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.
I thought so too. What happened was the blood leaked down from his ear when he was hustled to the ground.
It is a rationale that we just saw played out on television!
I don’t know. The blood spatter is downward across the cheek and downward still to Trump’s lip. If the shot came from the front, it would have to come from below and travel upward toward Trump’s ear. On the same BBC broadcast I mentioned, they located the person who died in the stands perpendicular to and to Trump’s left, suggesting that the shot came from Trump’s right.
“A few centimeters”? What is wrong with NR that they can’t say an itch? And yes, I am in a bad mood, but ever so grateful President Trump survived.
There's no way this should have happened right under the secret service’s noses unless they were part of it. Is the entire US govt and deep state trying to kill our candidate now that they know they can't beat him? Consider everything they've tried to do to stop him, including putting him behind bars. Watching the coverup/cleanup in the media is the key going forward. Listen and watch carefully and don't believe a word they say without checking for yourself.
Damn this sucks... Someone I know and respect greatly predicted this entire scenario at least two years ago. I didn't want to believe it, but now?...
If Trump was really going to turn out to be another Hitler, then someone from the future would have come back in a time machine and polished him off long ago.
Yup. It is so obvious that this was a failed coup.
Ya think?
Totally agree.
Not if the SS shoved his head downward, the blood flow which had just started and wasn’t rushing would have flowed down due to gravity and that’s what it looked to me like happened.
The shooter is dead and cannot be questioned as to who hired him. That’s why he was shot. Americans are so gullible and dumb that this will not be questioned.
No, an oligarchy is not a form of Democracy. There is no voting.
These alphabet groups kill unarmed people in their homes and they can’t stop an idiot 20 year old getting ready to shoot into a crowd? Oh, and they are armed with a tripod mounted rife and scope we the people probably paid several thousands of dollars for. What was it the man said “Stinks worse than a whore house at high tide”. Or something like that and he was right. It does.
By who? Merrick the Red Garland? Not happening.
Yes, this is true, and all too often they are successful, tragically 🙁
But for my own part, and certainly for everyone on FR, I’d say: praise be to the Lord for protecting Mr. Trump in the moment of mortal danger.
„Blessed art thou, O Lord, the God of our fathers, and thy name is worthy of praise, and glorious for evermore“ (Dan. 3: 26).
Hallelujah, hallelujah! Amen. 🙏🏻✝️
bk
Blood to the head and extremities such as the ears is highly oxygenated so it’s thin and bright red.
Expect the sudden flame-up of rationality and human feeling to quickly ebb.
9-11 stimulated a surge in patriotism and commonsense - but that didn't last long.
Regards,
exactly
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 !!!
President Donald J. Trump needs to get His own Security Forces of Retired Military, Bikers, Proficient Hunters and Full Blown PATRIOTS and Equip them with the necessary Firearms,Tools and Other Equipment because the Secret Service is not capable of protecting Our President Donald J. Trump and that became fact at the Rally in PA on 07/13/2024...
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