The Trump assassination attempt — one year later
It was one year ago Sunday that there was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump near Butler, Pa.
Trump at the time was the former president of the United States and the Republican presidential nominee. He was speaking at an outdoor rally when his right ear was apparently grazed by a bullet, and he temporarily ducked to the ground. The Secret Service quickly helped him to his feet, and once back upright, he pumped his fist to the crowd before being rushed to a car.
It’s possible the moment had a profound effect on the election. We don’t have any way to measure how the moment changed the course of history, the country or the world that day. What we do know, though, is that things did, indeed, change.
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