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Posted on 07/14/2024 4:53:40 PM PDT by nickcarraway
“All of us need to renounce language and acts of violence, especially against Black people, especially against Palestinians, especially against Muslims, Jews and anybody else," Cornel West told theGrio.
Political leaders quickly condemned what is being investigated as an apparent assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump on Saturday evening at a Pennsylvania campaign rally.
President Joe Biden said, “There is no place for this type of violence in America,” and was “grateful” Donald Trump, who appeared to be shot or grazed on the ear, “is safe and doing well.” The presumptive 2024 Democratic presidential nominee declared, “Everybody must condemn it.” The White House confirmed that President Biden spoke with his 2024 election opponent by phone on Saturday night.
Vice President Kamala Harris similarly said in a statement, “Violence such as this has no place in our nation. We must all condemn this abhorrent act and do our part to ensure that it does not lead to more violence.”
TheGrio spoke with Independent presidential candidate Cornel West, who was in Las Vegas at the time of the incident for the Freedom Fest. He told theGrio, “I am a Christian. I am praying for the brother and his family.”
West added, “All of us need to renounce language and acts of violence, especially against Black people, especially against Palestinians, especially against Muslims, Jews and anybody else.”
Former President Barack Obama said that “although we don’t yet know exactly what happened, we should all be relieved that former President Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, and use this moment to recommit ourselves to civility and respect in our politics.”
The shooting incident, which resulted in the death of the alleged shooter and a rally attendee, and the injury of two others, raises concerns about the security of presidential candidates and their associates.
A former top-ranking Secret Service official told theGrio that security at the White House would “absolutely” be “enhanced” in the wake of the shooting incident involving Trump in the city of Butler.
Armstrong Williams, a Republican strategist and close associate of former Trump administration official Ben Carson, told theGrio, “It is amazing he [the shooter] got that close to the perimeter.”
The Secret Service candidate protective detail is expected to step up security support for the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. However, as of Saturday evening, the Secret Service had not reached out to West to step up his security. The activist thought leader and presidential candidate told theGrio, “I will be alright. I have the Holy Ghost and some friends. You know what I mean?”
On Tuesday, President Biden will travel to Las Vegas for the NAACP National Convention. Leon W. Russell, the chair of the NAACP National Board of Directors, told theGrio, “We will have the full range of local police, Secret Service, and our internal security” for Biden’s convention speech next week.
Many questions are swirling in the midst of the alleged Trump assassination attempt where a former Secret Service agent anonymously told theGrio, “The question [is] how did a gun get in that close to a protectee?” They added, “Someone will be fired!”
Like other former presidents, President Trump has a Secret Service protective detail. A second former Secret Service official who did not wish to be identified told theGrio that Trump has a Secret Service presence similar to President Biden’s.
Typically, entering a space where a president, vice president, or presidential candidate is present is not easy. Security searches are in place, including the use of magnetometers. At the White House, the magnetometers are accompanied by other detection devices, including organic detectors for deadly compounds.
A great concern swirls in the midst of this horrific moment as it is campaign season for both the Democratic and Republican parties. The Republican National Convention is being held in Milwaukee beginning on Monday, and the Democratic National Convention is slated for August in Chicago. Security is being stepped up in the wake of Saturday’s shooting.
The Biden administration announced on Saturday night that President Biden would return to the White House instead of travels on the campaign trail. In response to the shooting, his campaign said it would pause all “outbound communications” and is “working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible.”
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The “alleged assassination attempt”?
It is all about liberal voting groups. Totally tone deaf and no reflection. What does one expect? Biden has no conception of the meaning of repentance.
It has been 3 weeks since the debate, I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of democrats are starting to feel like their party has fallen under some sort of voodoo curse.
Has any party ever had such a miserable 3 weeks?
If this happened a few years ago I may have believed all those pivoting remarks. Now I no longer. To me pure and simple, democrats realize that they can not win this election after they tries all those things, they planned to have Trump killed. Killing is not hard for them. They had Seth killed, they had Epstein killed. They know how to do it
In response to the shooting, his campaign said it would pause all “outbound communications” and is “working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible.”
The current ads won’t work and the current words programed into biden won’t work.
I doubt the contracts let them get their money back.
we should instead go with “apparent assassin”
Encourage ALL democrats to vote Cornel West!
further thought.
Trump should be able to buy some cheap air time subsidized by the rats.
And thus drain votes from Xiden! Brilliant!
I’d say in response to this “you, first” but I already didn’t contemplate political assassinations as a means to power in a representative republic. But they did. The left has always had a fascination with violence as a means to achieve their ends.
Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun - Mao Tse Tung
“working to pull down our television ads as quickly as possible.”
If they are inappropriate today, you’d think they would be inappropriate two weeks ago.
Yep, they’re just about out of fraud. Moving into force.
Yep, they’re just about out of fraud. Moving into force.
Biden: There is no place for this type of violence in America
What about other types?
By the way, lucky for us this shooter didn’t bring a grenade launcher. Crooks walking around and climbing up to a roof with a rifle was fine, apparently. Muslims might try that grenade plan.
Remember, the Biden FBI said 90% of the terrorism in U.S. is from Catholics.
Why do you think that it’s Democrats? It’s not. It’s the Uniparty/Deep State.
The ONLY difference between the Democrats and the GOP is the lines that they read off of the fake wrestling script.
Trump had GOP majorities in the House and the Senate when he was elected in 2016. He wiped the floor with 16 GOP nominees, based on the slogan BUILD THE WALL.
Did the GOP respect the will of their own voters? Did they assist Trump’s effort to get the wall built?
What was the GOP’s reaction to the Russian pee tape and the Mueller investigation?
What was the GOP’s reaction to what was blatantly the most corrupted election in the history of elections worldwide?
The GOP exists for one reason only. To stiff arm, kneecap, and undermine their own voters.
To wag their fingers in our faces and lecture us about suburban soccer moms, while the media and Hollywood trash Conservative voters for the past 60 years. It’s a disgusting good cop, bad cop routine.
There’s two reasons why GOP politicians like Dubya never ever fight back against the slings and arrows that are thrown at them by the media and liberals. 1) To project weakness and passivity on our side. 2) They’re’ in on the game, and attacks on GOP politicians are designed to make us think that they’re on the same side as us, fighting against the same enemy.
They are worse scum than the Democrats. And that’s why they’re chosen to represent “Team R”. Because the Democrats don’t have the cajones to lie and deceive their own voters to the extent that the GOP does.
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