60 points

It’s a good thing his fenced property was protected by Secret Service agents. Gun control for me but not for thee.

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On the one hand, I don’t believe in political violence. On the other hand, the morality of assassinating Trump is an awful lot like asking oneself, “Would it be morally acceptable to go back in time and assassinate Hitler?”

And anyway, we don’t know yet that this is political violence. The last guy who tried to kill him was a Republican who was probably just trying to make a name for himself while committing suicide by cop.

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From early reports I’ve seen it sounds like this is similar. He was a big fan of Nikki Haley and Vivek Ramaswamy (that didn’t stop the Post from trying to claim he was a lefty though).

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20 points

I was under the impression the first guy was out for pedo’s after the Epstein files came out with trumps name all over them.

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8 points

Sounds like I will have to catch myself up on the matter.

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14 points

Have we ruled out that these would be assassin’s are not from the future?

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5 points

This will clearly need some investigation.

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4 points

In the future, of course. That’s not where they’re expecting us to look!

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44 points

quick, distract everyone from the Vance stuff

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32 points

I wonder if it’s a republican again?

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According to the NC voter rolls he was registered unaffiliated. Voted in the Democratic primary in March. Voted in The general election in 2008 & 12 but not in 2016 or 2020. Garden variety nut bar

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If he didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 then why did he say he was to partly to blame for electing Trump?

“In a section of the book focused on Iran, the author said he “must take part of the blame” for electing a “brainless” president, in an apparent reference to Trump. “You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal,” the book declares.”

Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2024/09/15/ryan-wesley-routh-trump-assassination-attempt-suspect/

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All I can say is Ryan Wesley Routh of Guilford County NC born 1966 did not vote in NC in 2016 or 2020. https://vt.ncsbe.gov/RegLkup Maybe he voted in another state or just as likely is just a nut bar that says things that don’t match reality.

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Democrats don’t buy ergonomic modern high capacity firearms, they on average buy old wooden bolt-action trash because their local gun shops in their states can’t sell good stuff due to racist gun control laws that only punish poor people and doesn’t affect wealthy white gun owners.

Very likely it was one of Trumps piece of shit Republican peers wanting to kill him after finally realizing they have been duped by a New York billionaire that tricked them to think he was on their side.

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27 points

More fuel for the hate fire incoming.

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