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If Secret Service had shot first, Trump gunman would be another martyr for the right
Sacramento Bee ^ | July 28, 2024 | BY DION LEFLER

Posted on 07/29/2024 6:18:11 PM PDT by artichokegrower

As we mull the shooting of Donald Trump and its aftermath, let’s consider, “What if?” What if the Secret Service had shot Thomas Matthew Crooks as he crawled across the roof, before he opened fire on the once and possibly future president?

Crooks would have been a hero (and martyr) of the right wing. Headlines in right-leaning media would have screamed, “Young Trump Supporter Shot Dead by Feds Outside Rally.”

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: assassinationattempt; assistantassassin; banglist; bs; clickbait; dionlefler; enemieslist; enemyjournalist; gaslighting; martyrdom; media; progressiveahs; progressives; r; secretservice; tds; thomasmatthewcrooks; trump; wichitaeagle
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1 posted on 07/29/2024 6:18:11 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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Who are these retarded morons?!


2 posted on 07/29/2024 6:19:40 PM PDT by Skywise
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Sac Bee = Sack of $hit


3 posted on 07/29/2024 6:19:49 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: artichokegrower

What?


4 posted on 07/29/2024 6:21:04 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Ugh, what a fantasist.


5 posted on 07/29/2024 6:21:18 PM PDT by Valpal1 (Not even the police are safe from the police!!!)
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To: artichokegrower
What if the Secret Service had shot Thomas Matthew Crooks as he crawled across the roof, before he opened fire on the once and possibly future president?

If that had happened, the left would be relentless in their claims that Donald Trump set the whole thing up beforehand to boost his campaign.

6 posted on 07/29/2024 6:21:25 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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If I’m not mistaken, the Secret Dervice did not shoot first.


7 posted on 07/29/2024 6:21:31 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: artichokegrower

Dion Lefler sounds like an Assistant Assassin.


8 posted on 07/29/2024 6:23:21 PM PDT by kiryandil (FR Democrat Party operatives! Rally in defense of your Colombian cartel stooge Merchan!)
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To: artichokegrower

Calling Capt. Obvious:

There are many on the left who live for this crap, including a media bobblehead whose name is an oxymoron.

Among them: The 76% who wished Crooks succeeded.


9 posted on 07/29/2024 6:23:49 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: mass55th
Saw this at Bustednuckles...

10 posted on 07/29/2024 6:24:16 PM PDT by skimbell
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To: artichokegrower

Sacramento Bee trying and failing at the sarcasm of the Babylon Bee.


11 posted on 07/29/2024 6:24:37 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd (2 coups in less than 4 years. America is truly a first world Banana Republic.)
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Loons, the loons.


12 posted on 07/29/2024 6:26:09 PM PDT by virgil (The evil that men do lives after them )
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dlefler@wichitaeagle.com


13 posted on 07/29/2024 6:28:49 PM PDT by Dartoid
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I understand the author’s confusion and even that point of view.

She/he/it thinks no one actually watches or attends Trump’s rallies. So given a headline that a Trump supporter had been shot by the Secret Service while listening to Trump (and there being no witnesses to the event) she/he/it believes that Trump supporters would be upset.

I guess it sorta makes sense if you try to get in the head of a mentally ill person who suffers from extreme TDS and see it through that lens.


14 posted on 07/29/2024 6:30:35 PM PDT by CFW
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But this makes no sense.

All the Trump supporters at the rally knew what Crooks was doing, the whole time he was on the roof.


15 posted on 07/29/2024 6:31:36 PM PDT by reasonisfaith (What are the personal implications if the Resurrection of Christ is a true event in history?)
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To: artichokegrower

Sick.


16 posted on 07/29/2024 6:33:07 PM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear (Nessun Dorma.)
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What an insane article. I can hardly imagine even their left-wing readers wouldn’t think this was just satire. No one on the right would be upset that someone was taken out with a gun perched on top of a roof pointed towards a presidential candidate/former president. There’s really nothing the left won’t make up.

And of course there is zero indication that the shooter was “Trump supporter,” and of course his only political contribution was to a Democrat voter outreach group.


17 posted on 07/29/2024 6:34:40 PM PDT by FenwickBabbitt
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The Secret Service did not need to “shoot first”... They could have just told President Trump that there was some whack job with a gun on the roof and to not take the stage!


18 posted on 07/29/2024 6:34:51 PM PDT by Tipllub
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To: CFW

Surprisingly, Dion is a middle-aged, white male.


19 posted on 07/29/2024 6:34:58 PM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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To: artichokegrower

Is this “journalist” really that stupid?

A martyr for the right??? What’s Lefler smoking, because it is WAY too strong.


20 posted on 07/29/2024 6:36:36 PM PDT by meyer ("When, in the course of human events,....")
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