The former president’s triumphant arrival Monday night in Milwaukee, complete with a bandage on his ear, came just two days after a failed assassination attempt.
When the jumbotron finally cut to him, nearly four hours into the evening session at the Fiserv Forum, the arena erupted. He wore a bandage on his ear, where he’d be injured two days earlier in a shooting. He pumped his fist and waved to the screaming audience as he took the stage, as Lee Greenwood sang, “God Bless The USA.” He mouthed “thank you” to the crowd and greeted his sons, Eric and Don Jr.
Outside the Fiserv Forum, sweating in a scrum of people watching demonstrators go by, I talked to a member of the Iowa delegation, who predicted that the crowd’s post-shooting enthusiasm for Trump would rival the “rah-rah” spirit he said he saw in American servicemembers after 9/11.
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