Three Days that Change History: Trump Survives Murder Bid, Picks Heir

Sudden, dramatic and above all violent events transform history: and the entire tone of public discourse across the United States transformed in a nano-second after the shots that were fired to kill at Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday afternoon, July 13.

The conventional wisdom (CW) states that “taking the high road” – adopting a more high-minded and less personally abusive campaign – will hurt Trump as the populist underdog who has reveled in being down and dirty.

But as is so often the case, the CW likely has it entirely wrong.

For it is the mainstream Democrats led by the ineffable President Joe Biden who have always demonized Trump as a virtual Nazi with whom even Hitler and certainly Stalin could be favorably compared for their restraint. And it was Biden, not Trump who unforgivably called for a “target” to be put around Trump (when he said it is “time to put Trump in a bull’s-eye”, – a clear incitement to assassination if ever there was one.

But by choosing Vance as his vice-presidential running mate, Trump has acted decisively and shrewdly. It appears already very clear this was no last second choice, rushed into after the assassination attempt on Saturday, but had been carefully considered and planned in advance.

Vance is now a mainstream politician but not a lifelong professional career one. He has had a brilliant career in high tech business and even wrote a classic lament about the dilemma and suffering of the marginalized white rural underclass across America called a “Hillbilly Lament.” The book even won critical praise in The New York Times. And now he is the sitting and highly effective Republican junior senator from Ohio.

The prospect of Lyndon Johnson replacing President John F. Kennedy in November 1963 offered the Deep State leaders of the time the opportunity to replace a reforming young president determined to expose them and at last cripple their power with a leader who personally hated Kennedy and would eagerly do the bidding of the militaristic insiders in Vietnam and elsewhere.

In the first term, Trump unwisely chose former Indiana governor Mike Pence as his vice president. The dignified, personally decent but not very bright and highly conformist Pence was seen throughout the term as a safe mainstream figure who would scrap Trump’s most important policy initiatives if he should ever succeed to the Oval Office. That danger certainly does not exist for Trump with Vance. Yet the Ohio senator is also a credible mainstream political choice.

The benefits Vance brings Trump are direct and enormous. First, they greatly reduce the danger that Trump will be assassinated in any deliberate conspiracy because Vance has now been positioned to replace him on the ticket and would pursue the same policies – in the national security area, arguably far more effectively and systematically than Trump ever did.

Second, Vance assures Trump’s massive base that he has not sold out to the still very formidable forces of Wall Street and international finance and gone dangerously soft.

Picking the relatively young and energetic but old-fashioned Republican Senator Marco Rubio from Florida or former UN Ambassador and South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley would certainly have carried that danger to Trump’s base.

Both Trump and President Joe Biden – the two most divisive political leaders their respective parties have ever had – pledged wholeheartedly immediately to a new era of national unity right after the shooting, which only nicked Trump’s ear but killed one bystander in his audience and critically injured two more. But in fact, nothing has really changed at all.

Even liberal, traditional pro-Democrat commentators across America now proclaim that since Trump survived the assassination attempt, he is certain to beat Biden those risks.

The CW states that Presidents should never pick running mates appealing to the same demographics and regions they come from. But that simply is not always true.

Bill Clinton won two decisive presidential elections in 1992 and 1996 with his fellow white Southern Heartland democrat Al Gore as his running mate. And simply as a sitting senator, Vance will bring massive influence on behalf of Trump and his policies in the very chamber of the national legislature most resistant to them.

Nor will Vance hurt Trump significantly among independents as long as he can keep his dignity. He is likely to wipe the floor with the charming but far from deep Vice President Kamala Harris.

As long as Vance keeps his cool and avoids punching too low below the belt in angry rhetoric, he brings enormous strength and energy, and renewed enthusiasm to the Republican ticket. And he is easily the most credible figure so far to emerge as a potential successor to the 78-year-old Trump.

The speed and decisiveness with which Trump announced Vance as his running mate only two days after the assassination attempt on his life will also give him a huge and underrated boost.

Americans above all else love decisiveness and fast, effective credible action in their presidents, especially in times of crisis. Biden is uniquely inadequate to meet this challenge. Even his all too brief, mumbled condemnations of the assassination bid against Trump were embarrassing to watch.

Trump’s announcement of Vance as his running mate, therefore, will massively increase concerns within the Democratic Party leadership that they must force Biden out of office as quickly as possible and one up a credible candidate – still most likely former First Lady Michelle Obama – for the November election.

I still maintain that the likeliest outcome of Chicago 2024 for the Democrats is the presentation of Mrs. Obama. In contrast to the useless Biden, she is a formidable, attractive, intelligent, charismatic, public speaker and personality who would certainly be much more amenable to the liberal internationalists who continue to run America’s Deep State than the aging Biden.

Because of the dramatic events in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, the Republican nominee himself has grown and will grow in stature and charisma from surviving the attempt on his life. More attempts on his life, unfortunately cannot be ruled out. However, choosing Vance as his running mate and heir apparent certainly reduces the risk.

Meanwhile, we can rest confident that blame for the attack will remain solely on Thomas Matthew Crooks, the poor patsy who allegedly carried it out. This only 20-year-old, previously inoffensive young fellow bears all the hallmarks of poor schnooks like Lee Harvey Oswald, Sirhan Sirhan and John Hinckley Jr. who allegedly killed or almost killed presidents and vastly popular presidential candidates promising real change.

The timing of the attack on Trump is enormously significant and of course no one in the farcical mainstream US Media – none of whom realize the contempt in which they are now held in half in their own country and throughout the rest of the world – has the brains let alone the courage and integrity to ask the obvious crucial questions.

Trump was shot at, after all, only two days before the Republican Convention was due to anoint him officially as its candidate for president for the third time in a row. Does anyone really believe that poor, dim, young, ill-educated, obscure Mr. Crooks – conveniently shot dead on the spot by the US Secret Service – was capable of working that timing out all by himself?

Once Trump is officially announced as the Republican candidate, the security bubble around him – at least in theory – will be greatly tightened, making further direct attempts to kill him either much more difficult or obviously orchestrated with inside Deep State help.

That may in part explain why Crooks was propelled into a remarkably inept assassination attempt which only the ludicrous ineptitude of the Secret Service allowed to get as close to succeeding as it did.

Trump among his many surprising accomplishments, really was a significant athlete in his youth. He even turned down an offer to play Major League Baseball for the Pittsburgh Pirates. And it was his own still remarkable reflexes at age 78 that saved his life. The laughably wooden, immovable Biden could not have shaken his head to try and avoid the shots.

The US media and much of the hugely gullible American public has also bought into Joe Biden’s barefaced repeated lie on his brief Sunday broadcasts that the United States remains a democracy where ballots, not bullets determine the outcome of elections and the selection of national leaders.

Yet the entire history of the United States gives the lie to this ludicrous fake assumption and typical Biden fantasy, to paraphrase H. Rap Brown, now as Jamil Al-Amin serving a life sentence for a murder another man confessed to and that he almost certainly did not commit, political assassination is as American as cherry pie.

Still in three days, Trump beat the odds, survived an assassination attack, forced even Biden to (at least briefly) abandon his mealy mouthed, rat-faced incitements to assassination and murder and picked a fitting, dignified and potentially extremely well qualified running mate. Not a bad three days’ work for a man whom the American public has been brainwashed to imagine is a ludicrous and distasteful joke.