Posted on 07/13/2024 9:42:31 PM PDT by 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.
Lucifer speaks through the leftists.
They are his puppets.
One man with a pistol on that roof could have prevented anyone from climbing up on it. Anyone approaching the building with the intent to get up there seeing someone already up there would have simply abandoned the idea.
Once was too much! Way too much.
But I think he assessed the situation faster than I would have and he’s eight years my senior. :)
Because it wasn’t inches, it was fractions of an inch.
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.
Occam's Razor says that your explanation is the only plausible one.
The Secret Service took out their patsy.
Don’t sell yourself short. I’ve been shot at. When the bee flys by you flatten and won’t remember doing it and you’ll be looking for cover. It’s amazing how instinctual it is. DJT is pretty quick. 👌
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.
They have succeeded only in further steeling his resolve and the resolve of his supporters.
I’d bet money on it and in fact already have by donating twice what I donated after his phony baloney NY “conviction.” That was quadruple what I had donated in Feb. this year and in June ‘23. He won’t quit and neither will I.
In my defense, I have far less reason to expect it than he does.
By an order of magnitude ... unfortunately.
Fascist authoritarians and anarchists always use violence and assasination.
Yeah I have to agree with you. There was no attempt of SS to get him off stage until he had been shot. Why not?
The authorities and the media will do the exact opposite. They will hold back information and spike stories.
I have believed for some time that the police, the Federal security and intelligence agencies, our supposed poliical representatives, and the media know considerably more than what the release to the public.
An oligarchy is also a type of democracy, i.e. democracy as farce.
I've lived through JFK's assassination, RFK's , Martin Luther King's;, the attempt on Reagan, the shooting of Steven Scalise and now this. The Democrats have been ramping up up the rhetoric and violence for almost ten years now. Not surprising this would happen. Rather predicted it.
The boomer cope is strong with this one.
Our SS guys should have been on the rooftop where the assassin was.
They also said that in the next couple months, Biden will be the victim of a slip and fall "accident."
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