Only Consequential Presidents Get Shot at, Trump Boasts as He Resumes Campaign

Trump drew a link between what the FBI called a foiled assassination bid against him Sunday at his golf course in Florida and his pledge to slap heavy tariffs on imports of cars from Mexico and China.

“And then you wonder why I get shot at, right? You know, only consequential presidents get shot at,” Trump said.

Harris, who was campaigning in another swing state, Pennsylvania, said Tuesday she had reached out to the former president after the thwarted attack.

“I checked on him to see if he was OK. And I told him what I have said publicly — there’s no place for political violence in our country,” Harris said in an interview with the National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ).

The White House described it as a “cordial and brief conversation.” Trump said Harris “could not have been nicer.”

Trump had said the would-be shooter was a follower of what he called President Joe Biden’s and Harris’s rhetoric insisting that he is a threat to US democracy.

At the town hall meeting, Trump supporters said the foiled attack made them support him even more.

“I believe that they want to kill Trump so that Trump cannot try to make his second term in office,” said retired autoworker Donald Owen, 71.