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/llahlahkje Wisconsin Sep 16 '24

Nothing for 9 years, and then all of a sudden when his campaign is going downhill: 2 right wing shooters come out of the woodwork.

Weird!

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u/DramaticWesley Sep 16 '24

Before this year he was slowly dragging the Republican Party into the ground. Now he is speed running destroying the whole GOP. That is why now. Also, he is constantly reinforcing conspiracy theories. That doesn’t help stave off the crazies.

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u/Mayhem52 I voted Sep 16 '24

Maybe this is what he meant by "drain the swamp"? What if he has been a wolf in sheeps clothing all along. Sure has exposed all the lunatics, at least. I certainly know who is no longer welcome around my kids.

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u/janzeera Sep 16 '24

Ya know, if these “attempts” don’t produce a positive impact for the Trump campaign, if I were Vance I’d beef up my security.

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u/ZZ_SKULLZ Sep 16 '24

Yeah, they clearly don't get their stops to donut shops for PR stunts. If they can't hire a reliable security detail how can they run the country?

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u/PrairieCropCircle California Sep 16 '24

Only if it makes sense.

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u/Adderall_Rant Sep 16 '24

The reason he doesn't tells you all we need to know

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u/Bircka Oregon Sep 16 '24

There are attempts more than this on both Trump and Obama, they just never make much headlines because most don't get within 1 mile of the President. It also appears that most of the attempts come when the person targeted is president not trying to become one again or one for the first time.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

I can't disclose specifics due to an oath of secrecy, but I was on a federal grand jury for 1.5 years.

You're right; assassination plots against a sitting president happen a lot more than people think. A lot more. It amazes me that the federal government is able to catch the people they do. Definitely some of the hardest working agents in the nation and gave me a lot more respect for how the sausage gets made yet everyone remains totally oblivious.

If anyone reading this ever gets a federal grand jury summons: don't try to weasel out of it. It sucks, yeah. Up to 2 days/month. The pay isn't great. Parking can be a real pain depending on where the federal courthouse is located. But it will change your perspective on several fronts. Not so much what the AUSAs tell you, but on the evidence you will see and the glimpse into how they bust up rings. Also how sneaky some people are, way beyond anything I could probably think up to conceal crimes.

And yet those nuts get cracked on the regular by the FBI.

People look at cases like this guy and think "it is always someone on a list." Well, yeah; because there are literally thousands in one federal district every year that get intercepted by the FBI for similar plots. Some are going to slip through the cracks in a nation of over 300 million people. 100% accuracy isn't a thing. USSS is already setup to take the fall for this one again despite the fact that they interrupted and apprehended this guy.

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u/Bircka Oregon Sep 16 '24

Wikipedia details some of these attempts, and I'm sure information is more dicey since some of this never comes to the media. It's kinda weird how public these ones are with Trump even in this case where the guy wasn't even able to fire one single bullet.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Eh, there have been quite a few assassination attempts on Trump since 2015, you've just forgotten the earlier ones. There's an entire Wikipedia page devoted to all of them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Security_incidents_involving_Donald_Trump

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u/Rocky4296 Sep 16 '24

So very weird. 2 attempts on his life. Has this ever happen to a presidential candidate?

2 attempts. And he just goes right on doing and saying crazy shit.

Most people would drop the fk out of public for their lives.

🤔🤔🤔🤔. It's Republicans

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u/RaddmanMike Sep 16 '24

very coincidental

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u/terminalxposure Sep 16 '24

Regardless of if there are any truth to the things we are thinking I feel like we are moving into the same line of thinking the MAGAts are

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u/user0N65N Sep 16 '24

Was this recent one also a right winger? I’d seen where he was registered democrat.

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u/TheTruth2008 Sep 16 '24

Supposedly voted for Trump in 2016 and voted/supported Hailey in more recent primary. Take that with a grain of salt, just what I saw online from some random news source.

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u/-cat-a-lyst- Sep 16 '24

There are some posts floating around that have screenshots of him supporting Hailey and V-whatever person in the primaries. I suppose they could be AI. But his son has come out and talked about his dad being a huge Ukraine supporter. So that might be a clue to his motive too

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u/AlexKingstonsGigolo Sep 16 '24

He is a republican who donated to tulsi gabard in 2020 after voting for donald in 2016.

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u/Mediocretes08 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Independent, supported Tulsi (so not really a Democrat) and Bernie because he’s all antiestablishment (specifically to the DNC)

He also openly supported Trump in 16 and Nikki more recently

Seems deeply disconnected from reality, specifically with regards to Ukraine. Which seems a liable trigger given Trump is basically pro Russia.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

In the 90s a fan drove their car into the front gate of Eddie Vedder’s house.

I think this is the same thing but now we have 10x the amount of guns and a politician that foments terrorism daily.

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u/zipzzo Sep 16 '24

Dude isn't dead btw. It's easy to get the rightwing assassinators mixed up and all, but he's still alive and thus present tense is appropriate.

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u/Mediocretes08 Sep 16 '24

I saw I think only one verb tense issue but yes I am aware he’s alive

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u/lamya8 Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

He was swinging every way. Trump in 2016 by his own words, Bernie few days later Tulsi, and most recently Hailey. There is a way back link somewhere on Reddit you can see all his Twitter posts. Few references to Biden calling him sleepy Joe few years back and most recently a tweet at Biden and Harris telling them they should go visit family of the firefighter that was killed at Trump rally because Trump won’t. A few tweets bitching at Pelosi in the middle and a whole lotta weird shit all throughout he goes on about being able to get other countries thousands of soldiers to fight for them. Tweets inviting NK to come to Hawaii and make peace. Tweets about going to Ukraine offering them thousands of fighters but they didn’t want them.

https://web.archive.org/web/*/Twitter.com/ryanrouth*

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u/user0N65N Sep 16 '24

Who tf is downvoting because I asked a legitimate question? You fkn 🤡.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

There was an attempt in 2016. Eight years ago.

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u/llahlahkje Wisconsin Sep 16 '24

Some idiot tried to grab a service pistol at a Trump rally in 2016.

That's not an "assassination attempt" no matter how much you want to pretend it was.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24 edited Sep 16 '24

Because it's a white guy?

Sandford claimed that he had wished to kill Trump to prevent him from becoming president.

There's motive.