A spray of bullets may have only grazed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, but they killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others.

They have also torn through the 2024 presidential campaign, damaging the social and cultural fabric of the nation. The illusion of security and safety in American politics – built over decades - has

    • @BallsandBayonets
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      122 months ago

      A more conspiratorially minded person could come to the conclusion that Republicans were behind the whole assassination attempt, to make the Toupee appear strong and to turn the media’s attention back to them.

      • @800XL@lemmy.world
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        302 months ago

        Trump is going to milk this so hard. It’s going to be an annoying 4+ months of hearing how he took a bullet for America and shit about “the left’s assassination attempt”.

        You could only hope that in the moment after he came to terms with the fact he is such a piece of human waste that someone almost blew his fucking brains out. That he’ll rethink his whole life.

        But he won’t, and now the fascist militias that back him are going to turn it up.