Did God save Donald Trump from an assassin's bullet?

Calls for civility and lowering the temperature should cut both ways

I don't have anything intelligent or meaningful to say today.

Does anyone?

I actually heard one national elected official say that an assassination attempt on a presidential candidate was "inappropriate," as if it was equivalent to a fourth grader cheating on his homework.

Then again, finding the right word or words to describe what happened Saturday in Pennsylvania is impossible, even if it is obviously much more serious than merely "inappropriate."

Grasping for words is what we all did as we watched the horrific footage unfold on our televisions over and over and over again.

Marco Rubio, hoping to be Donald Trump's running mate, offered that "God protected Donald Trump," which means God apparently preferred that 50-year-old firefighter Corey Comperatore should take the bullet and give his life instead.

All I know is that my dad long ago told me that speaking with certainty about the mind of God is likely to put you on extremely thin ice.

But Rubio knew exactly what he was saying. If God protected Donald Trump, that means God wants Donald Trump to be president. Therefore, this seals the deal.

House speaker Mike Johnson went on the Today Show to call for an end to divisive political rhetoric, without mentioning that his candidate, Donald Trump, regularly refers to "Crooked Joe Biden," and the "Biden crime family," while calling Biden the most corrupt president in American history. Apparently, those words don't qualify as divisive political rhetoric.

Johnson also failed to call out fellow Republican House member Mike Collins of Georgia who incredibly posted on X that "Joe Biden sent the orders" to assassinate Donald Trump. I guess that's okay, too.

This is the same Speaker of the House who still can't bring himself to condemn the violent rioters of January 6, 2021 who wanted to do harm to Nancy Pelosi and had a noose ready for Vice President Mike Pence. He's the same Speaker who repeatedly claims that Joe Biden has "weaponized" the Justice Department, which resulted in Donald Trump's 34 felony convictions and liability for sexual assault, even though those were both State of New York cases that had no federal involvement of any kind. Johnson knew he was lying when he said it, but he said it anyway.

This country lived through one horrific five-year period when John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., were all shot and killed, and we'll live through this horror too.

But two things are clear.

First, this tragedy has now earned Donald Trump "martyr" status among his faithful minions and has only strengthened his grip on this race, as several Republican congressmen gleefully pointed out within hours of the shooting.

And second, it's a certainty that in the coming weeks gun sales will soar all across our beautiful land.

God Bless America, land that I love.

You can reach me at bobdunning@thewaryone.com