White House continues to call Trump ‘threat’ to democracy despite multiple attempts on former president’s life

White House officials continue to call former President Trump a “threat” to democracy, despite two attempted assassinations on the former president’s life. During a press briefing on Tuesday, Fox News senior White House correspondent Peter Doocy asked White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre about Trump being referred to as a “threat.” “How many more assassination attempts on Donald Trump until the president and vice president and you pick a different word to describe Trump, other than ‘threat?’” Doocy asked. Jean-Pierre told Doocy she completely disagreed with the premise of his question, calling the way he asked it “incredibly dangerous” because Americans are watching. TRUMP BLAMES BIDEN-HARRIS RHETORIC FOR LATEST ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SAYS HE WILL ‘SAVE THE COUNTRY’ She also went into defense mode, saying the Biden administration has consistently condemned political violence. After Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally and grazed Trump’s ear with a bullet, President Biden called Trump to tell him he was grateful the former president was OK, Jean-Pierre explained. She also defended the Biden administration because it has called out Trump’s role in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol, called out the attack on Rep. Nancy Pelosi’s, D-Calif., husband Paul Pelosi and asked that the temperature of political rhetoric be lowered after the assassination attempt on Trump in Butler. WHO IS RYAN WESLEY ROUTH: ALLEGED GUNMAN AT TRUMP GOLF CLUB “What I have said about the president, the former president, about Jan. 6 is [a] fact that you all have reported. When you have a former president who basically says that the election wasn’t the results of the election… when dozens, dozens of more than 60 Republican judges said that it was a fee and fair election,” Jean-Pierre said. But the political rhetoric, she said, was not OK. TRUMP SAFE AFTER ‘GUNSHOTS IN HIS VICINITY,’ CAMPAIGN SAYS “To your point, there are people watching at home who might miss the part where you say, ‘Let’s lower the temperature,’ and… there are mentally unstable people who are attempting to kill political candidates… attempting to kill Donald Trump,” Doocy told Jean-Pierre. The events covered on Jan. 6 happened, she noted, and the White House has denounced political violence “over and over again.” MSNBC HOST ASKS IF TRUMP CAMPAIGN WILL CALL FOR ‘TONING DOWN’ RHETORIC AFTER SHOOTING OUTSIDE HIS GOLF CLUB Jean-Pierre explained that people are watching what the media is saying about the White House raising political violence rhetoric. That is why the president decided to come back,” Jean-Pierre said of Biden. On Monday, Trump said Biden’s and Vice President Harris’ “rhetoric” is what is causing him to be “shot at,” following the second attempt against him since July. Trump spoke with Fox News Digital on Monday, a day after he was rushed off the golf course at Trump International in West Palm Beach, Florida, after Secret Service agents discovered a gunman in the bushes near the course. DEMOCRATS HAVE REPEATEDLY USED VIOLENT RHETORIC AGAINST FORMER PRESIDENT: ‘TIME TO PUT TRUMP IN A BULLSEYE’ The suspected gunman, Ryan Wesley Routh, had an AK-47-style rifle pointing through a chain-link fence out toward the green, a GoPro camera and two backpacks. “He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said. Trump pointed to Biden and Harris’ past comments casting Trump as a “threat to democracy,” while telling Americans they are “unity” leaders. CLICK TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “They are the opposite,” Trump said. – This Summarize was created by Neural News AI (V1). Source: https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-continues-call-trump-threat-democracy-despite-multiple-attempts-former-presidents-life