Washington: Agencies
Politico magazine said that Republicans in Congress already believed that Donald Trump was on his way to returning to the White House. After the attempt to shoot him on Saturday evening, some believe that his path has become easier.
Republican Representative Derek Van Orden said in a statement to the magazine that President Trump had survived the attack, adding that he had just won the election.
But other Republicans, who were quick to attack the Democrats after Trump was shot during an election rally in western Pennsylvania, did not go that far, and many expected the shooting to strengthen the support enjoyed by the former president and intensify his base in the November elections. According to what was reported by Al-Youm website. The seventh in Cairo
Representative Tim Burchett said that the images of the attempted assassination of Trump would motivate his popular base more than anything else, adding that the president raised his fist in the air and did not want to leave the place. He was shouting, “Fight, fight, fight,” and this would be the slogan.
The American magazine Politico commented on the assassination attempt on former US President Donald Trump, and said that Trump raising his fist minutes after he was shot, in a sign of defiance, will go down in history and be a determining factor in his candidacy for the US presidency.
The magazine pointed out that the attempt to assassinate Trump had angered, stunned and encouraged Republicans who praised Trump raising his fist following his injury to his right ear after the shooting, while that fist awakened Democrats who were already nervous about the threat of political violence and the diminishing chances of them winning the US presidential elections scheduled for next November. .
The magazine went on to say that within minutes of gunfire being fired at Trump during his participation in an election event in Butler, Pennsylvania, Republican anger turned into admiration for Trump's reaction and joy in challenging him, a reaction that highlighted the extent of the persecution with which his supporters were defamed and the instantaneous manner in which they dealt with it. Even with the most serious news.
Shortly after the incident, and before accurate information about the shooter was revealed, Republicans began to publicly blame their political opponents for the incident.
The American CNN network said that the attempt to assassinate Trump, which reopens a new darkness in the story of political violence announced in America, has shocked the country that is already suffering from deep rifts, during one of its most tense periods in its modern history.
The network indicated that targeting Trump at an election event days before he accepted the Republican Party's nomination for the presidential race is an attack on democracy and the right of every American to choose their leaders.
Trump was on the podium, with his supporters behind him, as usual, carrying posters and wearing hats bearing the slogan “Make America Great Again” when the shooting began.
The network continued, saying that the sounds of gunfire and the sight of a political leader falling to the ground and Secret Service agents rushing to throw themselves at him to excite him had awakened serious historical traumas.
While Trump is not currently president, his injury highlights the ever-present threat to the office and those who hold it, especially those who seek it. President Joe Biden is the 46th President of the United States, and four of his predecessors were killed in office, the last of whom was John Kennedy in 1963.
The fact that Trump was attacked ends 40 years during which many assumed that the experience of the Secret Service had greatly reduced the possibility of such attacks, and would cast a shadow over events for many years.
CNN said that the assassination of Trump during the presidential campaign raises comparisons to the assassination of Democratic candidate Robert Kennedy in 1968, a year that witnessed much bloodshed with the killing of civil rights leader Martin Luther King and violence at the Democratic General Convention in Chicago, the city that will host this conference. General too.