Bolt: Trump’s enemies have just made him so much stronger

There can be no doubt that the assassination attempt on Donald Trump was part of a plot – but it has backfired badly, with the former president now unbeatable.

No one can hide from this truth.

Whoever shot Donald Trump – whether some crazy or Left-wing extremist – this assassination attempt was part of a plot.

No, not a deliberate, worked-out plot to kill the man most likely to become president again.

I mean the plot to make Trump seem so evil that OF COURSE someone would want to kill him. OF COURSE someone would figure they just had to stop the new Hitler.

And the blame for that goes all the way to the top – to desperate President Joe Biden who has terrified Americans of the Left by painting Trump as a wannabe dictator, who just had to be stopped by almost any means.

Trump’s enemies have just made him so much stronger. Picture: Getty Images

Take Biden’s TV ad last month demonising Trump: “There is nothing more sacred than our democracy, but Donald Trump, ready to burn it all down”.

Or this Biden ad, just two days before the shooting, accusing Trump of being the poodle of Russia’s war-criminal president: “This is who Donald Trump is … the United States must never be like Putin’s Russia; we don’t empower dictators”.

Biden’s team also got actor Robert De Niro, who’d declared ‘I’d like to punch Donald Trump in the face’, to narrate another ad savaging Trump: “Now he’s running again, this time threatening to be a dictator, to terminate the constitution”.

It kept coming. Two weeks ago, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declared on national television that “this is not a normal election”, and Trump “must be stopped; he cannot become president”.

Former President Donald Trump is rushed offstage with a bloody ear during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Picture: Getty Images

And talking to donors this past fortnight, Biden repeated urged them: “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”.

Sure, Biden didn’t mean that literally. But the media forgave that inflammatory language in a way it never would have had Trump used it against Biden.

Democrats seemed to believe their own hysteria.

What else, short of violence, didn’t they do to make Trump seem an evil that had to be stopped by hook or by crook?

For three years, the Democrats pushed the bogus claim that Trump stole the 2016 election by colluding with Russia.

Then Democrats also falsely accused Trump of sending a mob to invade Congress to stop Biden replacing him as president.

Biden even falsely accused Trump of having “sat and watched … the cops being killed”, when the only person killed was a female Trump supporter, shot by police.

Trump shrugged off his security when the shooting ended to wave a fist and shout ‘Fight’. Picture: AFP

This Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just a slogan. It is a sick reality in a United States that looks at times almost on the edge of a civil war. God knows what would have happened had that bullet which clipped Trump’s ear been two inches to the right.

The Democrats even felt licenced to bend and strain the law to launch four separate legal cases to get Trump jailed or at least crippled ahead of the November election.

And the media Left did their bit.

The New Republic last month ran a cover picture of Trump with a Hitler moustache, over the headline: “American fascism: what it would look like”.

The Left-wing American Prospect Magazine ran with this headline: “American Fascism”, warning against “American fascism in 2024”.

Trump supporters are seen laying in the stands after guns were fired at the former president. Picture: AFP

The New Yorker went with: “Why we can’t stop arguing about whether Trump is a fascist.”

And all the way through, media outlets falsely accused Trump of praising neo-Nazis as “good people”, of planning to be a dictator on “day one” and more.

So can anyone be surprised if someone may have decided to remove a man they’ve been told is a monstrous evil? A Hitler?

But few in politics have been luckier in their choice of enemies than Trump.

His enemies have now made him so much stronger.

The Democrats’ attempts co-opt the FBI into making Trump seem in collusion with Putin just made the Deep State look corrupt.

The Democrats’ attempts to stop Trump’s campaign in the courts just made the justice system seem corrupt, and Trump’s support grew stronger.

And now this attempted assassination will make Trump unbeatable in the election.

That’s not just because Trump acted like a man with balls of steel, shrugging off his security when the shooting ended to wave a fist and shout: “Fight, fight”.

The contrast with feeble Joe Biden could not be stronger.

But more: This attack will stop Biden playing his lunatic “dictator Trump” card, and will wake up more Americans to the real threat to their peace and freedom.

No, it’s not the Right. It really is the Left, which must reflect how it’s become the very threat it saw in Trump.

Originally published as Bolt: Trump’s enemies have just made him so much stronger