The Echoes of Butler Will Change America Forever
Kurt Schlichter
But for a bullet just barely missing a future president near Butler, Pennsylvania, American – world – history would have changed forever. That happened on July 13, 2024, when Donald Trump moved his head ever so slightly, turning a fatal headshot into a graze, but it also happened there on Dec. 26, 1753, when an assassin took a shot at 21-year-old George Washington and missed. That’s just one of the many revelations in Salena Zito’s terrific new bestseller “Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland.” But the most important of the many revelations revealed by one of the very few reporters not blinded by their own pro-regime prejudices is that Donald Trump believes he was saved by Providence to Make America Great Again.
He clearly was.
Our Official Betters will snicker at the very thought of divine intervention, citing this belief by the president and millions of his supporters as further evidence of their embarrassing parochialism, but they weren’t there. Salena Zito was (Full Disclosure: Salena has been a good friend for years, bonding with me over shared Pennsylvania roots). She was within a few feet of Trump that day, covering the rally as a journalist up close and personally instead of in the back with the cool kids clique of DC and NY hacks snickering at the rubes as they sweltered in the summer sun out in that foreign country called “America.”
She heard the crack of the bullets; she saw the blood splatter across his face. No one else could have written this book.
https://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2025/07/14/the-echoes-of-butler-will-change-america-forever-n2660276
