Donald Trump is the person most responsible for the assassination attempts against him, according to the New York Times. “The latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president,” the newspaper said today, “indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by him and against him.”
The New York Times’ chief White House correspondent Peter Baker suggested that Trump’s claims about Haitian immigrants eating cats and dogs resulted in bomb threats. “Within days of former President Donald J. Trump vilifying immigrants on national television with false stories about Haitian migrants eating pet dogs and cats in an Ohio town, someone began threatening to blow up schools, City Hall and other public buildings, forcing evacuations and prompting a wave of fear,” wrote Baker a few hours ago.
Baker then suggested a connection to the apparent attempt by a 58-year-old man named Ryan Wesley Routh to assassinate Trump. “Days later, authorities said, a man who described himself online as a disaffected former Trump supporter made his way with a semiautomatic rifle to the former president’s Florida golf course, evidently looking to take a shot.”
