I’VE BEEN WRITING ABOUT SECRET SERVICE DYSFUNCTION SINCE THE EARLY BUSH ADMINISTRATION:
Another eye witness says that he told law officers there was a man on the roof climbing between multiple rooftops and they did absolutely nothing to stop him until it was too late! WTF!
We need an investigation into the Trump assassination attempt immediately!"I saw a guy on… pic.twitter.com/qAvDFJpwoy
— Green Lives Matter (@Ultrafrog17) July 14, 2024
BIDEN’S BULLSEYE FOR TRUMP: Issues & Insights (I&I) points out that President Joe Biden on July 8 said he was done talking about the debate and observed that “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.” That kind of rhetoric prompts radical nutcases to do things like shooting at former President Donald Trump, so does Biden bear some degree of accountability for the day’s tragic events?
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OUT ON A LIMB: Democrats must ditch unhinged alarmism after Trump assassination attempt.
President Joe Biden condemned the attempt on former President Donald Trump’s life in no uncertain terms on Saturday night. He deserves credit for doing this bare moral minimum, but now Democratic officials and their liberal media allies must stop with their constant alarmism and doomsday exaggerations before our culture war gets even more out of control.
After all, just days ago, the official “Biden HQ” social media accounts shared a screenshot from The Handmaid’s Tale, a dystopian television series where women are forced into sex slavery, and absurdly suggested that this is the fate awaiting America under a second Trump term. So, too, Biden has repeatedly said that Trump represents an existential threat to democracy and also that Trump would be a “dictator” if elected again, twisting a comment the former president clearly said as a joke.
This is just one piece of countless 1,000s of examples of recent rhetoric from the top levels of Democratic politics lying to Americans and telling them that Trump would be a fascist dictator, or, in this case, put women into sex slavery. pic.twitter.com/jKNcRTC7uR
— Brad Polumbo 🇺🇸⚽️🏳️🌈 (@brad_polumbo) July 13, 2024
We’ve seen even more extreme rhetoric from left-leaning media outlets. MSNBC anchor Nicole Wallace suggested, with no basis, that if Trump wins, her show will be taken off air and we’ll see an end to a free press in America. Another MSNBC anchor, Joy Reid, recently described a second Trump term as “Hitler in the White House.” The New Republic even recently published a cover story styling Trump as Hitler.
Related:
This thread on the left’s projection over “stochastic terrorism” is really something. https://t.co/YaKJlAoASC
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) July 14, 2024
Exit question:
If Trump were as bad as Biden and other Democrats say he is — if he were a tyrant on par with Hitler himself — then why would they be grateful to hear he's safe and doing well? Either their characterizations of Trump are false or their sympathy is. https://t.co/WlR1WABtG2
— Seth Dillon (@SethDillon) July 14, 2024
WHEN THEY TELL YOU WHO THEY ARE, BELIEVE THEM. And respond accordingly.
“We missed” is now trending on X. The left wants you dead. This is war. pic.twitter.com/NnTsqE0sfG
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) July 14, 2024
FALLOUT:
I am going to formally endorse @realDonaldTrump. I came to this decision some time ago as many @X followers have already understood from my supportive posts of Trump and my criticisms of @POTUS Biden.
The reason why I have not yet formally done so is that I want to explain my…
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) July 14, 2024
“I CAN’T BELIEVE ISRAEL ATTACKED THE HUMANITARIAN ZONE:” Muhammad Deif, Hamas Chief of Staff, Was Hiding in the Humanitarian Zone.
Was.
JOHN LUCAS: A White Hot Anger This July 13. “They tried to kill President Trump today. . . . Democrats and their fellow tribe members in the media and elsewhere have been actively promoting this for months.”
DEMS SHOW THEIR TRUE FACES:
A field director for Congressman @BennieGThompson (who headed the Jan. 6th Commission & recently proposed legislation to remove Trump’s Secret Service detail), wishing Trump’s assassin had better aim on social media. pic.twitter.com/vQTptynYBK
— Russ Latino (@RussLatino) July 14, 2024
Related:
They tried to bankrupt Trump.
They tried to imprison him for life.
They tried to kick him off the ballot.
Now they tried to assassinate Trump.
We must put Trump back in the White House.
— 🇺🇸 Mike Davis 🇺🇸 (@mrddmia) July 13, 2024
He's put up with everything else. Now he's bleeding for his country. https://t.co/lrniedqIAm
— Victoria Taft, The Adult in the Room, FITF Squad (@VictoriaTaft) July 14, 2024
Last time America had a candidate this tough was Theodore Roosevelt
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 13, 2024
EXTREMELY GRAPHIC LEAKED PHOTO OF ALLEGED SHOOTER. It’s here. (Assuming it’s real and not AI or something.) I recoiled from it when my wife sent me the link, so you have been warned. He’s… not in good enough shape for ID by anyone who doesn’t know him, I think, so you’re not missing anything by not clicking. But it’s certainly newsworthy.
BIDEN ON MONDAY: “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye.”
The Biden-Harris campaign is on a post-debate blitz, meanwhile, in an apparent effort to quell the distress.
A memo the campaign sent to Hill offices obtained by Scripps News highlights President Biden’s energetic campaign rallies, swing state polling and grassroots support.
The president joined a call with the Biden Victory Fund National Finance Committee, where the campaign says he told supporters, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye,” framing his strategy for the next debate as “Attack. Attack. Attack. Attack.”
Flashback: Bernie Bro James T. Hodgkinson, Attempted Assassin Of Steve Scalise, Already Being Erased From History. And additional examples of leftist violence and eliminationist rhetoric at the link.
UPDATE:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Shooter dead and rally attendee killed at Trump event in Pennsylvania, Butler County District attorney tells AP.
— Seung Min Kim (@seungminkim) July 13, 2024
MORE:
This was a left-wing magazine's cover one week ago.
They wanted this to happen. Every day, they fanned a fire they had created to make this happen.
They must be held accountable. pic.twitter.com/goxf3oV7Tt
— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) July 13, 2024
UPDATE (10:05 pm): Yes, it’s okay to compare Trump to Hitler. Don’t let me stop you.
—Mike Godwin (yes, that Mike Godwin), the Washington Post, December 20, 2023.
UPDATE (10:08 pm):
Trump's just been shot, and CBS anchor Margaret Brennan disparages him for not telling his followers to lower the temperature. Unbelievable. pic.twitter.com/97R2FG97gG
— Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) July 14, 2024
I miss that guy.
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) July 14, 2024
UPDATE (10:41 pm): Joy Reid Whines: Media Not Calling Trump Nazi, Hitler Enough!
—Michael Wnek, NewsBusters, May 22nd.
UPDATE (11:11 pm): ‘Hitler Pig.’
As former President DONALD TRUMP’s trial opened Monday in New York City, NYT’s MAGGIE HABERMAN posted an update from the courtroom: “Trump appears to be sleeping. His head keeps dropping down and his mouth goes slack.”
The post, which immediately went viral on X and was almost instantly the talk of cable news panels, shot around Biden world in emails and text messages between White House, campaign aides and other Democrats close to the administration.
“Hitler Pig sleepy,” one individual said on one thread as a caption to Haberman’s post.
You read that right: “Hitler Pig.”
That moniker, four people in Biden’s orbit told West Wing Playbook, is one that aides to and allies of the president — generally younger, more digitally native individuals, not senior staffers, one person clarified — frequently use to describe Trump.
—The Politico, April 17th.
AND DEMOCRATS ARE ALWAYS TELLING US HOW THAT SORT OF RHETORIC INCITES VIOLENCE, SO THEY MUST HAVE MEANT TO:
Just days ago, Biden said “It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
Today, there was an assassination attempt against President Trump.
— Sen. Marsha Blackburn (@MarshaBlackburn) July 13, 2024
A FRIEND MESSAGES: “The fact that it was an ear graze should absolve to Clintons. When a woman wants someone dead. . . ”
To be fair, it’s hard to get good help these days, what with the labor shortage and all. Immigrants have a good work ethic and go for less, but their cheek weld is questionable.
MARTIN HACKWORTH: We all just dodged a bullet. “Trump wasn’t the only person in America to dodge a bullet this afternoon. He was one of about 350 million of us. Had the attempt to assassinate Trump succeeded, I’m confident that there’d be gunfire in cities around the nation tonight. Including, possibly, my small mountain town in the northern Rockies. That’s how close we are to being out of control in 2024, America. . . . There are an awful lot of people in this country who think that they can go to bed every night, no matter what they do or how they conduct themselves, and wake up the next day in a relatively safe, free, and prosperous nation. That’s not so.”
This may be a case of God looking after fools, drunkards, and the United States of America.
An Insane Photo by New York Times Photographer, Doug Mills showing a Bullet wizzing by the Head of Former President Donald J. Trump at today’s Campaign Rally in Pennsylvania. pic.twitter.com/zHy6OX7JPp
— OSINTdefender (@sentdefender) July 14, 2024
Not sure if this is right, but it’s clear that if Trump hadn’t moved his head a few inches at the right time, he’d be dead now and we’d be in the deepest of deep shit.
UPDATE: Apparently real.
I’ve analyzed many images of high speed projectiles. Based on typical camera shutter speed and bullet velocities for AR rifles, the streak has the correct length, and the shadowing based on the Sun-angle is correct. It does look like a bullet. https://t.co/BeiNdsfADr
— Dr. Phil Metzger (@DrPhiltill) July 14, 2024
OPEN THREAD: Make it happen.
RESIGN:
I want to repeat, and can absolutely confirm, the USSS Director Kim Cheatle has repeatedly turned down requests for a larger security footprint around President Trump. Despite knowing the threat level is catastrophic.
Resign tonight. https://t.co/v3UQyTt1dK— Dan Bongino (@dbongino) July 14, 2024
Agreed.
If Trump didn't move his head, he most likely would be dead right now. pic.twitter.com/nnzJNbOSR4
— Censored Men (@CensoredMen) July 14, 2024
BATYA UNGAR-SARGON: It’s Suddenly Coup O’Clock for the ‘Defenders of Democracy.’
THE NEW SPACE RACE: Dawn Aerospace gets approvals for supersonic rocketplane tests.
BIDEN’S STATEMENT:
UPDATE:
As American as apple pie https://t.co/EcWybKls1Y
— wretchardthecat (@wretchardthecat) July 13, 2024
ANOTHER UPDATE: Now the Post story has been changed to identify the shooter as a “white male.”
YES:
The Reid Hoffman’s of the world got their dearest wish … but then the martyr lived pic.twitter.com/laaRBc5yol
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) July 14, 2024
NANCY PELOSI, LAST WEEK: This Is Not A Normal Election, Trump Must Be Stopped.
IT’LL BE INTERESTING TO SEE HOW HE DOES AT THIS HOUR ON SHORT NOTICE:
President Biden is about to give a statement. It is not clear if he will take questions. Many will want to ask about his own over-heated, ill-considered rhetoric, including his recent statement "we're done talking about the debate, it's time to put Trump in a bullseye." …
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 14, 2024
Related:
BREAKING: A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
DHS, which oversees Secret Service…
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) July 14, 2024
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