World Leaders Condemn Trump’s Assassination Attempt at Campaign Rally
Former US President Donald Trump is rushed off stage by secret service after an incident during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show Inc. in Butler, Pennsylvania, USA. Photo: EFE/EPA/DAVID MAXWELL
July 13, 2024 Hour: 8:34 pm
Presidents and leaders around the world have condemned and rejected the assassination attempt against former President and current Republican candidate Donald Trump in Butler county, Pennsylvania, USA.
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“I have been briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania. I’m grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information,” said the current US president Joe Biden on X.
The Head of State said he and his wife Jill Biden are grateful to the Secret Service “for getting him to safety. There’s no place for this kind of violence in America. We must unite as one nation to condemn it.”
Honduran president Xiomara Castro stated on her X account that “Violence generates more violence. I am sorry for what is happening in the United States electoral process,” at the time she expresse dher solidarity with the Republican.
Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, Cuban Foreign Minister, expressed that the Caribbean Island condemns “the bombing of former President Donald Trump and we repudiate the act of violence committed this afternoon in Pennsylvania.”
In the same line, the Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) “disapproved” of this afternoon’s violent act saying “Be that as it may, we condemn what happened to former President Donald Trump. Violence is irrational and inhuman.”
The Mexican elected president Claudia Sheinbaum held the same view of AMLO and argued that “Violence leads nowhere.” Marcelo Ebrard, who will be Sheinbaum’s Chancellor once she takes power, argued that “Political violence must be widely rejected.”
“As victims of attacks and terrorism for 65 years, Cuba ratifies its historical position of condemnation of all forms of violence. The arms business and the escalation of political violence in EEUU lead to incidents like the one that took place this Saturday in that country” said the Cuban President Miguel Díaz Canel on X.
His counterpart, the Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro reacted to the event saying that “on behalf of the whole of Venezuela, of our people, reject and repudiate the attack against former President Donald Trump, wish him a speedy recovery and may God bless the people of the United States and give him peace and tranquility.”
Panama and Paraguay have joined to the international comdamnation. “I express my solidarity with former President Donald Trump. I strongly condemn the recent assassination attempt against him,” Panamanian Foreign Minister Javier Martínez-Acha said in a X message.
Shortly after, on the same social network, the president of Panama, José Raúl Mulino, also expressed his “strong condemnation of the event against former President Donald Trump”.
While Paraguayan Government strongly rejected the alleged attack saying “We strongly condemn the attack suffered by former President Donald Trump in a campaign act in Pennsylvania,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Paraguay published in X.
“Events like this muddy the electoral process in a country with a long democratic tradition,” the note added. In addition, the Foreign Ministry said it expected “a rapid clarification of the facts.”
Autor: ACJ
Fuente: X // EFE
