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Trump’s defiance of assassins shows why he’s so exceptional a history-maker

Andrew Jackson is the only president of the United States who got the better of his attempted assassin. 

The aged Jackson was at the Capitol for a congressional funeral in 1835 when a crazed man named Richard Lawrence aimed a pistol directly at his chest and pulled the trigger.

Jackson bull-charged his assailant with his cane, and incredibly, Lawrence pulled out another pistol.

As bystanders intervened, an enraged Jackson supposedly yelled, “Let me alone! Let me alone! I know where this came from.”

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Lest we think we live in a uniquely inflamed, conspiratorial moment, Jackson’s Whig opponents had dubbed him King Andrew and John C. Calhoun reportedly called him “a Caesar who ought to have a Brutus.”

Jackson thought the Whigs had orchestrated the attack, and the Whigs thought he had staged it. 

Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.

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