‘You’re gonna be so blessed,’ said Pastor James Roemke, doing a pretty good Donald Trump impersonation in the warm-up to his Benediction of the Republican National Convention on Monday. ‘You’re gonna be tired of being blessed, I guarantee it, believe me.’ Sitting in the stands with a bandage on his ear, Trump enjoyed the joke – a riff on his famous line from 2016 about ‘winning’. He smiled almost beatifically for the cameras.
In the wake of the shooting, Trump has begun to sound, believe it or not, graceful and magnanimous
It was poignant, too, because in his case it seemed so true: God, or some supernatural force beyond our understanding, does seem to be showering the Republican nominee with blessings of late.
Hours earlier, a Florida judge had dismissed the US Justice Department’s case against Trump for hoarding classified documents, a major victory for his legal team. That news came just two days after he somehow survived – ‘by God or by luck’, as he put it – the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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