It’s no coincidence that Blake Marnell was in the front row last Saturday when the former president of USA and Republican candidate, Donald Trumpsurvived an assassination attempt at an election rally in Pennsylvania.
The 59-year-old Californian is a regular at the New York magnate’s rallies, attending them in a suit that emulates the wall on the border with Mexico. He was also present at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee, where Trump will give his first speech since the attack.
“At first I thought it was just a joke”he explains to EFE about the first shots he heard last Saturday. Then he saw the Secret Service agents pounce on Trump and understood that ““it was something serious.”
Nicknamed the Wall Man, he rose to fame in 2019 when Trump brought him on stage during a rally in Pennsylvania. He says he has never felt unsafe at a Republican event, not even the other day, when Thomas Matthew Crooks, a 20-year-old, shot Trump, wounding him in the ear and killing a member of the audience.
“I thought they were targeting him and not the crowd. I was more worried about him than myself.”Explain.
The Wall Man is part of a kind of eccentric court of parishioners who adore Trump completely and follow him wherever he goes. A cult of the leader accentuated since the New York magnate narrowly escaped his life and was taken off the stage by the police, his face bloodied and his fist raised in a sign of victory.
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Vince Fucsa was also on stage that day, behind the former president. The shots sounded like fireworks, he says, but he did not fear for his life: “My president was hurt and I tried to see if I could do anything to help.”
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Fusca, who avoids responding to those who see him as a member of that iconic dynasty, does not close the door to his political aspirations, but attends Republican events as a Trump supporter.
People are asking for photos, the press is clamoring for him, and Saturday’s attack is not going to stop the Republican tycoon from being there wherever he is. That assassination attempt, he says, has only strengthened his support for him.
In the halls of the convention, Vickie Froehlich waits with excitement and wide eyes, holding a photo book in her hand as if it were a treasure.
For years, this Minnesota woman has been attending major right-wing events in the United States seeking autographs from the biggest names in Trumpism.
Froehlich told EFE that he finally got Trump’s signature a few months ago in New Hampshire and that he is keeping it at home so as not to lose it. He does not want to leave the convention in Milwaukee without the autograph of Sean Hannity, star presenter of the ultra-conservative Fox News channel.
Outside the Fiserv Forum, where the conservative conclave is taking place, a man dressed as Uncle Sam, the personification of the United States in disguise during World War I, is selling T-shirts.
Underneath the hat and white beard is Duane Schwingel, a Florida man who also rarely misses any of Trump’s public appearances and who delivers food to pay for his trips around the country.
He says the effort to express his support for Trump is worth it. What do you like most about your idol?That he is a multimillionaire outsider who cannot be bribed.”
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Source: Gestion
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