Trump’s Bloodied, Defiant Image After Shooting Pumps Up His Base
- Supporters turning incident into metaphor for Trump resiliency
- Shooting underscored threats of political violence in 2024
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A moment of terrifying political violence at a Pennsylvania rally Saturday instantly turned into a piece of Donald Trump iconography that’s likely to turbocharge his presidential bid.
Images of a defiant Trump — with his fist raised over his head and his bloody right ear, as Secret Service agents surround him and the American flag waving in the background — are blazing across social media and television.