Donald Trump quotes that kept resonating after Kamala Harris will trap him in the presidential debate were the lies that migrants ate pets or allowed babies to be executed. The clips have become a source of memes for Democrats, as the focus shifts to Trump’s headlong flight from defeat. But there’s another buried statement from the debate that has resonated with Trump supporters: the former president’s stoking of conspiracy theories about the Butler attack.
“I probably got shot in the head because of the things they’re saying about me,” Trump said, referring to Harris, during Tuesday’s face-off hosted by ABC News. The former president has reclaimed (and exaggerated) the memory of the Pennsylvania rally shooting, where a bullet grazed his right ear, and revived it in prime time conspiracy theories that there is a plot to destroy him.