King is an outspoken Democrat and frequent critic of the former president.
Bestselling author Stephen King weighed in more than once this week about the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump.
Trump on Saturday narrowly escaped death during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, with a bullet fired by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks causing a flesh wound after grazing the former president’s right ear. One rally spectator was killed in the shooting, while two others suffered serious injuries.
King, the author of classic horror novels like The Shining and It and an outspoken Democrat who frequently criticizes Trump, made his opinions on the assassination attempt known by sharing several remarks that roiled Trump supporters on X, formerly Twitter.
«An AR-15 style semiautomatic rifle was used in the Butler shooting», King posted on Sunday morning. «These are the guns the Republican party—and Trump—want to protect.»
X user @TheGeneral_0, a self-described «America First Conservative», was one of several Trump supporters and conservatives who responded negatively to the gun control message, writing the following in response to King’s post: «For a fiction writer, Stephen King knows little about this subject.
