Secret Service reacts after apparent assassination attempt at Trump rally
Comparisons have recently been drawn between the Reagan years and concerns over President Joe Biden ’s fitness to serve in office — while Saturday’s assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump Peggy Grande, who served as President Ronald Reagan ’s executive assistant during his post-presidency years, spoke to The Post just moments after Trump Ronald Reagan was just 10 weeks into his presidency when a gunman put a bullet in his body.
The former Reagan staffer suggested that it has less to do with age and more to do with cognitive capability.“There is no similarity between the two. I mean, father time equally comes after all of us, and we’ve all watched grandma and grandpa, and our parents, and aunts and uncles. Everybody ages. There’s nothing we can do about that. Some age more easily and gracefully, and some struggle at different ages. It’s not about the age,” said Grande, author of “The President Will See You Now.
“Our enemies are looking at this probably thinking that they’ve got a small window of time before Joe Biden leaves office, where they have a very weak commander-in-chief in the Oval Office. And so to compare to Reagan, everybody’s entitled to age. Reagan did it beautifully and was very transparent with the American people, with his beautiful letter that he wrote talking about going into the sunset of his life. But he wasn’t holding the nuclear codes at that time, like Joe Biden is.
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