Posted on 06/21/2016 6:03:37 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The No. 1 trending question related to Donald Trump on Google right now is "Who tried to shoot Trump?" Which means a lot of people don't know the answer. Which is probably because the assassination attempt on the presumptive Republican presidential nominee hasn't been covered as a major news story.
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The answer, authorities say, is Michael Steven Sandford, a 20-year-old British citizen who was in the United States illegally after overstaying his visa. Sandford allegedly tried to pull a gun from the holster of a police officer at a Trump rally in Las Vegas on Saturday. He was arrested and later told the Secret Service that he had driven to the event from California and had been planning to kill the candidate for a year, according to a criminal complaint filed Monday in U.S. District Court in Nevada.
News outlets have certainly reported on the incident, but it hasn't gotten anything resembling wall-to-wall coverage. Cable news shows devoted little time to Sandford Tuesday morning and afternoon....
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Why ask a question to which you already know the answer?
MSM including Faux News is downplaying the assassination attempt and reporting it as just another protester not happy with Trump.
I believe that they do not want to make him more votes.
Because the assassin failed they all to devistated to write a story!!!
Actually, I pondered for a moment that the media might just feel a tad responsible if something (God forbid) were to happen to Mr. Trump.
The over-the-top Trump bashing could certainly give way to some nut taking action.
Because the majority of those in the media wish the wannabe assassin had succeeded
“Because it was only an attempt.”
It actually didn’t even make it to the attempt level.
He never even had a gun.
But using a gun from a LEO on scene is a Novell approach.
I tend to think it should be a bigger story and taken more seriously.
This guy went to a Range the night before to learn how to shoot , D’oh
What I don’t understand is why the FIRST assassination attempt has not gotten ANY coverage... and they let the guy GO!!!
This occurred at an airport hangar in late March or early April. A guy got passed the secret service and was getting ready to assault him, when the Secret Service finally got their act together and tackled the guy, then, as I said, let him go.
I guess boys will be boys.
Sheesh.
The media does over the top Trump bashing and under the bottom Hillary patting! They will stop at nothing!
Exactly.
Had a foreign born nut job attempted to disarm a police officer in order to murder a Presidential candidate that ISN’T Donald Trump, the 24/7 coverage by the liberal media would make 9/11/01 look like a car backfiring.
I don’t see a problem in how this is being reported. It was a lame attempt and it’s best not to make too much of it.
...if it was a gay Demorat. They would have been picked for VP
No way they can tell that story without reinforcing Trump’s basic message on illegal immigration. I haven’t TV today, but has anyone gotten a reaction from Trump on the incident?
Lucky for that boy he didn’t try that “grab the cops gun” stunt in Albuquerque.
Has anyone asked Hillary what she thinks about what happened?
That’s what I think as well.
Because this was White Mosque-planned, and the MSM
already had a story to print sent to them, but could not
use it — because the DNC-paid assassin was stopped.
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