Trump blames Biden, Harris 'rhetoric' for second assassination attempt

Former President Donald Trump on Monday blamed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris' "rhetoric" for the second attempt on his life a day earlier in Florida. 

Trump was uninjured in the attempt Sunday at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. However, he was grazed in the ear by a bullet in a July 13 assassination attempt in Pennsylvania.

Trump told Fox News on Monday the suspected assassin "acted" on "highly inflammatory language" of Democrats.

The suspected assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, had an AK-47 style rifle pointing through a chainlink fence toward a green as Trump played golf at his club. 

Routh also had a video camera and two backpacks.

Secret Service agents spotted Routh, who fled the scene in a vehicle. Authorities arrested Routh on I-95.

"He believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it," Trump said. "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."

Trump singled out past comments by Biden and Harris calling him a "threat to democracy."

Trump called Biden and Harris "the real threat" and pledged to "save the country."

Routh frequently posted about politics and only donated to Democratic candidates and causes.

"Democracy is on the ballot," Routh wrote on social media. The Democrats "cannot lose," he added.