I’ve known Greg Walton of Agence France-Presse since we were hanging out in Doha’s shisha bars trying to make sense of Qatar and the Gulf generally.
Late last year he got a foreign correspondent’s dream assignment: covering the US amid an election campaign that had already promised to be the weirdest - and most consequential - in decades. Anywhere.
Early Sunday morning I got a message from Greg. Weeks earlier he’d been in the New York courtroom when the former president was convicted on 34 felony counts. And now he’d been there at the Pennsylvania rally when Donald Trump was shot.
So I was grateful that he could make time to talk to us about what he saw. Not just the clip that will be seen more times than the Zapruder film, and the still image Trump created by raising a fist above his bloodied face. But what it was like at the scene and how those events have alrea…
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