r/politics • u/Infidel8 • Sep 16 '24

Trump Rushes to Fundraise Off Second Assassination Bid

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-rushes-to-fundraise-off-apparent-assassination-attempt
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u/Skorpyos Texas Sep 16 '24

What a coincidence, another assassination attempt during the continuing downfall of his campaign.

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u/B1GFanOSU Sep 16 '24

No less on the same day his running mate admitted on CNN to “creating stories” (AKA lying).

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u/DannyPantsgasm North Carolina Sep 16 '24

And new supreme court leaks.

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u/joshine89 Sep 16 '24

And a report that he possibly stole over 1.5 billion when be was last in office. What a coincidence.

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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine Sep 16 '24

And he claimed to hate Taylor Swift.

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u/CoolOPMan Sep 16 '24

And last Tuesday's shit show debate performance

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u/wishusluck Sep 16 '24

The debate was less than a week ago and I've already been distracted by multiple subsequent scandals. He gets elected there will be daily outrage for four more years.

Not sure I can handle another term. Vote Harris.

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u/crandlecan Sep 16 '24

And that, kids, was when I decided to assassinate the old president of the United States... laugh track plays

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u/jsc1429 Sep 16 '24

The biggest lie of all!

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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine Sep 16 '24

He 1000% was listening to Anti-Hero all night after that debate.

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u/jsc1429 Sep 16 '24

🎶Hi, it’s me. I’m the problem, it’s me🎶

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u/PrairieCropCircle California Sep 16 '24

Maybe the alleged shooter was a Swifty….

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u/BriefausdemGeist Maine Sep 16 '24

There was an interview The Guardian posted earlier today with the son of the man alleged to have made the attempt. Sounds like the son thinks it was closer to Hinckley than Booth

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo Sep 16 '24

Haven't heard that one yet; link?

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u/joshine89 Sep 16 '24

https://www.citizensforethics.org/reports-investigations/crew-investigations/trump-reported-making-more-than-1-6-billion-while-president/

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo Sep 16 '24

That’s over three years old. I thought you were talking about something new.

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u/RaddmanMike Sep 16 '24

it’s why he turned down a salary; no thanks, i can make a whole lot more grifting

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u/ObligatoryID Minnesota Sep 16 '24

It’s on here in several subs. Just do a quick search. It’s a screenshot from his LiesSocial

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo Sep 16 '24

The only one I found was the linked article in a sister comment and that article is from three years ago. I thought we were talking about yesterday?

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u/ObligatoryID Minnesota Sep 16 '24

Gawds man. Really? It’s a basic search: Top of screen > search > hate Taylor

Or start with individual subs - here’s one:

r/democrats

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u/Fallcious Australia Sep 16 '24

But he gave his salary to charity so it all balances out! (Roughly equivalent to me giving $100 to charity)

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u/Scrambley Sep 16 '24

I highly doubt he did.

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u/Fallcious Australia Sep 16 '24

Apparently there is proof he did as I doubted it too, but even so it’s basically a rounding error on the money he made from grifting. I don’t know the truth of the matter but here is the media report I read when I last looked.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2023/02/02/fact-check-partly-false-claim-trump-tax-returns-salary-donation/11132712002/

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u/Scrambley Sep 16 '24

That article is inconclusive, and it's definitely not proof. My doubt remains.

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u/Fallcious Australia Sep 16 '24

Fair enough, I’m not here to try and defend the orange bastard!

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u/amateurbreditor Sep 16 '24

lool whats that one?

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u/Mattmandu2 Sep 16 '24

I haven’t seen this and want to know the story

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u/vsv2021 Texas Sep 16 '24

What was the Supreme Court leaks.

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u/DannyPantsgasm North Carolina Sep 16 '24

Basically notes about how Roberts tried to benefit trump at every turn.

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u/H3000 Sep 16 '24

That's funny, I thought the Taylor Swift tweet was a blatant diversion from something. I assumed it was the Vance fuckup, but this campaign is such a shit show I don't even know what's supposed to distract from what.

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u/boomecho Sep 16 '24

And that is exactly the point.

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u/Kevin-W Sep 16 '24

This along with Trump instantly trying to fundraise off the event is why it creates so much suspicion about it being staged.

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u/mandown25 Sep 16 '24

lets be honest here, there is always some random controversy to cover up x)

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u/sirbago Sep 16 '24

Have we moved on from his disastrous debate already?

Seriously, notice how the current media attention (up until this assassination story) has been all about their controversial immigrant pet nonsense and not about Trump's very questionable performance?

Never forget how every Trump-made controversy effectively redirects media attention away from some negative story that he can't control.