Comments on Trump Assassination Attempt

(00:00:00):Well, thank you for having me on the show again.(00:00:01):Well,(00:00:02):the first thing to say,(00:00:03):I think,(00:00:03):is that political assassination is not a new thing in the United States.(00:00:06):There's a long history of this.(00:00:07):I'm not sure how many presidents have been assassinated, but there's been at least(00:00:29):at least seven or eight attempts on presidents.(00:00:33):So it's nothing new.(00:00:34):But of course,(00:00:35):what's interesting about this,(00:00:36):of course,(00:00:37):is that President Biden has been,(00:00:42):well,(00:00:43):has been shown to be a senile old man and hardly capable of fulfilling the presidency.(00:00:49):So I think this is going to,(00:00:53):as the former speaker said,(00:00:55):will most probably propel Trump into the presidency.(00:01:00):There's one photo with his fist clenched in the air where he's saying,(00:01:04):we have to fight,(00:01:05):fight,(00:01:05):fight,(00:01:07):with blood streaming down his face.(00:01:09):And I think that will be enough to get him across the line.(00:01:13):But,(00:01:13):you know,(00:01:13):one always has to ask the question,(00:01:16):who's going to benefit from such an assassination attempt?(00:01:19):You know, why was it attempted in the first place?(00:01:22):And,(00:01:23):you know,(00:01:23):the fact that this fellow was fairly obvious in some videos that I've seen,(00:01:28):he was easily spied.(00:01:30):So how he got there and how he was able to do this is quite strange, I think.(00:01:37):But yes, this is definitely going to change the balance of the election in November.(00:01:42):And I think Trump is now going to get a fairly smooth ride to the victory in November.(00:01:49):Trump is now, in effect, a kind of a hero.(00:01:53):He survived an assassination attempt.(00:01:55):And I think that's going to swing a lot of voters,(00:01:59):not urban voters,(00:02:00):but definitely sort of suburban voters and(00:02:03):and areas,(00:02:04):poorer areas,(00:02:05):especially areas that have suffered from de-industrialisation and former soldiers(00:02:12):are definitely going to rally behind him now.(00:02:14):And I think that's going to be enough to get him across the line.(00:02:17):And I think people will forget very quickly that he has incited the public to(00:02:23):violence previously,(00:02:25):the insurrection after the previous election.(00:02:29):So all of this(00:02:32):I think he's really going to help him.(00:02:35):And Biden is looking so bad.(00:02:38):So the timing, you know, he couldn't have asked for better timing to survive an assassination attempt.(00:02:43):And I think he's going to ride the wave of sympathy and a sort of hero worship into(00:02:50):the presidency in November.(00:02:51):All right.(00:02:53):Thank you very much for that.(00:02:54):Digby Wren, international relations expert from Pen on Pen.(00:02:57):Thank you.Original video stream here. The Chair is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to The Chair at theaseanchair.substack.com/subscribe