As fine a survey of the post-assassination landscape as I’ve read, with many a link worth exploring. Part of a larger thread, so some scrolling may be in order:
Trump Assassination Attempt: Seven things you need to know
There has been so much news relating to the assassination attempt on former (and future) President Trump, and it’s still pouring in 24/7, that it’s impossible for us to cover it all here. So we’re just going to recap some of the major points.
1. First of all, let us all thank God for Donald Trump’s safety and for the swift actions of his close-up Secret Service detail, and pray for his continued protection. Miraculously, the bullet that struck his ear came within less than an inch of shattering his skull. As one commentator put it, Satan took a shot and God sent a Guardian Angel to block it, not only saving Trump but potentially preventing a civil war.
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-like-reagan-credits-god-alone-saving-life-prevented-unthinkable/2. Let us also pray for the two rally attendees who were critically injured and for the family of 50-year-old former Pennsylvania fire chief Corey Comperatore, who died when he heroically threw himself on his wife and daughter to shield them from the gunfire.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/hero-trump-rally-victim-corey-comperatore-died-shielding-family-and-wouldve-done-it-again-friend-says/ar-BB1pZSBPThe Trump campaign set up a GoFundMe account to help the victims that at this writing has raised over $3.7 million.
https://www.gofundme.com/f/president-trump-seeks-support-for-butler-pa-victims(In a pathetic attempt to smear Trump even now, Newsweek’s headline misleadingly read “Trump campaign launches GoFundMe after shooting,” falsely implying that the money was for Trump. This was in keeping with other media outlets like CNN that took ages to admit it was an assassination attempt, telling their few remaining deluded followers that the Secret Service “removed Trump” from the rally, or that “popping noises were heard.” I hope the mud they’re all wallowing in is cold and smelly.)
https://twitchy.com/amy-curtis/2024/07/14/newsweek-misleading-headline-on-trump-gofundme-for-victims-of-assassination-attempt-n23983633. Even some Democrats are saying that the election ended at that moment, when Trump, bloodied and under fire, stood up under the American flag, raised his fist to let his supporters know he was alive, and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” That’s the spirit of America writ large, and it’s definitely the man that even fence-sitters want representing us when we have to face down Putin, Xi or Iran.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/14/comparison-of-trump-and-biden-n2176821We also later learned that Trump actually wanted to go on with his speech, but the Secret Service insisted on taking him away. And he was looking for his shoes because the agents tackled him so hard, he came out of them – and he still wanted to go on with his speech! There couldn’t be a starker contrast with the current President.
https://www.westernjournal.com/trump-hit-hard-shoes-fell-off-secret-service-rushed-save-supposed-dead/It sparked comparisons with Teddy Roosevelt being shot and insisting on continuing his speech, saying it took more than that to kill a Bullmoose (that happened in Milwaukee, 1500 feet from where Trump will speak at the RNC this week despite having just been shot.) It’s no wonder there are already countless memes and at least one rap song about Trump’s ironman toughness.
4. The photographers at the event captured some images for the ages, including one that appeared to capture a bullet whizzing past Trump’s head. Another of Trump, bloodied but defiant with his fist in the air underneath a billowing American flag, will become one of the most iconic photos of this age. The anti-Trump media know it and are terrified by its power, as proven by the fact that the New York Times and Washington Post both cropped the flag out of the photo. Subtle. But trying to deny what we saw with our own eyes doesn’t work anymore. It just makes them look even more biased and irrelevant than they already did, if such a thing is possible.
Their pitiful attempts to continue undermining Trump look now like the tiny Lilliputians trying to tie down the giant Gulliver with thread.
https://redstate.com/bradslager/2024/07/14/in-the-face-of-the-assassination-attempt-on-donald-trump-the-press-manages-to-lose-face-yet-again-n2176844Some of them are desperately trying to blame both sides and recall the accusation that Sarah Palin’s ads inspired the shooting of Rep. Gabby Giffords. This is the worst form of “whataboutism.” The Palin ad didn’t vilify anyone or promote violence, and we later learned the shooter hadn’t even seen it. Trump has attacked Biden on his actual failed policies, he hasn’t compared him to Hitler and told crowds that he must be stopped at all costs. The Democrats and their media ponies have given us eight years of slanderous lies, hoaxes and violent rhetoric against Trump and his supporters, and that includes the current President (see #5 below.) Donald Trump Jr. had some choice words on their frantic attempts to spread the blame away from themselves.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2024/07/14/donald-trump-jr-slams-media-democrats-trying-blame-both-sides-assassination-attempt/It’s also worth noting that the British reporter who scooped our media on the shooter is blind, and still did a better job getting the story.
https://instapundit.com/660340/As for the sick political snarkers, leftist celebrities and Internet trolls with holes where their souls should be, who have been calling for years for Trump to be killed and are now moaning that it wasn’t successful: Shut off your phones and go into the woods with a Bible and a mirror until you figure out how to be a human being again.
https://discernreport.com/james-woods-takes-no-prisoners-while-calling-out-evil-leftists-following-assassination-attempt/5. I was glad to see that President Biden did the right thing and called for an end to the violent and divisive un-American rhetoric. Of course, that means his campaign had to halt all their ads because they consist entirely of hateful false accusations about Trump.
https://www.westernjournal.com/biden-campaign-makes-major-change-trump-shooting-cost-joe/They’re also canceling some campaign appearances, I assume until they can figure out what to say that doesn’t involve comparing Trump to Hitler.
https://redstate.com/jenniferoo/2024/07/14/biden-harris-pivots-cancels-scheduled-campaign-stops-after-attempted-assassination-of-donald-trump-n2176849This sudden concern for unity and nonviolent rhetoric might be more convincing if, within the days and even hours before the shooting, Biden hadn’t said that “we need to put a bullseye on Donald Trump,” or tweeted, “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He's literally a threat to everything America stands for.” Or in a speech to a fired-up crowd told them “no joke,” Trump “vowed he would be a dictator from day one” and said “if he didn’t win, there’d be a bloodbath.”
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/07/14/joe-biden-owes-america-and-donald-trump-an-apology-n4930692Those last two claims are repeatedly debunked lies. If Biden didn’t know that, he’s mentally unfit for the presidency; and if he did and repeated them anyway, he’s morally unfit. Trump actually said that if Biden won, there would be a (financial) bloodbath in the auto industry because he’s driving car makers out of business with his EV mandates. Asked about the dictator accusation, Trump denied it then joked that he would only be a dictator for one day when he ordered the border closed and told the oil companies to “drill, baby, drill.”
If English is your second language, saying you’ll be a dictator from day one and joking that you’ll be a dictator for only one day are two very different things.
Well, at least Biden called him "Donald" in his speech instead of Adolf, so that's a start.
A salute to Democrat Rep. Jared Golden of Maine for calling out his own party for its inflammatory rhetoric and dangerous lies.
https://redstate.com/bobhoge/2024/07/15/dem-rep-calls-out-inflammatory-rhetoric-bandied-about-by-his-own-party-these-are-dangerous-lies-n2176873Related: I’ve written several times over the years about how every post-war GOP Presidential candidate has been compared to Hitler, going back 76 years to the dapper and benign Thomas E. Dewey. Robert Spencer at PJ Media gives us a historical survey of all the times Democrats claimed the Republican was the next Hitler, and yet, “our democracy” (actually, our republic) somehow survived.
https://pjmedia.com/robert-spencer/2024/07/14/76-years-of-the-lefts-hitlers-from-the-little-man-on-the-wedding-cake-to-donald-trump-n49306886. Again, let us thank God for the Secret Service agents who courageously protected Trump, and let us investigate the top officials of that agency to their fingernails. Especially in light of this late-breaking claim that SS resources were diverted away from Trump’s rally to Jill Biden’s event in Pittsburg. They justified that as SOP for a “former President,” ignoring the fact that he’s also the leading Presidential candidate and is under a barrage of threats.
https://redstate.com/nick-arama/2024/07/15/report-secret-service-resources-were-diverted-from-pa-trump-rally-to-jill-biden-visit-n21768717. Finally, and I save this for last deliberately: It’s our policy never to mention the names of people who try to become famous by attacking others, so you will not see the 20-year-old shooter’s name here. The leftist media are trying to spin him as a Republican because he was registered that way, but that means nothing. He made a contribution to a “progressive” (leftist) vote drive group, and lots of Democrats registered Republican to vote in GOP primaries to undermine Trump. The FBI says his phone is locked and he hadn’t posted to social media in months (he was a weird young American), and it’s too early to say what his motivation was.
From what we’ve heard from one former classmate, he was a loner and outcast who was heavily bullied in school. He might have been a Trump-hating leftist, or he might have been mentally-disturbed, or as is so common these days, both.
https://www.foxnews.com/us/discord-reveals-details-would-be-trump-assassins-account-platformMust-Read Column: For all the claims of Trump supporters being violent terrorist threats, did you notice that when they came under fire, they stayed calm, heroically helped each other, and prayed and left peacefully rather than rioting or burning down the venue, as would have no doubt happened if they were “progressives”?
In that spirit, I urge you to read this article about the proper way to respond, not by turning to rage, but by turning to God.
https://thelibertydaily.com/right-way-respond-attempted-assassination-president-trump/https://govmikehuckabee.substack.com/p/secret-service-fails-to-protect-trump?r=2k0c5&triedRedirect=true
