The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump at a political rally in western Pennsylvania last night raises questions that need immediate answers.
Here are four:
1. How was an unknown man with a rifle able to get on the roof of a building within range of a Trump rally?
Stationing a security-team sniper on top of every building in the area of a president of the United States is Secret Service 101.
Isn’t that the case for a major presidential candidate? Particularly one who’s a former president and the favorite to win the upcoming election?
This is a question that the Secret Service and federal officials who oversee it must answer with haste.
2. Did the Biden Administration’s Department of Homeland Security really deny a request from the Trump campaign for more Secret Service protection?
At this writing, that report based on unnamed sources is unconfirmed.
But it has added plausibility because of the Biden Administration’s well-documented denials of any Secret Service protection for independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – which is a disgrace and a continuing scandal.
3. When does the apocalyptic rhetoric about Donald Trump end?
No one is responsible for wounding Donald Trump and killing a spectator and wounding two other spectators except the shooter.
That includes the left-wing political group the shooter donated $15 to on Joe Biden’s inauguration day.
But for a long time now, Democrats have been hammering their absurd talking point that Trump is a “threat to democracy.”
No, he’s not. As president, Trump complied with every court order. He never attempted to deny or restrict the power of Congress. He oversaw the executive branch of the federal government in accord with the law. After a difficult election that he disputes, Trump left office on time, as every president before him has done.
It’s fine to disagree with Trump, of course. It’s also all right to insult him – he is the most public of public figures. It’s also O.K. to say that from time to time he acted in a way that is beneath a president of the United States.
But this “threat to democracy” business is junk – and it may be a spur to action for diseased minds.
4. Can we have a moment of national unity?
The statements condemning the Trump rally shooting and political violence more generally from President Joe Biden and other Democrats during the past 12 hours have been appropriate.
But the ugliness online bodes ill for what ought to be a time for unifying against this horrible event and all that it represents.
America needs healing.
Bishop Donald Hying, the Roman Catholic bishop of Madison, Wisconsin, said something Saturday night that needs to be repeated now and in the coming days:
“We pray for President Trump and those injured today. Our country needs prayer and conversion. Our country needs God.”
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