Former FBI agent Tim Clemente said heated rhetoric equating former President Trump to Hitler likely led to the second assassination attempt against the GOP nominee.
Former FBI agent Tim Clemente said heated rhetoric equating former President Trump to a dictator likely led to the latest assassination attempt on Sunday. 'I would think we‘re going to find that this guy is extremely politically motivated,' Clemente said of suspect Ryan Routh, during a CNN appearance. Clemente said Routh was 'probably was spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are going on these days, talking about Trump, equating him to Hitler and things like that.
And sadly, the finger pointing at Trump has led to — the line about the bloodbath, talking about the auto industry, being used as if he‘s going to create a bloody coup if he loses, — that kind of verbiage is something you use in a Third World country when you‘re talking about a dictator. That, sadly, has led to, I think, these attempts on Trump‘s life and I don‘t think it‘s going to end,' he said.
Fox News' Stephen Sorace and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.
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