive interview Monday afternoon with RRN News. “Things like, Donald Trump is not fit for office. Donald Trump is a convicted felon. This has driven people to do things that they wouldn’t normally do. And this is on people like (former Democratic House Speaker) Nancy Pelosi.”
Bergman says that Pelosi, and other prominent Democrrats, have downplayed the gravity of the attempted murder of Trump. The former president survived another assassination attempt during a rally in Pennsylvania in July.
“She just says, it was an ‘incident’,” Bergman said of Pelosi’s response. “She doesn’t refer to it as an assassination attempt. My question to Nancy Pelosi and other people like her, when does an ‘isolated incident’ become the new norm? If you put perfume on a pig, it’s still a pig. And they’re trying to put perfume on this ugliness that has largely been their doing.”
Seeing Trump being the target of two assassination attempts is personal for Bergman, who survived an attempt on his life seven years ago as he participated in a baseball practice with his Republican colleagues. Bergman was not hurt in that incident, but his colleague, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-Louisiana) was critically wounded.
“A deranged Democrat tried to kill us all on a baseball field,” Bergman said. “He had been driven to that point by the rhetoric on the left. I can remember second-by-second details of that event. Looking at the perpretrator, if you will, as he lay on the ground and breathed his last. But the derangement coming from the left. This seems to be OK for people of Pelosi’s ilk to downplay the negativity of what they’re promoting.”
President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harros issued statements condeming the assassination attempt, but without calling it as such.
“I am relieved that the former President is unharmed,” Biden said. “There is an active investigation into this incident as law enforcement gathers more details about what happened. As I have said many times, there is no place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country.”
“I have been briefed on reports of gunshots fired near former President Trump and his property in Florida, and I am glad he is safe,” Harris wrote Sunday night. “Violence has no place in America.”
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