World leaders have expressed concern over the deadly attack on former US President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania that left one participant dead and two others seriously injured, with many calling for violence. Condemned.
World leaders expressed concern over the assassination of former US President Donald Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Sunday, which left one participant dead and two others seriously injured.
Trump’s campaign said the Republican nominee was “doing fine” after being pulled from the stage, although the bullet hit him above his right ear.
The Secret Service said he killed the suspected shooter who attacked from a vantage point outside the rally site.
US authorities are still investigating the shooting.
Argentine President Javier Meli said Trump was “the victim of a cowardly assassination attempt that put his life and that of hundreds of people at risk.”
In a post on X, Meli also said that the apparent assassination attempt showed “the desperation of the international left” and its “desire to promote violence to destabilize democracy and bring itself to power”. Highlighted
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albany condemned the “unforgivable attack” on the democratic values shared by the US and Australia.
In Australia, as in America, Albany told reporters at the Australian Parliament House that “the essence and purpose of our democracies is to be able to express our views, debate our differences, and resolve our differences peacefully.”
Brazil’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, condemned the incident on X as unacceptable and said all defenders of democracy should “strongly reject” the attack.
His predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro, a close Trump ally, expressed his solidarity with “the greatest leader in the world at the moment”. Bolsonaro was stabbed in the stomach at a campaign event ahead of the 2018 presidential election, which he went on to win.
Canadian PM Trudeau said, “he was sickened by the shooting and his thoughts were with Trump, those at the event, and all Americans.”
“This cannot be overstated – political violence is never acceptable,” he shared his views on X.
The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that China is concerned about the attack and that President Xi Jinping has already expressed sympathy to Trump.
In a statement, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi expressed his country’s condemnation of the attack and wished for a peaceful resumption of the US election campaign.
French President Emmanuel Macron sent Trump his best wishes for a speedy recovery. “This is a drama for our democracies. France shares the anger of the American people,” he posted on X.
German Chancellor Olaf Schulz posted on X that the attack was “abhorrent” and that such acts of violence threaten democracy. “My sympathetic thoughts are also with the other people who were injured in the attack,” he said.
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said X’s thoughts and prayers were with Trump “in these dark hours”.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said: ” he was deeply concerned about the “attack on my friend”.
“Strongly condemn this incident. Violence has no place in politics and democracy,” he shared his thoughts on X.
At the start of the weekly cabinet meeting in Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he “watched in horror”, adding that the attack was also a “murderous assault on American democracy”.
Italian President Sergio Mattarella said in a statement that the attack was cause for grave alarm and “a disturbing sign of the deterioration of the civil fabric and the dangerous refusal to respect confrontation, dialogue and democratic life.”
Meanwhile, Prime Minister Georgia Maloney wished Trump a speedy recovery.
“We must stand firm against any form of violence that challenges democracy,” Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kushida said on X.
Pakistani PM Shehbaz Sharif called the shooting a “shocking development”. He said that he condemned all forms of violence in politics and wished the former president a speedy recovery and good health.
And imprisoned Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Imran Khan, who was shot and wounded at a rally in November 2022, wished Trump a full recovery. “Political violence is a tool of cowards and has no place in a democracy,” he wrote on X.
Russian President Vladimir Putin currently has no plans to call Trump, according to Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
“We absolutely do not think or believe that the attempt to remove presidential candidate Trump was organized by the current administration,” Leake said.