Donald Trump was divine intervention, the second within two months seals the deal for supporters that he is god's own candidate. It's now the voters' 'sacred' duty to elect him in November. House of Representatives speaker Mike Johnson set the tone, saying it was 'providence', plain and simple. Cheating death twice is not an accident nor luck, they are saying.
Trump lost no time in laying the blame directly at the door of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. He declared the gunman 'believed' and 'acted' on their 'highly inflammatory' rhetoric. Trump was referring to Biden's past remarks calling him a 'threat to democracy' and making him a target. He went on to call B&H the 'enemy from within' that will 'destroy our country'.
But rhetoric doesn't come cheap. Trump was quick to send email 'alerts' to fundraise off the new hook. 'I will NEVER SURRENDER!' but remember to show your love with $25. And so it goes, this turbulent election season marred and scarred by violence, hate and worse.
The reason why Ryan Wesley Routh hid in the bushes in a Florida golf course to take aim at Trump is yet unclear. But it hardly matters — there's an election to be won. For the record, what's emerging is a portrait of Routh as a disturbed and delusional man who met a gun like so many do in America. Common as white bread and predictable as night following day. Also, for the record, Routh is registered as an independent in North Carolina.
Less than 50 days before voting day, the US presidential election is again shaken and stirred, almost at