Robert Pape
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It wasn't just poise under fire.
What he said, which was extremely important, and I'm sorry to say the Democrats did not follow up on this as much, is basically he gave a unity speech.
If you go back and listen to when he came to the podium after this, he said there was literally love in that room.
Just remember that phrase.
And what was in that room?
The people in that room were not MAGA.
This was not, I mean, of course, his cabinet was there.
So just imagine this is a man.
whose wife could have been killed so it's it's him he could have been killed uh if that shooter had just gotten another say 20 or 30 feet in into that room they were so packed like sardines in that room if he had gotten off five or six shots you probably ever single every single one of those bullets would probably hit a person maybe multiple depending on how
how this could work.
So this was not, this was a true near miss experience here.
And you can see how panicked the media was because they're there.
So if you compare their poise to president Trump, so in this particular case, we need to understand that he really is the most poised individual that we have seen, but not just a matter of poise.
He was thinking about the future and he offered an olive branch in this case,
And I have said this publicly on MSNBC, on MSNOW, not just in – I go on Newsmax.
I go on MSNOW.
I mean, it's really quite an honor here, Patrick, to be involved in these.
And it's because I'm coming at it from what you're seeing here.
And the fact is that this would have been a great opportunity for Hakeem Jeffries to have reached out.
Now, I don't mean to make concessions.