The nation saw President Trump get shot on live TV, but that hasn’t stopped MSNBC from questioning whether it really happened. Trump was grazed, but the point is that an assassin tried to kill him – and nearly succeeded.
MSNBC once dubbed itself « The Place For Politics », and trumpeted the slogan « Lean Forward. »
But after what we’ve heard out of that network over the past few days, and quite frankly, for the past two decades, MSNBC might as well call itself « The Place To Lean Forward Into Crazy Conspiracy Theories. »
On July 13, we witnessed what could’ve been one of the most horrific events in American history: A former and likely future president, Donald Trump, was speaking at an outdoor rally in western Pennsylvania on a hot Saturday afternoon when an assassin’s bullet struck his ear. Only a miraculous and perfectly timed turn of his head to read a chart prevented the bullet from entering Trump’s brain.
Trump, after grabbing his ear as if struck by a giant mosquito, went down, and Secret Service agents swarmed him. A moment later, we saw the former president rise up and defiantly pump his fist to the crowd while imploring supporters to « fight, fight, fight. » His ear and cheek were streaked with blood.
Anyone who watched this – and that’s nearly everyone in the world at this point – would only logically conclude, having eyesight, hearing and a modicum of sanity, that Trump was, thankfully, not mortally wounded.
