Monday, during an appearance on Mobile radio FM Talk 106.5's "The Jeff Poor Show," Lt. Gov. Will Ainsworth reacted to an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump, the Republican presidential nominee.
According to Ainsworth, Democrats had not let up on the rhetoric.
"[T]hey continue to, you know, just degrade President Trump's character," he said. "They continue to just, you know, they don't talk about any issues and, you know, just try to villainize him. And the danger in that is the people that are, and there's a lot of crazy liberals out there, right? And now these crazy liberals are listening to these people, and they're acting on them. And they really think that President Trump is a threat to democracy when he's not, right? And they're going out there and doing extreme things. And, you know, I blame the Democrats."
Ainsworth also blamed President Joe Biden for not allocating more resources for Trump's Secret Service detail. However, he said he believed Trump was being protected by God.
"I think that's such a shame because there's going to be crazy people continue to do this," he said. "And we got to make sure we protect him, because eventually, you know, we might not get as lucky as we have. I don't believe it's luck. I believe it's God protecting president Trump. But I also think that we got to learn from what's going on, and they need to beef up and change safety protocol and put a lot more people around him, because this is ridiculous that this has happened twice."
Ainsworth suggested that efforts to instigate hysteria about Donald Trump were coming when the former president was taking the lead in some polls.
"[I] saw yesterday, well, it was an alleged from the liberal media, or, oh, it's President Trump, his incited violence," the lieutenant governor said. "I mean, that's ridiculous, man. I mean, if I could use another word, I'd use it to describe that. But what's going on is, you know, the liberals have done a horrible job. And to me, you know, it should totally discredit them from winning any office on what they're doing and how they're just trying to destroy the man. I mean, elections are about policy, about what direction you want to lead the country. And the president lays it out, and all the Democrats are doing is all they do — if you look at their convention, all they did was talk about President Trump, right? And how bad he was and all this stuff. And what happens is, when you get crazy people that are Democrats, and they exist, and they go out there and do this stuff."
"And I want to point out one other thing," he continued. All right, this is twice now, where when president Trump starts rising in the polls and getting ahead, what do, and again, it goes back to Democrats, right? They're out there, they're villainizing them, then all of a sudden, they freak out and get somebody that's mentally unstable. Maybe they think they're going to try to help the Democrats, and they go out there and try to pull something off like this. This guy had cameras, you know, all this different stuff, he's going to video it. And my point is, is that the president looks like he's going to win again. And what do they try to do? They try to take them out by assassination. And that's horrible. I mean, it really is. And I think it all goes back to, you know, why doesn't Kamala Harris talk about her policies and what she wants to do instead of demonizing President Trump?"
"And I think the whole Democrat Party, you know, what they're doing on this issue, at least 80, 90% of them are part of the problem. I really do," Ainsworth added. "And I think, to your point, just desensitizing and trying to act like it's not a big deal. I mean, it's a huge deal, right? They're trying to kill, you know, the next person that's probably going to be our president. That doesn't happen in America, and we shouldn't be OK with it."
Jeff Poor is the editor in chief of 1819 News and host of "The Jeff Poor Show," heard Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-noon on Mobile's FM Talk 106.5. To connect or comment, email jeff.poor@1819News.com or follow him on Twitter @jeff_poor.
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