Comments on Trump Assassination Attempt

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Well, thank you for having me on the show again.

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Well,

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the first thing to say,

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I think,

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is that political assassination is not a new thing in the United States.

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There's a long history of this.

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I'm not sure how many presidents have been assassinated, but there's been at least

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at least seven or eight attempts on presidents.

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So it's nothing new.

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But of course,

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what's interesting about this,

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of course,

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is that President Biden has been,

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well,

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has been shown to be a senile old man and hardly capable of fulfilling the presidency.

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So I think this is going to,

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as the former speaker said,

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will most probably propel Trump into the presidency.

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There's one photo with his fist clenched in the air where he's saying,

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we have to fight,

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fight,

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fight,

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with blood streaming down his face.

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And I think that will be enough to get him across the line.

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But,

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you know,

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one always has to ask the question,

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who's going to benefit from such an assassination attempt?

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You know, why was it attempted in the first place?

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And,

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you know,

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the fact that this fellow was fairly obvious in some videos that I've seen,

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he was easily spied.

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So how he got there and how he was able to do this is quite strange, I think.

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But yes, this is definitely going to change the balance of the election in November.

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And I think Trump is now going to get a fairly smooth ride to the victory in November.

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Trump is now, in effect, a kind of a hero.

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He survived an assassination attempt.

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And I think that's going to swing a lot of voters,

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not urban voters,

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but definitely sort of suburban voters and

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and areas,

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poorer areas,

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especially areas that have suffered from de-industrialisation and former soldiers

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are definitely going to rally behind him now.

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And I think that's going to be enough to get him across the line.

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And I think people will forget very quickly that he has incited the public to

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violence previously,

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the insurrection after the previous election.

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So all of this

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I think he's really going to help him.

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And Biden is looking so bad.

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So the timing, you know, he couldn't have asked for better timing to survive an assassination attempt.

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And I think he's going to ride the wave of sympathy and a sort of hero worship into

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the presidency in November.

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All right.

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Thank you very much for that.

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Digby Wren, international relations expert from Pen on Pen.

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Thank you.

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