There was another assassination on Trump again over the weekend, the second attempt in an election year.
He was grazed during the first one, but the shooter was shot. Unfortunately, it also took the life of a father who was in the crowd protecting his family. Trump hasn’t talked about that. But he has used the images from the incident to sell merch.
He had a book planned in the same year along with Melania before this happened and rather than stick to the plan, he hastily used the pictures from that assassination attempt as a photo op for the cover to his book.
Before the recent attempt over the weekend, he had a debate with Kamala Harris last week where for the first time, he publicly claimed that Biden’s administration was to blame for the attempt on his life.
“This is the one that weaponized. Not me. She weaponized. I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I’m a threat to democracy. They’re the threat to democracy…”
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While there is plenty on social media suggesting the same thing, there are algorithms regulating to suppress fringe ideas but, being the bottom feeder that he is, he’s taken to promoting them or suggesting them on his own for political gain.
This was the case again with his latest offering that the Biden/Harris administration we’re behind the latest attempt on his life:
“Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, while I’m trying to save the country, and they’re the ones destroying it—inside and out. These are the things that dangerous fools, like the shooter, listen to.”
Flipping the script on his political rivals, Trump fired back, claiming Biden and Harris are the ones actually tearing the country apart. “They’re the enemy from within. They’re the real threat,” he declared, as if he’s the only one holding the country together.
The fact is, Trump has always been a divisive person and he turned division into a franchise when he got into politics. Politicians like Sen. Lindsey Graham who changes his loyalty for his benefit, posted right after the latest attempt:
Just spoke with President Trump. He is one of the strongest people I’ve ever known.
He’s in good spirits and he is more resolved than ever to save our country. https://t.co/9CWaeFrOpX
— Lindsey Graham (@LindseyGrahamSC) September 15, 2024
There’s no doubt that tweet was for political gain. But even without that, we still have Elon Musk to thank for his Tweet where he suggested that no one is trying to shoot at Biden or Harris. How is the rhetoric going to be toned down when as a public loudspeaker, you’re ramping it up?
Musk would end up deleting the post but in a sense to save face, he offered that he had to learn how to do comedy on social media as a way to blame us for not getting the “joke.”
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