“I was 10 years old when my uncle was assassinated and I remember it like it was yesterday,” said Robert F. Kennedy Jr on Fox News, hours after a bullet skimmed the side of Donald Trump’s head. Kennedy recalled the days after that tragedy in 1963. “There was a healing that took place,” he said.
BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — On the heels of an attempt to kill him, former President Donald Trump called Sunday for unity and resilience as shocked leaders across the political divide recoiled from the shooting that left him wounded but “fine.”
A former fire chief attending the rally with family was killed, as was the gunman. Two other people were also critically wounded.
The presumptive Republican presidential nominee said the upper part of his right ear was pierced in the shooting. His aides said he was in “great spirits” and doing well.
Secret Service chief Kimberly Cheatle facing mounting calls to resign after ‘total security breakdown’ at Trump rally
Calls are mounting for the resignation of Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle after the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
Critics claim Cheatle dropped the ball on security measures at Saturday’s Trump rally — saying she has been too focused on woke “Diversity, Equity and Inclusion” policies, such as making sure the department is 30 percent women by 2030, to take care of the agency’s more crucial business. They note she even allowed a YouTube influencer to train with agents last year.
Daughter of Man Killed in Trump Assassination Attempt Posts Poignant Statement About Dad’s Last Actions
…Comperatore’s daughter posted a heart-wrenching statement about her dad’s last moments on her Facebook page.
Questions questions …
A rebuttal to Shitty Pants Joe’s presser
Watch every second of this editorial. Nails every key point about the Secret Service, the FBI & the questions they won’t answer. pic.twitter.com/hkUdlWxn0v
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 15, 2024
h/t Mauser and DS and XC and Kiki9
The left-wing voter-turnout group that once received a small donation from the man suspected of attempting to assassinate Donald Trump described the former president as a “threat to our democracy” just hours before the shooting but is denouncing the violence unleashed at Saturday’s rally in Pennsylvania.
It shouldn’t be news by now but if it is: These people aren’t playing games.
As of this writing, there’s little to say about the assassination attempt against the former president other than thank God he’s reportedly okay and deep condolences to anyone at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania who may have suffered serious injuries.
This attempted murder may galvanize both Trump and a majority of the American people to deal with the Left decisively. We must hope so.
The annals of American history will have few artifacts as potent as the iconic image taken by Associated Press photographer Evan Vucci, of a bloodied but defiant Trump, rising from a symbolic grave, fist raised, and framed by an American flag. This election is likely over. Trump went down as a fatmouthing politician, and rose as a pagan demigod. If Jesus Christ and George Washington came down from heaven to replace Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the Democratic ticket, Trump would still likely win in a landslide.
What is perhaps most astonishing about Saturday’s attempted assassination of former U.S. president Donald Trump is just how close Trump came to death. It was a matter of centimetres. A bullet from an AR-15 rifle, fired from a distance of 150 metres, nicked Trump’s ear.
It’s almost as amazing that it’s taken this long for somebody to make a serious attempt on Trump’s life.
The gunman who attempted to assassinate former President Donald Trump Saturday was identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, sources told The Post.
Crooks, of Bethel Park, Pa., squeezed off shots — one of which grazed Trump in the ear — at an outdoor rally in Butler, just outside Pittsburgh.
Sources said Crooks was planted on the roof of a manufacturing plant more than 130 yards away from the stage at Butler Farm Show grounds.
Clearest video of shooter.
🚨BREAKING: CLEAREST VIDEO OF THOMAS MATTHEW CROOKS SHOOTING AT PRESIDENT TRUMP‼️
A newly obtained video from TMZ shows the shooter, identified as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, firing at former President Donald Trump before being shot. In the background, a woman is heard… pic.twitter.com/UxQTwPOMIU
— Only Mob King 🇺🇸 (@OnlyMobKing) July 14, 2024
Explosive devices found in Trump shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks’ car after failed assassination attempt at rally: report
Secret Service Under Scrutiny After Trump Assassination Attempt
Trump just proved that he’s a pure warrior after his heinous assassination attempt
They called him an illegitimate president.
They said he was a threat to democracy and had to be stopped.
They unleashed a legion of agents to investigate him, searched his home and broke historic barriers by indicting him.
Then they rigged a trial in a bid to put him in prison.
‘I Was Four Feet Away When I Heard the Bullets’
FBI surprised how Trump’s would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks fired off many shots before Secret Service killed him at rally
Who you gonna believe?
@fancypants_s https://t.co/WhI7Arao04
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 14, 2024
Is this fair?
This was President Trump’s Secret Service.
Notice anything concerning?pic.twitter.com/HTjFWBvTHM
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) July 14, 2024
The director of the Secret Service has been working hard on DEI.pic.twitter.com/LSB0BBDMkT
— Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️ (@realchrisrufo) July 14, 2024
Libs of TikTok has compiled a nice list of leftist commentary.
Another “far right conspiracy” that turned out to be true. pic.twitter.com/y6jgTbnw0M
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) July 14, 2024
Magnificent.
If we have a Civil War, the Left just started it.pic.twitter.com/cBgyFbwpcK
— John (@JustAJohnSmith) July 13, 2024
The attempted assassination of President Trump is killing the left and especially the deep state lackey’s in the media.
Trump’s behavior was simply magnificent, the stuff of true grit and has I believe won him election over Face Down in the Tapioca Joe.
The fist pump photo is a stick in the eye to his detractors.
The media was every bit as awful as you imagined them to be none worse than the Washington Post who chose yesterday to run this hate screed against Trump supporters with the sidebar Trump rushed off stage after loud noises at rally. Trump supporters are always Hitler but somehow the brownshirts are always leftists.
Fun – MAGA Memesters Immortalize Donald Trump Surviving Assassination Attempt
Twitchy has some laughs.
Giving credit where credit is due, NBC (and simulcast on MSNBC) wasn’t anywhere near the dumpster fire on Saturday night that CBS was in covering the assassination attempt against former President Trump that left at least one Trump rally attendee dead and others injured. That said, there were still a few humdingers, such as pathetic use of the GOP drinking game/bingo word “seizing” and more perverted speculation.
MOSCOW, July 14 (Reuters) – The Kremlin on Sunday said it did not believe the current U.S. administration was responsible for Saturday’s assassination attempt on U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, but that it had created an atmosphere that provoked the attack.
It took just minutes for anti-Donald Trump conspiracy theorists to claim the shooting was ‘staged’ to boost his electoral prospects.
The first posts appeared on X as agents were whisking Trump from the scene of his Pennsylvania rally blood running down the right side of his face.
In the hours after Saturday’s night shooting, ‘staged’ was the fourth ranked search term on Google, followed by Trump, Secret Service, and Antifa – before law enforcement had even confirmed the identity of the gunman.
The attempted assassination of former president Trump – which came within centimetres of succeeding – reveals the incompetence of the secret service in preventing even the most amateurish of efforts to kill a presidential candidate.
Despite the heroism of agents near Trump when he was wounded, no armed shooter should have been allowed anywhere near any building with a line of sight to the speaker. Yet this 20 year-old with a large rifle was able to get off multiple shots. Any protective service should know that all buildings in rifle range and line of sight must be cleared before a protectee is allowed on the platform.
UPDATE – Two people have reportedly died after gunshots were fired at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania – with the injured former president rushed off stage by armed security.
Butler County District attorney told the Associated Press (AP) that a shooter was dead and that a rally attendee had also been killed. One person is also reportedly in critical condition.
More – Gunman behind attempted assassination on Trump shot and killed by Secret Service: sources
Shots fired at Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania as former president is seen with blood across his face
Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally – as former president rushed off stage
FOOTAGE OF SHOTS FIRED AT PRESIDENT TRUMP 👇 pic.twitter.com/O0pyeRw7xw
— Liberacrat Media™️ (@Liberacrat) July 13, 2024
Hit.
Donald Trump took a bullet for this country.
If you’re voting for anyone else, you can go fuck yourself. That’s where I’m at. pic.twitter.com/ARRMr1d4dW
— BLAIRE WHITE (@MsBlaireWhite) July 13, 2024
Is this the shooter?
GRAPHIC:
The assassin lies dead on a rooftop. pic.twitter.com/Jlbs2cBghv
— ♛ ✡︎ (@NiohBerg) July 13, 2024
Dead shooter
Witness saw rooftop shooter
This guy claims he and his friends warned security about the shooter… https://t.co/UWEZiraDrj
— Dave Rubin (@RubinReport) July 13, 2024
Shooter was about 150 yards from Trump on a rooftop with a direct line of sight to the stage.
It defies every security protocol ever written that this rooftop was not secured, and law enforcement personnel were not standing up there. pic.twitter.com/a1WfwMRZPA
— John Cardillo (@johncardillo) July 14, 2024
Shooter noticed by security detail sniper
JUST IN: New footage shows sn*per appearing to notice the suspect just milliseconds before the man sh*t at Trump.
The sn*per could be seen looking up in what appeared to be shock the moment the first bullet rang out.
The suspect, who was on top of a structure, was then quickly… pic.twitter.com/zsKnu3zP5m
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 14, 2024
Dead shooter pic
2nd eyewitness says police informed of shooter on roof.
@fancypants_s https://t.co/6FW5f5M8QR
— Patti Jo (@TheSupeHero) July 14, 2024
h/t Mauser and PA Cat and DMB, SDMATT and everyone else reading this post.
“He is dangerous in word, deed and action.”
“He puts self over country.”
“He loathes the laws we live by.”
So begins Thursday’s New York Times editorial, ominously casting the words against a black-and-white image of an American flag fluttering in the background. The Times renders these indictments with the gravitas of an undertaker, like Moses descending the mountain with stone tablets in hand. In reality, the Times has proven it’s entirely unfit to evaluate the fitness of presidential candidates, whether it’s Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump really is the hero in this hero’s journey election.
Icame in for some guffaws — and, I’m happy to say, more than a few bouquets — a while ago when I wrote here at The American Spectator that the 2024 election is shaping up as a classic hero’s journey story starring Donald Trump as The Hero.
As the cacophony of Democrat supporters, big money donors, and liberal political pundit voices rises to fever pitch over Joe Biden’s disastrous debate, coupled with Mr. Biden’s less than convincing televised ABC network interview with George Stephanopoulos, hysterical predictions of a second Trump presidency are gaining ground.
