Trump said the second assassination attempt had not affected him, adding: “I try not to think about it. But people ask me that question a lot, and I try not to think about it.
”This was different from the first one… I mean, the gun was even more violent.
“And the bullets were from the Secret Service and they caught him. They caught him before anything happened. But it would have happened. I mean, he’s somebody that it would have happened.”
Although the presidential candidate blamed Kamala Harris and other political opponents for provoking the assassination attempt with “inflammatory” rhetoric, he praised the response from both parties in Congress.
“One thing I’ll say is that the investigation that’s going on is, believe it or not, it seems to be nonpartisan,” he said.
“The Democrats are just as angry about Butler and this one as the Republicans because it can happen to them.
“And they understand that and they don’t want that. And I don’t think they want it to happen to me either. But rhetorically, it’s very dangerous what they do.”