In the rush to safety after shots were fired at him, Trump left one shoe on stage. It says a lot about him–and our political moment.
at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a single black Oxford shoe was left behind, abandoned on the platform where the former president was wounded by a sniper’s bullet and smothered in a Secret Service protective scrum.
The goal, in Secret Service jargon, is to get Trump off the “X” as fast as possible. But Trump doesn’t sound in any particular hurry.As the Secret Service covered him with their bodies then declared it safe to move Trump off the X, their code for the target, Trump stalled to get his shoes.A male agent says, “I got you sir, I got you sir.”Another agent suddenly notices the former president has been wounded. “Hold on,” the agent says, “your head is bloody.
Fully 74 seconds after being grazed, with agents trying to rush him off the stage, Trump wants a moment.In the midst of an assassination attempt with unknown danger around them and young agents using their bodies as shields, it takes 81 seconds from the first shot to get Trump off the stage.Trump’s first thought: Himself. He needs his shoes for whatever reason–to run, to stand tall, they’re expensive. But then, his mind turns to his second thought: The crowd and what they really want.
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