Trump questioned about possibility of assassination.
Former President Donald Trump Addresses Concerns About His Safety
In a recent interview with Tucker Carlson, former cable news superstar, Donald Trump was asked about the possibility of an attempt on his life. The interview, which aired on August 23, coincided with the first GOP presidential debate that Trump chose to skip.
Carlson pointed out the escalating attacks on Trump over the past few years, starting with protests and leading to impeachment and now potential indictment. He raised the question, “The next stage is violence. Are you worried they’re gonna try to kill you? Why wouldn’t they try and kill you?”
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“They’re savage animals; they are people that are sick, really sick,” President Trump replied.
“You have great people in the Democrat Party, you have great people that are Democrats. Most of the people in our country are fantastic,” President Trump said. “I’m representing everybody, I’m not just Republicans or conservatives—I represent everybody, I’m the president of everybody.
“But I’ve seen what they do. I’ve seen the lengths they go to. When they make up the Russia, Russia, Russia, and that’s exposed, and they go down,” President Trump said, in a reference to the debunked claim that he colluded with Russia to secure his victory in 2016.
The so-called “Durham report,” which catalogued the findings of Special Counsel John Durham that dismissed the collusion narrative, “explained how corrupt it was,” President Trump said.
The report in question found that the FBI had opened its Crossfire Hurricane investigation into President Trump on flimsy grounds and became a larger probe than it should have, a result of “confirmation bias,” according to Mr. Durham.
President Trump also cited the conduct of officials during the 2020 election, which he said was “rigged” against him through manipulation of COVID-19 lockdown policies and through judges refusing to consider evidence of widespread election fraud.
Later, Mr. Carlson returned to the initial question, noting the “escalation” of efforts to bump President Trump out of politics.
“What’s next? They’re trying to put you in prison for life. That’s not working. Don’t they have to kill you now?” Mr. Carlson asked.
President Trump responded ambiguously, suggesting that such a move would be seen through by most Americans and wouldn’t be accepted.
“I think the people of our country don’t get enough credit for how smart they are,” President Trump said, noting that, contrary to expectations, his poll numbers have only gotten higher in the wake of four criminal indictments at both state and federal levels against him.
The concept of assassination attempts on anti-establishment figures like President Trump has increasingly entered the public consciousness recently, led in part by the public comments of Democratic candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Mr. Kennedy, the nephew of President John F. Kennedy and son of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, has openly expressed his belief that his uncle was assassinated in Dallas in 1
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