Donald Trump wants you to believe “rhetoric” from Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and her campaign led to a possible assassination plot against him that the Secret Service foiled Sunday.

He wants you to believe that as he simultaneously hurls inflammatory rhetoric at Harris and while he sits idly by as Springfield, Ohio, suffers bomb threats and school evacuations over his outrageous and racist lies about legal Haitian immigrants.

Early Monday, Trump spoke with Fox News and decried statements from Democrats calling him “a threat to democracy.”

“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country – both from the inside and out,” Trump said, referring to Harris and Democrats as “the enemy from within” and “the real threat.”

The logic in Trump’s statements is twisted beyond comprehension. It’s school-yard-level reasoning, effectively saying: “You called me a threat to democracy, and that’s a terrible thing to do. And besides, you’re the enemy and you’re destroying the country.”

Let’s start with the apparent assassination plan the Secret Service thankfully foiled. An advance agent spotted a rifle sticking through a fence several hundred yards away from where Trump was playing golf. The agent fired at the gunman, and the man, who didn't fire any shots, was later apprehended. He appears to be, as one would........

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