Trump 'Assassination Attempt'

[guruilla]

Event being staged doesn't = Trump staged it.

Anyone noting the parallels with the John Hinckley Jr failed assassination attempt apparently organized by insiders of the Reagan admin that also failed and also upped RR's popularity? Another "aim to miss" op?

Guy who got the famous bullet time shot was Doug Mills:

Mills worked in the Washington, D.C. office of United Press International, the Associated Press, and The New York Times.[5] Previously, he worked at a newspaper in Virginia.[6] In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for covering the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign. He won a second Pulitzer Prize for AP's coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.[5]

Mills won multiple awards at the "2021 Eyes of History Still Contest" of The White House News Photographers Association. His awards included Photographer of the Year and Political Photo of the Year (for a photo of then U.S. President Donald J. Trump leaving Air Force One during a lightning storm).[7] Trump called Mills the "No. 1 photographer in the world."[6] Of the seven U.S. presidents Mills covered, he considered Barack Obama the most "photogenic" and Trump the most "iconic."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Mills_(photographer)

Natural talent! Mills also got this famous shot:

[BenDhyan]

DTS symptoms can be quite severe...

But seriously, getting him behind bars didn't work...go to plan B.

Assassinating him didn't work, go to plan C.

Start a war, due to which elections can be postponed? tbd.

[SonicG]

Event being staged doesn't = Trump staged it.

Anyone noting the parallels with the John Hinckley Jr failed assassination attempt apparently organized by insiders of the Reagan admin that also failed and also upped RR's popularity? Another "aim to miss" op?

Guy who got the famous bullet time shot was Doug Mills:

Mills worked in the Washington, D.C. office of United Press International, the Associated Press, and The New York Times.[5] Previously, he worked at a newspaper in Virginia.[6] In 1993, he won a Pulitzer Prize for photography for covering the Bill Clinton 1992 presidential campaign. He won a second Pulitzer Prize for AP's coverage of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal.[5]

Mills won multiple awards at the "2021 Eyes of History Still Contest" of The White House News Photographers Association. His awards included Photographer of the Year and Political Photo of the Year (for a photo of then U.S. President Donald J. Trump leaving Air Force One during a lightning storm).[7] Trump called Mills the "No. 1 photographer in the world."[6] Of the seven U.S. presidents Mills covered, he considered Barack Obama the most "photogenic" and Trump the most "iconic."[6]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Mills_(photographer)

Natural talent! Mills also got this famous shot:

That's quite a fortuitous career!
The aim to miss though: Whoever really took that shot only missed because The Donald turned his head at the exact right moment - even saying something about a shot right before the bullet whizzed by, I believe...

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And speaking of belief, it is being heavily beggared by this whole thing.

Beaver County ESU team spotted the shooter TWICE.

The first time, the counter sniper took a picture and called it into the command center with the picture

The second time, the counter sniper spotted the shooter was 5:45pm. Again he relayed the photo and info.

https://twitter.com/ryantyre/status/1813011989696024975
(From a local news station - that second time was 25 minutes before the shooting!!??)

Local counter-sniper team was inside building where Trump shooter climbed on the roof and opened fire: sources

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.

Cops were inside, but not on the roof during the shooting, sources said.

Crooks was able to scale the building unchallenged before firing off eight shots with an AR-style assault rifle, grazing Trump in the ear, killing one Trump supporter and wounding two others.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/15/us-news/c ... ened-fire/

Hadn't heard this yet:

Attendees reported seeing 20-year-old Thomas Crooks acting suspiciously near rally metal detectors, according to CNN, with local law enforcement being notified and broadcasting warnings over their radios to the Secret Service to be on the lookout for him.
https://nypost.com/2024/07/14/us-news/s ... -pa-rally/

(Interesting how the SS is putting the blame on the local police...and of course there is this whole freak-out about the female SS who freaked out themselves. The SS has been an ongoing shitshow for a while well before Biden's appointment of a woman to head the department!)

[SonicG]

Speaking of assassination attempts of former POTUS, I forgot how Ford had two made within three weeks - both by females - and even that failed to garner him the WH!

On September 5, 1975, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, a member of the Manson Family cult, attempted to assassinate United States president Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. Fromme, who was standing a little more than an arm's length from Ford, pointed a M1911 pistol at him in the public grounds of the California State Capitol building and without chambering a round in the gun, unsuccessfully attempted to fire.
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On September 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore attempted to assassinate the 38th President of the United States, Gerald Ford, after he had made an address to the World Affairs Council.[1] Moore fired two shots at President Ford with a .38 Special revolver, both of which missed. Ford had survived a previous assassination attempt 17 days earlier, and after the second attempt President Ford would wear a bulletproof trench coat while out in public. On January 15, 1976, Moore was sentenced to life in prison for the attempt, and on December 31, 2007, was released on parole.

Sara Jane Moore had been evaluated by the Secret Service earlier in 1975, but agents had concluded that she posed no danger to the president.[2] She was detained by police on an illegal handgun charge the day before the assassination attempt, but was released. The police confiscated her .44 caliber revolver and 113 rounds of ammunition.

Moore was also an FBI informant...

[Elihu]

case in point: "Star Wars Actor Mark Hamill Mocked For Criticizing Size Of Trump's Ear Bandage" from my beloved zerohedge

mob formation

[stickdog99]

Gogh Van Go

[JackRiddler]

once you're ready to question anything presented about this story, on the initial basis that it stinks (and it does), what difference do official or semi-official claims of evidence make anyway?

So the NYT says one of their images captured the bullet. So what? Easiest thing to claim, or to fix.

What can you claim as actually known? Maybe the timeline and motions of people in frame as recorded on video, presuming this can't be manipulated since there were many recordings. (Soon enough the AI should be able to replace the video as shot from different phones in real time but let's assume we're not there yet.)

So I guess that means the distant pops and apparent grazing on the ear, the screams, the Donald Ducking, then all those seconds of Trump unseen on the floor with agents preparing to lift him (and then not doing it), Trump calling for his shoes, them finally lifting him, Trump directing them to wait (and them obeying) so he can pose for the fist and fight-fight-fight message, and the carry-off.

Also, presumably, all that time, starting a bit earlier, of people 150 feet away saying, hey look at that shooter on the roof, aren't you coppers going to do something? And a copper apparently going up and then being scared away, allowing the shooter to get off his shots. Assuming all this is recorded, which I'm not sure it is.

I shall warn that the endless campaign trail is a context in which it would be foolish to completely rule out fuck-ups, accidents, and incompetence. That doesn't mean I'm voting for that explanation, understand? But mere argument from incredulity (i.e., your claiming it's unbelievable they would fuck up like that) is insufficient.

Since it's so popular round here: the cui bono. That would depend on whether it was supposed to happen as it did or whether he was supposed to be dead, wouldn't it now?

And then there's the let's make up invisible but possible tech extras, remote-control guns while the MK patsy attracts the attention, the "agents" actually being the make-up team preparing him for the shot when they lift him, etc. I'll leave that to you, but tell me you can't come up with more than one scenario where it is arranged for Trump's benefit, or else was arranged to kill him and fucked up, etc.

I think though if you go down this rabbit hole all the way the tendency will be to arrive at the idea that whatever happened, exactly as it happened, was what was supposed to happen, was planned to happen that way by the plotters in the first place. There is no grand philosophical reason to favor that, but well, what happened IS what happened, and EVERYTHING else is what DIDN'T happen.

I suppose my first warning should have been about the scenario of the stupid fucked-up semi-brainy and semi-brain-damaged boy-man indoctrinated with a lot of violent ideology and shooting lessons decides Trump's not his friend after all, grabs his AR, goes does this for the glory and sweet release from this wretched boring life, gets lucky enough for the ear-graze but not the kill, and is offed, as he hotly desired. This is not at all implausible. Nor is it too complicated to take seriously (like, say, the 9/11 story -- any version).

We are in so much the VR and fake-everything stage of politics that it's also okay to laugh at the idea, but not to say it's implausible. Because it ain't.

[JackRiddler]

The Democrats are incredible pussies. (Please assume we're in a British pub, not a DSA meeting.) But I repeat myself.

It's like every other fucking thing -- "defense," "antiwar," "criticism" of Israel, "tax and spend." Immediately they act as if some special finger-pointing at them is justified, as if there's merit to the idea that they've been talking too violently, too much talk of revolution, too much of the "left," when of course it's always been the opposite.

One thing can't be disputed about Trump is he brought violent rhetoric to a new level. Second Amendment solutions for Clinton comes to mind as the obvious one for this case, but it's literally thousands of examples, every goddamn speech.

The Democrats are such total pussies. Every target on this scenario as told so far is theirs to hit, and they're doing nothing. It's incredible.

The total no-gun-control guy gets hit with a shot from everyone's favorite legal freely-purchased assault rifle (yeah I'll fucking call it that, fuck off gun-sexuals) and the shooter is registered Republican and his family's on the Republican database as ideal, gun-motivated voters (that's pending more verification, 'tis true, but this is RI).

And what do the D's do? "Aw golly, political violence is bad, we should ALL be sorry!" (in the middle of a bipartisan-approved genocide in Palestine and the dumbest phase of the dumbest war ever in Ukraine). That's it. They call off their own campaigns for a couple of days, just to clear the decks 100% for the RNC. They talk about how they've already spoken against "political violence" and the example they give is... they called the student protests "anti-Semitic." They also suspend the debate over replacing Biden (their only hope). They're basically throwing the election, rolling on their backs and showing their underbellies to the toothed superiors.

Trump ORDERED the assassinations of Soleimani and Muhandis in the international airport of a supposed ALLIED country with US bases in it. It's okay to say these things! This was a publicly announced act, celebrated for the most part by the press and the Democrats. No one has to wonder What Really Happened.

They'd never say any of that, of course, but it's okay to put him on this spot:

You still don't want to ban the AR-15 now?

But I repeat myself.

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[JackRiddler]

Maybe you'll want to click and watch the segment afore it is disappeared....

https://x.com/CollinRugg/status/1813244738503594184

JUST IN: CNN host loses it after former US Army sn*per Cory Mills suggests the July 13 assas*ination attempt on Trump *could have been* a setup.

Holy sh*t.

Mills explained how everything about the incident made no sense.

CNN anchor Kate Bolduan was visibly stunned and desperately tried to combat Mills' statements.

Mills made it *very* clear that he was simply examining all options for what may have happened.

Let me say that again: Mills made it very clear that he was not asserting the incident was a setup but said it should be considered during an investigation.

Cory Mills served in the U.S. Army as a member of the 82nd Airborne Division and Joint Special Operations Command.

[BenDhyan]

BREAKING: CNN reports law enforcement saw Trump shooter walking near magnetometers with range-finder before he climbed roof and used device to scope out counter-snipers, who were also looking at him.

Detonators to bombs were also reported to be found on his person.

Video link

https://twitter.com/i/status/1813351155348443418

[SonicG]

It's just an ongoing circus:


Democrats as Pussies:

Jack Black has said he’s cancelled the rest of the Tenacious D world tour after his bandmate Kyle Gass sparked an outcry with a comment about the assassination attempt on Donald Trump.
The comedy rock group were on stage in Sydney, Australia, on Sunday when Gass was asked to make a wish after being presented with a cake for his 64th birthday.
He appeared to reply: "Don’t miss Trump next time."
In a statement on Instagram, Black said he was "blindsided" by the comment.
"I would never condone hate speech or encourage political violence in any form," the comedian and actor wrote.
He said he didn’t feel it was "appropriate to continue the Tenacious D tour", and that the rest of the group’s "creative plans are on hold".

Or, when in doubt, blame Iran!

Donald Trump's Secret Service protection had been increased prior to assassination attempt due to Iran threat: Sources
Threats emanating from Iran against Trump and his senior administration officials after the military strike that killed Soleimani never subsided, but intelligence gathered in recent months indicates the Iranian regime may have become more intensely focused on carrying out a plot against Trump, according to an administration official, who reiterated there is no known connection between Iran or any of its proxies and Thomas Matthew Crooks, the alleged shooter at Saturday's rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

I cannot help but fall in line behind our Beloved Leader

Jeff Wells
@JeffWellsRigInt
No horse in the race. Soaking in the vibes. Living for the bedlam as consensus reality dissolves.

[JackRiddler]

@theharpomarxist
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CONSERVATIVE: [shoots conservative]

LIBERAL: I’m sorry, this is my fault. I’ll stop talking or wanting things.

keeping in mind the above is the usual kayfabe script

meanwhile, juxtaposed with that:

@QudsNen
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12h
A Palestinian is wailing over the loss of his family in the Israeli massacre at the UNRWA school in Al-Nuseirat refugee camp, where more than 23 Palestinians, most of them children and women sheltering in their tents, were slaughtered.

[Elihu]

like a school shooting analysis but in reverse

One thing can't be disputed about Trump is he brought violent rhetoric to a new level.

the whole thing is surreal, frightening

Trump ORDERED the assassinations of Soleimani and Muhandis in the international airport of a supposed ALLIED country with US bases in it. It's okay to say these things! This was a publicly announced act, celebrated for the most part by the press and the Democrats. No one has to wonder What Really Happened.

how dare you have a memory

somebody was right it is a big club

[Elihu]

The Democrats are such total pussies.

they're not what you thought they were. and so, we've all been fighting each other for nothing all these years

[JackRiddler]

The Democrats are such total pussies.

they're not what you thought they were. and so, we've all been fighting each other for nothing all these years

Why would I give you that impression? They're exactly what I've always thought they were, or rather I perceive them as being the same as I have always perceived them, with some changes over time as one might expect (all for the worse).