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President Donald Trump’s campaign released a statement on Wednesday condemning Biden cabinet member Gina Raimondo for saying Trump should be “extinguished for good.”
The Commerce Secretary shared the unbelievable remarks during an interview on MSNBC
“This morning, Harris-Biden Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo called for President Trump to be ‘extinguished for good,’” the statement read.
“Ten days ago, a deranged Harris supporter tried to assassinate President Trump. Yet, Democrat lunatics continue to spew this dangerous rhetoric,” it added.
“What he says is the opposite. It’s just another lie. Like, how did we get here? Let’s extinguish him for good. We have an answer. We have a remarkably talented candidate who is sincere, is pragmatic, is open. Let’s just get it done,” she said during the interview.
The reference to Trump’s second assassination attempt referred to Ryan Routh. He was arrested on Sept. 15 after allegedly pointing a rifle barrel toward the 45th president at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
“Violence targeting public officials endangers everything our country stands for, and the Department of Justice will use every available tool to hold Ryan Routh accountable for the attempted assassination of former President Trump charged in the indictment,” said Attorney General Merrick B. Garland.
“The Justice Department will not tolerate violence that strikes at the heart of our democracy, and we will find and hold accountable those who perpetrate it. This must stop,” he continued.
The Trump campaign also shared a video from an interview Raimondo, also a former Rhode Island governor, shared on ABC during the Democratic National Convention.
“When I hear that, first of all, I do not believe it because I have never heard Donald Trump say anything truthful,” she stated.
The host responded, “It is, though, from the Bureau of Labor.
“I’m not familiar with that,” Raimondo answered.
Trump has also faced allegations of assassination plots from Iran. Despite the concerns, Trump issued his own warning.
“If I were president, and a former president and leading candidate to be the next president was under threat, I would inform the threatening country, in this case Iran, that if they do anything to harm this person, we are going to blow your largest cities and the country itself to smithereens,” he stated Wednesday.
“Meanwhile, we have the president of Iran in our country this week, we have large security forces guarding him, and yet they’re threatening our former president and the leading candidate to become the next president—certainly a strange set of circumstances,” he said.