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Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) delivered an impassioned speech in Butler, Pennsylvania, warming up the crowd for his running mate who returned to the scene where he was nearly assassinated.

Former President Donald J. Trump didn’t get to finish his July 13 speech, being shot in the ear by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks, but triumphantly returned to the scene in a rousing and emotional rally with just a month to go until the most important – and possibly last – election in American history.

During his Saturday remarks, the vice presidential candidate slammed undemocratically installed Democrat nominee Kamala Harris along with the purveyors of hate in the media for the “inflammatory rhetoric” that put a target on Trump’s back and almost got him killed on two occasions.

“Just look at everything they’ve done to President Trump,” Vance told the audience. “First, they tried to silence him. When that didn’t work, they tried to bankrupt him. When that didn’t work, they tried to jail him. And with all the hatred they have spewed at President Trump, it was only a matter of time before somebody tried to kill him.”

“And that’s exactly what happened not just here in Butler, Pennsylvania but just a few weeks later, in Florida,” he continued. “Three weeks ago while these guys still go out there and attacking him as a threat to democracy, another gunman armed with an AK-47-style rifle tied to finish the job.”

“Even after that terrible assassination attempt that took one man’s life and nearly took many others, they continue to use dangerous, inflammatory rhetoric. The media has continued to call Donald Trump — the guy who actually won his primary — a threat to democracy,” he said.

“In fact, before the gunman in Florida tried to kill Donald Trump, he wrote, ‘Democracy is on the ballot,’ the exact same words that Kamala Harris wrote after accusing Trump of being a dictator only days before the first attempt on his life,” Vance added, referring to Ryan Routh who was laying in wait to shoot Trump on the fairway of his own golf course in Florid and film it with the attempted assassination being foiled by an eagle-eyed Secret Service agent who saw his gun poking through a fence.

Vance also addressed the second assassination in a lengthy post to X on the day after it happened and emphasized the dangers of censorship.

“Here is what we know so far: Kamala Harris has said that ‘Democracy is on the line’ in her race against President Trump. The gunman agreed, and used the exact same phrase. He had a Kamala Harris bumper sticker on his truck. He was obsessed with Ukraine’s ‘fight for Democracy’ and absorbed many unhinged views about the Russia-Ukraine war. HIs name is Ryan Routh, and he donated 19 times to Democrat causes and zero to Republican ones,” he wrote.

“How do you think the Democrats and their media allies would respond if a 19-time Republican donor tried to kill a Democratic official? It’s a question that answers itself. For years, Kamala Harris’s campaign surrogates have said things like “Trump has to be eliminated.’ And how have their media allies responded to the second assassination attempt on Donald Trump in as many months?” Vance said.

“Reject censorship and you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf,” he added. “The reason is simple. The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one way to permanently silence a human being: put a bullet in his brain.”

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