Russian President Putin says he will not call former President Donald Trump. Shot at election rally The Russian government has accused the Biden administration of creating an atmosphere that led to attacks, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Monday over the weekend.
“I do not at all think and believe that an attempt to eliminate candidate Trump was planned by the current administration. But the atmosphere that the current administration created during the political struggle, the atmosphere around Trump, has led to the situation that the United States is facing today,” Peskov said on Sunday.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a social media post on Sunday that U.S. lawmakers should use the money earmarked for arms supplies to Ukraine to “fund the U.S. police and other agencies that should ensure law and order in the United States.”
Chinese President Xi Jinping expressed sympathy for Trump, according to a statement from China’s Foreign Ministry, while the Communist Party-run newspaper Global Times published several editorials citing Chinese scholars who said the United States was becoming increasingly polarized and at risk of a potential civil war.
In the wake of the shooting, many international leaders, including some of America’s adversaries, quickly reached out to the former president, either publicly or privately.
Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said that although he and Trump had “had a history of adversarial relations,” he wished President Trump good health and a long life.
Leaders of America’s allies, including the new British prime minister, also reached out to Trump. Keir StarmerHe spoke with President Trump by phone, offered condolences for the victims and condemned the violence, according to Trump’s office.
Buckingham Palace said on Monday that King Charles III sent a private message to President Trump on Sunday through the British Embassy in Washington, but did not disclose any details about the message’s contents.
UkraineBosnian-Herzegovinian President Volymir Zelensky said he was “relieved to know that Donald Trump is safe” and that “such violence is unjustified and has no place anywhere in the world.”
Argentine President Javier Milley, a political outsider who was compared to President Trump during his own election campaign, called the assassination attempt “cowardly” and said, without further explanation, that the incident highlighted “the desperation of the international left” and its “willingness to destabilize democracies and foment violence in order to seize power for themselves.”
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the shooting was “not just an attack on Donald Trump. It’s an attack on a US presidential candidate. It’s an attack on America. It’s an attack on democracy, it’s an attack on all democracies.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Palestinian Authority “condemns this terrorist act” and “rejects violence, terror and extremism, whatever their sources.”
It has ruled the Gaza Strip for almost 20 years. War with Israel He told CBS News on Monday that the group condemns “any violence” since it launched its terror attacks on Israel on Oct. 7.
A Hamas official said the group considers the upcoming US elections an “internal US issue” and that “even if there are differences between the two candidates, they are not essential or significant because Israel is part of US strategic interests in the region and it is a bipartisan issue.”
