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The Attempted Assassination of Trump is Not Nearly as Surprising as it Should Be

Below is my Hill column on the assassination attempt of former president Donald Trump. We all watched as the horrific scene unfolded on television. It was a traumatic moment for the entire country, but it was hardly surprising given this age of rage. We are still learning about the suspected shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. He was able to use a roof top 130 yards away from the rally for the assassination attempt. He is being described as a registered Republican but donated to a Democratic political organization.

Here is the column:

The assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump left a nation stunned. But the most shocking aspect was that it was not nearly as surprising as it should have been. For months, politicians, the press and pundits have escalated reckless rhetoric in this campaign on both sides. That includes claims that Trump was set to kill democracy, unleash “death squads” and make homosexuals and reporters “disappear.”

President Biden has stoked this rage rhetoric. In 2022, Biden held his controversial speech before Independence Hall where he denounced Trump supporters as enemies of the people. Biden recently referenced the speech and has embraced the claims that this could be our last democratic election.

I discuss this rage rhetoric in my new book, “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage.” We are living through an age of rage. It is not our first, but it may be the most dangerous such period in our history.

Some of us have been objecting for years that this rage rhetoric is a dangerous political pitch for the nation. While most people reject the hyperbolic claims, others take it as true. They believe that homosexuals are going to be “disappeared” as claimed on ABC’s “The View” or that the Trump “death squads” are now green lighted by a conservative Supreme Court, as claimed by MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

Rage is addictive and contagious. It is also liberating. It allows people a sense of license to take actions that would ordinarily be viewed as repulsive.

As soon as Trump was elected, unhinged rage became the norm as with Kathy Griffin featuring herself holding the bloody severed head of Trump.

Just recently, another celebrity, actress Lea DeLaria, begged Biden to “blow [Trump] up” after the recent presidential immunity decision. DeLaria explained that “this is a **** war. This is a war now, and we are fighting for our **** country. And these a**holes are going to take it away. They’re going to take it away.”

For months, people have heard politicians and press call Trump “Hitler” and the GOP a Nazi movement. Some compared stopping Trump to stopping Hitler in 1933. Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) declared Trump “is not only unfit, he is destructive to our democracy and he has to be eliminated.” He later apologized.

Others say that Trump “will destroy the world” unless he is stopped.

I do not believe that the politicians or pundits engaging in what my book calls “rage rhetoric” want actual violence. But they have knowingly created conditions for extremist views and, yes, extremist actions.

The media has been quick to denounce reckless rhetoric from the right while largely ignoring the same language on the left. That included threats against conservative Supreme Court justices before the assassination plot against Brett Kavanaugh.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) went to the steps of the Supreme Court and called out Kavanaugh by name: “I want to tell you, (Justice Neil) Gorsuch. I want to tell you, Kavanaugh. You have released the whirlwind, and you will pay the price. You won’t know what hit you if you go forward with these awful decisions.”

Again, I do not believe that Schumer wanted Nicholas Roske to go to the home of Justice Kavanaugh to kill him. However, these politicians also know that some citizens will hear this rhetoric as a justification for violent conduct.

Thus, when the president is claiming that the election may end democracy in the nation, it can be heard as much as a license as a warning, particularly when he adds “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”

We still do not know about the shooter in this assassination attempt. However, we know all too well how unhinged people can find justification in the incendiary rhetoric of our politics. This moment did not occur in a vacuum; it occurred in a time when our leaders long abandoned reason for rage.

We have come full circle to where we began as a Republic. In the 1800 election, Federalists and Jeffersonians engaged in similar rage rhetoric.

Federalists told citizens that, if Jefferson were elected, “Murder, robbery, rape, adultery, and incest will be openly taught and practiced, the air will be rent with the cries of the distressed, the soil will be soaked with blood, and the nation black with crimes.”

Jeffersonians warned that, if Adams were reelected, “chains, dungeons, transportation, and perhaps the gibbet” awaited citizens and they “would instantaneously be put to death.”

Both sides stoked the anger and fears of the public, and violence was seen across the nation.

In our current age of rage, politicians have sought to use the same anger and fear to rally support at any cost.

This is the cost.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” (Simon & Schuster, June 18, 2024).

516 thoughts on “The Attempted Assassination of Trump is Not Nearly as Surprising as it Should Be”

  1. This is an excellent post from the good Professor Turley, and I agree with so many of the comments.
    It is now so easy to be partisan in the wake of this despicable incident. But if I can be 110% neutral in my assessment, I still state this:
    (1) It is one thing to be critical of an opponent by flinging careless/demeaning insults, e.g., calling each other names, hurling personal insults about their appearances or personal life. But it is another thing entirely when one side broadens the horizon by labeling the other as “a threat to democracy” as a whole, and/or that the entire nation is at risk, repeated over and over again, ad nauseam.
    (2) I must be critical of my own gender. I cannot begin to tell you how much I hold in disdain: hysterical female screamers. In the midst of a crisis, the last thing we need is women screaming at the top of their lungs, contributing not only to the tension and confusion, but exacerbating the already-stressed emotional constitution of those trying to help and restore order and equilibrium.

    1. Lin,
      Well said.
      I completely agree with you on point 1.
      I may not be a biologist, I know what a female is but as I am not a female, cannot really comment on point 2.
      However, the imagery you paint of a hysterical female screaming does characterize leftists quite well.

    2. @Lin: Re: “In the midst of a crisis, the last thing we need is women screaming at the top of their lungs”…We are deeply concerned that the screaming caused you to become so un-well. Hold out for the possibility that the screamer was related, in some manner shape or form, to the man who took a round to his head and was killed outright. In the meantime, consider taking Midol for relief of your distress.

      1. zzdoc1: Thanks for your thoughts. Let me expound.
        Before I became an attorney, I was a medical student and working as a member of the hospital’s Code team (responding to all emergencies). In the tense moments of trying to save a life, we had to deal with screaming females echoing off the walls of emergency berths and rooms, tensing up everyone in the ER waiting room, as well as practitioners. I also have been present during a mob event, where people were unable to hear instructions and directions from crowd control personnel because of screaming hysterical women contributing to the pandemonium.
        Your comment reflects an understanding that a single woman (“the screamer”) was related to the man shot. I would suggest that you watch the video and the barrage of screams coming from multiple women.
        I have never taken Midol for anything, am not a screamer, have served in multiple emergency situations, and would like to remind all screamers to just.stop.screaming. Thanks anyway.

        1. Remember in the old movies, screaming woman? Slap her, slap her harrrrrd!

          1. Ha! Remember Carol Burnett (“Starlet O’Hara”) slapping hysterical Vicki Lawrence (“Sissy”) in their parody, “Went With the Wind?” And “Sissy’s” reaction? I still laugh at the reruns….

    3. Fear is the only thing corrupt politicians have left after they’ve destroyed the economy, entangled us in wars, been complicit in genocide, and brought us to the brink of nuclear war. How do you sell that to the American people? You can’t — so you distract them with fear of your opponent. One can always tell who is the biggest loser by who is peddling the biggest fear. In this case, it’s clearly the Democrats.

    4. lin posted: I must be critical of my own gender. I cannot begin to tell you how much I hold in disdain: hysterical female screamers.

      I wondered about that for decades, while at the same time remembering that many women are in stressful positions with gore everywhere: trauma nurses, EMTs, women in the combat trades deployed to Afghanistan and elsewhere.

      My opinion (opinion only) is that it is an inculcated learned automatic response from watching movies and TV for generations where the woman screamed in an event like this.

      I came to these conclusions after years of being a small arms trainer during my 30 years in uniform. We would get classes of people we were to teach the tactical use of handguns in close combat after basic marksmanship training. Then we would watch these people carrying a sidearm in uniform – immediately after a lesson and demonstration of method – go around a corner with their handgun up by their shoulder, pointed up beside their right ear: right out of Starsky and Hutch or Miami Vice. Or using the legendary Teacup Hold grip on their handgun after completing basic marksmanship training.

      Television and movies had taught these uniformed trigger pullers more effectively over the years they grew up than we could un-train them in the initial lessons of tactical training on the use of sidearms.

      And women STILL scream in the bulk of crap released by the entertainment industry: the few movies where a female lead is harder than woodpecker lips and more lethal than the Spanish Flu (am I being racist saying that?) don’t counterbalance that.

      1. Old Dog, no, not racist. It was called the Spanish Flu because only the Spanish were allowed to publish about it in their newspapers, I am informed.

  3. what is clear
    Democrats Hate America
    Democrats are Fascists

    Speaker Johnson and the GOP continue to FUND Democrat Fascism

    Answer TAKE AWAY THEIR MONEY
    End Federal Aid to cities, states, non-profits, colleges
    and
    Jail Democrats from across government for their CRIMES by the 1000’s
    Congress, Cabinet, Judges, DOJ, AGs, DAs, Governors, etc

    1. Yes, It is time to defund these socialist, communistic organizations
      . You and call it what you want. The government has handed out money to these organizations to buy votes and al,l our major cities are run by Democrats.

  5. when you unleash the poisonous rhetoric that trump has employed, no one should be surprised that the poison circles around and bites you- its not complicated

    1. From Victor Davis Hanson:

      So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:

      By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).

      1. And those are just the fantasies. There has also been an eight year long unprecedented effort to destroy and jail Trump that started with the FBI’s warrantless surveillance of Trump’s campaign, then another FBI “insurance policy” in the Clinton Russia soft coup, then two impeachments, then 3 1/2 years of state and federal investigations including a never before charged case of a president possessing classified documents, a never before charged civil defamation case that was allowed to go forward after the NY legislature passed the Trump law that specifically allowed an SOL’d sexual assault/defamation case to proceed long after it was SOL’d, the attempt to bankrupt him in never before charged case of fraud without a victim (that was so outrageous that the NY gov has to calm the NYC business community by telling them not to worry, they were just targeting Trump, the the GA RICO case that at one time was so broad that the DA tried to indict Sen. Cruz, Graham, and the GA gov, then there was the J6 conspiracy case…over a speech where Trump specifically denounced violence, then there was the 8yr old bookkeeping misdemeanor that was morphed into 34 felonies by using a campaign finance law as the predicate crime…another first. When all that failed to bring Trump down, it appears we’re seeing what the final plan is shaping up to be. Forgive me if I am a little skeptical that the FBI going to be solving this one anytime soon.

        1. That’s assuming that the FBIdiots would be capable of conducting a competent investigation even if they wanted to.

    2. Daniel Greenfield has documented the historical record proving that an elected Democrat has compared the Republican presidential nominee to Hitler – and/or referred to them as a “Nazi”, “neo-Nazi”, or “fascist” – in EVERY presidential election since FDR. EVERY presidential election the past 80ish years. No exceptions.

      How hideous is it that a Democrat President sent Republican boys to die in Europe to defeat Hitler and then the Democrat President turns around and compares the Republican nominee to Hitler, as documented in the October 26, 1948 edition of The New York Times.

      https://www.nytimes.com/1948/10/26/archives/president-likens-dewey-to-hitler-as-fascists-tool-says-when-bigots.html

      BTW, your blaming the victim is every bit as dishonest as Democrats comparing Trump to every bad guy in history.

    3. Poisonous to whom, CCP, illegals, the MIC?

      No one is surprised that the left needs to assassinate their opponents because they have no good ideas with which to sway intelligent, non-sociopath, non-sexual predators, non-marxists.

      Please list the poisonous rhetoric.

      IMO, obama, pelosi, schumer, gates, hoffman, buffet, etc should all be put on notice that if Trump is hurt or worse, they are next.

  6. Jonathan Turley said: “Both sides stoked the anger and fears of the public, and violence was seen across the nation.”

    Funny that Turley was able to quote numerous examples of Democrats/leftists stoking anger to the extent that could be construed as authorizing violence such as this assassination attempt, but was apparently unable to come up with comparable examples from Republicans or prominent voices on the right. He thereby exposes his persistent irrational bias in favor of the leftist principles of collectivism and socialism, and any further pretension on his part to be an unbiased and/or objective voice should be dismissed out of hand.

    1. Another Anonymous Soviet Democrat briefly paused trying moral equivalencies for Hamas terrorists to try this one for his fellow Soviet Democrats:
      Funny that Turley was able to quote numerous examples of Democrats/leftists stoking anger to the extent that could be construed as authorizing violence such as this assassination attempt, but was apparently unable to come up with comparable examples from Republicans or prominent voices on the right.

      Might be funny indeed, if it wasn’t a blatant serial Soviet Democrat lie. But okay, I’ll bite:

      President Bribery Biden told reporters he wanted to take Trump “out back” and deal with him like he did with his chain to Cornpop… Cornpop was a bad dude! (As if he could do either)

      House Majority Leader & Soviet Democrat Commissar Nancy said she wanted to punch Trump in the face. (As if she could)

      Here’s your chance to provide quotes of Trump either threatening to personally carry out assaults on opposing political leaders like Biden and Pelosi as they made about wanting to assault him.

      Maxine Waters told Soviet Democrats after Trump’s election to “get in the face” of Republican politicians and members of Trump’s administration when they went to restaurants and other public places.

      Give us quotes of any similar Republican senator or congressman telling Republicans to do the same to Soviet Democrats after Biden was inaugurated?

      Prove to us you haven’t just shown your persistent and irrational bias and pathological liars with examples that support your attack on Prof. Turley.

      Waiting… I sense another acolyte of Hitler’s Goebbels: “If we tell the lie long enough, it will become the truth”.

  7. While everyone has the right to free speech, Individuals, especially journalists, college professors, and politicians, who purposely produce lies to enrage masses of people do not. Sooner or later, the lies build to the point of producing rage from individuals, and often, incidents of immense harm occur.

    2. I would believe that the founders of the Constitution never envisioned the impact that modern technology would have on the rights that they established. The population of America at that time was probably not more than 15 million people, if that. In that era, your free speech came with the idea of a possible azs whooping if your speech enraged another. There were canings, riots, lynchings, tar and feathering and of course killings. Nothing seems to have changed except they now have a bigger platform and brainwashed audience to spread their lies.

    3. Ever since President Trump decided to run the Democrats and their pundits have spread lie after lie to stir their followers up. how many lies has the JUSTICE Department used to try and get President Trump?

      1. They wrote a manifesto on how to get rid of him on day 3 of his administration. It included impeachment and lawfare not sure of assassination, they would never put that in writing publicly. That is the very definition of subversion and sedition. These unelected aszholes shat on every American that voted for Trump in 2016, at the direction of Barry boy.

  8. I think the professors column is spot on. The unhinged character of the left and its criticisms and outrageous rage during this last 8 years was an open invitation to this event. I have been wondering when it was going to happen, not if.
    You not only have the rage politics from the left but also the lawlessness of this administration with the southern border invasions, the outright contempt of and failure to follow court decisions such as on student debt and others, investigations of Catholics and parent organizations that oppose the administration’s radical social agenda, suppressing speech in a multiple variety of ways as far as covid and anything else that opposes the Democratic propoganda machine or who left the Capitol unguarded on 1/6/2021, then illegally destroying evidence and then locking up the files of the so called Jan 6 “Star Chamber”, attempts to destroy X once it became a more free speech organization, attempts by NewsGuard to destroy all funding of conservative news outlets, the Russia Collusion Fake, the 1st impeachment fake, the collusion of 51 “intelligence experts” to silence Hunter’s laptop disaster, letting IRS statute of limitations expire on a favored few (read Prince Hunter here) and then the lawfare being waged against Trump with 30 year old accusations of assault (after the NY legislature passes a thinly veiled bill of attainder), the 1/2 billion dollar fine for “quote” inaccurate assessments of property with no money lost, a payout to a porn extortionist for legal expenses that actually were legal expenses, and on and on and on. Prosecuting Trump for having files he only had as president while the other guy had files from decades ago that he had no right to hold.
    I, for the life of me, could not understand how any operative/ assassin would not think he could likely get away with murder .
    The Hollywood elites have been calling for it. Maybe it’s time to haul in Kathy Griffin and ask her if she still likes to parade around with a facsimile of Trump’s severed head. I would think incitement to murder would be a nice charge. Indict the whole cast of “The View”, Indict the MSM for massive attempts to defraud the American Public and their scare tactics to frighten and incite the people
    The Democratic Party have been calling for this for 8 years. Their sympathies and condolences ring hollow. Crocodile Tears, I think is the old fashioned term.
    Time for them to pay the piper.

  9. Jacqueline Marsaw field director for Bennie Thompson posts for assassin better shooting next time don’t miss. Check it out CFP site. She should be fired immediately.

  11. Well said Professor Turley. This was a tragic moment in history. There will be much to learn in the coming days, weeks and months.

    Thankfully the President is okay. Tragically, one victim died and two others wounded. That was a close call, less than 10 seconds difference in the angle of trajectory and it could have been critical or fatal for President Trump.

    This should give one pause. Life on this side of eternity is fragile and fleeting. From
    One moment to the next might be our last. We are one step away from falling and a few breaths away from physical death.

  12. They tried Russia collusion, they tried impeachments, they tried the J6 riot, they tried a fake sexual assault charge from someone who claimed it happed 30 years ago (a Kavanaugh tested trick), they tried classified docs (even though Biden had more of them with less claim to be in control of them, they tried the fake real estate case from fat Letitia James, they tried Fani “I pay for everything with cash,” Willis and they used fat Alvin Bragg to get the moniker “convicted criminal” and nothing worked and so….

    1. And don’t forget the “51 intelligence officials” and the endless characterization by mainstream broadcast and print media and Democrats that Trump is Hitler reincarnate. Everything so far, including the round yesterday, has missed. Should we expect next an air-to-air missle?

  13. Let’s be honest there is one group and only one group that is/has been stoking the flames of rage! The media lies in concert everyday to an ignorant segment of Americans who absorb their lies. There are no journalists today only advocates of Marxism. The institutions of “higher learning” are nurseries for gardener’s sowing the seeds of Marxism. The professional politician openly lies to us and uses the justice system against any American who questions them. Anyone who threatens their corruption becomes a target for annihilation. This is not America.

  14. “I do not believe that the politicians or pundits engaging in what my book calls “rage rhetoric” want actual violence.”

    I agree with everything the good professor states in this post, but that sentence. We all want to think they do not want actual violence, but they sure do act like they do. I believe behind closed doors they would have been perfectly happy with a successful attempt. Just too many years of listening to this rhetoric and now seeing their repeated attempts to stop Trump to think otherwise.

    1. As do I. I recall the violence of 2020, when ‘peaceful’ demonstrators burned downtown Kenosha and occupied and burned other towns and cities, looted stores, and attacked, wounded, and killed those who disagreed with them, who were defending their property, or who tried to reason with them. I also remember at least one prominent politician from California encouraged them and another who urged her supporters in the Twin Cities to riot and those who opposed Trump to ‘get in the faces’ or their political opponents, which many of them did.
      And I remember the mainstream media ignoring the violence or justifying it as a reaction to the death of a single drug addict.
      The violence has been almost all on the Left, and it has often ended badly. There is no equivalence here, and politicians who have deployed violent rhetoric should not be excused of responsibility.
      If you smear your political opponent as a rapist who works for Putin and wants to end democracy, it is not only the mentally ill and the extremists who will see eliminating him as an honorable deed, it is also people who once were moderate but now are so frightened by a constant drumbeat of vicious rhetoric that they view Trump as an ‘existential’ threat to their well-being.
      The rhetoric of the Democrats is calculated, it is not accidental. Trump is gruff and shots from the hip, he ridicules his opponents, and he says stupid stuff. But he has been under attack by the media, the Democrats, and, yes, civil servants since his first campaign in 2015, and he is an existential threat to those whose jobs depend on the Democrats being able to hold on to power, but not to the nation.
      I will stop here. Anybody who has been awake, rather than woke, knows what has occurred since Trump upset the GOP apple cart and defied the odds to undo the Clinton machine. No need to repeat the litany of actions which have revealed the corruption and viciousness that has permeated our country and our ‘civil’ society. It is there for those with their eyes and their minds open. . . .
      But it is depressing to watch how rapidly my country has declined from the day I sat in the student union and heard that JFK had been assassinated, an event which caused the nation to mourn, and the day I turned on the news and learned Trump had missed Kennedy’s fate by a millimeter, which caused the chattering classes to point out that both sides were nasty and the Republicans were guilty too, and . . . well, you know . . . Trump started it. Schoolyard taunts and rationalizations for adults with the brains of five-year olds.

    2. Mary, that is the exact quote I pulled out to comment on as well.

      Rage rhetoric has a purpose and it is to motivate people to act, relative to the rhetoric. Violence has proven to be the expected result. The unknowable is the exact degree of violence. Maybe those engaging in rage rhetoric really didn’t anticipate this degree of violence, but they don’t have that excuse moving forward.

    3. Mary said: “behind closed doors they would have been perfectly happy with a successful attempt”
      Exactly. The damned cowards want to incite unjustifiable violence, but leave themselves in a position to disavow it afterwards, so that only those whom they deluded into fulfilling what they advocate will be held responsible, not their sanctimonious selves. They are disgusting mockeries of human beings.

  15. Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have. –Harry Emerson Fosdick

  16. How are all those who ranted, raved and raged about death squads, end of democracy, people disappearing going to spin this?
    And, yes, they are responsible for all the rage.

    1. Upstate, the lying partisan hacks are actually saying “thank God Hitler is safe and let’s pray for his complete recovery”. This is how phony their claims that Trump is Hitler are, how fake their claims that Trump will kill journalists and open concentration camps.

      They can’t have it both ways, if you think Trump is Hitler you cannot wish him well and be relieved that he is safe and/or if you wish him well you cannot think he is like Hitler.

      Democrat rhetoric is biting them on the a**.

    2. UpstateFarmer,

      How will they spin this you ask? Simple. Now the drumbeat will be that this was all staged by Trump’s team to make him the victim.

      Here’s the exact message from a poster on JT’s blog post about the First Amendment being out of control:

      “Mamamary says: July 13, 2024 at 10:43 PM
      When things just don’t add up you have to ask yourself why. The whole “Trump attempted assassination” thing doesn’t add up. I speak as someone who was shot in a random act of violence by an unknown person, and I know that the first thought that goes through your mind isn’t retrieving your shoes and hat, fist pumping and calling for “fight, fight, fight “. After you realize you’re hit, your first thought is whether you’re going to die. You look to see if you’re bleeding and where it hurts. You think that you’re not ready to go yet. Your next thought is getting the hell out of there in case they try again and assessing your injuries. I was fortunate because the projectile shot at me bounced off of a car twice, which absorbed much of the energy. I took a hit on a large muscle mass that was sore for a while, but it could have been fatal.

      I’ve seen the video multiple times tonight and what I saw was someone who didn’t seem shocked by what happened. His entire demeanor was inconsistent with an assassination attempt and near-death experience and more consistent with something staged to get attention and to play the victim. Plus an opportunity to play a “tough guy“. It doesn’t add up.

      I also know that Trump is desperate to “win “ , more so than ever before, that despite the debate, he’s not ahead in the polls, and that he’s scared of being sentenced to jail. I also know that a skilled sniper knows how to hit a target and how to graze a target. Trump has the support of Putin, a murderous dictator who will do anything to help Trump win. Trump loves to play the victim and is an attention hog. It doesn’t add up. When you just almost got killed your first thoughts aren’t about shoes, a hat or performing for the cameras to appear “tough”.

      I’m saying it’s not outside the realm of possibility that you may have just witnessed another episode of the “Trump is a victim show “ , including the sub themes that “they’re so afraid of him that they are trying to kill him, but he’s too tough for them.” It doesn’t add up. In fact, it stinks.”

      Trust me, if this individual could come up with that, you know the MSM either will, or already has.

      Oh, and if anyone on here wishes to understand how we’ve gotten to this place, please take the time to look up something from the great Paul Harvey, circa 1965 entitled, “If I were the Devil: How to Destroy America”. It’s very eye-opening and downright spine-chilling in it’s prophetic nature.

      1. Patently absurd idea. Rifle accuracy from that distance, particularly with a small calibre round, is not all that dependable or repeatable, except by a skilled sniper, under pristine and controlled conditions. In the highly unlikely event that Trump’s right ear *had* been the actual target, it wouldn’t have taken much error at all on the part of the shooter to have struck him fatally. Hell, a good puff of wind could easily have accomplished that. A typical .223/5.56 rifle round will drift an average of 11.5″ at 300 yards in a 10 mph wind. The distance from the shooter to Trump as approximately half that, and the wind velocity possibly much less, but a major or fatal wound would have required not much more than a 1″ deflection. How demented would someone need to be to think that Trump would take that magnitude of risk to increase his probability of victory in a contest in which is already leading?
        Wind Drift of All Rifle Cartridges: A handy table
        https://backfire.tv/wind-deflection/

  17. You are being too kind to the party of “Our Democracy” that for several years has been willing to retain power “by any means necessary.”

  18. Exactly right & so well said – Thank you for your wisdom & please keep bringing it sir- Devine Intervention Won a God Bless America & All 🇺🇸🙏💪❤️ #ProudAmerican

  19. Don’t fret. The lackluster riminals of the DOJ/FBI, the actual perpetrators of Jan 6, are on the case.

  20. I am having trouble understanding how anyone is naive enough to think this assassination attempt was anything but inevitable, in lieu of the madness that is American politics.

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