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originally posted by: Astrocometus
How in the holy hell do people just there to attend a rally end up having to do the job of detecting a threat to the former President of the United States?
How does the secret service miss this guy dressed all in black on a white roof crawling around only a hundred and thirty yards from the protectee?
Where was the perimeter detail?
Where were the drones?
This in no way imaginable should have even come close
to happening. Do you realize that? A bullet whizzing thru
Donald Trumps ear should be of the most remote of possibilities.
Yet here we are.
Now why is the gov. spying on Americans if they can't even keep
a Presidential candidate safe? I mean really what the F---ing hell
is the point?
That is the point, they knew it was going to happen and the guy was such a lousy shot he wasn't going to hit Trump and he probably didn't but the nicked ear pantomime makes it more believable to his fan base.
originally posted by: Astrocometus
I'm sorry but that is nothing short of insanity.
originally posted by: Astrocometus
Yes and so can you, as you obviously do.
originally posted by: Astrocometus
Trump would have to be a class A wacko just to dream up an idea like that.
Crooks high school classmate Jameson Murphy told the Post that Crooks, 20, wasn't able to make the Bethel Park High School rifle team after missing targets "by close to 20 feet" and described him as a "terrible shot."
Another student, Max Smith who took a history class with Crooks told the Enquirer “he definitely was [politically] conservative...It makes me wonder why he would carry out an assassination attempt on the conservative candidate.”
Crooks was a 2022 graduate of Bethel Park High School and registered Republican with no criminal history, the New York Times reported. At graduation, he was one of 20 students in his class to win the National Math & Science Initiative Star Awards. In May, he graduated from the Community College of Allegheny County with an associate’s degree in engineering science.
originally posted by: daskakik
originally posted by: Astrocometus
I'm sorry but that is nothing short of insanity.
You can believe whatever you want.
If someone offered money to this guy to shoot at him and create this event even though they knew he wasn't going to be able to pull it off then they accomplished what they wanted. Trumps graze can be BS but I'm sure it motivated a lot of people.
In an election that is all that matters.
The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head, was arrested for threatening the governor’s life, saved the same governor’s life en route to prison, escaped, and ultimately killed the governor in an ambush.
originally posted by: Kurokage
a reply to: network dude
William Tell did it with a crossbow to his own son.
The historical existence of Tell is disputed. According to popular legend, he was a peasant from Bürglen in the canton of Uri in the 13th and early 14th centuries who defied Austrian authority, was forced to shoot an apple from his son’s head, was arrested for threatening the governor’s life, saved the same governor’s life en route to prison, escaped, and ultimately killed the governor in an ambush.
originally posted by: network dude
a reply to: Kurokage
you don't need to be anyone. My premise had to do with allowing a sharpshooter to nick your ear with a high powered rifle at 150 yards. For the "Trump orchestrated this" aspect to be true, he would have had to be this brave and trust the shot and the shooter with his life. I just want to know who else would be that brave and have that much trust in a shooter.