Tim Walz says he’s ‘grateful’ Trump is safe after apparent assassination attempt, he says in Macon

In a speech Tuesday in Macon, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz condemned the apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump that occurred over the weekend.

Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate in her presidential campaign, was in Macon to kick off a series of campaign events in Georgia and North Carolina on Tuesday when he addressed the incident, calling it a “horrible situation.”

Walz said he was “grateful to the Secret Service…law enforcement and happy that the president is safe.”

“I think we all know that we don’t resolve our differences in this country through violence,” Walz said. “We condemn it in all its forms. We resolve our differences through the ballot box. That’s how we’re going to get there.”

Local and federal law enforcement said a suspect was waiting to shoot Trump with an assault rifle while the former president was golfing in Florida on Sunday. Officers shot the man, who was arrested.

Since the incident, Trump has criticized Democrats on television and accused them of using “highly inflammatory language” that he said emboldened the suspect.

“He bought into the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News. “Their rhetoric is making me the target of fire, when I’m the one who’s going to save the country, and they’re the ones who are destroying the country, from the inside and the outside.”

The suspect faces two firearms-related charges, federal authorities said.