Long Legacy of U.S. Political Violence: RNC Begins in Milwaukee After Trump Assassination Attempt

[Uncle Joe]

We begin our weeklong coverage from the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in the wake of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday at a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Trump was shot in his right ear. One person in the crowd was killed, and two others critically injured. The shooter was killed at the scene after members of the Secret Service opened fire on him on a nearby roof. The Nation's national affairs correspondent John Nichols joins us in Milwaukee to detail the long history of political violence in the United States and says it may not prove as significant to the presidential election as many believe. "There is a tendency after a shooting like this to assume it's going to have a huge political impact — and it may. I'm not dismissing that. But what I will tell you is that there's history that suggests that the country is horrified, the country reacts with sympathy, but it doesn't necessarily say, 'Oh, well, we have to elect this wounded warrior or this wounded candidate.'"

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[Joinfortmill]

1. SS agent raising her fist with Trump? Very strange.

[Uncle Joe]

2. She is shorter that he is, perhaps an attempt at blocking his head from the sniper's view?

It kind of looks like she is holding something in that pic, but that may be an object behind them.