He said he could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue and not lose votes. Now 210,000 are dead and he's scheming to keep power "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose voters," Donald Trump boasted in 2016. He thought his almost unlimited bravado, bombast and dominance of any situation allowed him to get away with figurative murder. Related: Brought to book: how a publishing gold rush pinned Trump to the page