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Don’t Fall for the Partisan Trap
“Trump is not Vladimir Putin. Nor is he Adolf Hitler. He’s just the presumptive Republican nominee,” writes Peter Savodnik. (Photo by Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images)
Ninety minutes after Donald Trump was nearly assassinated, a Democratic strategist emailed journalists suggesting the shooting might have been ‘staged.’
By Peter Savodnik
07.15.24 — U.S. Politics
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An hour and a half after Donald Trump was nearly killed at a rural Pennsylvania campaign rally, Dmitri Mehlhorn, a Democratic strategist in nor…

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Peter Savodnik
Peter Savodnik is senior editor at The Free Press. Previously, he wrote for Vanity Fair as well as GQ, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Wired, and other publications, reporting from the former Soviet Union, the Middle East, South Asia, and across the United States. His book, The Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union, was published in 2013.
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