The Biden administration is broadcasting messages around the world to tell friends and foes that the United States will emerge stronger from the crisis. assassination attempt about presidential candidate Donald Trump.
Hoping to reassure an already nervous world In our view, the State Department is transmitting talking points to its embassies and consulates in numerous countries and, here in Washington, calling in senior officials to repeat the same idea: there is no place for political violence in a democratic United States.
Of course, there is a long history of political violence in the United States, from assassinations of sitting presidents to the deadly January 6 attack on the Capitol by Trump supporters. But American officials are trying to remind their counterparts that this country always manages, or at least tries, to overcome it.
Most allies expressed horror at the attack and sympathy for Trump's recovery.
“We know that people and governments around the world have questions,” said State Department spokesman Matthew Miller. “We condemn this attack and all political violence, strongly and unequivocally, just as we condemn political violence in any country.”
He said U.S. diplomats are being instructed to “remind countries that we have faced horrific political violence in this country before … and that we have overcome that by returning to our core values as a nation, and that we will do so again today.”
However, these efforts have not stopped Russia and other rivals from fostering conspiracy theories about who was behind the shooting.
The Kremlin suggested the Biden administration had created the “atmosphere” for the attempted assassination of Trump, a theory echoed by some Republicans.
“The atmosphere that this administration created during the political struggle, the atmosphere around candidate Trump, led to what the United States is facing today,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said.
Miller said Moscow's comments were “incredibly irresponsible.”
In China, newspapers controlled by the Communist Party warned about the Possibility of civil war in the U.S.
The political situation in the United States already had much of the world on edge.
Many European allies fear the possible return of a Trump presidency, highlighting his disdain for multilateral partnerships and even NATO, considered the cornerstone of the post-World War II global order.
At the annual summit of leaders of the 32 North American Treaty Organization nations last week in Washington, many attendees scrutinized President Biden for his performance amid questions about his physical and mental condition.
After the assassination attempt, some diplomats from those same countries expressed anxiety that the shooting, which injured Trump's ear, would seal his victory.
Other leaders, such as Russian President Vladimir Putin, would welcome Trump's return.
In his first presidency, Trump showed deference to Putin and criticized U.S. aid to Ukraine in its war with Moscow.
