Kamala Says Trump Should Blame His Own ‘Lax Gun Laws’ For Second Assassination Attempt

Former Vice President Kamala Harris suggested in her new book that President Donald Trump is partly responsible for the second attempt on his life at a Florida golf course in September 2024 — due to Republicans’ support for “lax gun laws.”

Harris made the claim in her newly released memoir, “107 Days,” while seeking to refute that Democrats’ inflammatory messaging has incited individuals to violence against Trump. The failed Democratic presidential candidate wrote that Trump should have blamed Republicans’ opposition to gun control in the wake of the second assassination attempt despite the accused man, Ryan Routh, illegally obtaining a firearm.

“Trump was quick to blame our campaign rhetoric for calling him out as a threat to democracy,” Harris wrote in her book. “He should have been blaming the lax gun laws he championed, since the arrested man, who had a criminal record, had been flagged by the FBI as being illegally in possession of weapons, including a fully automatic machine gun.”

“Despite numerous convictions, he’d obviously had no trouble obtaining a lethal weapon,” Harris added.

Routh, 59, faced five federal charges for allegedly attempting to gun down the president at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Fla. in September 2024. A jury found