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The shooting of Donald Trump

 It may take months to discover what pushed a young man to try to kill Donald Trump.   Rumours of political affiliation and of intent will take time to fully emerge.  the killer, did not come from a broken family, he seemed to be a smart kid, who won awards for school performance in mathematics.  Some say that he was apolitical, but really a young man does not start shooting in a crowd if he is apolitical.  Something else happened here.   

Rumours that he is a democrat or a republican, both are possible and are also meaningless for a 22 year old.  of course the tragedy is that one man was killed and two other were gravely injured.  As for Trump he got nicked in the ear.  A lucky man.

What this means is strange because two related issues, first the whole gun lobby is in trouble here, what do they say it was a false flag to help their guy!   Really?  That Biden should be held accountable, well the Supreme court just ruled on that one too, with the Republicans rejoicing.  So that is a no go.   There is nowhere for the GOP to play politics on this one.   It helps Biden because it changes the conversation from his difficulties.   

At first blush the one that benefits the most from this is Biden, because for the next week, all eyes will be on Trump and how the shooting will affect him.  President Trump would not be human if he was not shaken by what just happened.  


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