Dana Bash Defends Biden-Harris Rhetorics
CNN’s Dana Bash stated on Monday that former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination suspect, Ryan Wesley Routh, has no connection between his anti-Trump social media posts and Vice President Kamala Harris or President Joe Biden.
In a Monday Fox News Digital interview, Trump accused Harris and Biden of using “rhetoric” that he believes contributes to attempts on his life.
On “CNN Newsroom with Wolf Blitzer,” Bash pointed out that both Harris and Biden expressed gratitude that Trump was unharmed after the second attempt and dismissed any suggestion that they influenced Routh, despite his posts echoing their repeated claim that “democracy is on the ballot.”
“Well, everything is political right now. Look, they have each separately, even president Biden today when he came out and spoke to reporters on his way out to the helicopter, said that he is very glad that the Secret Service was able to do their job, that he’s very glad that former President Trump wasn’t hurt,” Bash said. “And Kamala Harris said the same thing. Everything is politicized in this environment. So it‘s not surprising that that is what he said. There’s absolutely, again, no basis in fact, that they were behind this at all. We don’t know much about this guy yet at all other than he was somebody who was trying to find a way at in his mid-to- late-50s go and serve on the front lines of Ukraine and he obviously had some anti-Trump posts. But that has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It has to do with the fact that this is his political belief and obviously this is a very disturbed individual, this alleged suspect.”
CNN’s Dana Bash lies about what Trump said, claims that there is “no basis in fact that [Biden and Harris] were behind [the assassination attempt] at all.”
Trump never said that they were directly behind it, as in they ordered it to happen, which is what Bash is insinuating he… pic.twitter.com/1liO7gfI3h
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) September 16, 2024
Routh’s full post from 2024 tagged Biden and stated, “@POTUS Your campaign should be called something like KADAF. Keep America democratic and free. Trumps should be MASA …make Americans slaves again master. DEMOCRACY is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” according to Reuters.
Biden and Harris have both frequently emphasized that “democracy is on the ballot.”
Trump faced the second assassination attempt on Sunday when a Secret Service agent fired shots at a man wielding a semi-automatic rifle while he was golfing at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida.
Routh, who was arrested on Sunday in connection with the attempt, appears to have previously contributed to Democrats while living in Hawaii, according to federal campaign finance records. However, he does not seem to have donated to Biden or Harris.
