Breaking news shots fired at trump rally

[69ChevelleLSX]

Noticed Google isn’t showing Trump as trending.

 

[zackmars]

According to eye witnesses (assuming the info is good) they were 50ft away, pointing at him and calling for police. I would think that would be noticeable if you are about to commit an assassination. Like an "oh shit I've been made and better hurry up" type senerio.

If his heart rate wasn't already through the roof.

Kinda one of those "oh shit I'm really doing this" moments.

 

[zackmars]

Noticed Google isn’t showing Trump as trending. View attachment 461644

They're scrubbing hard. Everything is getting wiped on reddit.

 

[oldag]

True. In any case this guy got close.

Yep. Real close.

 

[oldag]

According to eye witnesses (assuming the info is good) they were 50ft away, pointing at him and calling for police. I would think that would be noticeable if you are about to commit an assassination. Like an "oh shit I've been made and better hurry up" type senerio.

Certainly is possible, you are correct.

But I can also see the scenario where he is at elevation, focused on Trump and does not notice what is going on at street level below him. Possibly (probably) one person looking up at him in the midst of a crowd.

Could go either way.

 

[Younggun]

Ongoing surveillance of the nearby rooftops was obviously negligent.

A bystander saw the assassin walking back and forth across the roof and reported it to a LEO a few minutes before the shooting. Yet the secret service only responded after shots fire.

Are you taking about the orange hairs guy who was interviewed by BBC? Because he said he saw a guy bear crawling up the roof and yelled at the police but they couldn’t see him do to the slope of the roof.

 

[Bozz10mm]

I'm partial to this one

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You couldn't make a better picture if you tried.

Reminds me of the Marines raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

 

[Younggun]

Reminds me of the Americans raising the flag at Iwo Jima.

I wouldn’t go that far….


Story behind that photo-op is kind of ridiculous also, and way OT. Should look in to it if you aren’t away though.

 

[zackmars]

I wouldn’t go that far….


Story behind that photo-op is kind of ridiculous also, and way OT. Should look in to it if you aren’t away though.

While the picture of the Iwo Jima flag raising is a lot more culturally significant, there's a lot of similarities.

The flag being a big one

The pile of people in a pretty similar layout

What the image conveys, determination, resilience. Obviously storming a volcanic mountain in ww2 against Japan is quite a bit more intense than getting shot in the ear, but I'm not going to lie, the Trump pic made me think of the Iwo flag rasing too, and I've seen several other people say the same thing

 

[Bozz10mm]

 

[etmo]

Are you taking about the orange hairs guy who was interviewed by BBC? Because he said he saw a guy bear crawling up the roof and yelled at the police but they couldn’t see him do to the slope of the roof.

The red/orange haired dude who was interviewed by the BBC lost a ton of credibility when he claimed that the would-be assassin had his head blown off by the counter-snipers.

 

[zackmars]

The red/orange haired dude who was interviewed by the BBC lost a ton of credibility when he claimed that the would-be assassin had his head blown off by the counter-snipers.

Shooter took a .300wm to the coconut at 130 yards.

It won't blow your head off, but it sure would look like it.

 

[Texasgordo]

 

[Younggun]

The red/orange haired dude who was interviewed by the BBC lost a ton of credibility when he claimed that the would-be assassin had his head blown off by the counter-snipers.

“Head blown off” is a pretty common way of saying someone was shot in the head.

I doubt he lost much credibility over that, lol.

 

[TreyG-20]

I'm surprised someone in 2024 is still rocking the Scotty 2 Hotty look.

 

[Semper Fidelis]

UNBELIVIEBLE AND INCREDIBLE !!

So much to say and to learn about...
I do wish the best recovery for all wounded persons !

 

[zackmars]

Other stuff that got overlooked (unless i missed it)

Bidens tweet from 1 week ago saying "trump needs to be put in the crosshairs" was deleted

Supposedly Biden's campaign has halted advertising. Unconfirmed

 

[Bozz10mm]

From the video, at the time of the shot Trump's head was turned fully to his right. If he had been facing forward, it would have been all over.

 

[Bozz10mm]

Biden: There is no place for this kind of violence in politics.

Also Biden: "it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

 

[toddnjoyce]

….This was clownshoes.

Let’s not move the goalposts. Your original statement was Trump has less USSS support than other [former] presidents. That’s not correct. He (and other presumptive major party nominees/nominees) do not get the same level of USSS support as the sitting President. But neither does the Veep nor the Speaker of the House, even when they’re in DC.

Let’s talk about this in detail though. The threat building is owned by AGR International, a manufacturing business. Absent a clear and specific threat, LE - not even USSS - can just waltz in and shut a business down, then sanitize and seal it during a campaign stop. Something in the first ten amendments covers that. The candidate and USSS can ask all they want and the candidate can pay the private business to shut down, but .gov can’t force it just for shits and giggles.

What’s more interesting is that someone couldn’t hit a specific, bigger than average man sized target with a rifle from 130 yds. With multiple shots downrange at that target. But now that the attempt with a rifle has been made, I would expect the threat ring is going to blast out to encompass anything within 1,000m of the X, or roughly 28 million square feet. That’s going to get real expensive real quick or the venues are going to have to change because 20-yr old Thomas Matthew Cooks just changed the calculus for everyone.