Australian MPs condemn ‘abhorrent’ Trump shooting

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********* against political candidates should not become normalised, the treasurer says, following an attempted ************** of former US president Donald Trump.

*********** politicians condemned the ******* on Mr Trump at a political rally in Pennsylvania, held ahead of the *********** Party’s national convention.

Treasurer Jim Chalmers said there was relief the former US president was OK.

“We’ve seen politics get uglier and more polarised and unfortunately, more violent, and I think a lot of people around the world and around Australia are worried about those developments,” he told Nine’s Today program on Monday.

“We can’t see this extreme polarisation, this extreme *********, be normalised in democracies around the world, we’re supposed to settle our differences with votes, not with *********.

“What we saw yesterday was completely abhorrent.”

Shadow treasurer Angus Taylor said while America had become politically divided, ********* was not the solution.

“The whole point of democracy is we get our chance to have our say at the ballot box and that’s true in any great democratic nation,” he said.

“We’ve got to keep coming back to that and calling out completely unacceptable behaviour, clearly, and it’s not what we want to ever see here in Australia.”

Opposition home affairs spokesman James Paterson said Australia should not be complacent about the threats to elected officials or candidates.

“While it’s true we’ve got very different **** safety regulations … there are some troubling signs that there are trends towards using violent means, in Australia, to try and intimidate parliamentarians and their staff,” he told ABC Radio.

“We cannot allow that to take hold here.”

NDIS Minister Bill Shorten said the attempted ************** was “shocking and deplorable”.

“In terms of here in Australia, yeah, the rhetoric does have to be dialled down,” he told Seven’s Sunrise program.

“We can make our point without creating a sense that it’s all in and that we’re at war with each other, because that isn’t the case, and that’s not the *********** way. And it’s not the democratic way anywhere.”

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