Republicans are seeking to capitalize on Trump’s assassination attempt — using it to demand everyone stop talking about his threats to democracy.
Former President Donald Trump is helped off the stage at a campaign event in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024.
These messages are all part of a deliberate strategy. Within the first three hours following the failed assassination of the presumptive 2024 GOP presidential nominee, three sources close to Trump were already feverishly detailing tohow Republicans could use the shooting to their political advantage — whether for potentially mammoth fundraising, propaganda about Trump being “tough” and a “fighter,” or attacks on Democrats as belonging to the.
— arguing such power would be necessary to erect a border wall and “drill, drill, drill.” On the campaign trail, the former president has evoked the rhetoric of Adolf Hitler, accusing immigrants of “Saturday’s assassination attempt also does not change the fact that Trump has repeatedly and very publicly endorsed political violence over the years.
And though Trump allies are chastising Democrats today for calling Trump a fascist or an authoritarian and claiming that such rhetoric causes violence, Trump hasShannen Doherty, 'Beverly Hills 90210' and 'Charmed' Star, Dies at 53President Biden Calls for National Unity in Oval Office Address, Saying ‘It’s Time to Cool It Down’ After Trump Shooting‘Lady in the Lake’ Co-Stars Natalie Portman and Noah Jupe Bonded Over Portman’s ‘Pretty F*cked Up’ Sense of...
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