During the French and Indian war, an Indian shot at George Washington at close range, obviously intent on killing the young general as he led his troops across what was then known as the Ohio Country. The gunman missed, of course. The attempt took place in the appropriately named Murdering Town.
It is now known as Butler, Pennsylvania.
Donald J. Trump, then, was not the first former president – or president-to-be – who was nearly assassinated in the once unknown little burg of Butler.
Thus reports Salena Zito, a highly gifted writer for the Washington Examiner, in her engaging new book, Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America’s Heartland. It’s a riveting piece of journalism from a woman who was in Butler on the fateful day of July 13, 2024, and who closely covered the presidential campaign over the next few months. In Butler, where she was scheduled to interview him after the rally, and had met briefly with him before his speech, Zito was close enough to see Trump flinch and grab his ear, close enough to see the blood streak down his face, close enough to be tackled to the ground by a Trump staffer concerned about her safety. And she was close enough to see Trump rise to his feet and shout “Fight! Fight! Fight!”
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Author: Ruth King
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