An attempt has been made to murder former US President Donald Trump, who is most likely going to win the upcoming November presidential race in the United States. If he stays alive until then, of course. It all happened during a Saturday campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. By sheer luck, Trump was only wounded in the ear, a couple of centimeters from death.
"I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. Much bleeding took place," he wrote on his TruthSocial network a bit later.
Following the first one, several more shots rang out. Moments after that, security agents surrounded Trump to cover him with their own bodies. The assassination suspect was reported to have been shot dead on a nearby building roof. Along the way, a rally attendant was killed, and another two sustained serious injuries.
A thing of the kind has long been looming, or at least highly probable: they will try to kill Trump. After all, he is not an ordinary presidential candidate, but a true challenge to the ruling elite. He is counter-elite, and the governing class in America does not even bet on a compromise with him.
The establishment has failed to put him behind bars on false charges, as demonstrated by the recent trial on the first of four alleged offences against him. Trump has publicly claimed that all the four prosecutions are masterminded by Biden to prevent his return to power. But the administrative resource has misfired, which implies that the establishment’s only way left to stop Trump's advance to a second term in the White House is to eliminate him physically.
This liberal establishment imperative has been especially obvious now that Trump's rival from the Democratic Party — for which read the liberal establishment — incumbent President Joe Biden, has been demonstrating an absolute incapacity over the past few months. The culmination of this evidence was the recent televised debate between Trump and Biden. The POTUS did poorly and miserably, demonstrating his senile dementia to the entire world. Moreover, the latest NATO summit in Washington supposed to attract global community’s attention to alliance performance was actually yet another proof of Biden's inability to fulfill his presidential duties, let alone seek reelection.
As a result, in the Democratic camp, including Congressmen, major donors and celebrities, there is a growing number of those demanding that Biden drop out of the race. A high-profile event in the relevant effort was the appeal by Hollywood star George Clooney published by The New York Times.
Apart from that, Trump is so popular among at least half of Americans that his victory over the Democrats is predetermined even if Biden quits. All the likely Dem candidates to replace the latter as suggested by opinion polls are hardly able offer credible competition to Trump, and these are: current Vice President Kamala Harris, ex-President Barack Obama’s wife Michelle, California Governor Gavin Newsom, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, and others. Said otherwise, Trump is already a step away from becoming President of the United States, if not assassinated until November.
The attempt on Trump, as the world press notes, is likely to change the presidential race course, raising hot-button issues about security services provided to the Republican candidate, Reuters writes. But the point is that after the failed assassination, Trump has acquired a living martyr aura, with his chances of winning the race going into the stratosphere. He is due to get official nomination from his party at the Republican National Convention to kick off in Milwaukee on June 15. And the venue will seemingly turn into Trump’s one-man show.
What happened to the ex-president was the first attempt on a POTUS or presidential hopeful from a leading party since 1981, when Republican President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded. Prior to that, November 23, 1963 saw US President John F. Kennedy shot dead in Dallas. On June 5, 1968, his brother, New York Senator Robert Kennedy, was assassinated after winning the presidential primary.
Leading Republicans and Democrats sprung to condemn the attempt on Trump. "There is no place in America for this kind of violence or any violence for that matter. We must unite as one nation to demonstrate who we are," President Biden said in a statement, for one. But the Pennsylvania incident suggests that physical elimination of unwanted presidents or those about to take the helm is an integral part of America’s political "culture". This has been a perfectly acceptable modus operandi to the local deep state, once it feels like faced with an existential threat.
The attempt on Trump reinforces fears already expressed by many experts that political violence might break out in the United States during the presidential campaign or right after the voting day. It only remains to be seen how "one-storied America" ready to vote for Trump is going to act as it sees the manhunt declared for him.
The US electorate has been extremely polarized. America is divided into two absolutely irreconcilable camps professing political, social, and religious-philosophic views as wide as the poles apart. And neither side is ready to concede the November election. Therefore, a social clash is quite likely and even expected in the United States that may ultimately result in a civil war. Just as expected as Trump assassination attempt was.
