On July 14, hours after the assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden told the nation, “(We need to) lower the temperature in our politics.”
On July 13, hours after the assassination attempt, former Trump Attorney General William Barr told Fox News: “The Democrats have to stop their grossly irresponsible talk about Trump being an existential threat to democracy. He is not.”
On July 18, five days after the assassination attempt, Trump at the Republican National Convention delivered his acceptance in a subdued tone and urged national unity. He insisted he did not want to be president of just “half the country.” But he went off script and attacked Biden using the same points and much of the same language as if this were a Trump rally.
On July 22, nine days after the assassination attempt and after Biden quit his…
