With the discovery of up to 15 boxes of White House files taken to Mar-A-Lago, on top of the NY investigations into Trump business practices, on top of what is emerging in the January 6 investigation, my mind went back to what he said in the 2016 campaign about being able to shoot someone in public and not lose votes. I have wondered if he is intentionally pushing the envelope either to see how far he can go before alienating his loyalists or if he truly sees himself in invulnerable. Just to be sure I checked several sources from January 23, 2016. They all reported the same thing as shown in this from Time Magazine.
I am posting this in my writing workshop but not to Facebook or Twitter, as a kind of reality marker as what unfolds between now and the 2022 and 2024 elections. To me the collapse of the house of Trump seems inevitable, and I wonder how his loyalists will respond when it happens. But I fear that he might have been right about his shooting comment, that their loyalty will persist with denial and evasion, perhaps even claiming he didn't say what he said in January 2016 and January 2022, and many other outrageous times.
Time
BY KATIE REILLY
JANUARY 23, 2016 3:34 PM EST
At a campaign
stop in Iowa on Saturday, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
said he could shoot someone in public and still not lose any
voters.
“They say I
have the most loyal people — did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the
middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters.”
