The Attempted Assassination of Donald J. Trump

National Review ^ | 7/13/2024 | The Editors

[jeannineinsd]

The nation escaped an unspeakable tragedy that would have been profoundly destabilizing for the country by perhaps a few centimeters.

As it is, what happened in Butler, Pa., is godawful enough. A gunman tried to assassinate former president Donald Trump and grazed his ear with a bullet, while killing one rally-goer and seriously injuring others. This was a heinous act of violence and an attack on American democracy.

Trump’s reaction was truly extraordinary and will long be remembered. After Secret Service officers threw themselves on the former president and then picked him up to begin to take him to safety, he insisted on pausing on the stage, with blood streaming down his face, and pumping his fist to the crowd and repeatedly mouthing the word, “fight!”

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.

Many of the condemnations of the shooting have included calls for lowering the temperature of our politics. If that is to mean anything, it should include an end to the fevered insistence that a second Trump term would be the equivalent of the Third Reich, which, if taken seriously, justifies any means of resistance up to and including assassination.

Given the collapse of faith in our institutions and the elevated emotions around this event, the authorities must be completely transparent about what transpired at the rally and be absolutely certain that they are putting out only accurate information. The Secret Service officers who jumped on Trump performed ably, but there will inevitably be questions about how, according to early reports, the would-be assassin was able to climb a nearby roof with a rifle undetected by security while bystanders pointed him out.

If the bullet that wounded Trump had traveled a slightly different path, we would have witnessed earlier this evening one of the most horrifying events in American history. It would have deepened the sense of crisis gripping our country and would have had unforeseeable consequences, none of them good. Sometimes the course of history depends on margins just that small.

[Liz]

Democrats introduced Bill To Strip Trump’s Secret Service Protection
Biden tells donors: "Its time to put Trump in the Bullseye"
Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle focused on "diversity hires"
The Federalist ^ | 7/13/2024 | MONROE HARLESS
FR Posted on 7/14/2024, 1:08:44 AM by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Democrat Bennie Thompson, ranking member, House Committee on Homeland Security

Democrat Bennie Thompson introduced the absurdly named "Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act (HR 8081)" on April 19, 2024.

Democrat co-sponsors include Reps:
<><>Yvette D. Clarke,
<><>Troy A. Carter Sr.,
<><>Frederica Wilson,
<><>Bonnie Watson Coleman,
<><>Jasmine Crockett,
<><>Joyce Beatty,
<><>Barbara Lee,
<><>Steve Cohen

Question: who put these Democraps up to facilitating a Trump assassination?

[mabarker1]

F’ING TREASONOUS SCUMBAGS !!!

Thank You again for All of Your Hard Work and Dedication to keep Us informed.❤️

[Liz]

Pass the word on the Democrats’ assassination plot.

[Political Junkie Too]

Biden tells donors: "Its time to put Trump in the Bullseye"

And I posted this earlier this evening

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I bet when this is all said and done, the LAAP-dog media will have given the Gabby Giffords shooting more informative coverage than the failed assassination attempt on President Trump.

There will be no Presidential rally speech at a college auditorium like Obama did.

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And remember that the Democrats and the LAAP-dog media blamed Sarah Palin for the Giffords shooting after she put out an ad with "bullseyes" (crosshairs) over the Congressional districts that her PAC was targeting for Republican opponents.

-PJ

[Liz]

No perceivable difference between “crosshairs” and Biden’s “bullseye.”

[Liz]

Cong Bennie Thompson
<><>headed the infamous Jan. 6th Commission
<><>and crafted a bill to strip Trump of his Secret Service detail.

His aide, field director, tax paid Jaqueline Marsaw on
social media, wished Trump’s assassin had “better aim.”

[Reddy]

The msm will memory hole this assassination attempt just like they memory holed 9/11 and the shooting at the baseball practice….

[blitz128]

And we don’t use the metric system

There is a joke video where two men are doing jokes, one says something like my wife left me because she said I wasn’t American enough, I saw that coming a kilometer away

[nesnah]

Make no mistake, this is Joe Biden’s America.

[blitz128]

Are these some of hannity’s “good people”?

[Carriage Hill]

This truth can’t be stressed enough:

“The Secret Service almost completely FAILED TO DO THEIR JOB IN PROTECTING President Donald J. Trump by not having SECURED ALL OF THE ROOFTOPS IN THE AREA !!!

This was a straight up FAILURE !!!”

[SaveFerris]

[we’re not a democracy]

Exactly. The USA is a Constitutional Republic.

Uh oh, you accidentally typed “were” instead of “we’re” - that will get some moron excited. :)

[BaldJohn]

Because it wasn’t inches, it was fractions of an inch.

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He was facing to the right, I think that saved his life. If he had been facing forward that same bullet would have gone in his ear.

[sonova]

Fading moon falls apart...

[EQAndyBuzz]

“A representative Republic is a type of democracy. Will people look this up?”

Thank you for saying that.

[WeaslesRippedMyFlesh]

lol

[joethedrummer]

“The Trump hate is over the top and it is time to be treating them seriously.“

Yep. The media created this. Our politicians created this.

Anyone old enough remembers when these VERY same people all LOVED Donald Trump.. for years..

It’s all manufactured hate for a man who went to the wrong political party - according to them..

[EQAndyBuzz]

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

Fire, arrest and indict all supervisors and anyone who was directly responsible for setting up Trump’s security detail. And bring Mayorkas up on charges of treason. He is directly responsible and after denying requests for additional security, this heinous act of treason falls squarely on his head.

[MarzOb]

Anyone think there’s something to this?

https://youtu.be/Ey0qVzG8_vU?t=660

[DoodleBob]