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If he never fired a shot it isn't really an assassination attempt is it? Intended quite possibly, but not an actual attempt.
Others are asking how a person with a firearm came within 500m of the former president. Every time he goes out there are people with firearms closer than 500m, and I don't mean Secret Service or Police.
The agent fired four to six rounds, a Secret Service official said. The suspect then fled. A witness who took a picture of the suspect’s vehicle and license plate number provided it to law enforcement officers.
Per CNN, Martin County Sheriff William D. Snyder says they arrested the guy in that vehicle:
Snyder said his agency “flooded” Interstate 95 and closed a large swatch of the highway before eventually safely stopping the suspect vehicle.
“I have a clear understanding from investigators that we actually do have the suspect that they’re looking for in Palm Beach County,” Snyder said.
Wouldn't it be hilarious if the license plate said PRIVATE
Sadly, the normalization of politicial violence only helps Trump to dismantle the norms and peaceful transfer of power our democracy was founded upon. 😕
My concern is more so if he gets elected, he might try to justify "emergency powers" citing political violence as history has shown with other authoritarians.
What transfer of power would there be? He is not in power.
When Trump loses the coming election, a peaceful transfer of power should go from Biden to Harris, but Trump has worked to dismantle norms such that we must now expect that he will contest the results, tell his supporters he won, and worry about those angry supporters being goaded into attacks on poll workers, judges, Congress, and federal buildings.
Vance is already feigning ignorance of how he and Trump create violence.
Excerpt of Vance/Bash kerfuffle (page is not the full conversation):
... You accused me of causing a bomb threat. Doesn't that mean I should shut up about the residents of Springfield? Don’t you realize you're engaged in basic propaganda to silence the concerns of American citizens?
DANA BASH, CNN: I was quoting the actual mayor of Springfield, Ohio, who, after the bomb threats, was begging federal officials to stop putting negative attention on his city. I'm not talking about the policies....
They are making a peaceful transfer more difficult by telling lies, spurring on their most violent supporters, and then denying all culpability. Sadly, doing so may spread from their fanatics to a larger population as evinced by yet-another-gunman-incident.
Additionally, there are hangers-on who are banging the drum about another January 6 if they don't get their way. It's foolish to take them at their word and think that it only means a voter supporession billl.
"Your reporting about the threats of violence that resulted from my voicing unfounded rumours started by white nationalists is the real propaganda!" - the couchfucker
Exactly!
Plus, imagine what happens if he's assassinated and then Harris wins the election.
Absolute cluster fuck
Gonna be a cluster either way, but at least in that case it can't end with him in power.
I pray whatever gods may be spare us from such a fate.
Ahh I understand, I hope that since a Democrat is in power they will be quick to protect democracy
Another MAGA shooter or just Florida Man?
Should probably be an eye opener for Trump that even though this keeps happening no one cares.