Seems like he was just exercising his right to bear arms, is Trump against the Second Amendment now?
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He banned bump stocks via executive order, which is more than any president since clinton did in favor of gun control. I love using this fact to break Republicans' heads. "As a firm believer in the second amendment, I can't vote for trump"
He said this while president:
“I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida … to go to court would have taken a long time,” Trump said at a meeting with lawmakers on school safety and gun violence.
“Take the guns first, go through due process second,” Trump said.
It's a misdemeanor, let him go! If he tries it again, let's all together figure out what to do. But for the love of gorsh, leave his second amendment intact!
I'm seeing a lot of shitheads paint this guy as a leftist Democrat. No. Tell them, "if he's a left-wing Democrat, then so is Dick Cheney." Absurd.
This guy:
- Voted Republican in 2008
- Voted Republican in 2012
- Voted Trump in 2016
The primary reason, as he detailed in his own self-published book, for leaving Trump and beginning to support Democratic candidates was his disastrous anti-Ukrainian policy. Once that occurred [the broader veil of bullshit became unmasked — see this archived tweet — and he became pissed off that he was grifted. Yet in January of this year he was still pushing for Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy— bleeding heart liberals? — to unite and defeat Trump in the the GOP Primaries.
It doesn't change that he's still a conservative Republican.
For a country known to have more gun than people, you seems very bad at using them
guy wasn't even using it
Seems way overblown to me. What a nothing story.
Assassination "Attempt" is just spin. At best this is a Assasination "Concept" thwarted
The guy had a concept of a plan.
He was just an assassination tourist.
chef there’s nothing in this burger
Man hiding in bush at Donald Trump's golf course with ~~AK-47~~ rifle is a nothing burger? Idk how to make customers happy these days ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
edit: people are saying it wasn't an AK
Just lawful demonstration of one's second amendment rights amiright?
I dont see the problem. Plausible deniabillity's a double-edged bitch
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I think it's rather more that it's painfully clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald Trump and his campaign is once again trying to manipulatively present himself as in more danger than he actually is and falsely blaming Democrats for violent vitriol. Donald Trump is firmly the one producing all the violent rhetoric in this campaign. The worst the Democrats have done is imply that JD Vance fucked a couch, and when they did, it was clearly in jest and not serious. Yet he turns it around and blames it on the Harris campaign immediately.
So, let's go over. What makes this a nothingburger compared to what Trump makes it out to be:
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This guy who they caught with the guns previously voted for Trump, and had also previously supported Vivek, after he was disillusioned with Trump. He's clearly not well, but he's also clearly not a true and blue progressive who was pushed to violence by evil Democrats being mean to Donald Trump.
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Trump was never actually in any serious danger, probably because due to the previous massive fuckup the Secret Service is probably actually doing their job this time around. Since he was never in actual serious danger, because they were doing their job, it's as much of a nothingburger as the number of times that such a thing has happened to sitting Presidents. It doesn't blow up the news because it's stupid when they've already failed.
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Never have I seen so few fucks given over assassination attempts.
It was before I was alive, but I'm guessing no one gave much of a fuck when Sarah Jane Moore completely failed to assassinate Gerald Ford. Especially when Squeaky Fromme did the same thing two weeks earlier and was a Manson girl, so I'm guessing she stole most of the spotlight.
Plus, Moore was totally inept.
She was standing in the crowd across the street from the St. Francis Hotel, and she was about 40 feet (12 m) away from Ford[12] when she fired a single shot at him with a .38 caliber revolver.[2] She was using a gun which she bought in haste that same morning and as a result, she did not know that the sights were 15 cm (6 inches) off the point-of-impact at that distance, and as a result, she narrowly missed.[13]
After realizing that she had missed, Moore raised her arm again, and Oliver Sipple, a former Marine, dove toward her and grabbed her arm, possibly saving Ford's life
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore
It's not even really clear why she did it other than being a complete nutbag.
According to this we have, but didn't know it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots
I wanted to see how many assassination attempts needed to happen for Trump to have the most. I thought 4 would do it after getting past Lincoln, who had 3.
Apparently Obama had 11 attempts on his life.
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I think many of us, and many Important People, give a fuck. It's just that we know to take our time and gather information before making any strong proclamations about exactly what happened. We all know that Trump would lie about everything, and initial reports from police and neighbors are notoriously unreliable.
Finally now, more than a day after the event, it feels like maybe we're able to put together the beginning of a reliable picture about exactly what happened.
If you want to know how people feel about assassination attempts on presidential candidates, just look at what they said two months ago.
You know how it rains when you’re camping?
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So fucking crazy that anyone will repeat something when the only source is "According to the Trump campaign"
And guess what, the dude with him on the golf course, main partner in his latest crypto grift, that launched right after. Another staged PR event involving an "assassination attempt" - where's the ear scar Donny dipshit?
Thanks for the nightmares, dickhead.
Right? That thing is hideous 🤢🤮
This "news" looks pure FUD + confusion of what actually happened, and I think is best to be ignored until it can be read coherently from the next weeks news paper... I'm only commenting because of my local news began to propel this shit...
So... the secret service did their job this time? Rather than waiting while someone was camped out on a roof taking ages to miss a shot?
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I don't think this would be getting around the clock coverage if it wasn't for the first attempt
It's Florida, dude was just bird hunting. /s
So....what were the gunshots they heard...?
They have previously said that the secret service agent fired at the suspect after seeing his gun
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The fbi agent who wrote up the arrest warrant said it was a secret service agent
In the very first article within hours of it happening, I read that the secret service fired at the dude and he ran away. (I guess they missed?)
Since I see titles being intentionally ambiguous about the shots, like if he was shot at again.
I'm just glad no one has succeeded. There is no telling what his deranged supporters will do if someone succeeds.
Nominate Vance for president, who is just as evil and spineless, but probably much more effective.
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Yes but in this case there was not even an attempt worth worrying about
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