The Appropriate Period Of Mourning And Solemnity

Absolutely https://t.co/SHTmklVeox

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) July 14, 2024

NEW: Donald Trump’s campaign has started pausing their digital fundraising efforts post the shooting in Pennsylvania, per people familiar with the matter.

The NRCC also paused their digital fundraising since the shooting, per a spokesman.

Unclear when that will start up again

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) July 14, 2024

And this angle keeps developing

The digital fundraising pullback (albeit brief) by at least some GOP committees and Trump seems over

“Republican Party Committees and campaigns are expected to begin online fundraising again now that the Trump campaign has resumed,”per a GOP aide https://t.co/gtbeWoQ9qS

— Brian Schwartz (@schwartzbCNBC) July 14, 2024

At least one person died. But less than 24 hours later, let’s go with the fist pump pic (it has, after all, the shelf life of a fine French baguette*). Besides, we know the name of the shooter, but not of the victim.**

High time to move on. Money doesn’t wait on ceremony, you know.

A lot of campaigns are taking a fundraising break amid calls to turn down the political temperature. Not anymore for Trump though: https://t.co/LOKjWm6KSk pic.twitter.com/W5PXYODeSK

— Jessica Piper (@jsscppr) July 14, 2024

Once more into the breach, my friends. Time and money wait for no man. Not even the dead and critically wounded.

*As a friend once told me, who had trained to be a baker, the baguette is unique among breads. It starts “staling” (the baker’s term for the process of bread going stale) the minute it leaves the oven.

**And rightly so, actually. Imagine the vulture press descending on the grieving family. They have enough of a burden.