Comparisons have recently been drawn between the Reagan years and concerns over President Joe Biden’s fitness to serve in office — while Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump also hearkened back to the 1980s.
Comparisons have recently been drawn between the Reagan years and concerns over President Joe Biden’s fitness to serve in office — while Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump also hearkened back to the 1980s.
Peggy Grande, who served as President Ronald Reagan’s executive assistant during his post-presidency years, spoke to The Post just moments after Trump was shot in the ear at a rally in Butler, Pa. Saturday evening.
Reagan himself survived an attempt to take his life in 1981.
“All the early reporting when Reagan was shot, you know, wasn’t quite what they thought it was, so it just grazed him. And if so, [Trump] is the luckiest man on the planet,” Grande said as details were still emerging about the tragic situation at Trump’s rally in Pennsylvania.
“He is standing for something bigger than himself. He knows that he is out there and that he puts himself out in that danger every single day, every time he does a rally, not for himself, but for the American people. What a fighter. To stand up and to have that be his instinct to fist pump and say, ‘Fight, fight, fight.
