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Ryan Bridge: Is there a lesson in Trump's shooting for NZ's political leaders?
Barring any other major, ugly affronts to democracy this U.S. election season, the image of a bloodied former president surrounded by Secret Service agents gripping his fist and pumping it into the air after narrowly avoiding an assassination attempt will be one of the most enduring and iconic.
He's reported to be saying fight, fight. fight, with a somewhat understandably angry look on his face.
Donald Trump cheated death.
Questions are no doubt being asked about how and why this could have happened, as they should. How did 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, wearing grey camouflage clothing…
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