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"The video and photographs of the episode will long be symbols of the current political era and of the Trump phenomenon. Trump’s presence of mind and sense of the moment, after having just been nearly killed and perhaps while still in mortal peril, speak to his natural talents and instincts as a politician and populist symbol."

I have held a grudge against the National Review for eight years, since their terrible "Against Trump" issue in 2016. I do, however, appreciate this editorial

1 posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PDT by jeannineinsd
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were not a democracy


2 posted on 07/13/2024 9:43:47 PM PDT by WeaslesRippedMyFlesh
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I appreciate it, but they need to bear some responsibility for not challenging the rhetoric against Trump until this happened.


3 posted on 07/13/2024 9:44:41 PM PDT by nwrep
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that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters.

When the hell did the National Review decide to go METRIC?! The term is INCHES!
5 posted on 07/13/2024 9:47:23 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana ("Whatsoever he shall say to you, do ye." (John 2:5))
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Is this the kind of event that kicks the NR in the butt for being such a-holes about Trump? About time people start to see he’s not Hitler reincarnated.


6 posted on 07/13/2024 9:48:03 PM PDT by FamiliarFace (I got my own way of livin' But everything gets done With a southern accent Where I come from. TPetty)
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Trumps initial reaction was to stand up to show everyone’s that he’s ok..I swear when he went down I thought he was dead I started crying I could not believe I was seeing what I was seeing but trump being trump he thought only about getting up to show everyone I’m here I’m ok


7 posted on 07/13/2024 9:50:12 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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Fifty thousand witnesses in person and as many or more live online at the time. Like others, I was watching intently and it was immediately clear with the first shots, then him reaching to his right ear, then going down what was happening.

The Trump hate is over the top and it is time to be treating them seriously. Every death threat on X and elsewhere need to be flagged, tracked down, and prosecuted.

8 posted on 07/13/2024 9:50:47 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Assassination Attempts Won't Stop Trump.)
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“...nearby roof with a rifle undetected by security while bystanders pointed him out.”
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Bull ****

Theconservativetreehouse.com has a video showing the police sniper targeting the shooter BEFORE the shooter attempts to kill Trump. Then, after the SS lets the shooter take his shots, then and only then does the SS sniper take him out.

This looks like a setup with the SS being in on it. Only taking the shooter out after he had killed Trump.


9 posted on 07/13/2024 9:51:11 PM PDT by Sir Bangaz Cracka (Poor 'lil Travon bees slamming dat white cracka'a head into dat sidewalk causin he be scared)
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>> which, if taken seriously, justifies any means of resistance up to and including assassination.

What kind of brain-dead rationale is that? As the deranged Left takes the falsehoods seriously, the NR idiots just justified more of the same.


11 posted on 07/13/2024 9:52:09 PM PDT by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist! )
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The shooter was a traitor. Whoever applauds him is also a traitor.


12 posted on 07/13/2024 9:52:16 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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One thing is for sure, the Demos have succeeded in demonizing Trump so thoroughly that we should expect weak-minded people to attempt to take him out much as Brutus and Cassius took out Julius Caesar, thinking that they have done the world a favor. So, Joe Biden, Jill the elder abuser, Chuckie the Schumer, Nancy P. the Skelator, Barack the Untouchable, and the rest of the gang, thank you for bringing us to this point. You deserve whatever you get in the future for your perfidy. Understand, I am not advocating anything for or about you, but the court of public opinion and history will judge you harshly. Count on it.


17 posted on 07/13/2024 9:55:10 PM PDT by Belteshazzar
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The secret service failed today and have blood on their hands.


19 posted on 07/13/2024 9:55:52 PM PDT by bobrlbob
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The secret service failed today and have blood on their hands.


20 posted on 07/13/2024 9:55:56 PM PDT by bobrlbob
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23 posted on 07/13/2024 10:06:43 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Read what they are saying at DU.

The division is beyond politics. The stalinist authoritarians seem to want a kinetic.


26 posted on 07/13/2024 10:09:15 PM PDT by FlyingEagle
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Trump needs to cancel these events since Biden woke SS staff wants Trump dead. People will understand.


29 posted on 07/13/2024 10:11:26 PM PDT by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it." )
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"Trump’s presence of mind and sense of the moment, after having just been nearly killed and perhaps while still in mortal peril, speak to his natural talents and instincts as a politician and populist symbol innate warrior mentality that he has had his entire life."

Dana White said as much and so have others. It is obvious in interviews he had in the '80s and '90s. He's not playing political games or acting a part for the crowd. Trump is exactly what he presents as.

His reaction when he was shot is notable too. No fear, no wincing just grabbed the side of his head and had a sort of wtf? kind of look on his face. Then he recognized the situation almost immediately and dropped.

I think that qualifies as passing a cognitive test. :)

33 posted on 07/13/2024 10:13:12 PM PDT by TigersEye (Our Republic is under seige by globalist Marxists. Hold fast!)
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Unfortunately, for the editors at National Review, the assassin missed by one inch.


No.
National Review, November 15, 2022

https://www.nationalreview.com/2022/11/no/

A bruised Donald Trump announced a new presidential bid on Tuesday night, an invitation to double down on the outrages and failures of the last several years that Republicans should reject without hesitation or doubt.

34 posted on 07/13/2024 10:13:20 PM PDT by Right_Wing_Madman
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Me too. Maybe a wake call for a lot of the formerly reliably right publications.


36 posted on 07/13/2024 10:15:22 PM PDT by EERinOK
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The BBC has excellent coverage of this. They used an overhead view to show that the shooter was on a roof +/- 130 yards ninety degrees off to Trump’s right. I’ve seen the video of the event several times, and just before Trump grabs his ear, he turns his head to address the crowd on his left. Based on the blood spatter across his right cheek and lip, the bullet cut though Trump’s right ear from behind. Had he not turned his head just when he did, the shot may have hit him behind the temple.


46 posted on 07/13/2024 10:30:00 PM PDT by PUGACHEV
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Anyone of us could have predicted this would happen. I said as much here.

The Democrats will start with their ‘’we must tone the rhetoric’’ bs. How quick they'd like us to forget that during Biden's campaign they paid bail for Antifa rioters and how Maxine Waters said in 2016 to ''get in their faces'' and how Sarah Huckabee was hounded out of a restaurant. These Democrat aholes have been ramping up the rhetoric AND the violence for some eight years now and this is the result.

49 posted on 07/13/2024 10:32:48 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberals. Too stupid to be idiots.)
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