Former FBI agent Tim Clemente said heated rhetoric equating former President Trump to Hitler likely led to the second assassination attempt against the GOP nominee.
Former FBI agent Tim Clemente said heated rhetoric equating former President Trump to a dictator likely led to the latest assassination attempt on Sunday.
« I would think we‘re going to find that this guy is extremely politically motivated », Clemente said of suspect Ryan Routh, during a CNN appearance.
Clemente said Routh was « probably was spurred on by much of the political diatribes that are going on these days, talking about Trump, equating him to Hitler and things like that. »
« So I don‘t think this is the last we‘ll see of crazies out there trying to do this », he warned.
Trump was golfing Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla., when Secret Service agents thwarted the assassination attempt, firing on the suspect, who authorities say was poking a rifle through a hole in the fence about 300 yards, ahead of the former president.
CNN host Erin Burnett asked Clemente to weigh in on the « unprecedented » moment in time when there’s been two assassination attempts against a former president over the course of nine weeks.
