NY Times reporter says Trump 'inspires' political violence after second assassination attempt

A New York Times reporter called former President Trump an "instigator" and "inspiration" of political violence two days after he survived a second failed assassination attempt.

"Donald Trump has long been seen as an instigator of political violence," chief White House correspondent Peter Baker says in a video posted by The Times on Tuesday. "Of course, even as Trump is blaming Democrats for their rhetoric, he isn't giving any second thoughts to his own."

Trump told Fox News Digital on Monday that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ "rhetoric" calling him a "threat to Democracy" was to blame for the latest attempt on his life.

Suspect Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested after he was spotted reportedly pointing a rifle through a chain-link fence near where Trump was playing golf at Trump International Golf Club on Sunday.

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In July, Trump narrowly survived another assassination attempt after he was shot at while hosting a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Baker critiqued Trump for blaming Democrats' inflammatory rhetoric, arguing that Trump had long "trafficked in the language of violence."

"At the heart of today’s eruption of political violence is Mr. Trump, a figure who seems to inspire people to make threats or take actions both for him and against him. He has long favored the language of violence in his political discourse, encouraging supporters to beat up hecklers, threatening to shoot looters and undocumented migrants, mocking a near-fatal attack on the husband of the Democratic House speaker and suggesting that a general he deemed disloyal be executed," Baker wrote in an accompanying article for The Times.

"Even as he