I suspect that if the shooter had entirely missed Trump and only hit innocent rally-goers then the news might have been spun into something more like a school shooting which might have made Trump's gun-rights position a political liability. With Trump as one of the victims it was not so easy to paint Trump as a gun-rights ogre who lacked compassion for the shooting victims.
I suspect that if the shooter had entirely missed Trump and only hit innocent rally-goers then the news might have been spun into something more like a school shooting which might have made Trump's gun-rights position a political liability. With Trump as one of the victims it was not so easy to paint Trump as a gun-rights ogre who lacked compassion for the shooting victims.
I suspect that if the shooter had entirely missed Trump and only hit innocent rally-goers then the news might have been spun into something more like a school shooting which might have made Trump's gun-rights position a political liability. With Trump as one of the victims it was not so easy to paint Trump as a gun-rights ogre who lacked compassion for the shooting victims.