Biden campaign backing off on calling Trump “Hilter” in their attack ads, while feigning some sympathy that he survived.
Last weekend, Biden said “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”.
Imagine the reaction had Trump said those words prior to a shot being taken at Biden?
More details on the shooting, the shooter, etc.
Almost no details and clickbait headline. It’s gonna take some time before details emerge.
on the fundraising front, some headlines for Trump from before the attack
Elon Musk
(Bloomberg) – Billionaire Elon Musk has donated to a super political action committee working to elect Donald Trump to the White House, a major gambit by the world’s richest person to make his imprint on the US political landscape.
Musk has contributed to a low-profile group called America PAC, according to people familiar with the matter, who requested anonymity to detail his plans. It’s unclear how much Musk has given, but the people characterized the figure as a sizable amount.
- ELON MUSK ENDORSES TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT FOLLOWING ATTACK
Top hedge fund managers too
- HEDGE FUND FOUNDERS CONSIDERING DONATING TO TRUMP REELECTION CAMPAIGN
- GRIFFIN AND SINGER MEET WITH TRUMP TO DISCUSS FINANCING WHITE HOUSE CAMPAIGN
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/billionaire-bill-ackman-endorses-trump-us-presidential-race-2024-07-14/
On the lighter side,
Florida classified documents case against Trump dismissed
JD Vance, from OH, has been chosen at the Trump VP
Roundup of liberal media bias in coverage of the assassination attempt. “Trump falls, escorted off stage” and the like.
CNN must still be in anti-Biden mode. They’re fact checking Bidens latest attack ads on VP Vance (which to be fair were in fact lies based on chopping up his quotes to imply something he didn’t say).
First they hosted the debate Biden disaster and now this
Facts First : Both of the Biden campaign posts are false. The full video of Vance’s speech to the Heritage Foundation shows that he did not mention Project 2025, abortion, or Social Security at all; the 2023 speech was almost entirely about foreign policy, with a dash of criticism of progressives. And the Biden campaign misleadingly edited the Vance sentence it purported to quote, using ellipses to omit the fact that Vance was broadly praising the Heritage Foundation’s work over the last five decades rather than endorsing any particular recent initiative or proposal.
And that’s not small money either
Looks like a rematch
- DEMOCRATS REPORTEDLY SET TO CONFIRM BIDEN’S NOMINATION BY MONTH-END Joe Biden is expected to secure the Democratic Party’s presidential nominee by the end of the month, sources told The New York Times on Tuesday. The reported confirmation by the Democratic National Committee
Biden also said he’d agreed to go ahead with the Sept 2nd debate with Trump.
More accurate than it should be, that’s for sure.
“All signs are pointing to the surviving candidate winning, if one of them survives at all,” said Professor Blake Rumsey of the political think tank The Center for Knowing Knowledge. “With the shape Biden is in mentally and physically, and people constantly trying to murder Trump, our research shows the guy who is still living in November is the odds-on favorite to come away victorious. It’s hard to win an election when you’re dead. It’s been done, but it’s very difficult.”
All the pictures of the would be assassin Thomas Crooks show his clean, cut high school pictures, but this may be a recent photo of him.
The crazy left aren’t the only ones who want Trump dead. The Iranians aren’t looking forward to getting strict sanctions again, much preferring the lax giveaways under Obama / Biden.
https://edition.cnn.com/2024/07/16/politics/iran-plot-assassinate-trump-secret-service/index.html
- US OBTAINED INTELLIGENCE ON IRANIAN PLOT TO KILL TRUMP: CNN
- TRUMP’S SECURITY HAS BEEN INCREASED DUE TO INTELLIGENCE: CNN
Fox News went through a similar anti-Trump phase… I wonder what happened?
A counter balance to the leftist Silicon Valley money from Zuck, Reid Hoffman and others
This week, the Wall Street Journal reported that Elon Musk, who endorsed Trump Saturday after the assassination attempt against him, planned to send $45 million a month to a pro-Trump super PAC starting in July. (Musk appeared to push back on the reporting with a meme on X reading: “FAKE GNUS.”)
The prominent tech investor and entrepreneur David Sacks — who previously said that Trump should be disqualified from office for his actions surrounding the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the US Capitol — has now endorsed the former president. Sacks gave a speech at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee on Monday.
One of Silicon Valley’s largest venture capital firms, Andreessen Horowitz, has also recently indicated that it will donate large amounts to PACs supporting Trump.
“The Blue Wall of tech is crumbling before our very eyes,” Ryan Selkis, the founder and CEO of the crypto research firm Messari, wrote on X last month.
Another Democratic leader calling for Biden to give up
Biden has been making some hedging remarks about how he might drop out if his doctors told him he should, so he could be giving himself a way out.
Surely he is still “healthy and vigorous” according to his doctor as of last year, who clearly says whatever he’s told to say.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/us/politics/bidens-physical-doctor.html