First, I want to say what a MIRACLE - praise Jesus.
Second, I want to offer our condolences to the poor rally attendee who suffered what apparently was a headshot at the hands of this (these?) bastard.
Oh God bless him https://t.co/yqBN9xgzsz
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) July 13, 2024
What I'm going to try to do is catch up with what we know for sure since I broke this in the headlines a couple minutes after it happened and Jazz had a chance to get a post up.
So what started with hubs and I switching to the weekend news on CBS less than two hours ago turned to this.
Trump is bleeding from the ear but it looks like he just survived an assassination attempt.
— James O'Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) July 13, 2024
Please pray for our country. pic.twitter.com/f41MTodZ18
Holy crap.
Secret Service hustled the president off the stage, wrapped in their protective turtle, but not before he pumped his fist defiantly in the air and shouted "FIGHT! FIGHT!"
He grabbed his right ear after the shots were fired. He went down, covered in Secret Service agents, for maybe two minutes. He got up, bloodied, pumped his fist to the crowd and then got hustled into an SUV and taken presumably to the hospital. He held up his fist the whole way.…
— Gerry Callahan (@GerryCallahan) July 13, 2024
I was confused at first - how did someone shoot at him without hitting people int eh crowd behind? And the round report are clearly audible in the video. At least four when Trump first grabs his ear and goes down, and then maybe five afterward.
But once I saw a longer video, where his head was turned toward the bleachers behind him, I realized the bullets must have run parallel to the stage. That was a miracle in itself, too, as they seemed to be coming for the right-hand side.
Shots fired at Trump rally.
— Patrick Bet-David (@patrickbetdavid) July 13, 2024
Character assassination, failed.
Attempt to deplete savings, failed.
Attempt to silence, failed.
Only option left, actual assassination attempt, FAILED.
I’ve been saying repeatedly, double down on private security!
pic.twitter.com/9goXxaxSxk
But someone else was still hit besides the president and still has died. I'm not sure yet how many others. Details are sketchy.
Now I'm hearing two more spectators were critically injured. May they recover swiftly.
Someone lost his life. Donald Trump survived, but the assassination attempt had more than one victim.
— Naomi Seibt (@SeibtNaomi) July 13, 2024
This is no longer just an attempt. pic.twitter.com/QEvcSHxOF3
Fox just read a statement:
Shooter was killed by the Secret Service counter-sniper team.
In concert with the statement above I have two tweets. The first HAS NOT BEEN CONFIRMED but have heard it on 3 different major network news broadcasts, so keep it in the back of your minds as this unfolds.
🚨⚡️ Video of Trump's would-be assassin dead on the roof of Trailor.
— Theurgy (@eTheurgy) July 13, 2024
pic.twitter.com/rnjHamWSBi
This second one would lead me to believe the first of the rooftop corpse is legit.
— Lara Logan (@laralogan) July 13, 2024
So, that all ties together - the statement from the SS and both tweets.
Your reminder - as if you needed one - that you can't hate the media enough.
We are at a bar right now — DC suburb. It’s almost an hour after Trump was targeted at his rally and rushed off bleeding. Not a single one of the 6 TVs playing live sports games have interrupted the coverage or mentioned the news. No one here but us knows it happed…
— Marina Medvin 🇺🇸 (@MarinaMedvin) July 13, 2024
WTF
The president has a chunk of his ear missing that's big enough to be blamed on Mike Tyson.
If you didn't get to see POTATUS stumble out a few moments ago to garble some words about the shooting (or what CNN characterized as an 'incident')...
... you won't be surprised to know the President of the United States couldn't use the word "assassination" about the attempt on the life of his political rival.
Biden declines to call it what it was: an assassination attempt. pic.twitter.com/gruAazUSTH
— Techno Fog (@Techno_Fog) July 14, 2024
Biden had best get RFK Jr Secret Service protection, STAT.
Conspiracy theorists are already out in force on the Democratic side, as you would expect, so be prepared and don't let them get to you.
What did defender of Democracy Chuck Schumer say to intimidate SCOTUS?
— tree hugging s*ster 🎃 (@WelbornBeege) July 13, 2024
Let rephrase it to reflect what has just happened thanks to him and his friends.
Democrats, you will reap the whirlwind you have sown. https://t.co/tEMB5hyEe7
But there are some already iconic photos of him coming out of this...
Trump yelling “Fight. Fight,” after getting grazed by a bullet in the ear, an inch from ending his life.
— Lomez (@L0m3z) July 13, 2024
No panic. No crawling on his knees to safety. The man stands up, faces the crowd, and yells “Fight.”
Historic footage. Just incredible.
pic.twitter.com/9ERhGJaia0
...that are going to make this horrifically sad day - a day I have worried about with you all in posts - one that Democrats will rue until the last donkey leaves its barn.
Already iconic.
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) July 13, 2024
(Evan Vucci/AP) https://t.co/ZxvJ4x3lxs pic.twitter.com/gTOQeTamgI
This is literally an open declaration of war on everything we hold sacred and the democracy the Left claims is in peril. We know damn well it is, and we know damn well from whom.
All my support and solidarity to President and candidate Donald Trump, victim of a COWARDLY assassination attempt that put his life and that of hundreds of people at risk. The desperation of the international left is not surprising, as today it sees its harmful ideology expire, and is willing to destabilize democracies and promote violence to screw itself into power. In fear of losing at the polls, they resort to terrorism to impose their retrograde and authoritarian agenda. I hope for the speedy recovery of President Trump and that the elections in the United States are held fairly, peacefully and democratically.
Todo mi apoyo y solidaridad al Presidente y candidato Donald Trump, víctima de un COBARDE intento de asesinato que puso en riesgo su vida y la de cientos de personas.
— Javier Milei (@JMilei) July 14, 2024
No sorprende la desesperación de la izquierda internacional que hoy ve cómo su ideología nefasta expira, y está… pic.twitter.com/iWN9Q7YFXX
Our prayers to the family of the slain rallygoer, swift healing to the injured, and prayers up to continue to protect Donald Trump and this country.
Former President Trump issued a statement on the shooting incident at his rally in Pennsylvania on Truth Social.
"I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!"
The whirlwind will be nothing the Left can handle.
God bless America.
UPDATE: How close we came to an assassination. Dear God.
A remarkable photo captured by my former White House Press Corps colleague Doug Mills.
— Haraz N. Ghanbari (@HarazGhanbari) July 14, 2024
Zoom in right above President Trump’s shoulder and you’ll see a bullet flying in the air to the right of President Trump’s head following an attempted assassination. pic.twitter.com/FqmLBCytoW
And Congressman Ronnie Jackson is on Fox right now telling Hannity his nephew was grazed in the neck.
UPDATE: Can't imagine why any nutjob would want to take a shot at Trump.
From the OFFICIAL White House transcripts of the Vice-President's remarks today:
...On the other hand, the former president consistently incites hate, including toward the AANHPI community.
I will not repeat his words. I will not repeat his words because they should never be repeated. But I will say that someone who vilifies immigrants, who promotes xenophobia, someone who stokes hate should never again have the chance to stand behind a microphone — (applause) — and the seal of the president of the United States. (Applause.)
I screencapped those suckers. I imagine they'll be doing some cleaning up.
UPDATE: They're gonna wish we were the rioting types. At least they'd know how to handle it.
You will notice, there are no riots happening right now. pic.twitter.com/lnLP1WU2bZ
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) July 14, 2024
Joe's right. The media is clueless about their myopia.
You guys have no idea how horrible you look right now. https://t.co/1G6BmOAu4J
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) July 14, 2024
And it's been over FOUR HOURS since someone tried to assassinate a former President of the United States, while murdering and wounding others.
How have we NOT had a single authority brief anyone on the situation?
What in the SAM HELL is going on?
UPDATE: Wonder if they heard me. Press briefing scheduled for 11:45 EST so just a couple minutes from now. FBI, Secret Service and state police.
AND nobody knows nuthin' yet. WTF.
I'm going to bed.
May the good Lord quickly heal those folks so grievously wounded and continue to protect President Trump and his famly.
God bless the United States of America.
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