Trump at higher risk of assassination than other former presidents thanks to ‘public enemy’ rhetoric: expert

The threat against former President Trump is unique to him and far higher than anything facing the other living former presidents as inflammatory political rhetoric has consistently portrayed him as “public enemy number one for democracy,” a security expert told Fox Digital. 

Trump has faced a pair of assassination attempts in just over two months – one on July 13 and one on Sept. 15 – with the first incident resulting in a would-be assassin injuring the former president and killing a rally goer, firefighter Corey Comperatore. There have been no known recent attempts on other former presidents: Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama or Jimmy Carter, who has been in hospice care since February 2023. 

“We’re getting a lot of hatred on both sides, and a lot of these comments that really do – like I said – embolden people to think that they’re going to ‘fix the problem,’” said Gene Petrino, a retired SWAT commander for Florida’s Plantation Police Department for 26 years and an expert on active shooter incidents who spoke to Fox News Digital on Tuesday. “‘They can’t let this happen. We can’t lose our freedoms. We can’t lose this.’ And I’m not picking sides, and I

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