Dear Readers,

July 13 was a terrible day for our neighbours in the USA. A 20-year-old man fired shots at former U.S. President Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Pennsylvania. Trump was not seriously injured, but this shooting is regarded as an attempted assassination and the most serious attack on a (former) U.S. President since Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in 1981. The attack on Trump reminded me of Nov. 22, 1963 when John F. Kennedy was shot and killed in Dallas, Texas. I was a 12-year-old high school student in Germany when that happened, and I still have a copy of a special edition of the German newspaper Bild-Zeitung which was published a few hours after Kennedy’s assassination.


Trump is a very controversial and divisive politician who is trying to come back to the White House. He has encouraged his followers to attack the United States Capitol Building in Washington after Joe Biden defeated him in November 2020, and now he has experienced how it is to be attacked himself. After the shooting on July 13, President Biden condemned the attempted assassination of Trump and called on Americans “to lower the temperature in our politics.” I agree 100 percent. There is no room for violence in politics in a democratic country.

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‍Arnim Joop 
Publisher & Editor
mwmosaic@telus.net