‘Fundamentally a Different Thing’: Maggie Haberman Cites Lack of Trump Assassination Attempt Merchandise as Evidence of Different Approach
According to sources within Trump world, Maggie Haberman reported that former President Donald Trump is “completely fine” following the weekend’s assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. She also noted that “this is fundamentally a different thing” and cited a lack of Trump assassination attempt merchandise as evidence that Trump is taking a different tack.
Haberman appeared on a panel discussion for a special Sunday edition of Outfront aired live from the RNC’s Milwuakee site. Erin Burnett noted that Trump, after initially planning to take a couple of days to convalesce following the shooting, decided to go to Milwaukee on Sunday as originally planned. She asked Haberman how she thinks the shooting impacts the former president and presumptive Republican nominee.
“Well, personally, according to everyone I’ve spoken to who has talked to him, he’s actually sounded fairly normal,” Haberman replied. “There’s … I mean, completely normal. As if nothing had really happened.”
Haberman reported that Trump spoke to Congressman Ronnie Jackson, who was his former White House doctor. “According to the congressman, he was talking about looking at that chart that he was looking at, and you can see in that video at the rally that he said that saved him because his head was turned,” she said. “And you can see that the angle that it was at, it likely meant the bullet went in a different in a different direction. He has said that he is determined to move ahead with the convention.”
She added that she doesn’t think we yet know how the shooting is factored into what the convention looks and feels like. You have seen him stressing in his own messages — on Truth Social — unity,” adding that she sees Trump recognizing this as “a different kind of moment.”
“You have not seen, for instance, merchandise selling off of what just happened, whereas when he was indicted or when he was convicted, that happened almost immediately, sure of him with a bump in the air with this,” she added before praising the “remarkable” image captured by New York Times photojournalist Doug Mills from moments after the shooting.
“This is just fundamentally a different thing. But anybody who is trying to predict number one with the rest of this campaign looks like, or how he is going to talk about it, or how Democrats are going to talk about him. I think it is a mistake. There’s a lot we don’t know.”
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