The son of former President Donald Trump discussed his father surviving a second assassination attempt on Sunday, marking the most recent “unthinkable” he has faced in the last nine years. He also listed the past ordeals his father has had to deal with, such as his legal battles over the last two years and Colorado’s attempt to remove him from the 2024 ballot.

“They’ve done everything they could, they tried to impeach him, they took down his friends, they did everything, and yet that man right there is still fighting, and I expect him to be protected,” Trump said on Fox News’s Hannity. “I expect him to be safe. This country expects to have democracy, and then I get to hear Kamala Harris at a debate saying that that man right there, who’s the most brave person I’ve ever met, is a threat to democracy? You know, Sean, the bullets are only going one way. It’s really interesting how that works.”

Trump then claimed that his father is taking “every bullet literally and figuratively” while campaigning for president and that the media are pushing the attacks against his father “under the rug.” He referenced an online joke he saw arguing that Will Smith slapping Chris Rock at the 2022 Oscars received more attention from the press than Donald Trump’s first assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.

“They are creating a culture of hate in this country and you know what, Sean? If we ever lost one of our leaders, if we ever lost a presidential nominee, a former president, we’d look like a third-world country,” Trump said. “It cannot happen in the United States of America. They have to get the resources to keep our political leaders safe.”

Steve Witkoff, a friend of the former president, was golfing with him at the time of the second assassination attempt, during which the former president “cared about his friends’ safety first before his own life.” Witkoff added that he wished the whole country had seen Trump’s actions on the golf course “because they would have seen a real leader.”

“I have a little love thing for my dear friend, and I say to myself ‘thank God that he was not injured or killed,’” Witkoff said. “And thank God none of the other people — there were plenty of civilians by the way, staffers from his office, people who care about him just as much as I do, two other friends of his — so there could have been a lot of really serious damage out there and there wasn’t, and I’m grateful to that agent that interdicted and that entire team.”

In the wake of his most recent assassination attempt, Trump has blamed President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris for spreading “rhetoric” that has indirectly led to the most recent attempt on his life. His campaign has also shared various statements by Democratic lawmakers referring to the former president as a “threat to democracy.”

Democrats’ rhetoric inspired another attempt on President Trump’s life.

In case they forgot, we made a list👇 pic.twitter.com/PbwQ3q6sOf

— Trump War Room (@TrumpWarRoom) September 16, 2024

The America First Legal Foundation, a conservative public interest group, is launching an investigation into any records the Biden administration may have on Ryan Wesley Routh, the suspect in custody for his alleged involvement with the second assassination attempt on Trump. Multiple other investigations into this attempt on Trump’s life are also being conducted, including one by the state announced by Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).