On 13 July, under a clear blue sky in Butler, Pennsylvania, bullets sliced through the air piercing the ear of the former president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. While he escaped death thanks to the tilt of his head, a stray bullet fatally injured a bystander behind him. “The reality is just setting in,” Trump told the Washington Examiner the following day. “I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?”