Quite confronting that an assassination attempt on a former American president and the Republican candidate in the coming presidential election in the United States could still happen in this day and age. Following shots fired during former President Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania resulted in the deaths of a member of the audience and the shooter. A seemingly bloodied Trump was seen on video being whisked away by Secret Service personnel. He was reportedly injured in the attack on the “upper part of [his] right ear”. Two other audience member were also reportedly critically injured.
The Secret Service said the shooter fired multiple shots from an “elevated position” outside of the Trump rally before he was killed by agents. The shooting is being investigated as an attempted assassination, according to law enforcement officials.
As expected, content rolled off social media filled with both support for and vitriol against Trump. The campaign of current US President Joe Biden exhibited grace. Reuters reports…
US President Joe Biden said he was briefed on the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally and that he was ‘grateful to hear that he’s safe and doing well. I’m praying for him and his family and for all those who were at the rally, as we await further information’
It does not take a political “expert” to issue an educated guess on how liberals are feeling in the aftermath.
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Every liberal today following the news of former President Donald Trump’s attempted assassination
Before all this, it is widely known that the liberal establishment had been mounting a well-funded concerted effort to stop Trump. Noted thought leader Fareed Zakaria in a March op-ed piece published on the Washington Post warned them about going overboard in their quest to “save democracy”…
Liberal democracies should avoid the temptation of using illiberal means, even when they confront views and positions that are forthrightly hostile toward liberal democracy itself. I worry about some of the court cases against Trump. While they might be technically legitimate, some involve offenses that happened years ago and for which he was not charged at the time. Would he have been charged for these were he not the controversial political figure he is today?
Indeed, of the “excesses” of the left, Zakaria further writes, “[they] want to ban those who have ‘wrong’ ideas from speaking. They want to achieve racial equality by quota or decree. They want to use education or art to achieve political goals rather than educational or artistic ones.”
As this is a developing story, it is, of course, prudent to refrain from any further speculation as the investigation on this breaking incident progresses.
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