If you feel as if American politics have taken yet another deep dive into the Trump show maelstrom, you aren't alone. This past week has been a chaotic whirlwind of lies, false accusations, lurid scandals and even a foiled assassination plot. Even the sleaziest reality show wouldn't have had the nerve to script something like this.

The assassination plot that capped off the week took place on Sunday at Trump's Palm Beach golf club where the Secret Service reportedly spotted a man with a rifle in the bushes at one of the holes and shot at him, setting off a chase which concluded in his arrest. It's still early, but a cursory look at his background appears to show the man's politics were all over the place from voting for Trump to giving donations to Democrats and then begging Nikki Haley to team up with Vivek Ramaswamy to compete for the presidential nomination. At one time, he was attempting to be involved with recruiting foreign volunteers to fight in Ukraine, but nobody took him seriously.

They aren't going to let this go, at least until they find a new outrage with which to entertain their supporters and distract from the fact that Trump is deteriorating more everyday and JD Vance isn't ready for prime time.

And he was, naturally, a serious gun nut who'd been charged with crimes going back 20 years, many of them involving firearms so it figures that the Secret Service reportedly found an AK-47 and a scope at the scene. As far as we can tell, this is yet another case of an armed-to-the-teeth, mentally ill man bent on violence.

Democrats across the board, including President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, condemned the attempt and called for calm. But it makes no difference. Republicans are on a tear right now, hurtling off in different........

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