With blood dripping down from his right ear, Trump was captured by photographers pumping a defiant fist to shell-shocked supporters as he was swarmed by Secret Service agents.
Trump, who said on Truth Social that he felt the bullet "ripping through" his skin, will be welcomed in Milwaukee on Monday as a hero, a fighter - even a messiah to elements of his evangelical base.
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio), a frontrunner to be named Trump's running mate this week, tweeted that the Biden campaign's rhetoric about the threat Trump poses to democracy "led directly" to the attempted assassination.
The assassination attempt will turbocharge the persecution narrative, with contrasting reactions between Democrats condemning the act and Republicans implicating Biden in the incident.
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