Diplomats’ words also carry particular weight: It is their job to watch other nations’ politics closely, and they help shape how their governments react.
In conversations with such envoys from three continents, it became clear to me that their main takeaway feels almost inescapable after an assassin’s bullet apparently grazed and bloodied the Republican candidate’s ear on Saturday.
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“The shooting makes Trump’s victory in the election more likely,” one Latin American diplomat said.
“It is a powerful drive for that,” admitted a senior European diplomat.
“It sealed his victory,” an African diplomat predicted.
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