There is death, and political death

Published July 19, 2024 6:05am ET



America is on a journey without maps. No one has been here before.

Not one agent on former President Donald Trump’s Secret Service detail had ever leapt between a would-be assassin and a once-and-possibly-future president. They’ve trained for such incidents, but no one now in the agency has ever experienced one until now. The last attempted presidential assassination was when a madman, John Hinckley Jr., shot Ronald Reagan as he was leaving the Washington Hilton 43 years ago.

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