Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova offered incisive comments about the attack on Donald Trump on July 13. Posting on her Telegram channel, she wrote: “Two months ago, I paid attention to the fact that the U.S. was literally fostering hatred toward political opponents, as well as provided examples of the American tradition of attempts and assassinations of presidents and presidential candidates,” reported TASS, today. “Commenting on the attempted assassination of Trump, all American media outlets have hurried to say that this is a threat to American democracy. They are right—this means that the threat is inside, not outside the country.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in comments reported by TASS, said this: “We don’t think at all and don’t believe that the attempt to eliminate the Presidential candidate Trump was organized by the present power, but it is the atmosphere that has been created by this administration during the political struggle, the atmosphere around the candidate Trump prompted what America is facing today,” he said.
“After numerous attempts to remove candidate Trump from the political arena using legal instruments at first, courts, the prosecutor’s office, attempts to politically discredit and compromise the candidate it was obvious to all outside observers that his life was in jeopardy,” he said.
Lastly, Russia’s State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin pointed to three causes behind the attack on Trump on his Telegram channel on July 14:
1. “The crisis of the American political system” where many decisions are taken without any concern for the interests or wishes of its citizens, where any opposition is met as an attempted coup and is suppressed.