Yes, AFTER the fact. But before that, the area was the charge of PA police.
A member of the Butler County ESU then shot at Crooks and hit his rifle, preventing him from firing more shots. Ten seconds later, Crooks was shot and killed by the Counter Sniper Team of the United States Secret Service.[13]
That wasn’t the secret service, it was the PA police. But sure roll up and take your shot already if you think it’s easy.
Inches count. How’d the shooter fair? He still kicking? But also, candidate Trump was just a candidate then. More events back then meant less planning, with worse personnel.
He’s not having that rapid stream of events to attend these days. They get more planning if there are fewer big public events, and it’s the Secret Service’s presidential agents protecting him now.
…what’s the end game anyways? Putting Peter Thiel’s avatar in charge?
It’s always a first time assassin, incompetent enough to think it’s possible vs a team of professionals trained in the prevention of such events, who are part of a long lived organisation focused on that task alone.
The secret service are dedicated en mass to stopping such events and have been successful the majority of times.
No the chance is not zero, but it’s near enough. You’re welcome to put that to the test. But you’d be better off doing a historical analysis of modern era coups.
Start with something like this video:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs&list=PLrttDbiWQ1XO1iHAszAsPobYSoR0uQg_1&index=1&pp=iAQB
P.S Oh right, it’s easier to fantasize about someone else doing an assassination for you. Putting JD Vance in charge. Nice clean and simple fantasy.
Nice fantasy. But that’s all it is. He’ll have bullet proof glass, weapons aren’t allowed at his rallies. You don’t think people tried this with Hitler, Stalin, and Putin? It’s said there were over 600 attempts on Castro’s life. He died of old age.
Hell, people tried it with Nixon, Regan, and Obama, people try these things all the time.
No they don’t. There’s already been multiple failed attempts on his life. People have tired your methods. He has helicopter to get away from the hoards.
Good point about Putin and the kompromat, however to assume it’s Trump designing these plans is a bad move.
Trump didn’t design Project 2025, but he’s followed much of it regardless. Trump is a salesman.
Peter Thiel, Marc Andreesen, Sam Altman, lots of billionaires are invested in libertarian projects, cities, or fifedoms. Lots of them also fund, follow, or push the ideas of Curtis Yarvin about destroying democracy.
So you’re right, it might not be Putin.
That said Trump is a Narcissist, and narcissists do tend to care about how they’re perceived… Plus there are people like Victoria Spartz who are now in the Senate, but whom have ties to Russian interests.
… it’s not always about the kompromat, it’s often just about how many ties around the individual (who have influence on their actions) also have interests in the direction pushed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Links_between_Trump_associates_and_Russian_officials
https://swalwell.house.gov/issues/russia-trump-his-administration-s-ties
Probably.
That said Trump is likely shooting his mouth off because it normalizes Putin’s actions in Ukraine. Or simply to weaken trust in the US and its alliances.
I guess we’ll see in the long term.
Aka WW3 with America vs The World is not off the table.
If that happens, only American citizens will be able to stop it.
Yeah, that was already ahown last time with the proudboys and all the groups in J6… And it’s why Musk was doing Nazi signalling.
Those groups and sub groups will eventually be his brown shirts or red guard.
No, and in fact the industry is going to see a reduction as people and companies are realising it’s not a silver bullet solution or even that great at what it does.
The next branch of LLM modeling (now AGI is failing), is likely towards specialisation. Specialised AI problem solving has far more potential than chasing an ill defined and half formed concept of “intelligence”.
No term can exist on its own like that. Everything is relative.
Steve Bannon keeps reinforcing the message “If Trump doesn’t win in 2028, they’re gonna lock him up!” as a way to manipulate both Trump and his supporters supporting the complete break from the law.
America is like hungry right now, but by 2028 it will be like China, and there’ll be no hope for the previous era of American legalism.
Trump is not a lawyer, which most career politicians have been.
No America elected a rich business guy reality TV star with a very questionable history. So that’s going to define they style of office.
It’s two 1 million dollar payment each going to random audience members right? At an event you’re only supposed to attend if you voted for the supreme Court there? Is that correct?
Americans have no idea about unisex bathrooms.
Rural recessions generally mean people will go to the cities, and that’ll be fun because that means: crime’s going up!
It’s the not knowing who will be disappeared or punished next that brings the terror and silences dissent. Random cruelty is the point, it’s used as a proof of total authority, and immunity from justice.
In fascism reason is dissolved and easily replaced with whatever dictates are desired by those in power.
Someone needs to convince dear leader that that the enemies are in his own house!
“What’s happening, it seems to me, is they’re being fed propaganda by the far left, and they believe it. It’s really unfortunate,” Musk continued, claiming that the “real problem” isn’t the “crazy guy” who attacks his vehicles but rather the people that push the “propaganda” that encourages him to do it.
Four top officers at the company have unloaded more than $100 million in stock since last month, reported ABC News. They include James Murdoch, the estranged son of right-wing media magnate Rupert Murdoch, and Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal Musk, who shed $27 million, according to a Security and Exchange Control filing.
Go after them Elon! They must be the problem - they’re the only ones with the money!
“Those are the real villains here, and we’re going to go after them,” the DOGE chief warned. “The president has made it clear, we’re going to go after them.”
“The ones providing the money, the ones pushing the lies and propaganda? We’re going after them,” Musk said, casually pointing his fingers in the shape of a gun.
Also:
On Monday, Washington’s Metropolitan Police revealed that two people accused of vandalizing a Tesla windshield will be charged for “political hate speech.”
Part of the reason apparently was the venue made demands to have a police perimeter, and the campaign was having trouble find a venue in the area.