Newsmax columnists continued with their fawning over Donald Trump after his assassination attempt:
He is a man of enormous courage, who used the assassination attempt to show amazing strength to his supporters by yelling “Fight, Fight, Fight” and pumping his fist in the air. It was a sign that he was not backing down, he was not quitting.
[…]In fact, as the Secret Service agents were moving Trump off the stage, he yelled “Wait” to give him an opportunity to address the crowd. Their response was to cheer and yell “USA, USA.”
The photo of Trump being led off the stage by the agents with his fist in the air and the American Flag in the background has already become an iconic image, perfectly representing the essence of President Trump. As his son, Eric Trump, said after the shooting, his father is the “toughest man I have ever met.”
No politician in American history has had to endure what Trump has faced since descending the escalator in 2015 and announcing his presidential campaign.
Upon declaring his candidacy, he was immediately labeled a “racist” and critics demanded that he apologize. He refused and continued to speak his mind.
A typical Republican politician would have caved to the media pressure, but not Donald Trump.
During the campaign, his enemies leaked the Access Hollywood tape, but he turned it around by bringing women who had accused former President Bill Clinton of sexual abuse to his debate against Hillary Clinton.
[…]This review reminds us of what President Trump had to endure prior to the assassination attempt and continues to face. No one else could have withstood this treatment. Everyone else would have retreated from politics, but not Donald Trump.
There is no one on earth like him, thank God. The work ahead is critical because there is a nation that needs to be saved and there is only one person capable of doing the job, President Donald Trump.
— Jeff Crouere, July 15
Although it is too early to know why or how a would-be assassin came so close to murdering former and prospective next President Donald Trump at a Saturday Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, there are nevertheless three major indisputable factual take-aways.
First, there can be no doubt regarding explosive influences of tinder box national disunity promulgated by warring political factions and agendas.
Second, public confidence in a fair justice system has been decimated by transparent evidence of weaponized lawfare state tactics whereby a party in control attempts to disqualify and destroy opposition leaders through sham prosecutorial indictments and legal intimidation.
Third, Donald Trump’s courageously determined and defiant survival of the other two circumstances offer inspirational proof not only of his personal leadership strength and resilience, but rekindled hope for America’s future as well.
[…]The visual contrast between a slack-jawed, vacant-eyed Joe Biden witnessed during that debate from hell and the tight-jawed fearless-eyed warrior observed in Butler, Pa. presented a stark contrast regarding which sort of great leadership America truly deserves and desperately needs.
Fully trust that those comparative images won’t be forgotten by November voters.
— Larry Bell, July 15
Earlier this week bestselling author and Daily Wire cofounder Ben Shapiro suggested that something divine was at play at a western Pennsylvania fairground late Saturday afternoon, when a young gunman attempted to assassinate former President Trump.
And maybe there was.
“God decided that Donald J. Trump would live on Saturday.”
By all odds the Trump family should have been mourning in Palm Beach and making funeral arrangements this week — not celebrating in Milwaukee over his third Republican nomination for president of the United States.
[…]Former Fox News host Tucker Carlson also addressed the convention Thursday night, and concluded that Saturday’s assassination attempt was a transformational moment.
“The more I watched it, the more it struck me that everything was different after that moment — everything. This convention is different, the nation is different, the world is different. Donald Trump is different” he said.
“When he stood up after being shot in the face, bloodied, and put his hand up, I thought at that moment that was a transformation . . . divine intervention.”
And ultimately, “the effect that it had on Donald Trump — he was no longer just a political party’s nominee, or a former president, or a future president. This was the leader of a nation.”
Ben Shapiro agreed 100%.
“God didn’t just save Donald J. Trump on Saturday. He may have saved the United States as well,” he concluded. “God gave us all another chance on Saturday. We ought to take it.”
We’ll have that chance on Nov. 5, and as Shapiro said, “we ought to take it.”
America’s future path depends on it.
— Michael Dorstewitz, July 19
Newsmax hyped that religious vein further through a July 17 TV appearance by a lower-tier actor:
God is already involved in the presidential election, which is evident after former President Donald Trump survived the assassination attempt against him last Saturday, said actor Dean Cain.
“Watching that unfold and seeing what took place, there’s no question in my mind there was divine providence there. So I do say that God is already involved in this election,” Cain said Wednesday during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Newsline.”
Trump’s speech at the Republican National Convention is “set up to be one of the most powerful speeches of all time,” he added.
Many speakers so far have suggested Trump was protected by God when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks fired shots at him at a Pennsylvania rally, injuring his ear.
One theory linked the time of the shooting — 6:11 p.m. EST — with Ephesians 6:11, the Bible verse that encourages believers to “put on the armor of God.”
“I believe that President Trump’s going to bring that up in this in his speech tomorrow,” Cain told Newsmax.
But Trump’s speech did not reference that Bible verse — he resorted to the same old divisive rhetoric has he long employed.