MILWAUKEE — Chuck Fleischmann and the team had just wrapped up a good practice on a suburban, D.C. baseball field when a killer came calling.
The representative for Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district and his teammates suddenly found themselves sitting ducks as a deranged leftist gunman “hunting Republicans” opened fire.
A strange inversion has taken place
In the monochrome universe of American progressive politics, where a phalanx of experts, hacks and NGOs constantly issue dire warnings about existential threats to democracy from the far-Right while determinedly looking the other way when it comes to threats from the far-Left or Islamists, the attempted assassination of Donald Trump was never supposed to happen. For how can Trump, the demonic inciter of terrorism, the dog-whistler of insurrection and deplorable enemy of the state, be the victim of political violence? It doesn’t add up.
LOL! @fancypants_s https://t.co/6FXopkCEGk
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 17, 2024
The Department of Homeland Security has opened an investigation after the Secret Service catastrophically failed to protect former President Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania last weekend. Trump narrowly escaped death after a bullet went through his ear while he was speaking at a lectern. The shooter was positioned on an unsecured roof just 140 yards away from the stage. The DHS Inspector General has also opened an investigation.
NEW: Secret Service director Kim Cheatle, good friend of Jill Biden and the new face of America's competency crisis, didn't post snipers on the roof where Trump was shot at because it was a sloped roof and she was afraid someone might slip and fall.
You can't make this stuff up. pic.twitter.com/XEkonoRh2p
— Kyle Becker (@kylenabecker) July 16, 2024
The warning from local law enforcement of insufficient manpower adds to questions about whether there was adequate security for the high-stakes presidential campaign visit.
Local police alerted the Secret Service before former president Donald Trump’s rally Saturday that they lacked the resources to station a patrol car outside a key building where a gunman later positioned himself and shot at Trump, according to local and federal law enforcement.
Richard Goldinger, the district attorney in Butler County, Pa., where the Trump rally took place, said the Secret Service “was informed that the local police department did not have manpower to assist with securing that building.”
Goldinger’s account was confirmed by a Secret Service official briefed on the incident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid about a sensitive, ongoing investigation.
Are you getting it now? This was a set up, an inside job. https://t.co/t4T4cxa7Sz
— Catturd ™ (@catturd2) July 17, 2024
Holy crap. @fancypants_s https://t.co/gCcY9esdDY
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 17, 2024
WTH? @fancypants_s https://t.co/pKQnp5yoni
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 17, 2024
WTF??? – WPXI exclusive photos show cell phone, transmitter found next to Trump shooter’s body
h/t Patti Jo for the vids
If you have questions about politics, head to your nearest liberal female and she will give you an honest answer based on facts. pic.twitter.com/KzQkElbSeH
— Dr. Jebra Faushay (@JebraFaushay) July 17, 2024
For months, people have heard politicians, actors and the press calling Trump “Hitler” and the GOP a Nazi movement.
If Thomas Matthew Crooks had succeeded, America would have plunged into civil war.
What is the moral lesson of the shooting of Donald Trump?
This article appeared in the Washington Post: “With each passing day, it will become increasingly difficult and dangerous to stop Trump by any means, legal or illegal”.
By any means, legal or illegal? So why not act accordingly? And didn’t actors like Johnny Depp imagine they could “kill Trump”?
The photo, taken by AP’s Evan Vucci, along with the photo shot through the legs of a Secret Service agent of Trump on the ground taken by Getty’s Anna Moneymaker, and the “bullet photo” showing the trajectory of the near-fatal bullet by the New York Times photographer Doug Mills have all appeared on countless websites.
But an Axios media trend assessment on Tuesday suggested that news outlets should refrain from using the photos lest they be seen as “propaganda.”
Trump survived an assassination attempt by now-deceased 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks at his Saturday rally in Pennsylvania, with some Republicans blaming Democrats’ rhetoric for inciting the incident. “CNN News Central” host Kate Bolduan asserted that Republicans’ use of the word “they” typically refers to Democrats and the media, with Preston suggesting that they might be alluding to the deep state but asserting that such an entity does not exist.
The nerve of Donald Trump, inciting that scumbag to shoot him by being literally Hitler, according to the regime media and the regime husk. And then his supporters shockingly dared to get mad about it – why aren’t they uniting around gun control, even though Trump was protected by guns and guns killed the scumbag, and even though guns are the only thing keeping Democrat-supported criminals and Democrat–supported tyranny at bay? But we know whose fault this is. And they know whose fault this is. And they’re going to lie about it anyway.
h/t DS
Bot accounts promoting the theory that Donald Trump’s assassination attempt was staged have helped to generate almost 600 million views for a wave of misinformation.
The social media analysis company Cyabra found that 45pc of profiles on X, formerly known as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and TikTok spreading the theory that the shooting was orchestrated by Mr Trump were fake accounts.
The hashtags #fakeassassination, #stagedshooting and #stagedbytrump were widely used across the four social networks, it said.
In Milwaukee, it’s clear what the attempted assassination of Donald Trump really changed
“… For those who think, correctly, that he is dangerous and unfit, the fact that someone tried to kill him isn’t likely to sway any votes. For his supporters, the attack may add to the myth, but they were already in the bag.”
A local police counter-sniper team was stationed inside the building where attempted assassin Thomas Crooks climbed on the roof and fired on Donald Trump, law enforcement sources told The Post.
The building — the AGR International Inc. factory in Butler, Pennsylvania — was being used by local police as a “watch post” for snipers to scan for threats as the former president spoke onstage
only 130 yards away, according to sources.
Incredible.
Stunning new details from @CBSNews on how secret service snipers noticed the shooter before the Trump rally in Butler, PA on Saturday.
There were three snipers stationed INSIDE the building the shooter was on, according to a local law enforcement officer with direct knowledge.
One of the snipers inside saw Crooks outside looking up at the roof observing the building and then disappeared, according to local law enforcement.
h/t Patti Jo & DS
Predictable as ever, Democrats and their reliable partners in the news media have escalated political conflict to the point of violence and now that the once unspeakable has happened they’re insisting on a do-over. No thanks!
Naturally, they don’t just come out and say that’s what they want. They instead dress it up in calls for “unity” and declare it a time to “cool it down.”
While seeking evidence last night of the motivations and ideology of President Trump’s would-be assassin, named Thomas Matthew Crooks, I came across what appeared to be his purported Instagram page.
A woman who was sitting behind Donald Trump when he survived his assassination attempt has sparked suspicion over her strange behavior.
Footage showing the unidentified woman — wearing sunglasses, a white shirt and a black hat — pulling out her phone as shots rang out at the Pennsylvania rally on Saturday has gone viral.
She did so while everyone else — including Trump — ducked down to the ground, in fear for their lives.
A woman who was sitting behind Trump during his Pennsylvania rally has gone viral for what some are calling ‘strange’ behavior during his assassination attempt. Do you think she acted strangely? #trump #donaldtrump #trumprally #usa #news #pennsylvania #viral
CP: @DailyMail pic.twitter.com/FL3yecIl2R— Yaseen Rind (@myaseenrind) July 15, 2024
