All they need to do is raise a Tiberian arch - or create one with a couple of cranes and honkin' huge American flags - to finish setting the stage for a truly amazing moment.
The symbolism is overwhelming and so powerful.
HOLY CRAP
BUTLER ON SATURDAY—HISTORIC! pic.twitter.com/S8WhiNdWph
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 4, 2024
Trump will revisit the scene of his near miss with extinction for a promised make-up rally at 5 pm local time, and, honest to God, I cannot imagine how emotional it's going to be.
I mean, the ghosts of the evil on the rooftop, the near miss for him, plus the heartrending loss and injuries around him? Those memories are going to be so strong for everyone.
BREAKING: Tucker Carlson releases NEW footage of the Trump assassination attempt from Butler
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 3, 2024
This is some of the rawest footage we've ever seen of those moments. The camera was in the line of firepic.twitter.com/lW5LVesiNT
I hope it's a healing, cathartic exercise to face them down together as a strong, united group.
Have a chance at the day they all thought they would have, July 13, when so much changed in a few seconds' time.
Trump feels he has an "obligation" to finish the rally. He's consistently said that he would be back.
TRUMP: "I'm going back to Butler because I feel I have an obligation to go back. We never finished what we were supposed to do... I'm fulfilling a promise, an obligation." pic.twitter.com/73dOHRhWrO
— TV News Now (@TVNewsNow) October 3, 2024
And so he will.
Trump's going to be accompanied by an entire, totally astounding posse of folks who wanted to be with him to make the point - to drive home the message - that their madness and violence will not stop the signal.
I am sure Trump wanted many of them beside him, above all things.
The family of Fire Chief Corey Comperatore will be with the former president, as well as boatloads of the rally attendees who performed so magnificently and courageously that day when things went to hell as bullets flew. I don't think Trump has forgotten a single soul who stopped the bleeding, organized crowds, kept people calm - the first page of the attendee list is a testament to the American spirit in a dire situation. People who were wounded, the paramedics and doctors who saved them.
This is going to be incredible 🙏https://t.co/JCslIn4MLU pic.twitter.com/lXPHnBAGpN
— Liz Harrington (@realLizUSA) October 4, 2024
Then there are pages of Pennsylvania sheriffs, congressmen, you name it.
And the odd businessman of note.
I will be there to support! https://t.co/nokR0g3dn1
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 4, 2024
USA Today is having a hissy fit over the Butler return, as I imagine most Lefty media will. There's nothing for them to counter the images with except derision and then media silence when it happens - if they dare ignore it.
The author notes that Trump has never mentioned the wannabe assassin's name for all that he's spoken of the attempt. And then they turn to Trump's pissant nephew for the lagniappe.
...One name went unspoken: Thomas Matthew Crooks.
Crooks is the name Trump seemingly refuses to speak in public – even as he prepares to revisit the scene of the crime for the first time, with another rally in Butler, Pennsylvania scheduled for Saturday.
That silence isn’t an accident, said Fred C. Trump III, the nephew of the former president, in an interview with USA TODAY.
“If he finds a way to use that shooter to his benefit he’s going to do it,” said Fred C. Trump III, who wrote a book critical of his uncle, "All in the Family: The Trumps and how we got this way."
He believes Trump “would have used it already” if he thought highlighting the shooter was to his political advantage.
The whole article distills to a butthurt reporter who can't believe he has to write something about a guy making hay about sort of nearly being whacked when he was asking for it to begin with and doing his best to find anyone who hates Trump to add their ten cents in agreement.
NBC grudgingly admits the rally is an attention grabber, the implication being 'for all the wrong reasons'...
Former President Donald Trump is set to return to the site where he nearly lost his life in July, holding a rally Saturday that his campaign and allies have hyped up as one of the biggest opportunities to boost his candidacy in the final weeks of the presidential race.
Trump’s rally in Butler, Pennsylvania — where he was shot in the ear by a would-be assassin, who killed a rallygoer and injured others — will give him a spotlight for one of his rallies that has been more difficult for him to grab in recent years.
...and then makes sure to mention that Trump is reportedly not on his game, so it may not help him as much as the campaign hopes.
...But the Trump ally worried he would not be able to meet the moment. In recent weeks, Trump’s rhetoric at rallies has turned darker, including calling for police to be “real rough” on suspected criminals for “one rough hour” and suggesting that Harris was “mentally impaired.”
“It’s just an opportunity for him to kind of do a little bit more than the average rally,” this person said. “I don’t have a ton of faith that it’ll be any different, though. That’s the part that gives me worry.”
It's so odd how you never see these same MSM outlets reporting that insiders fret how "...I don't have a ton of faith that Harris will be anything but a complete moron again, though." When she always is - never any different.
As Ebola always says, 'it is what it is.' And they are what they are.
What they are right now is desperate.
This is why there's been more than a smidge of suspicion attached to a weird maintenance move on the PA voter registration site. Naturally, with an event of this consequence happening, GOP operatives like Scott Presler already had plans locked on for voter registration opportunities at the rally - they were organized and ready to go.
But then PA suddenly scheduled their voter registration website to be down for maintenance...during the rally hours. Presler luckily found the change by accident in the course of his rally legwork.
Excuse me, WHUT? Who does website maintenance during the early evening?
Dear @PAStateDept,
— ThePersistence (@ScottPresler) October 2, 2024
How do you respond to the accusation that you’re engaging in election interference
by scheduling voter registration maintenance during the day that President Trump is having a rally in Butler?
Why 6 p.m. - 12 a.m., instead of 12 a.m. - 6 a.m.? Why Saturday? https://t.co/pNV36HcQQE
Presler and RNC head Lara Trump jumped on that, and the pretty legitimate 'election interference' outcry forced the state to change the shutdown hours to 10 pm - 4 am.
Between now and the rally tomorrow, no doubt there will be more Eeyores in the press and more dirty tricks afoot.
But back to Butler is happening.
President Trump will return to Butler, Pennsylvania on October 5th, one month before the election, to honor shooting victims and deliver a tribute to the "American Spirit." It marks his first visit since the assassination attempt at the same location. https://t.co/OqDqVq18ba
— The New York Sun (@NewYorkSun) October 4, 2024
FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT
It should really be something.
The sheer audacity of it all 'bout makes you want to dance.
Elon is going to Butler to Support Trump
— Juanita Broaddrick (@atensnut) October 4, 2024
That calls for a replay of this classic.
pic.twitter.com/WuxJTAxRL7
God bless America.
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