Someone Attempted to Assassinate Former President Donald Trump.

I can’t believe it’s come to this.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readJul 14, 2024
Photo by Darren Halstead on Unsplash

At a rally in Pennsylvania, someone tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.

It still feels surreal to even say it and when the news broke it was difficult for it to even sink in. You can already envision the image of him raising his fist to the crowd as secret service surround him and usher him off the stage being printed in the history textbooks, and you can feel the fundamental shift in the dynamics of the election.

I can’t believe it’s come to this, and the more little details we learn the more bizarre it becomes.

We’ve seen the videos of the secret service team surveilling the shooter from a roof top near where Trump spoke, and heard the stories about how some nearby people had been frantically trying to get people to pay attention as the shooter crawled along the roof.

And then, well, there’s those online who looked up the shooter and found out he is apparently a registered Republican, and it only gets more complicated the more we learn.

Ramon Antonio Vargas with The Guardian writes:

“The early portrait that has emerged of the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who authorities say tried to assassinate former

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Lauren Elizabeth

Lauren is a writer & leftist with analysis on topics related to politics & policy. She can be reached at LaurenMartinchek@gmail.com or Twitter @xlauren_mx