Those close to Donald Trump fear the former president “may have legit PTSD” from the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally last month.

That’s according to a Vanity Fair report published Wednesday that claimed those in Trump’s inner circle have noticed that he’s become fixated on a seven-second clip that shows the moment he nearly lost his life.

“He’s been watching that seven-second clip of how close he was to getting shot right in the head—over and over and over again,” said a Republican close to the campaign, reported Vanity Fair.

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Well, they did try to kill the one person in the world that he cares about…

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His new “personal Vietnam”

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to be fair to him he kinda dodged this one too.

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That’s not PTSD. He’s a narcissist and that was the last moment where he was the center of national attention and it looked like there was no way he could lose. Then Biden stepped down.

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Legit kinda hilarious how an actual assassination attempt completely got drown out by “new competition lol”

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33 points

I’m genuinely thrilled with just how little attention that got.

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26 points

Just shows that empathy is reciprocative. He never showed empathy towards another human being, so now nobody feels it for him.

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It’s cause the shooter was conservative so they realized focusing on it would only end up making them look bad.

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12 points

Right on target. Self-obsessed…

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Idk, he has a history of obsession with being killed. Supposedly his fast food habits were formed because he could be anonymous, he’d send someone to get the food so he doesn’t have to worry about being poisoned.

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When you screw over as many people as Trump has in his career, that’s a legitimate worry.

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I think I’d be traumatized by being an inch from a bullet to my brain. I also think Trump is mainlining toxic traits into his persona like “men don’t cry” and “mental health is for pussies” so I wouldn’t ever expect him to actually publicly admit to having feelings about it or getting support.

Come to think of it, him not bringing up the shooting in every sentence out of his mouth for martyrdom points, seems really out of character. All we got subjected to was a comically large, stark white bandage at the GOP convention. The lack of milking it for sympathy ad nauseum makes me think he really is affected by it.

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Yup, nailed it

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Too bad for him that he will refuse to see a therapist or psychiatrist because he thinks it’s a sign of weakness.

I’d certainly be fucked up if it had happened to me.

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It’s so so sad that he’s bound for a nervous breakdown and potentially Harris slamming her hand on the podium with the right force and angle could potentially be a trigger for it.

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43 points

please let us have a real life ace attorney moment

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5 points

Dude is Redd White but somehow even more of a cartoonish parody of a rich man.

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Who would be a better female clown murderer, Boebert or MTG?

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Not unprecedented. Even doing so intentionally isn’t new. Just look at Admiral James Stockdale in the 1992 election. Dude was a decorated Vietnam vet and former POW, but before a debate, someone thought it’d be a great idea to jingle some keys. Apparently, that was something his captors did to mess with him in Vietnam. Cue the PTSD flashback, and suddenly Stockdale’s looking disoriented on stage. So yeah, a well-placed podium slam? Could totally set off a meltdown.

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I hope she brutally takes advantage of that.

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He might get counseling from some evangelical pastor though, and come out of it even more terrible than he already is.

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Isn’t Trump a little old to be sexually assaulted by a pastor?

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I don’t know man…he still wears a diaper.

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Well…would you have spent the last 8 years of your life spreading views of hate and racism?

Because I think thats what got him shot at.

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There is zero fucking chance he’s having an “am I the baddie?” Moment while watching this clip. He’s probably thinking how bad ass his hair looks or something about manliness blah blah.

Trump is a one trick pony.

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Or he’s finally been confronted with his own mortality and its fucking with him in ways a life empty of any kind of introspection would.

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It sounded like, from the shooter’s web searches, that if it had been Biden holding a rally hear the shooter’s house, Biden would have been shot at. It was less anything about Trump and more that the shooter wanted to shoot someone famous/important, from what I’ve seen.

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I think that’s irrelevant. Nearly getting your brains blown out will fuck with your head regardless of anybody’s judgement of whether you deserved it.

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I’m not sure the mindset of the person getting shot at is “irrelevant”

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No, he’ll think he knows how to handle it better than a trained licensed therapist

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Load him up on mushrooms before the debate. That should help with the PTSD.

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Give him 8 grams of penis envy, I guarantee he’ll go for it on the name alone

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Instructions unclear.

Have reverted back to a state where the world is all The Flintstones and have identified “dabba dabba doo” as the universal tone that initiated the cosmos.

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…there’s a drug called penis envy? 🤨

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It’s a strain of mushrooms

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I always heard being in a fearful state before doing hallucinogenics caused a bad trip?

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I’m laughing tears. Thank you!

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To shreds, you say?

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Are you insinuating that the God Emperor is scared of a woman?!

Because you’d be correct.

He is absolutely terrified, will be completely screwed when that happens, and mushrooms would make it extremely entertaining for the rest of us. The VA is also conducting research into it.

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Noooooo

It builds character

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I mean, wouldn’t that be something. He takes a heroic dose, comes out the other side with a soul and a conscience, quits the race and preaches the power of the mushroom to all his followers. Can you imagine all them having an inner dialogue and waking up from the fever dream? Almost brings a tear to my eye.

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I wouldn’t call it a bad trip, was great after I stopped thinking about what happened. That just took a while.

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I ate 5 grams of mushrooms 2 weeks after I was shot. Was not a good idea.

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Homie all you needed was like 1 or 2

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May he spend the rest of his life in a degree of suffering to that which he caused.

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I hope it wakes him up in a cold sweat every night until the day his soul leaves his greasy orange carcass

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