My immediate thoughts on the Trump assassination attempt:

• It’s not uncommon for assassination attempts and terrorist attacks by intelligence agencies to fail because they often nurture literal insane people to do their dirty work for them.

• The idea that this is PR or staged is an enormous stretch, imo. He seemed to have actually gotten hit in the ear. The idea that he let someone shoot him in the ear, or he cut himself or faked it to get attention — when he is not having ANY problem at all getting all the attention he wants — is a little much for me.