Trump and Vance trash FBI leadership and Biden supporters after calls for unity: ‘He draws flies’

In his first televised interview after an attempted assassination, Donald Trump questioned why there weren’t “enough people” protecting him at the Pennsylvania rally and took a dig at his rival despite his pledge for unity after the shooting.

“The problem is Biden doesn’t draw anybody. He draws flies,” said Trump, sitting beside his running mate JD Vance for their first interview together on Fox News.

“He draws nobody,” Trump said Monday. “You don’t need very many people for that because he does not draw — 30 people show up. We have 55, 65,000 people.”

Trump, whose ear was covered in a small brown bandage, said he was not given any warning of a “problem” from Secret Service agents and other officers following reports that top law enforcement officials had denied Trumps’ requests for additional manpower at events before the shooting in Pennsylvania this month.

“Nobody mentioned it, nobody said there was a problem,” he said. “I would’ve waited for 15 — they could’ve said, ‘Let’s wait for 15 minutes, 20 minutes, 5 minutes,’ something. Nobody said.”

Trump and Vance quickly abandoned any pretense of a call for national unity after the former president was nearly killed. Both men returned to trashing their political opponents and depicting a nation in chaos at rallies in the week that followed, including in 90-minute headlining remarks to the Republican National Convention last week.

During the Fox News interview, Trump also suggested that Biden’s doctorsshould be investigated after providing reports on his condition after he was diagnosed with COVID-19 and appeared to float a conspiracy theory that the 20-year-old gunman who fired at him “had some encrypted phone numbers and to foreign countries.”

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