So much so that a number of people openly thought the shooting WAS set up by Donald Trump HIMSELF….
The raised fist….
The Blood….
It ALL will be played by some as a plus in Donald Trump’s life of trying to make people feel sorry for him as he commits crimes and runs over people….
Shooting him is NOT right….
But making him President again isn’t either….
And?
America and the World does NOT stop for Donald Trump….
Not one second….
Democrats and Biden need to resume their campaign against the possibility of a second Trump Presidency….
Oh?
Folks ?
I don’t care what the optics show….
Donald Trump IS a 78 year man that just got shot in the ear….
He’s gonna be hurting….
And this IS the second dramatic thing to happen to him in months….
His conviction being the first….
His health SHOULD be a question as BIG as Biden’s….
Donald Trump forged his political identity from multiple strains of white-hot emotional politics: The grievance and anger of his political base. The anxiety and uncertainty of a divided nation. And perhaps above all, his own aura of brazenness and raw strength.
That identity was on vivid display on a somber evening in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Trump emerged physically bloodied and politically triumphant from a shooting that ripped through the 2024 presidential campaign.
The shooting killed one member of the crowd and injured two others, officials said. Also dead was the gunman, who was described by the Secret Service as aiming at the stage.
The former president’s precise physical condition was still unknown when Republicans began sharing an Associated Press photograph of Trump — blood splattered on his right cheek — pumping his fist beneath an off-kilter American flag after gunshots singed the air. His political allies and admirers in the United States and abroad cheered for his resilience, while Democrats uniformly denounced the violence as un-American.
In the eyes of his political movement, this was a moment that showed Trump at his most defiant.
“President Trump was the epitome of courage under fire,” said Simone Ledeen, a former senior Trump Department of Defense official. “The iconic photos of him being beamed across the world show the true American spirit.”…
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Democrats broadly condemned the attack. President Joe Biden’s reelection campaign paused all outbound communications and worked to pull down his television ads as quickly as possible.
But in parts of the country, the normal, humdrum activities of democracy continued. In Indiana, Democrats were tabulating votes at their state convention for statewide offices when the convention chair interrupted the proceedings: “Violence has no place in our democratic process and those who advocate for it might want to take a reflective look,” said Robin Winston, a former state party chair. “This is wrong.”…
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For his part, Trump’s initial tone was not as jubilant as some of his supporters’. In a post, he thanked the Secret Service and law enforcement for their response, extended condolences to the family of the person killed in the crowd and said it is “incredible that such an act can take place in our Country.”
“Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead,” Trump wrote. “I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”….