In the age of digital media, it’s never hard to find ridiculous takes on the issues of the day. The attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump is no different.
The incident, which occurred on Saturday at a Pennsylvania rally, has elicited tons of speculation about the shooting and the motivations of Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old who is believed to have carried out the attack.
However, the shooting has also attracted absurd takes from those seeking to leverage the incident for political purposes. This is likely what motivated DEI expert Shaun Harper to publish a piece in Forbes in which he asks whether Trump will use the fact that he was shot to appeal to black voters.
The article, which has been deleted, first asked whether the former president would “seize the apparent assassination attempt against him as an opportunity to meaningfully address the epidemic…
