Who Shot Donald Trump?

This was written by my son Jackson Gunn Barrett and published today on his Substack.  It is a perceptive and deeply troubling take on the recent assassination attempt of Donald Trump. 


Who Shot Donald Trump?  Part 1. 

At a chance tilting of his head,
The shot that would have hit it sped
Across his ear.  Who had a hope
For such precision, when he lacked a scope?


Who Shot Donald Trump?  Part 2.

Three perfect shots across the mark
(To compensate the bullet’s arc)
Were fired at once; one grazes him
As his head turns upon a whim.
Then out of sight he ducks alive
And thwarts the plot.  A pause; then five
Spray out at random through the stands.
Eight shots in all; two different hands.


Who Shot Donald Trump?  Part 3. 

A slanted roof is open to
The public eye; but while the view
Is drawn to Matthew Crooks inclined
Upon it with his gun, behind 
It on the left, the window of
A higher building looks above 
Him, shielded from the people’s sight
By the sharp angle at which the roof
Below it and its wall unite,
From every side detection-proof,
Where one, well-trained, could take his aim.
From there the opening bullets came.