Former President Donald Trump pointed the blame at Vice President Kamala Harris, his 2024 rival, and President Joe Biden, whose “rhetoric” he claims indirectly led to a second assassination attempt.

“He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump told Fox News Digital about the gunman’s motive. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”