A change of heart: after the assassination attempt is Donald Trump a new man?

'He doesn't want any talk of revenge or retaliation'

'Getting shot in the face changes a man'

A wake-up call for Donald Trump?

On July 13, former US President and presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at Butler, Pennsylvania. The incident seems to have affected Donald Trump in many ways.

A different Donald?

Vanity Fair quotes three different sources claiming that Donald Trump has become a different man after his close brush with death.

'He doesn't want any talk of revenge or retaliation'

“Trump put the word out that he doesn’t want any talk of revenge or retaliation in speeches or anywhere else,” a Republican close to the campaign said to Vanity Fair.

Changing his tune

The Washington Examiner claims that Trump told journalists at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that he changed his nomination speech to reflect his views after the assassination attempt.

'I threw it out'

“I basically had a speech that was an unbelievable rip-roarer. It was brutal—really good, really tough. I threw it out,” Trump said to journalists from The Washington Examiner and The New York Post.

'Getting shot in the face changes a man'

According to Axios, former Fox News pundit Tucker Carlson affirmed that Trump’s change of heart is the real deal. “Getting shot in the face changes a man”, Carlson declared.

A call for unity

Political news website Politico writes that Trump supposedly is planning to change his tone from incendiary to conciliatory, calling for national unity.

Skepticism

However, others are more skeptical about Donald Trump’s supposed epiphany after surviving an assassination attempt.

Victim complex

The New Republic writes that the event could only exacerbate Trump’s victim complex, convincing the New York mogul that he’s been persecuted for his political importance and not his possible felonies.

Any given Monday

Just two days after the shooting, Trump seemed back at this old self, writing over on his social media network Truth Social the following: “The Democrat Justice Department coordinated ALL of these Political Attacks, which are an Election Interference conspiracy against Joe Biden’s Political Opponent, ME”.

In the name of the Donald

Meanwhile, The Daily Beast highlights that quite a few MAGA supporters seem to believe that God had a hand in saving Donald Trump.

Business as usual

“I’m supposed to be dead”, Trump declared to an audience at the Republican National Convention. “The doctor at the hospital said he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle”. So far, it sounds like business as usual for Donald Trump.

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