Trump talks shooting at press, ramps up election fraud claims at Pa. rally
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday leaned heavily into claims of election fraud and appeared to call for violence against members of the press at his rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, continuing an almost decadelong streak of attacking the media.
Former President Donald Trump on Sunday leaned heavily into claims of election fraud and appeared to call for violence against members of the press at his rally in Lititz, Pennsylvania, continuing an almost decadelong streak of attacking the media.
Speaking about the bulletproof glass positioned in front of his lectern, the former president said that for a bullet to hit him in an attempted assassination, a shooter would have to “shoot through the fake news, and I don’t mind that so much.”
“I have a piece of glass over here, and I don’t have a piece of glass there, and I have this piece of glass here,” Trump said, pointing out the glass around his lectern that has become common since he survived two assassination attempts earlier this year, one of which occurred at a similar outdoor rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Often cruel to his critics, Trump has been dwelling on his enemies' violent demise in the final weeks of his campaign.
Trump has called Democrats "the enemy within," called for shoplifters to be shot on sight, imagined former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney facing a firing squad, and suggested his former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff deserved to be executed.
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