Posted on 07/14/2024 9:30:00 AM PDT by libh8er
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida reacted with outrage to the attempt on the life of Donald Trump in the United States where the former president was holding a rally.
“We must stand firm against any form of violence that challenges democracy,” Kishida wrote in English and Japanese on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter. “I pray for former President Trump’s speedy recovery.”
Trump was injured in the right ear after being shot while speaking at a rally in Pennsylvania on July 13. The suspected perpetrator was killed.
One audience member was killed in the gunfire, and two others were reportedly critically injured.
Hiroshi Ogushi, chairman of the Election Strategy Committee of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, criticized the attack as “outrageous.”
“It is a challenge to democracy and must never be allowed to have occurred,” Ogushi told an NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corp.) program early July 14.
The Lower House member noted that it is the job of politicians to come into contact with voters and exchange opinions during elections.
This, he said, calls for a balance between ensuring freedom for various people to express various opinions on one hand and protecting democratic values and never allowing terrorism on the other.
On the same TV program, Tomomi Inada, executive acting secretary-general of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, noted the shock that swept Japan and the world with the shooting death of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe on the campaign trail in July 2022.
“Even in Japan, which is considered safe, we must have a sense of tension in conducting election activities and engaging in freedom of expression,” the Lower House member said.
America is not a democracy. America is a Constitutional Republic!!
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‘Trump’s life was saved by a miracle, not by his security’ — Russian Spetsnaz veteran
It appears that the people responsible for Trump’s safety dropped the ball judging by the circumstances of the recent assassination attempt, Alexey Filatov, retired lieutenant colonel of the Russian Federal Security Service and veteran counterterrorism specialist, told Sputnik.
While Trump’s security at the rally was provided by three groups – his bodyguards, local police and the Secret Service – it appears that there was no proper communication between them, Filatov, who previously interacted US security services personnel, notes.
Meanwhile, the perpetrator managed to somehow get on a rooftop only about 150 yards (137 meters) away from Trump, a distance where it is “fairly easy” to hit a target the size of a human head using “not even a sniper rifle but a usual automatic rifle with good sights,” Filatov remarks.
“It would be safe to say that the security performed extremely poorly,” he says, noting that for some reason, law enforcement and security personnel did not bother to secure all nearby rooftops in the vicinity.
“You could say that this terrorist act or, shall we say, assassination attempt, it was successful. Donald Trump’s life was saved by a miracle rather than by his security,” Filatov adds.
https://x.com/SputnikInt/status/1812455924843389306
Trump’s life was saved by a miracle, not by his security’ absolutely right
Yeah what happened to Prime Minister Abe was truly horrifying.
And President Trump is President Trump.
Accurate. It was either dumb luck or an angel was next to him. I feel terrible for the poor man behind him who was murdered (as well as his family) and anyone injured. I also feel terrible for anyone that had to witness this first hand or from a distance (which is all of us). Let’s call it what it is: attempted assassination, terrorism, and murder. This is the Left.
I felt sick this morning. Not in a way I have felt about our current affairs in the past which has been annoyance, frustration, anger, sadness, amusement, almost every possible emotion. This morning was different. There is a heavy, sinister presence. Something has been very wrong with this country for some time and now this cancer has metastasized.
Trump’s life was saved by a miracle, not by his security’!
You are not by yourself.
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