Donald Trump is a changed man. We know because he has said so.
He has framed his near-death experience at the Pennsylvania rally at which a sniper tried to assassinate him in spiritual terms. He has said,”God alone…prevented the unthinkable from happening.” A chorus of MAGA supporters have joined in the opinion that “God protected Trump.” Trump has said that a doctor who was treating his wounded ear said, as so many people do with Trump, “he never saw anything like this, he called it a miracle.”
Let’s set aside for a moment the fact that God apparently did not care so much for the life of the spectator killed at the Trump rally…or for that matter the dead in Uvalde, or at the Tree of Life Synagogue, or at the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, or at Sandy Hook, or at Parkland High. Who are we to judge how Trump was affected by the experience? Let’s take him at his word and see whether he behaves any differently.
