Trump blames Biden/Harris for not protecting him and says he was ‘forced to take a bullet for Democracy’

Donald Trump is now blaming President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for “not properly protecting” him during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania where a gunman fired at the former president and killed an attendee.

Trump’s allies have floated baseless and dangerous conspiracy theories about an assassination plot orchestrated by the administration, or debunked claims that the administration had rejected pleas from the former president for extra security.

On his Truth Social, Trump revived those claims by directly placing the blame on the president and his likely Democratic rival for the presidency for the threat to his life.

“The Biden/Harris Administration did not properly protect me, and I was forced to take a bullet for Democracy,” he said on Tuesday. “IT WAS MY GREAT HONOR TO DO SO!”

His post comes as US Secret Service director Kimberly Cheatleresigned from her post after widespread demands for her exit in the wake of the shooting.

She stepped down one day after she testified to a congressional committee about law enforcement failures at the rally in Pennsylvania on July 13, where one rally attendee was killed and at least two other people were critically injured.

This is a developing story