Politics tamfitronics For a moment, Donald Trump seemed — despite everything — to be a whole new man.We’d been told by speakers throughout the final night of the Republican National Convention that the attempt on his life had changed the 45th president’s outlook and his approach to politics. The experience had made him a unifier.“He turned down the most obvious opportunity in politics to inflame the nation after being shot,” Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News anchor, said in his speech Thursday night, hours before Trump took the stage. “In the moment, he did his best to bring the country together.”And then, somewhat deep into Trump’s stem-winder of a speech, he started talking about Hannibal Lecter.Popular on Variety“The press is always on me, because I say this,” he began, in an aside. He knew it...
