The White House on Monday blamed the incident on what it called a “left-wing cult of hate.” Photographed at press dinner President Donald Trump attended the meeting in Washington.
Press secretary Caroline Leavitt said in response to the incident, The suspect will appear in court on MondayThis is the third assassination attempt on Republican Trump in the past two years.
“The left’s hateful cult of the president and all those who support him and work for him has resulted in multiple injuries and deaths, and nearly did so again this weekend,”
trump card He himself has broken barriers of presidential precedent in his use of language against political opponents that critics say is polarizing and sometimes violent.
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At a news conference minutes after the attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Trump struck a more conciliatory tone toward the media, which he has previously called “the enemy of the people.”
But Levitt, who attended the dinner with Trump at the time of the incident, said the 79-year-old president had been “systematically demonized.”
“No one has faced more bullets and more violence in recent years than President Trump,” said Levitt, who returned from maternity leave to host White House briefings.
She added: “This violence is being fueled by those who continue to falsely label and denigrate the president as a fascist, a threat to democracy, and compare him to Hitler to score political points.”
Previous comparisons of Trump to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler include his own Vice President, J.D. Vance, when he spoke out against Trump in 2016.
