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Trump watches himself get shot ‘over and over’ and campaign staff fear he has PTSD: report
(www.independent.co.uk)
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It was the high point of his campaign
And as an event that almost changed everything, it was forgotten about in about 3 days. It is crazy to me how quickly no one gave a fuck that he'd almost been assassinated. It fell off the news cycle before Biden stepped out of the race. I guess once they figured out it was a crazy guy and not politically motivated, no one cared.
Yeah I was like oh shit, Biden is out, someone tried to kill Trump, he's gonna win for sure... and then the response to Kamala's campaign was crazy. It gives me hope.
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I suspected that would happen. It's like that time he got COVID and almost died. Huge story at the time, now people barely remember.
As soon as it's clear that something isn't going to kill him no one cares, he is so unpopular he has crossed some kind of public opinion event horizon.
We decided as a nation that people getting shot wasn't worth getting excited about decades ago.
But you know that if it was a minority or someone on the left, they would have milked that shit until it was desert dry, then try to milk it some more
But instead it was a white guy who seemed to be a republican, or a centrist at best. So, not interesting to talk about
I think it more like they're afraid of triggering an all out "night of the long knives" situation. The media isn't stupid. They know Trump's rhetoric has been leading to violence. It's just that it's been directed at the poor and PoC. Now that it's coming home to them and other elites they're being careful now.
They did the same thing with the black guy that went on a shooting spree in Dallas because of Ferguson. It was the perfect race baiting story, the shooter was a genuinely mentally ill person who was a hardline black nationalist that attempted to join numerous anti police protest groups and just had that "scary black man look" that Fox News loves.
But once it came out that
1.) He had been ridiculously effective in killing cops using the "shoot and scoot" tactic he learned serving in Iraq. Only being stopped once the police tied a bomb to a robot they sicked after him.
2.) He had killed to hardcore white nationalist police officers, kinda proving his point that the police were a force for black subjugation.
The story seemed to disappear from the headlines over night.
Compare that with the Ft. Hood shooter that was Muslim that Fox News talked about for YEARS after it occurred.
Great post. Same for the Vegas shooter. He was apparently trying to prove a point about mental health and fun control. Nobody said shit.
Also, thought you might like to know it "sicced."
I'm still thinking about it. Vision and eye care are obviously not good enough in this country.
No one was inside his head, but he donated to Dems and registered Republican. He googled both Biden and Trump events and seemed to pick the most convenient one. So we can't know for sure, but none of the evidence points to any particular political motivation, just wanted to go out famous.
Almost made it.
What I found most interesting is he apparently had pretty good opsec and kept his communications private and encrypted. You don't usually get that with people who actually commit violent crimes. They usually either loudly tell the undercover FBI agents all about their scheme in a public venue or coordinate over FB Messenger or other extremely obvious opsec fails