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      I think many of us, and many Important People, give a fuck. It’s just that we know to take our time and gather information before making any strong proclamations about exactly what happened. We all know that Trump would lie about everything, and initial reports from police and neighbors are notoriously unreliable.

      Finally now, more than a day after the event, it feels like maybe we’re able to put together the beginning of a reliable picture about exactly what happened.

      If you want to know how people feel about assassination attempts on presidential candidates, just look at what they said two months ago.

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      It was before I was alive, but I’m guessing no one gave much of a fuck when Sarah Jane Moore completely failed to assassinate Gerald Ford. Especially when Squeaky Fromme did the same thing two weeks earlier and was a Manson girl, so I’m guessing she stole most of the spotlight.

      Plus, Moore was totally inept.

      She was standing in the crowd across the street from the St. Francis Hotel, and she was about 40 feet (12 m) away from Ford[12] when she fired a single shot at him with a .38 caliber revolver.[2] She was using a gun which she bought in haste that same morning and as a result, she did not know that the sights were 15 cm (6 inches) off the point-of-impact at that distance, and as a result, she narrowly missed.[13]

      After realizing that she had missed, Moore raised her arm again, and Oliver Sipple, a former Marine, dove toward her and grabbed her arm, possibly saving Ford’s life

      https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sara_Jane_Moore

      It’s not even really clear why she did it other than being a complete nutbag.

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      His fans think he’s under protection from God, and everyone else would respond somewhere between relieved and elated.

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    Assassination “Attempt” is just spin. At best this is a Assasination “Concept” thwarted

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    I’m seeing a lot of shitheads paint this guy as a leftist Democrat. No. Tell them, “if he’s a left-wing Democrat, then so is Dick Cheney.” Absurd.

    This guy:

    • Voted Republican in 2008
    • Voted Republican in 2012
    • Voted Trump in 2016

    The primary reason, as he detailed in his own self-published book, for leaving Trump and beginning to support Democratic candidates was his disastrous anti-Ukrainian policy. Once that occurred [the broader veil of bullshit became unmasked — see this archived tweet — and he became pissed off that he was grifted. Yet in January of this year he was still pushing for Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy— bleeding heart liberals? — to unite and defeat Trump in the the GOP Primaries.

    It doesn’t change that he’s still a conservative Republican.

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    So fucking crazy that anyone will repeat something when the only source is “According to the Trump campaign”

    And guess what, the dude with him on the golf course, main partner in his latest crypto grift, that launched right after. Another staged PR event involving an “assassination attempt” - where’s the ear scar Donny dipshit?

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    Seems like he was just exercising his right to bear arms, is Trump against the Second Amendment now?

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    This “news” looks pure FUD + confusion of what actually happened, and I think is best to be ignored until it can be read coherently from the next weeks news paper… I’m only commenting because of my local news began to propel this shit…

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    For a country known to have more gun than people, you seems very bad at using them

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    I’m just glad no one has succeeded. There is no telling what his deranged supporters will do if someone succeeds.