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It might have something to do specifically with Donald Trump. It might not. It might be a situation like the Reagan or Ford assassination attempts - the assassins had no opinion about the officeholder personally or politically, they just wanted/felt compelled to attack the head of government for some ulterior motive.

So it's beginning to look like that might end up being the case. The shooter does not appear to have acted based on any ideological goals, but appears to have only wanted to shoot a very high-profile political figure. It looks like he was equally willing to consider shooting Trump or Biden, motivated by a desire to commit an assassination without much caring who the target was:

The gunman in the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump searched online for events of both Trump and President Joe Biden, looked up information about explosives over the last five years and eyed the Pennsylvania campaign rally where he opened fire last month as a “target of opportunity,” a senior FBI official said Wednesday.

https://apnews.com/article/fbi-trump-assassination...

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