This is probably a real attempt. Dude seems legit and should be support. It’s so wacky how libs act like they’re fighting trump, until somebody actually tries and then they’re horrified because ultimately they share the same class interests.
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What’s fake is how the Feds setup those kids to do an “isis attack” where cops watched passively while kids threw “high grade explosives” that never exploded obtained from an unknown source (aka feds).
Try to google any news about this. Zero recent news. Zero news about where they got the “explosives”. It’s strictly statements from the feds.
those outside the use immediately knew he was faking, and right wingers, ooh look a conspiracy theorists
Wake me up when they don’t miss.
They will always miss unless it is a real assassination backed by super powerful people. It really is not that hard to understand
It’s more likely the gunman was there to shoot at the press that TFG has vilified for the last ten years than an AA on his corpulent personage and his minions.
I’m starting to think he’s not as committed to the roll as Charlei Kirk was
He was known before he was assassinated? I’d never heard of him until he was assassinated.
Definitely known. If you do any of the Instagram Reels/TikTok style of scrolling videos, you’d come across him fairly often. I have always been a raging lefty in almost every category but I still saw his debates quite often. They were kind of pushed by the algorithm as ragebait because the things he said were so ludicrous and his arguments were very weak but he was so confident about them.
ah, the only social media I’ve used in a number of years is the fediverse. from what little i know of him, I SERIOUSLY doubt he’d have been on the fediverse.
Normal people, and also his widow.
Seriously there are multiple headline updates conflicting with each other. At this point I need a interview with the Secret Service agent who was shot to believe anything.
Can anyone tell me what is going on? I’m getting a bunch of assassination attempts on POTUS memes and haven’t read the news as it tends to be BS mostly.
There has been an assassination attempt on Trump (or somewhere else in that table, IDK). Apparently they caught the guy.
Real information is something we will only have tomorrow. Or never. But people want to talk.
Maybe…we don’t actuslly know who he was intending to shoot. We’re assuming it was trump, but the shooter was stopped some distance from the dining room, so who knows.
Do I start wearing a maxipad on my ear now? How to do?
I’m not a person who believes in many conspiracies but, the first WHCD he attended since 2016 and there was virtually no security at the hotel?
If you ever been in a city with a military base when the president or VP land, you know that doesn’t make sense. You don’t even need to be that close and they are on you.
there was virtually no security at the hotel?
Were we looking at the same event?
The hallways were full of uniformed Secret Service agents and there were several plain clothes/undercover agents in many of the initial images.
There were also many uniformed local police (one took a round in their bodyarmor).
There were magnetometers for screening guests.
There was a fully kitted counter assault squad standing by close enough to be on stage in about 10 seconds.
The airspace was restricted and there were agents on the roof with counter drone weapons.
There were multiple layers of security.
All he managed to do was to sprint through an initial screening point and right into a hallway full of federal agents and local police where he was subdued.
Apparently you could get into the hotel with just a paper ticket. That’s what I was talking about.
(I don’t actually believe it was staged)
Yeah, while it was closed to the general public for security reasons. Existing guests were given a pass to get through the perimeter security.
The event space was the primary security area and he was tackled before getting passed the entrance security.
Since this was a place where the President’s was prescence was planned, the security would be especially heavy. (If bad guys know where you’re going to be they can plan more larger, more complex attacks.)
The security would have been set up, covertly, to repel the equivalent of a ground assault. They’d have an ground quick reaction force nearby, the air space was restricted so there were likely drones or worse overhead.
Trump is incompetent, but the Secret Service isn’t (insert jokes about the sniper here) and they have basically infinite money as far as bodyguards go.
This guy didn’t get remotely close, at best the agents saved his life by tackling him before he got far enough for them to use lethal force.
He was able to get close enough that Wolf Blitzer was standing close by to where it happened. That’s awfully close.
A member of the press was in the hallway at a dinner for members of the press. That doesn’t give any information about how close he was other than telling us he was in the right building.
That’s true but if he was in the building, he also could have detonated a bomb and that’s pretty close for that.
(The BBC says)[https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdxd1x2qw2go] he was last at the WHCD in 2011. He has never gone as president because he is too much of a baby to let himself be roasted.
Is that the one where Obama roasted him so he decided to destroy the country
Yep.
He shat his pants and they needed an excuse to get him out of there.
If the attacks are all fake, its incredibly poor false flag, because nobody feels bad for the prick except his absolutely ardent fans.
If they’re real, it should prove to everyone how absolutely hated he is, because no other president in recent memory has had two assassination attempts that were publicly reported.
Three. There was the staged rally shooter, then they caught a guy trying to get into Mar a Lago with a gun, now this one.
Four. There was also the guy with a gun at the golf course, waiting in the bush
3 if you count that homeless guy who was caught at the golf course
4 there were 2 in Florida
I assume you mean captain car bomb with the cyber truck? Wasn’t he after Elon tho?
Nope, some other guy with a shotgun went there while dumpy was away.
All amateurs, take an example from Oswald
Gerald Ford survived two attempts in the span of like two weeks. Three if you count airplane stairs
I wasn’t born when Ford was president, so not exactly “recent memory” for me 😂
four if you count homer
“Americans why are you not trying to shoot this guy” someone tries to shoot this guy “FAKE!”
(/s – I do understand where this sentiment is coming from, but it’s just a bit too early to tell what it really was)
Well, the one where his ear got scratched, the FBI refuses to investigate it. That definitely makes me curious. They also seemed to have set positions for photographers to get his picture as he raises his fist with the flag in the background. There’s certainly some strange things going on with that.
They also seemed to have set positions for photographers to get his picture as he raises his fist with the flag in the background.
I haven’t watched videos of that attempt, but has Trump moved from his position after the shot? If not, I don’t see it as implausible that they positioned a photographer in advance to get the flag in the background. That one is explainable, we are talking about the country that has its flag fucking everywhere, even on underwear.
I find the fact that they took the foto at all after the “attempt” as one of the biggest proofs that trump was not really scared about the situation.
There’s a guy who, calmly but quickly, gathers up photographers and puts them in one position, then moves then to the second position (which is the one with that flag). It’s very weird behavior for a shooting literally just having happened.
Thanks, that is even more weird than positioning them before the whole thing.
If you go to Reddit r/conservative it’s selling. It’s always the same the attacker donated like 20 dollars os something to Democrats one time.
My fear they could use this to take out freedoms, spy on peoples social media, or even worse say it’s a mental health problem be critical of them and start to get so called “dangerous” people by their speech.
Yeah but conservatives don’t believe in mental health, remember? That’s why American healthcare practically considers it an indulgence.
Whenever there’s a public mass shooting they always say “we need to talk about mental health”, and then… that’s it.
“Talk is cheap” is, I believe, the appropriate aphorism.
This second assassination theatre production is why we need to release the trump/epstein Files! He was reading a prepared statement very soon thereafter. It had to have been pre-written.
i believe its the 3rd, the first one is what got him election support, the 2nd one is shortly after he elected i dont think it made much news.
The guy in the golf bush?
The dude is gonna drop dead pretty soon anyway. He’s starting to look like Palpatine.
palpatine is actually smart and powerful, and it was suppose to represent mitch mcconnell. because mitch was the mastermind in the senate during his first term and after, into stalling until he got re-elected again.
It’s quite likely Trump (possibly other presidents) has a pre-written statement when someone tries to shoot him (because it will keep happening)
Guess I get breaking news from lemmy now.
Good! Where the heck else is any good.
So for those of you like me who hadn’t heard the news before seeing this, apparently some guy rushed through the metal detector area at the White House correspondents dinner, but was stopped by a volley of shots from security staff.
A bit like rushing Area 51 but if someone tried to solo the mission.
