'Courage under fire': J.D. Vance lauds Trump's ability to golf after assassination plot
Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance lavished praise on his running mate, former President Donald Trump, in his speech at the Believers and Ballots Coalition event in North Carolina on Monday — touting his bravery for golfing in spite of a plot to take his life.
"A person who's more worried about missing a birdie putt than he is about an assassin's attempt on his own life, because that is the definition of courage under fire and Donald Trump has it in spades," said Vance.
Trump was targeted by a gunman at his country club in southern Florida earlier this month, with the Secret Service apprehending and arresting the suspect, Ryan Routh, a former 2016 Trump voter who allegedly outlined his murderous intentions in a letter.
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It's the second assassination plot against the former president in three months. In July, a young man named Thomas Crooks sneaked onto a warehouse overlooking Trump's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and opened fire with a semiautomatic rifle, lightly injuring Trump in the ear and causing casualties in the crowd before Secret Service counter-snipers killed him. That incident led to bipartisan fury with the Secret Service and the resignation of its director.
A number of Republicans, including Trump and Vance, have subsequently blamed Democrats for the assassination attempts, claiming they were spurred by "rhetoric," which Democrats have dismissed as ridiculous and hypocritical.
Vance, who has hit the campaign trail nonstop for Trump, has come under criticism of his own, for pushing a viral internet hoax about Haitian migrants eating people's pets in Springfield, Ohio, amid escalating violence and threats in the community over these false rumors.
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