Trump avoided being assassinated yesterday. Good for him - a political assassination at this point in American history could spark a bloodbath. No doubt, there are many people who wish the shooter had aimed a bit to the right. They are dead wrong. It is a very good thing that Trump survived.
Here are some thoughts...
This is potentially Trump's moment of triumph. Trump's Republican Party will rally around him like never before especially as the Republican National Convention is very conveniently about to start. Trump has the opportunity in the next 72 hours to adopt a humble and unifying approach for the rest of the presidential election campaign that would surely win over the undecided and independent voters who are the people who decide every American election.
But that is not who he is. Here is some of what he will likely say...
You will hear that the Deep States tried to assassinate him. This is false.
You will hear that he and the MAGA Republicans need to "fight" against their opponents until they win; opponents including so-called RINO's and Democrats. Using words like "fight" in this circumstance is crazed as it encourages more violence - he has already started doing this.
You may even here that he was spared being killed because God wants him to lead the nation again. No comment.
If we know anything about this pampered billionaire, it is that he honestly believes that he is a victim. Yesterday, he actually was one. (Note - please read previous blogs regarding Trump. Some of the legal proceedings brought against him are unfair - he is a victim there as well.)
It is impossible for this man - a man who urged a crowd of his supporters to attack the Capitol on January 6, 2021 resulting in the deaths of five police officers (one stroke and four suicides) - to empathize with anyone other than himself.
An approach by Trump to the attempted assassination that is entirely self-centered and which implicitly calls for more violence and division - which, again, is what calling to "fight" in these circumstances would do - may actually hurt his election chances as independent and undecided voters will not want to see anything that smacks of division and future violence. His reaction may actually frighten them.
Is Trump about to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory?
We shall see.
Oh, and Biden?
With Trump potentially able to coerce this assassination attempt into an electoral victory, the Democrats surely understand that they need to "move the goalpost" now or they will lose. I think he is being asked by most powerful Democrats to step aside right now.
This is the strangest presidential election in US history.
Hold on to your hats - the crazy is just getting started.
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