Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
Gunshots have reportedly been fired at Donald Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, with the former president rushed off-stage by security staff.
Video clip: https://x.com/Acyn/status/1812249329203286464
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I'd rather him be voted to obscurity and irrelevance than become a martyr.
He seems too excited considering he's usually a coward. Maybe it's the false flag operation that far right personalities keep saying about mass shootings?
I don't think vote to obscurity can apply here. Trump will always have a platform because he is a living engagement machine and that drives the Internet mad. He wins he's the top story, he loses he's the top story, he gets convicted he's the top story. The man is immortal in the worst way possible and the world is basically f*cked.
I miss the short years where we heard nothing from the piece of shit right after the 2020 election.
Nah, this is just want Trumpers want you to believe. He gets attention because he's genuinely trying to foment a fascist overthrow of the government, not because he's some media mastermind.
Trump will always have a platform because...
Yeah, but for how many more years? There's absolutely no way he'd run again if he loses, so it's really just a short ticking clock.
There's no way he doesn't win, even if he loses.
Damn. I wish you weren't exactly right, but you are.
This is the one possible scenario that could make things even worse. They can't replace the head of the snake, but they can sure as fuck pump that the head was shot and injured. They did the same with Hitler.
History is repeating itself far to close for this to be comfortable.
He is a martyr now. And alive. That assassin just killed the country
People that vote for trump after this were going to vote for him anyways
Some might have stayed home.
Nah, those snowflakes were gonna vote
I don't think this is going to energize anyone four months from now. Attention spans are too short.
Those that were going to stay home because he's a rapist with 34 felonies will still stay home. This means nothing unless it comes out that it was a planned stunt, then he loses whatever credibility he had. Wait, never mind, he has zero credibility so his cult won't give two shits and will continue to do and think whatever fox "news" tells them to do.
like vote by mail? Because the snowflakes that I know do exactly that after being so against it.
so it’s just an attendance issue that he won one and lost one, or fraud?
Trump lost the popular vote to Clinton by 2.9 million votes. He lost to Biden by 8.8 million votes. The last Republican president to win the popular vote was George W. Bush.
It's a Republican's best friend, the Electoral college. More people want progressive candidates, not regressive backwards criminals.
He was elected by the minority of the population, and with the help of a Senate that represents a minority of the population, appointed a third of the Supreme Court.
Minority rule is here.
With a more representative electoral system (like Ranked Choice voting) Republicans would be free to place a more moderate candidate as their first vote, assured in the knowledge that their vote would still count against the people they don't want in office.
More people voted for him in 2020 than in 2016
But far more voted for Biden than Clinton. Turnout was very high.
In the short term, I am expecting right-wing nutjobs to do their own sort of retaliatory shootings, targeting whomever their personal info bubble blames as a group.
I hate to say it but that might be the best case scenario. At least in that case biden is in office when the violence starts
Further violence and a mild Civil War are not best case scenario. Queer people dying for your cause is not best case scenario.
Best case scenario (and what seems to be the alt theory on literally every social I have, and on some I don't have), is that everyone believes this was a false flag (and/or there's evidence it was a false flag). That fact that so many people IMMEDIATELY questioned the shooting is a really good sign. People just don't trust him at all. Boy Who Cried Wolf etc
Best case scenario in terms of shit that might actually happen I should say
As with presidential immunity they shot their wad too early.
Yeah, gotta be ready for that.
My thoughts exactly, the right will eat this up and use this the rest of the race. Anyone who was on the edge for voting for him probably just made up their minds. They'll blame the left for this.
Update: annnd it begins...
https://kansascitydefender.com/national/trump-shooting-antifa-conspiracies/
Right-Wing Accounts Launch Mark Violets Antifa Conspiracy in Light of Trump “Assassination Attempt”
This is my thought exactly. I have never felt such a somber feeling.
He’s god now. It’s over.
Nobody is changing their vote over this shit. Democrats are pretty entrenched in not Trump. They knew what was at stake this election as soon as Trump stepped back up.
Its more than just the election. Trump is not going to go away if he loses in November.
That was my first thought too, but then it looks pretty realistic, and he's a terrible actor...
Yeah, he's a living martyr now. Which is highly problematic because it doesn't have any of the numerous upsides of him having actually been killed.
The roll was a critical failure.
Any info on the assailant?
This looks so fucking fake I have to say. I've watched combat videos from Ukraine and Israel since the beginning and this whole thing just seemed so odd. I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if Trump burst a ketchup packet (or movie equivalent) by his ear. This timing is so...so convenient.
Friendly reminder: all these secret service guys assigned to Trump are, themselves, Trumpers.
Edit: I'll suspend judgment until more info is released. My mistake for contributing to conspiracy theories.
if we get a video showing something changing on his face before he touches it or falls to the ground, I think that would rule out false flag, or at least they would have had to actually shoot something at him to do that.
Can't say that's necessarily true (that last bit). They are sworn in to duty to protect current or past president's with their life, regardless of personal belief.
My perspective is that the secret service guys are bound to life.
I recalled hearing a couple things over the course of the Jan 6th impeachment hearings, which is the President has some say in who his personal detail is, and that there was some info pertaining to them being supportive of him personally. I'd have to review to be certain though.
I know a couple current and former USSS agents, they're hardcore trump supporters. That's not to say they all are as I don't know them all, but they are law enforcement after all.