by Raw Egg NationalistOctober 5th, 2024 6:41 PM Image Credit: The Washington Post / Contributor / Getty Images
Trump returns to Butler, Pennsylvania tonight with unfinished business
For a little over a minute, the world stood still. The former president was down on the ground, covered by a dense, black huddle of Secret Service agents. Multiple shots had been fired. An eerie silence descended over the stands and crowd, punctuated only by screams and desperate calls for help. Nobody knew what was happening. Nobody in the crowd knew if Donald Trump was dead or alive.
“LET’S MOVE”: the huddle began to rise as one. The former president was now visible between the shoulders of the agents on every side of him.
The microphone picked up the former president’s voice.
“Let me get me shoes. Let me get my shoes.”
A few more unbearable moments.
Is this real?
“Wait, wait, wait”—the president again. The agents around him stiffen, their arms interlinked.
Suddenly Trump raises a fist and thrusts it between the shoulders of the agents in front of him. There is blood clearly visible, streaked across his face.
“FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT!” he mouths, pumping his fist.
The crowd erupts.
Only then does the former president leave the stage.
On July 13, Donald Trump produced the defining image of this presidential campaign—a defining image, indeed, of an age that has produced political theater unlike any other. But this was not theater. This was blood and guts, life and death, agony and ecstasy. Glory. Victory.
Donald Trump showed the world what true leadership looks like. He provided the grand gesture his followers, on the grass below and in the stands behind him, needed in that terrible moment of shock and confusion. Instead of fleeing the stage like most people would, and certainly most politicians, Trump stood in the jaws of death and refused to flinch. In doing so, he silenced any serious doubts about his commitment or motivation for seeking the presidency, in the past or as he does now for the third time.
The return of Donald Trump, the Great MAGA King, to Butler tonight marks the consummation of an epic political saga, in which he could, were it not for a chance turn of the head, have lost his life and the MAGA movement would have been thrown into chaos and probably defeat in November.
There is simply no-one else like Trump. His enemies know this, which is why they seek so tenaciously to disable and, ultimately, to destroy him. His uniqueness is perhaps his greatest weakness. A true man of the hour cannot easily be replaced. But equally, he draws on unique reserves of power and his strange relationship with destiny or fate or providence or whatever you want to call it.
I never had any doubt Trump would return to Butler, and I’m sure everybody who’s close to the former president knew it was a fait accompli. Trump had unfinished business. He was only a few minutes into his scheduled speech when the would-be assassin’s bullets came within millimeters of ending his life.
Like I said, other political figures would have scuttled off and hidden themselves away behind bulletproof glass and extra layers of security, but Trump returned to the arena almost immediately, sporting a bandage over his ear.
Bloodied, wounded—but unbowed.
Trump’s returning to Butler is enough of a symbolic win in itself, but it’s likely he will go further and finish the speech he began but didn’t finish. Trump has joked he will begin the speech tonight, “As I was saying…” and pick up from there. That would be a great start.
Trump will be joined by a host of high-profile figures tonight, not least of all Elon Musk, who raised his banner for Trump in the wake of the shooting. Musk has called Trump a “badass” and praised his courage. He says Trump is now America’s only chance.
JD Vance will also be there, and a long list of Republican politicians, local political figures and members of law enforcement.
Importantly, the victims will also be there, including Helen Comperatore, whose husband Corey Comperatore was killed by a stray bullet as he protected her and their daughter. They too will showcase their defiance.
But there’s more Trump needs to say and do tonight than to close the circle that was left open on 13 July. A lot has changed in the last three months.
For one thing, there was a second attempt on his life. It’s now clear that his enemies will not be discouraged from doing everything it takes to prevent him from regaining the White House. The race is not yet run, and America and Donald Trump are still far from safe.
Joe Biden has also been forced out of the race in a palace coup that has finally shown, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that America has no leader and has probably had no leader for the last three years.
But the lack of a fully functioning president has in no way impeded Donald Trump’s opponents or prevented them from enacting their agenda. If anything, it’s only made the regime’s victimisation of the American people even worse. From Springfield, Ohio to Asheville, North Carolina, the American people groan under the oppression and the cruel and unusual punishments inflicted upon them by the regime. Whether they are submerged by 20,000 Haitians flown in on specially chartered government flights or submerged by floodwaters and left to drown and fend for themselves, the American people—the real American people—cry out for leadership and the promise of justice and restitution.
I hope Trump promises the people of North Carolina and Georgia, whose lives matter so little to the regime because of where they put their ticks on the ballot sheet, that those responsible will be held to account. I hope he promises the same to the people of Springfield, Ohio, and to all those Americans who have seen their dreams sold and the futures of their children and grandchildren.
Trump must show the American people tonight that he is their hope and their protector—and that he stands before them as such by the grace of God alone.
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