The Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump Is an Attack on All Americans
The unnamed, now-dead shooter injured the former president and killed one rally attendee.
In Butler, Pennsylvania this afternoon, a man attempted to murder former President Donald John Trump at a campaign rally. The shots killed one member of the crowd and injured another, who Wolf Blitzer just described as in “serious condition.”
The assassin was killed by the secret service and his identity has not yet been revealed.
I am deeply disturbed and upset. When a criminal attempts to kill any of our political leaders, that is an attack on all of us. And we can all see that in bloody clarity now as one person is dead—one witness said shot in the head—and another critically injured.
There is not much to say yet nor does it seem possible to try and analyze the situation. We’re still in a state of shock and the “fog of war.”
All I have to urge right now: can we all please put the Left-Right, Democrat vs Republican, election obsession mania aside while the country attempts to begin processing this trauma?
Can we please not try and make arguments about how this side is to blame or that side is to blame?
Can we recognize how little we know now and how little we still will know once the information emerges?
Can we just unify once again as Americans?
Please?
Political violence has no place in a democracy. Ever.
Thus far, as best as I can tell, the shooter's identity and exact motivations have not been identified.
A consistently conservative (and outspokenly pro-Trump) podcaster whom I follow, earlier today, sent out an email whose message assumes that the would-be assassin is e Leftist. That suspicion might prove to be correct; it also might not.
My sincerest hope, for now, is that Robert Kennedy Jr discreetly contact Melania Trump and, maybe, the grown Trump children in order to convey "support" and encouragement. Few other American politicians could do that in the way that "Bobby" can.