On the Trump Assassination Attempt

/ Jack Marshall

Ethics never sleeps. There I was, having a nice dinner cooked by a friend, my first dinner invitation in the four months since Grace’s death, and my night of escape from grim reality was shattered when my host informed me that someone took a shot at Donald Trump in Pennsylvania.

I have some observations about that….

1. The Democrats, resistance and mainstream media are accountable for this. Of course they are. They have been saying and writing that Trump is an existential danger to democracy and the nation. They have said that if he wins there will be no more election, no more Constitution, that he is an American Hitler. They have gone further than mere fearmongering, to terror-mongering. What did they expect? The Left is full of hysterical, reality-challenged whack jobs that Biden, Pelosi, the New York Times and many, many others have been priming for violence. Trump is “dangerous,” said the Times today. What does a patriot do when someone or something is a clear and present danger, in Joe Biden’s words, to the nation? Eliminate the danger.

2. This is on the Axis. They built up the narrative that Trump was a demon from Hell, and suddenly all of the Democrats’ cheats, devices and conspiracies were failing. The effort to put Trump in prison was transparent and faltering. Trump’s opposing candidate had exposed himself as an empty, debilitated, prop leader. All of the Big Lies have been used, discredited, and debunked. What was left? Why, killing Trump, of course!

I expected this, didn’t you?

3. The blather from the Biden Cabinet and White House condemning violence should be metaphorically spat back in these villains’ faces. They are the same people who blamed Sarah Palin for the shooting of a random Congresswoman because Palin had “targeted” Democratic districts on her website. These are the same people who blamed Rush Limbaugh and conservatives for the Oklahoma City bombing because of their relentless attacks on “big government.” But the insane levels of hate and hysteria the Left has heaped on Donald Trump wasn’t general like those partisan attacks, but very personal and specific: one man was the danger to the continued existence of the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. One single evil man. Biden and the rest said this over and over. The nation had to be saved from this monster, and it became obvious over the last two weeks that Joe Biden wasn’t going be able to do it.

4. Now, the fact that Trump was shot at doesn’t make the unethical, unforgivable nature of the unrestrained vilification of him over the last nine years any worse. That’s just moral luck: what the Axis has been doing would be just as wrong and irresponsible if no fanatic was moved to violence by it. The incident does have a way of sharpening one’s focus, however.

5. I’ll put it simply: the Democrats and their Machiavellian allies were asking for this to happen. They got it. They must not be allowed to duck responsibility.

Other observations:

  • Bravo to Trump for having the presence of mind to show defiance after he was wounded. Personally, I would have liked to see him go full Teddy Roosevelt and insist on giving his speech anyway.
  • It will be interesting if the assassination attempt in any way moderates the Democrats’ Trump-Deranged panic and the extreme rhetoric it has spawned. Out side of demonizing Trump and claiming that he will destroy the nation as we know it, what’s the case for re-electing the demented incumbent? Finding a way to kill more unborn children? Biden’s two state solution for the Palestinians?

68 thoughts on “On the Trump Assassination Attempt”

  1. I don’t know which I find more sickening: the liberals who are crying that the assassin missed and Trump is still alive, or the phony well-wishing from liberal figures like Biden and Harris.

    This was inevitable, given the unabated Trump hatred over the past nine years. I’m surprised it didn’t happen sooner, but then, maybe all the potential assassins were waiting to see if all the lawfare would derail Trump. (Or maybe there have been other attempts that were quickly and quietly foiled before they became public spectacles?)

    Already there are plenty of people trying to spin this as a Trump-planned false flag operation to gin up votes. The media has allegedly been given talking points to downplay any idea that this was an assassination attempt. (Until authorities confirm that this was indeed a planned attack on Trump’s life, the gunman may have just been pigeon hunting…)

    The real question I have, since some have already been making the claim: is this a Rubicon moment, or a Ft. Sumter moment? With Trump easily surviving and making a fierce gesture to show he intends to keep on fighting, the right is hopefully not going to go ballistic, but was this the moment where the left said, “Alea iacta est”?

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    • That’s the irony, Ryan. To the Democrats, anything that poses the slightest inconvenience to the Will of the People – ya know, Democracy – is election interference: voter IDs, the Electoral College, adjusting the boundaries of districts. I would say that an assassination attempt is the ultimate form of election interference and is most certainly a threat to democracy. Those lamenting that the shooter missed don’t seem to think that’s a problem.

      As for those Democratic party leaders who are condemning the violence, if Trump is literally the evil Hitler-like threat they keep saying he is, shouldn’t they be happy someone tried to do what they have clearly wanted to happen?

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      • As for those Democratic party leaders who are condemning the violence, if Trump is literally the evil Hitler-like threat they keep saying he is, shouldn’t they be happy someone tried to do what they have clearly wanted to happen?

        That is exactly the question that should be posed to anyone who claims or claimed Trump is an existential threat.

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  3. In spite of the constant media and democrat Myrmidon fiction that it’s those gun-owning yahoos on the right who are the violent threats to society and need to be more regulated, facts on the ground consistently indicate otherwise. That’s part of the reason they have to overplay relatively rare incidents like the Jan. 6 riot, and downplay “mostly peaceful” burning, looting, and killing by the left.

    It can be statistically inferred that the majority of murders in the US are committed by democrat constituencies and demographics. This incident was literally just a hair away from adding to that proof.

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    • I watched 2 people tell the media that they talked to Secret Service and the State Troopers about a guy with a rifle they saw climbing up the roof. Instead of radioing in and saying “Show me where!”, the officers just wandered off to confer with others. One of them just had to walk to the other side of the building. None of them wanted to go take a look at the situation. This just seems like perfect bureaucracy. You need to confer and see what the consensus plan is rather than take initiative. Assuming these people aren’t lying for media attention, Trump would have been better off letting the crowd bring guns than using the police to protect him. I’m pretty sure the 1st guy would have shot the assassin a full 5-7 minutes before shots were fired at Trump, but he ‘left it up to the authorities’.

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      • If an armed Trump supporter had shot the would-be assassin before shots were even fired, the media coverage would be even more obnoxious than it is right now.

        Trump would be accused of having hit men in his audiences, the killer of the assassin would be charged and, quite possibly, Trump himself would be held legally responsible if someone was killed by one of his supporters with no demonstrable evidence that there was an intent to harm.

        I can see the headline now…

        “Trump claims, without evidence, that armed audience member was going to kill him.”

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  5. Just checked my FB feed. The half dozen or so acquaintances that post Trump hate every day, multiple times a day, have been awfully quiet for the past few hours. Good time to post a condemnation of the event, but I guess at least they had the sense to not criticize the shooter for bad aim.

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    • I’m glad it’s missing from your feed. It’s certainly not from mine. A mentally-compromised Trump-deranged relative of mind posted that he should get over it like he said the Iowa shooting protesters should.

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  6. Quote from President Biden

    “we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.” 

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  9. Jesus H. Christ. Why didn’t the snipers shoot the kid BEFORE he fired? What were they looking at? Early on, the TV people were saying the shots came from two to three hundred YARDS away. And, of course, it was an “AR style rifle.” How did they know all that? I thought how could a guy shooting a hunting rifle pull off a head shot from 600 to 900 feet away? It would have had to have been a sniper rifle. How did the guy get that close?

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  10. The idiots over at Occupy Democrats are of course focusing on the fact that this would-be assassin was a registered Republican, but they conveniently brush by the fact that he just made a donation to a far-left PAC and assume he was a right wing nut job who was a direct creation of Trump. They are also making unfavorable comparisons between this and school shootings, saying care more when it’s a classroom of third graders rather than “just an ear.”. Mmmhmm.

    It’s also coming to light that Trump’s secret service detail was asking for additional resources in light of threats, and they were denied. If that’s the case, this is worse than the lawfare going on. This is a shift to the last resort – getting Trump.killed. Who will answer for this?

    The fact that there are those out there who will openly say that they wish this assassination had succeeded should tell you all you need to know about the left in this country.

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      • Yet in this case, someone using a typically more powerful and accurate hunting rifle set up for deer, elk, etc., instead of an AR type, would likely have been “successful” in his goal with one shot. Logic is rarely a factor in anti-firearms arguments; ignorance is employed as a substitute.

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    • I also saw that in the first photo description, it’s described as “with what appears to be blood on his face.” I predict we’ll see a lot of this subtle “maybe it was ketchup” style reporting, allowing room for the conspiracy theorists to nod and feel smug. Well, a lot more of it. If you think Facebook is bad right now, stay off reddit, for sure.

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      • Biden even said last night that it wasn’t certain that this was an assassination attempt. My Trump Deranged sister emailed me asking if the scene was staged. No shame, no logic, no common sense, no decency. This literal, clinical derangement.

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        • It obviously wasn’t staged, but Trump’s reaction couldn’t have been a better optic if it were. Besides the image, his quick reaction and recovery will be mentally contrasted to the probable reaction had the victim been Biden.

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  12. Wow, they are saying the shooter was only 130 yards away. It is a miracle Trump wasn’t hit and killed. I can’t believe they didn’t have a security perimeter that big. I mean, 130 yards is a nothing shot with a rifle. Even a handgun in trained hands can hit from that distance fairly easily. Take a look at what that distance looks like.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdsvW7BOLGQ

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57btjI1Zan4

    I am waiting for the realization to hit the left about the crowd. I saw comments last night shocked that the crowd didn’t scream, panic, and run. Most of the apologists said “Well ahhctualllly, people freeze in a panic situation and they don’t leave.”. Uh, no. I’m sure they are going to tell us that it is the nature of low IQ people to stand around while people are being shot to pump their fists, yell ‘Trump’ and ‘USA’, and then give the middle finger to the media.

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    • Handgun may be a little optimistic (I don’t think I could hit at that distance consistently, even with good optics), but a rifle, sure. You wouldn’t even need a particularly good scope to hit at that range. At least it looks the guy was not aiming at center of mass, which would have probably hit.

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      • That is why I included the video of the guy shooting steel at 100 yards easily with a Glock with iron sights. Not everyone can do it but quite a few can.

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  13. How do people call this event unprecedented. Have they never heard of the Kennedy assassination? How Lincoln died? Having grown up in Miami and seeing the memorial in Bay Front Park and having a mother who was living in Chicago in the ’30s, the following is the first thing that came to my mind yesterday:

    On February 15, 1933, a deranged, unemployed brick layer named Giuseppe Zangara shouts “Too many people are starving!” and fires a gun at America’s president-elect, Franklin D. Roosevelt.

    Roosevelt had just delivered a speech in Miami’s Bayfront Park from the back seat of his open touring car when Zangara opened fire with six rounds. Five people were hit. The president escaped injury but the mayor of Chicago, Anton Cermak, who was also in attendance, received a mortal stomach wound in the attack.

    Several men tackled the assailant and might have beaten him to death if Roosevelt had not intervened, telling the crowd to leave justice to the authorities. Zangara later claimed “I don’t hate Mr. Roosevelt personally, I hate all officials and anyone who is rich.” He also told the FBI that chronic stomach pain led to his action: “Since my stomach hurt I want to make even with the capitalists by kill the president. My stomach hurt long time [sic].”

    Zangara’s extreme action reflected the anger and frustration felt among many working Americans during the Great Depression. At the time of the shooting, Roosevelt was still only the president-elect and had yet to be sworn in. His policies remained untested, but reports of Roosevelt’s composure during the assassination attempt filled the following day’s newspapers and did much to enforce Roosevelt’s public image as a strong leader.

    Unsubstantiated reports later claimed that Zangara’s real target had been Cermak and hinted at Zangara’s connection to organized crime in Chicago. Zangara was initially tried for attempted murder and sentenced to 80 years in prison, but when Mayor Cermak later died of his wounds, Zangara was retried and sentenced to death. Zangara died on the electric chair on March 20, 1933.

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    • Oh, it’s unprecedented: Never before has a former President running for re-election after a four year interruption been shot in the ear at a rally in Pennsylvania.

      Trump now matches Jackson and FDR as the luckiest targets of would-be Presidential assassins. Good company to be in.

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    • It’s funny how Zangara is blithely called “deranged.” Given his interest in income equality and food insecurity, he’d be a modern day, run of the mill, lefty righting wrongs. He’d be praised by the Squad and the Congressional Black Caucus and Joy Reid. They’d have him on “The View.”

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  14. We were an inch to the left away from having video of a former president’s head being exploded in broad daylight in front of a crowd of thousands.

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    • In all likelihood, President Trump’s look to the left saved his life. The bullet grazed his ear. If you turn his head back to the right so he’s facing straight that the podium, that bullet doesn’t graze his ear…it ventilates his skull.

      That was a kill shot…and President Trump is fortunate to be alive this morning.

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      • Yeah watching the video I saw him turn his head, then almost immediately reach for his ear.

        1. Turning his head saved his life.
        2. That meant the shot came from the right of the lecturn, which turned out to be the case.
        3. It meant he was actually hit by the bullet and not a richocet as was reported at one point.

        Sheesh. I shudder to think where we would end up if Trump was killed.

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    • No. If would-be assassins don’t want to put their parents through a body identification process, they might consider not trying to kill someone.

      The post is despicable.

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