Ian Bremmer on Trump second assassination attempt | Quick Take

The idea that former President Trump has now faced two assassination attempts "is something we should be more concerned about than we presently are," says ‪@Ian_Bremmer‬. He explains what we should be thinking about as US political stability becomes increasingly frail.

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‪@Ian_Bremmer‬'s Quick Take:

A quick take to kick off your week. Want to talk about an assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, the second in two months. And frankly, it's probably not even going to be a few days in the news cycle, which is insane when you think about it. It's not unprecedented. Gerald Ford actually survived two assassination attempts within 17 days. But the political environment today, much more dangerous in the sense that we're in an election, it is incredibly divided, and it is much more divided in terms of understanding of basic facts and perception of legitimacy of election and outcome. So the idea that the former president has survived now two assassination attempts, and who knows what's going to happen over the remaining two months, is something we should be more concerned about than we presently are.

Now, it's not going to have much impact on the election, in part not just because so many unprecedented things get normalized these days in U.S. politics, but also because there's no video that suddenly... The last assassination attempt you had Trump literally escaping with his life less than a fraction of a second, and the blood on him and the rest. Here, the Secret Service did what they should have. They shot at the perpetrator well before Trump was in the sights of this would-be assassin. The U.S. did what it was supposed to, and he's in custody, so one assumes that we're going to learn a lot more about him as a consequence of the interrogations and the rest. Trump can and will fundraise on the back of it, but I'd be very surprised to see any movement in the polls as a consequence or any change in policy, so really not going to move the needle on the election itself.

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