A change of heart: after the assassination attempt is Donald Trump a new man?
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.
Vanity Fair quotes three different sources claiming that Donald Trump has become a different man after his close brush with death.
“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.
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 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.
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.
Political news website Politico writes that Trump supposedly is planning to change his tone from incendiary to conciliatory, calling for national unity.
However, others are more skeptical about Donald Trump’s supposed epiphany after surviving an assassination attempt.
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.
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”.
Meanwhile, The Daily Beast highlights that quite a few MAGA supporters seem to believe that God had a hand in saving Donald Trump.
“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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