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Pars Today- The assassination of former US President, Donald Trump, who is Joe Biden's rival in the upcoming presidential election, has caused different speculations.

What occurred

After Trump's assassination attempt, the US undercover police announced that the gunman has shot dead one of the attendees of the speech and injured two others seriously, but he himself was killed by snipers. The gunman was a 20-year-old man by the name of Thomas Matthew Crooks. Research is underway by officials on the causes of this shooting, but the important issue is the impact of Trump's abortive assassination on the political climate, the future of the US and the upcoming election.

Expansion of political violence

The United States has been trying, for decades, to boast to the world of its political system, constitution and the structure of political power. This way, the US has tried to introduce itself as a role model of democracy and freedom to the world people and governments. But, now the US has been caught in tough circumstances. Although political crisis and violence have always been rampant in the US overtly or covertly, this issue has been aggravated and become more public for the recent years. The attack of Trump's fans to the Congress after the 2020 election was evaluated by many people as the clear example of political violence in the contemporary American society.

Now, in 2024, this violence has become more serious and deeper so that Donald Trump is assassinated in a big electoral meeting.

This reality has confused the American officials and they have been trying, through different messages, to prevent the society from exerting violence. They have also tried to sympathize with Trump and condemn the incident to alleviate conditions and defend this country's political system. This can be seen in part of Biden's message to Trump after the assassination attempt, which reads, "There is no room for this kind of violence in the US. We should get united as a nation and condemn it."

As the American officials' try to prevent political violence surge in the country, the independent Senator, Bernie Sanders, wrote on X social network, "Political violence is absolutely unacceptable."

Former US President, Barack Obama, also wrote on X after the abortive attempt against Trump, "There is absolutely no room for political violence in our democracy. We have to make use of this moment to make ourselves committed to civility and respect in our policies once again." Robert F. Kennedy J. was another official who published this message, "Now it is time for every American to love their country, to retreat from discord and give up any kind of violence."

Impact of assassination on Trump's political future

The abortive assassination of Donald Trump has caused political war in the US. Many of the republican members of the Congress, consider the democratic party and the current president as culprits of the assassination attempt against Trump. Nearly 30 of the republicans have directly castigated President Joe Biden, the democratic party and affiliated media for provocation of public opinion to put the assassination in effect.

Senator J. D. Vance of Ohio, in a message on X network, wrote, "The main assumption of the Biden battle is that Donald Trump is a despotic fascist whom should be prevented at any price. This rhetoric has directly led to the assassination attempt of Trump.

Scores of US lawmakers, too, in their messages on social networks, have called Biden or other critics of Trump as guilty of shooting to kill him.

On the other hand, many people have also described the assassination as ceremonial and political to omit Trump's rival, Biden. In view of this, Daily Mail wrote, "Hours after the abortive assassination of Donald Trump, some conspiracy theorists claimed that this event was just a staging to improve and strengthen the election prospects. According to this report, hours after the assassination attempt, "staging" was the fourth most used word on Goggle search engine.

Derrick Van Orden republican representative from Wisconsin, also, said in an interview with Politico, "President Trump was saved from this event. He will win the upcoming election."

David Urban, one of Trump's aides in 2016 who had helped him to win in Pennsylvania, also said in this regard, "Trump is a fighter. I expect this assassination attempt will unite Americans to support him."

Meanwhile, Arie Perliger, professor of political sciences of University Massachusetts, who has focused his studies mainly on political violence and assassination, says, "Assassination attempt, from many aspects, shortens the long trend of effort to undermine political rivals. There are many persons who consider assassination as a tool for helping them gain access to their goals very rapidly and effectively."

The turbulent and furious US society

Trump's assassination attempt has caused a wave of concerns towards political flare-up and severe political discord in the US. Blumberg wrote on the issue, "Political violence has infiltrated the American political discourse and these series of violence have impacted not only the politicians but also the ordinary people. The opinion poll, conducted in May by Morning Consult institute and Blumberg, revealed that half of the voters of the Swing states (grey states) had announced that they are scared of violence in the US election and do not support any certain party in election.

Alarm for democracy in US

Politico magazine wrote in an analysis on Trump's assassination attempt, "Assassination of an election candidate in the US is stepping in a culture filled with insult, delegitimization and tribalism. In fact, no matter what the motiveof this assassination, it is an annulment of the fake American ideals of democracy and political system based on democracy." Current US President, Joe Biden, has also underlined the need to have national unity in the country and said, "Politics should be the arena for peaceful discourse. And political activities should never turn into the field of war and carnage."

Key phrases: Donald Trump assassination attempt, US president Joe Biden, republican party, democratic party, democracy in US      

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