Estrella Contreras, 35, a pharmacy technician from Phoenix, Arizona, shared a dismal reaction to what the FBI said was a second apparent assassination attempt on Trump yesterday.
“I think right now, the state of our union is just horrible,” Contreras, a Democrat, told NBC News. “To be quite honest with you, I feel like our citizens are afraid. They don’t know what to do, and they feel like they need to protect themselves at this point.”
Contreras expressed skepticism over the incident when asked her thoughts about Trump’s fundraising off of Sunday’s incident yesterday, calling the former president a “GoFundMe type of person” who jumps on the chance to raise money whenever he can.
“I feel like it seems really suspicious. To be quite honest with you, these incidents keep happening just to him, and they’re not like, extremely life or death. Like his ear got shot the last time, and this time, they stopped it before. So I definitely think that it’s a little suspicious to me,” she said, implying there may have been a conspiracy behind the incident.
Contreras said she anticipates an “extremely chaotic” voting season, saying that people are “taking their own actions” in an effort to influence the election.
“The state of our country is extremely chaotic right now. It’s a lot of people’s opinions are clashing to the point of where we’ve never seen it before,” she said. “Due to social media, a lot of people feel like they need to act out instead of using their votes to make their votes count versus trying to incite their own actions.”
