An assassin’s bullet came within an inch of murdering Donald Trump at a rally on Saturday, a dramatic development that will impact the Presidential campaign. Already, Trump, a draft-dodger, is portraying himself and his fist bump, while protected by security agents, as heroic, defiant, and patriotic. Hours afterward, he waxed “Biblical” about the whole mess, to appeal to his Evangelical base, and declared that “God alone” saved his life. He then stated that “We will fear not” and must fight “wickedness”. His Republican radicals labeled the attempted assassination as “political violence”, and smeared the Democrats. Trump VP hopeful, Senator JD Vance, even repeated Russian talking points that President Biden’s campaign was at fault, repeating false claims made by RT, the Kremlin mouthpiece. But the perpetrator was a 20-year-old registered Republican with an assault rifle. Even so, it will be politics as usual.
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