Just the other day we were talking about Trump needing to fear assassination. I figured someone would try to kill him sooner or later. There’s so much intense hate and fear that it was inevitable.
Aiming for the head, they clearly meant it. Just got nervous and screwed up the kill shot. Alternatively, perhaps they’re not a real shooter.
This would be a great time for the media to engage in some sober reflection about their fear mongering. I doubt they will.
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NY Post is reporting that "The shooter, identified only as a white male, was in an elevated sniper position located hundreds of yards away from Trump’s podium in Butler, Pa. ..."
https://nypost.com/2024/07/13/us-news/gunman-behind-attempted-assassination-on-trump-shot-and-killed-by-secret-service-sources/
S2 Underground does regular, very brief daily reports. He covers the shooting and other current events in about 2 & 1/2 minutes. I have no real idea how good his info is, but he's interesting and often covers stuff I haven't heard of elsewhere.
https://youtu.be/vwo5Fp_8Urk?si=6iLojhSeYU_8rPgz
Or, a sniper's unavoidable problem, the target moved after the bullet was enroute.
My wife and I were watching the rally live on our TV; Trump had just turned to face a large screen projection of one of his slides. His head turn took his temple out of the bullet's path (which was from Trump's right) so that it only grazed his head above his ear.
Of course, I have no idea when the scoring shot actually was fired; the sounds of the shooting followed the bullets, and those sounds were from a distant news feed microphone and of an even more distant actual shooter. The sounds in the news feed weren't coincident with the bullets, so I'm speculating.
My wife thinks the shots were fired in pairs, too. It's hard to say, though: I counted eight shot sounds, two were faint enough to be echos, but I only heard the first two as a pair. It's hard to say how many were the shooter's and how many were protective detail/detail snipers (some were visible on surrounding high points)/LE. I speculate, here, that not all eight (six?) were the shooter's, reports are one dead, two injured, and that's with the shooter firing with a substantial crowd in his target's sight picture background. That would be only three shooter shots, or four if the one hitting Trump was a separate one, and not one that hit someone else, also.
And this: https://x.com/seanmdav/status/1812278386514870623
A source familiar with Trump’s security detail tells @FDRLST
that the former and future president’s detail has been asking for beefed up protection and resources for weeks, but has been rebuffed time and again by Biden’s DHS.
DHS, which oversees Secret Service protective detail “wasn’t responsive to those requests” for more resources, the source said.
Eric Hines
Or, a sniper's unavoidable problem, the target moved after the bullet was enroute.
Not impossible given the distance being reported. I thought it sounded like nine, not dispositive on incoming or outgoing.
Tom, the Post first reported he was Chinese.
Yeah, I saw that. Photos of the deceased shooter are out now (or at least some are claiming they are the shooter) and he doesn't really look Asian to me.
With the reports that he's a 20-year-old registered Republican who nevertheless donated a small sum to a progressive PAC on the day Biden was inaugurated, I'd say we have another eelbrain with confused politics. He was wearing a T-shirt associated with a popular YouTube pro-2d amendment channel, so it's possible he was incensed by the new RNC platform, understood by many to represent Trump's squishiness on the 2d amendment. Or he was just a nutcase, who knows.
If Trump hadn't turned his head when he did, he'd be either dead, or a vegetable getting fed through a tube.
150 yards. Not a challenging shot.
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