Harris ups her rhetoric against Trump after armed man arrested outside his Coachella rally, calls ex-prez Increasingly unstable and unhinged
Kamala Harris accused Donald Trump on Monday of becoming “increasingly unstable and unhinged,” days after an armed man was arrested outside the former president’s Coachella rally in what the local sheriff claimed was a third assassination attempt. “Donald Trump is increasingly unstable and unhinged,” the vice president told supporters at an Erie, Pa., rally. “He is out for unchecked power,” Harris continued.“That’s what he’s looking for.
He wants to send the military after American citizens.” The 59-year-old Democratic nominee’s new line of attack against Trump – the subject of at least two assassination attempts in recent months – comes after the former president previously blamed the rhetoric of Harris and President Biden for an attempt on his life in Palm Beach, Fla., last month. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at,” Trump, 78, told Fox News in September. “He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” the GOP nominee said of Ryan Routh, who is accused of setting up a sniper’s nest outside Trump’s Palm Beach golf course last month in an effort to gun down the former president. A California sheriff believes his deputies thwarted a third assassination attempt against Trump on Saturday when they arrested an armed man at a checkpoint outside Trump’s rally in Coachella Valley. “I truly do believe we prevented another assassination attempt,” Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco told reporters Sunday, a day after Vem Miller, 49, was taken into custody. Miller was attempting to enter the rally site with a fake press pass, a shotgun, a loaded handgun, a high-capacity magazine and several fraudulent passports and driver’s licenses, according to local authorities. The FBI and Secret Service are investigating the incident but are not calling it an assassination attempt. Miller, who claims to be a Trump supporter and denies he was planning to carry out an attack, was hit with a weapons char...