How Trump survives: Battling the media, former allies and assassination attempts
Secret Service cleared the Correspondents' Association Dinner after a heavily armed shooter targeted the president
Howard Kurtz
Donald Trump has been written off a thousand times and always managed to bounce back.
He hung on when he first got in the race and was mocked as a sideshow. When the "Access Hollywood" tape came out. When his supporters attacked the Capitol on Jan. 6.
He outlasted two impeachments and four criminal cases. He won re-election when that seemed like a long shot. He’s the Harry Houdini of Washington.
And on Saturday night, he survived his third assassination attempt. At a dinner that was expected to feature the president mocking the media, his calm response to being targeted by a heavily armed shooter generated enormous sympathy for him. It’s a dangerous job, he said.
In fact, he "fought like hell" to continue with the Correspondents' Association Dinner, but the Secret Service – one of whose members was shot but saved by a protective vest – insisted on clearing the room.
At the same time, Trump has such mounting political problems that it’s hard to avoid the conclusion he’s in a free fall.
The president is bogged down in an unpopular war and canceled the latest talks. Rising gas prices are inflicting pain at home. He may be losing the redistricting wars. Some of his most prominent supporters in the conservative media have turned on him with a vengeance, even apologizing for having supported him.
That’s not all. The Democrats are virtually certain to win the House. They are talking about impeaching Trump the day they’re sworn in. Sure, he’d be acquitted in the Senate, but his last two years would be a blizzard of investigations and payback.
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