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[snip] To be fair, some people who watched the speech thought that the first 10 minutes or so, in which Trump recounted being injured, were good, even thoughtful. I thought they were terrible; although Trump and his people have emphasized Trump’s defiance in the moment after he was hurt, his blow-by-blow account of the incident came across to me as creepy and solipsistic rather than brave. Contrast that with Ronald Reagan, the previous president injured in an attempt on his life. Karen Tumulty of The Washington Post reminded us today that Reagan appeared before Congress a month after he was...

Anthony Fauci dismissed the gunshot wound Donald Trump sustained during Saturday's assassination attempt, telling CNN viewers: 'he's in the clear.' Fauci made the comments after the former president, 78, wore a large white bandage over the gunshot wound on his ear throughout the Republican National Convention this week. 'I don't think there is much more to it,' Fauci, 83, said of Trump's wounds while talking to CNN host Wolf Blitzer on Friday. 'It was a bullet shot that grazed his ear.'

stepfanie tyler @wildbarestepf graduated in 2012 w a degree in Women's Studies cried in 2016 when Trump got elected lost touch w the dems somewhere around MeToo discovered entrepreneurship updated my voter registration in 2018 but didn't tell anyone told myself i was a 'single-issue-voting Centrist' the last 6-12 months i've believed i was going to abstain from voting in the upcoming election because the options are equally terrible but watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total f***ing savage just shifted me into some strange, patriotic gear that my fancy-feminism-white-men-bad infected brain never showed me like,...

It's impossible to overstate how much of a miracle we experienced on July 13th. This is how close we came. I can't stop watching. pic.twitter.com/9jM0gtEgmH— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 16, 2024

“Democrats must recover quickly and say: Trump has been uniquely responsible for stoking the violence that apparently grazed his ear,” The Nation’s Joan Walsh wrote. Beyond the obvious ju-jitsu of a leftist blaming one of her targets for getting shot, there’s that ‘apparently’ in there. Walsh had also tweeted, “Has there been any kind of news conference by Trump’s doctors? I just find this weirder every moment.” “Is Trump’s bandage covering evidence that he wasn’t shot? Still waiting for confirmation from credible sources beyond Trump on his Truth Social that he was actually hit by a bullet rather than hit...