Say what you like about Donald Trump, and if it isn’t one of the Big Lies, I may well agree. But this….
…holding another rally in Butler is pure political genius, and gutsy too. Imagine if Booth had missed, and Abe had announced, “I’m going back to Ford’s Theater to see how that play turned out!”
John Wayne would have loved it…BOTH John Waynes, the real life political conservative, and the icon he played in movies. It’s the equivalent of Rooster Cogburn taking the reins in his teeth and charging at Lucky Ned Pepper and his gang. The message is “You don’t scare me, assholes, and here I come!”
It is political genius, and a great display of classic American defiance.
Bravo.
Ethics Alarms 
Forget setting up a stage. He should speak from the dangerously sloping roof of the building the kid shot from.
Nah, for a 78 year old, it probably isn’t all that safe (maybe she meant that the Secret Service had 78 year old agents protecting him?), plus it’s too high up — probably has too many lines of sight onto the roof.
But I’d definitely have a campaign staffer up on that roof with a sign that Trump could point to.
https://imgur.com/a/move-aside-let-man-go-through-sB7Ma9w
Turn on the audio upper right corner of video.
I would have thought I was the only Soul Coughing fan amongst the regulars here. Pleased to be wrong about that.
The torch passes in the EA Commentariat!
I heard them (Soul Coughing) watching Reacher Season 2 Episode 7 – it’s played at the end of that episode. I stripped the audio from Trump’s convention entrance and replace it with Super Bon Bon by Soul Coughing.
There are at least three from the EA commentariat.
No one ever suggested he wasn’t a showman. No credit for not passing up an obvious opportunity.
Is it obvious? That’s kind of like saying TR’s stunt of giving his speech after he was shot was obvious.
Reagan never went back to the Washington Hilton—I checked. Steve Scalise has never played softball on that field again.
It’s only obvious to a showman like Trump. If I was shot in a situation like Trump’s, it would not have occurred to me to stick my head up and raise my fist, except maybe after the fact. And doing another rally in Butler wouldn’t have even entered my mind.