A man who used talk of violence to get his present job and and effort to try keep the Presidency the first time plays off the attempts to get at him…
But who knows what he thinks in those quiet moments when he’s alone?….
The latest instance of a gunman in his vicinity — after the two assassination attempts during the 2024 campaign — led the president to contemplate why such things keep happening to him.
“I’ve studied assassinations, and I must tell you, the most impactful people, the people that do the most … they’re the ones that they go after,” Trump told reporters at the White House soon after a shooting suspect was apprehended. “And I hate to say I’m honored by that, but I’ve done a lot.”
Trump mentioned Abraham Lincoln, but not Ronald Reagan, who was injured in a shooting outside the same hotel in 1981….
image…President Donald Trump answers reporter questions Saturday at the White House. (Tom Brenner/AP)
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