'An Iconic Moment': Political Scientist Compares Trump After Shooting With Biden

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On "Forbes Newsroom," political scientist and University of Chicago Professor Emeritus Charles Lipson discussed the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

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00:00Girls, I was telling you this earlier, but this week could really give anyone whiplash with the

00:05political news coming out. I mean, it's really enough for an entire election season jam packed

00:10in six days. So let's take it back to last Saturday. That's when former President Donald

00:16Trump survived an assassination attempt against him at a political rally in Pennsylvania.

00:21What's your reaction to that news? I don't know about you, Brittany, but I was

00:28I followed it in real time, not because I had been watching the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania,

00:35but because a friend who is in the financial markets immediately texted me and said,

00:42Trump has been shot. So I turned on TV. And I think the difference in experience for people

00:51who didn't know the outcome immediately, and people who tuned in a half an hour, an hour later,

00:59and knew he had been shot, but survived and the injury was minor. That's a very different.

01:07That's a very different experience. My experience was just shock and fear. And that was not a

01:14partisan fear. It was just, I've been through this in 68. I can remember as a child,

01:22John F. Kennedy being shot, it disorients your entire world. And but I think when Donald Trump

01:32raised his fist with that flag in the background, that will define his every biography of him that

01:42will define this campaign and his memory in the future. And I think it Yogi Berra once said it's

01:52hard to predict, especially about the future. But it's really hard to see how he is defeated in this

01:59election. And equally important, he's going to carry it looks like a lot of swing districts,

02:06which is why you see a kind of widespread panic. But I think that when he why did he raise his fist?

02:13A, because that's who he is. And B, I think he was really trying to reassure the crowd that was there,

02:22the crowd that was watching on TV and the whole world that he was safe, as far as he knew. And

02:32that he said, fight, fight, fight. I mean, it's just, it's an iconic moment. And it contrasts

02:40very sharply with an incumbent president who needs his wife or a former president to lead

02:47him off the stage. To your point right there. I mean, he popped down, was bombarded by Secret

02:55Service, came back up and made it a point to raise his fist and tell the crowd fight the

03:00crowd was chanting USA. I was watching in real time as well. So what do you think the impact

03:07on the race is going to be after this moment? Decisive, decisive. I mean,

03:17if you were looking for strength and endurance through any crisis, what could be better proof?

03:27And this wasn't partisan. This was in the message itself wasn't partisan

03:35of raising his fist. It was, I thought that the song that he should play was an old Donna

03:47Summers song from disco, I will survive.

'An Iconic Moment': Political Scientist Compares Trump After Shooting With Biden

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