From One Assassination Attempt to the Next: Mainstreaming Violence Against a President › American Greatness
Victor Davis Hanson
Same Old, Same Old: Target TrumpAt the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Donald Trump was the target of yet a third assassination attempt—this time in full view of the Washington press corps.
The event was presented as a spirited night with Trump. After 11 years of avoiding the predominantly left-wing media event, he decided to revisit the dinner. He anticipated that he would be the object of ridicule inside the hall—and that he might see possible violence outside it.
Indeed, protesters ringed the hotel. In grimly prescient fashion, the usual sort of crowd that night was channeling John Wilkes Booth—sic semper tyrannis—with placards reading “Death to Tyrants.”
They again almost got their wish.
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