Hmmm, yeah, but I am more concerned about the paranoia angle of it all. Trump was already paranoid during his last term and was constantly worried about people around him being sufficiently loyal.
He probably thinks he's invincible at this point. AFAIK he's keeping his rally schedule and continuing to attend them.
He's been doing that forever, though. I don't really think this is going to peak paranoia for him. Presidents and presidential candidates get an insane amount of death threats and attempts on their life. It's just that usually they can never get to this point.
I mean, yeah, he's been paranoid forever. That's not a counterargument to what I'm saying. This is speculative of course but it's not like trump is the picture of mental health to begin with. Generally I wouldn't expect a moment as real as that to have no effect unless his paranoia was already at it's hypothetical maximum.
If they did their due diligence then yeah, but it's also possible that if this was staged, they didn't do a thorough vetting, or the kid did have enough experience. I mean, the kid missed Trump even though he had plenty of time to aim and hit. But someone also pointed out stuff like how Trump and the people behind him kept looking in one direction a lot. Someone also pointed out how one lady barely hid and afterwards took a video with her phone, but I didn't notice that so I can't confirm.
Dunno if you two are agreeing with each other
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Because I really, really don't want the Bulletproof Trump meme to gain any more traction. He's already deified by his base. We don't need actual mythological feats for him.
From what I've read the kid was a registered Republican and not super political. I'm sure everything we "know" will change in the next couple of weeks, but that's the most recent synopsis I've read.
But he was political. Depending on the things he said, it might be telling if he was a legit republican or pretended to be.
Optically, yeah. Especially considering this entire presidential election is exclusively about optics now.
Yes it does when one side is obsessed with blaming Dems/the left for everything and have said that had the bullet been one inch closer to the right spot, there'd be civil war.
It's not any different from when democrats were pinning mass shootings on republicans. While at the time it maybe made sense, since then there have been mass shootings by people identified with the left. In the end mental illness doesn't care about political leanings..
