Posted on 07/15/2024 7:59:15 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
Former US president Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. A bullet grazed his ear before he dropped to the stage and was covered by Secret Service members. The shooter, a registered Republican who made a single donation to a Democratic super PAC in 2021, was killed. A defiant Trump then stood up and refused to get off the stage before raising a fist to a roar of approval from his supporters. The photo of his raised fist after having just been shot will go down in history books.
We are living through the most eventful presidential race in American history. The assassination attempt followed weeks of speculation that Trump’s opponent in the race, President Joe Biden, would drop out and be replaced, on the heels of a disastrous debate performance in which Biden stumbled, lost his train of thought and stared out into space. But as of this weekend, Biden has managed to survive the attempted coup, which was orchestrated by some of his oldest friends – including his erstwhile boss, former president Barack Obama.
Biden and Trump have spoken since the assassination attempt; President Biden condemned the act and all political violence, and his campaign has confirmed it is pulling down all ads.
One wonders what was in those ads that required pulling them down. Surely, ads promoting Biden’s record wouldn’t be seen as inappropriate following an assassination attempt against his opponent. Most likely, they were full of language about democracy itself being on the ballot in 2024 – the Democrats’ constant refrain about the Trump threat since 2016 but especially this election cycle.
(Excerpt) Read more at spiked-online.com ...
“It’s hard to see how President Biden continues to campaign against Trump given the events of this weekend. After all, the Democrats chose the message of ‘Trump vs democracy’ because Biden has nothing else to run on.”
“The shooter, a registered Republican who made a single donation to a Democratic super PAC in 2021”
They’re ignoring the video of the goober having a schizophrenic screaming hissy shouting to “cut Republican throats”.
Do we know for a fact that this video is him, or is this just more tail chasing by Freepers and others?
Yes.
He volunteered, it was his high school.
Sorry, that was over his blackrock video
The screaming hissy, yes it’s him.
Because that wasn't him.
That video was filmed at Arizona State University and reported on by the Daily Mail on February 6th, 2020. Crooks was a high school sophomore in Pennsylvania with braces and short hair at the time.
Please people, don't post garbage you see on Twitter without vetting it first.
They’ll stick with the RNC is the KKK.
Never mind that Biden’s best buddy in the Senate for a decade was the head of the real KKk.
Okay, granted.
But that blackrock video is him.
I thought it was discredited?
Yes, which is why Blackrock memory-holed it.
Yup.
And they moved fast on it too once it started being talked about.
Wonder what else got memory holed before it could be found.
And, yes, I'm guilty of posting here unvetted garbage from Twitter as well. It can be hard not to sometimes.
But we've got to be skeptical. The deep fakers and fake newsers are out there on all sides working overtime.
I work the overnight, last I’d heard before heading to bed was “this really seems to be him/is him”.
The only thing a crappy candidate has is negative campaigning.
The assassination attempt makes negative campaigning a liability.
Tangent for this thread but related, Butker sheriff’s department says the building wasn’t their responsibility to sweep or secure.
https://www.cbsnews.com/live-updates/trump-shooting-statement-joe-biden-updates/#post-update-450b2804
Now what are the odds over/under until the first 4 paragraphs change?
“Missed me, yet?”
The message to Biden’s people. The assassination wasn’t of Trump, but of Biden’s election wish.
I do so hare cbsnews liveupdate page and its nonlink links
6:05 PM / JULY 15, 2024
Sheriff says building used by shooter “wasn’t our responsibility”
A Pennsylvania sheriff said his agency wasn’t responsible for protecting or securing the building that the shooter used to attack Saturday’s rally.
CBS Pittsburgh station KDKA-TV reporter Andy Sheehan asked Butler County Sheriff Michael Slupe if there was enough communication from the Secret Service about securing the building.
“I can’t speak to that because, you know, as far as the building goes, I don’t know because it wasn’t our responsibility, but they did have a very good briefing,” Slupe told KDKA-TV. “And, like I said earlier, somewhere along the line, you have a briefing and you identify, adapt and overcome. And there are a lot of well-trained police officers that totally have the ability to do that.”
Asked if there was a plan to secure the building, Slupe said, “I have no idea about that. I have no idea. I don’t.”
Slupe also said his agency wasn’t asked to sweep the building.
“No, the sheriff’s office was not asked to do that, and I don’t know whose responsibility that would have been if that was in their plan,” he said.
BY ALEX SUNDBY
“The shooter, a registered Republican who made a single donation to a Democratic super PAC in 2021”
He was much less than that in real life. He wasn’t savvy or at all politically astute. He was nothing more than a dumbass punk kid who made the worst decision(s) any American could possibly make. He wasn’t even old enough to belly up to the bar and order himself a beer...Look at him now! The world’s biggest fuck-up is what he really is.
[Temporarily filling-in for lightman, while he's teaching others how to smash PA's demonKKKrat voting poll fraud and corruption, on Monday -- Thursday.]
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