Donald Trump rally shooting being probed as assassination attempt: AP sources
Trump is wounded but 'fine' after apparent assassination attempt leaves rally-goer and gunman dead
This is pretty bad. There are reports that a bystander was killed. It's gross to call the shooter a hero.
Why would they be a hero? They helped trump.
Yeah, they missed...
Nobody in their right mind wants this. It only helps Trump.
I have seen zero people saying that
E: Never mind I see it.
He wasted his life and didn't even succeed in his goal, or did he? I know sounds nuts but by the looks this attempt on Trump life has helped him. Look at that goddamm photo op. Bullshit.
Title: "AP sources"
link: "something else - not AP."
me: "why?"
Weird how a guy whose administration directly and indirectly killed a lot of people, plans to up his body count in a second term, who's committed multiple crimes, including insurrection and espionage, but seems both unlikely to ever see justice and furthermore appears to be likely to be elected back into office would prompt an assassination attempt. It's the small scale of "those who make peaceful revolution impossible" quote. Have a functioning justice system where you can just trust that people who do crimes will be put in prison and a functioning political system where you can just trust that the absolute worst people won't get all the power, and assassinations become the province of the insane rather than an entirely unsurprising outcome.
Will this get the GOP to finally support gun bans?
Many GOP events already ban guns at the events, they just dont ban it outside them
Perfectly logical for them, since Republicans aren't the right people to be shooting at.
No, it will get them to support preemptively shooting those in the out-group.
*continue supporting
They're probably lining up to buy more
PA has closed primaries. If you live in a red district, you register R so you can vote in the only primary that matters. Then in the general you vote for the candidate you actually want.
Yeah that's weird but CNN reporting this too:
Federal Election Commission records show that a donor listed as Thomas Crooks with the same address gave $15 to a Democratic-aligned political action committee called the Progressive Turnout Project in January 2021.
I love how we haven’t talked about the gun issue once. Not one damn word. We’ve moved on as a nation of killers to argue about what kind of killer he was.
I don’t follow the news for one day, and apparently Richard Simmons took a shot at Trump. Or was it Dr. Ruth?
Dr. Ruth was a trained sniper. No joke.
TIL
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruth_Westheimer
Westheimer joined the Haganah Jewish Zionist underground paramilitary organization (later, the Israel Defense Forces) in Jerusalem.[26][27][25][28] Because of her diminutive height of 4 feet 7 inches (140 cm), she was trained as a scout and sniper.[24][28][29] Of this experience, she said, "I never killed anybody, but I know how to throw hand grenades and shoot."[30] She became an ace sniper, and learned to assemble a rifle in the dark.[24][14] When she was 90 years old, she demonstrated that she was still able to put together a Sten gun with her eyes closed.[31]
A sniper for terrorists, specifically
After seeing the photoshoot Trump got from this I hope Europe can pull our collective shit together once Trump pulls the US out of NATO and stops helping Ukraine.
The US is NATO. They just use you to stage airplanes somewhere your family will die instead of mine.
Nah, the US is the largest part of NATO but every member contributes and it's more like the only reason Russia hasn't done a "special military operation" here.
Speaking of which we better build a shit-ton of those refueling planes when we get kicked out of Europe in the next 10 years. If we’re not there to protect, we’re just shitty renter that prop up the sex trade.
I guess I am not sure what else it would be considered...
False flag operation is another term to consider
I'm not ready to encourage this because anybody can get pissed off for any reason. There is very little that a politician does that makes everybody happy.
Forget about pleasing everybody. How about having policies that please >50% of people? With no gerrymandering or electoral college
Ok, a good chunk of people think Biden is corrupt so by your logic they should shoot him too? I hope I don't have to spell out where this leads and why it's a terrible idea.
You're aware that Turnip is a literal terrorist, yes?
I'm not advocating for it specifically because of what you laid out.
But I assume they would want people to act on evidence, whether that's in a courtroom or vigilante justice. So their logic would say, no they shouldn't. But yes, that's what it would lead to.
I'm still not convinced this was a genuine attempt on his life and not a false flag op by crisis actors. Because that's exactly the sort of nonsense I expect from fascist ilk.
An assassination attempt presumes the goal was to kill the candidate
Yes, but I'm not sure what you're suggesting. If it's that this was a deliberate miss (maybe to give Trump a boost) it seems implausible that anyone would plan to shoot from some distance, aiming so close to the candidate that the bullet clips his ear, but not killing him. If the aim were to miss deliberately then shooting that close to his head would risk the plan backfiring completely.
I hate that this photo is everywhere. It makes him look triumphant and heroic, or at least it does to his supporters. I'd rather see him cowering and crying on the ground like a punk.
The USSS was even ducking below him so he could be up high. All the way to his vehicle. WTF!?
Pretty sure each time he says "Wait"... He asks for his shoes.
Yeah, I'm just seeing "Old man yells at cloud" with a hint of Mr. Garrison as Trump, lol