Butler: The Untold Story of the Near Assassination of Donald Trump and the Fight for America's Heartland
by Salena Zito
View on GoodreadsPlace explains how Americans vote better than the national press does, and small communities like Butler, not big cities, decided 2024. That's Zito's argument, and she starts from July 13, 2024, standing about four feet from the stage when the shooting began.
Core ideas
- Hand of God: Trump called her roughly seven times in the next 24 hours, said he believed God had saved him, and, she reports, came to see survival as a mandate.
- One man killed: Firefighter Corey Comperatore died shielding his family, two other attendees were critically injured, and a campaign aide pulled the author and her daughter down.
- Rootedness: In her view, national journalists misread working-class voters because they lack roots themselves, and Republicans have become the working-class party.
Published2025
Pages238
ISBN9781546009160
ReadMar 2026
