‘A Different Donald Trump’ Beams as Rivals Become ‘Converts’

Philip Wegmann, Real Clear Politics

If there is one thing Trump has notably not done this week, it is gloat. He has said

comparatively little since the attempt on his life Saturday, exuding a gracious silence – perhaps even a magnanimous stoicism. A source who spoke with the former president at length the day after he dodged an assassin’s bullet reported talking to “a different Donald Trump, but in the best way possible.” One person described it as a “weirdly counterintuitive” phenomenon whereby “he almost dies, he miraculously survives, and it becomes even less about him.”