Trump muses about assassination attempts at town hall: ‘Only consequential presidents get shot at’

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Former President Donald Trump reflected on the second assassination attempt against him, seeing it as proof of his importance.

Trump spoke at a town hall in Flint, Michigan, with Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) in some of his first comments since the second recent attempt on his life. After floating new tariffs, particularly regarding automobiles, a key industry in the Great Lakes State, Trump suggested that such a move put a target on him.

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