Man who allegedly tried to assassinate Donald Trump at Florida golf club named. Who is he?

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Another data point in favor of the Novikov self-consistency principle?

More just feels like the US is filling up with people who want to go out in a blaze of glory taking shots at celebrities.

Care to expand a bit, please? This is entirely new to me, I just read the Wikipedia article.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novikov_self-consistency_principle

Think about the standard answers to what people would do if they had a time machine.

There's 46 recorded assassination attempts against Hitler

And two, possibly three if you count the guy who rushed the stage during a rally in 2016, against Trump. Novikov is 49-0 by my count.

You would need to know an original outcome of an event to apply the Novikov self-consistency principle. Otherwise how do you know this wasn't always what happened?