OPINION: We experience political violence every day
(07/22/24 4:09pm)
At 6:10 p.m. July 13, former President Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, and that is a particular series of words I never thought I’d type and publish. The assassination attempt was unsuccessful, yes — the candidate made it out with only a minor wound on his right ear, a fate not shared with attendee Corey Comperatore, who died — but it’s impossible to overstate exactly how close we came to watching Trump drop dead. The video says it all: had Trump not moved his head slightly to the right only a second before the first POP, he almost certainly would not have lived.
