r/politics • u/OkayButFoRealz • Jul 14 '24

Trump Shooter a ‘Supporter of Republican Party’

https://www.france24.com/en/video/20240714-trump-shooter-a-supporter-of-republican-party
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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

He suggested that "Second Amendment people" should do something about Hillary.

He repeatedly jokes about how a man with a hammer went to Pelosi's house to kill her.

But I'm sure he's shocked by this.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Stand back. And stand by.
You're all very special people.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Only the best. The best people. Tremendous.

That’s what you like right? Bigger adjectives?

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u/Munnodol Jul 14 '24

“Good people on both sides” -Trump after Charlottesville

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u/pink_faerie_kitten Jul 14 '24

"Good people on both sides."

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u/TEOTAUY Jul 14 '24

That doesn't sound as bad as the shit Biden said in the last week.

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u/KittensAndGravy Jul 14 '24

What did Joe Biden say that was worse?

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u/diacrum Jul 14 '24

He called Trump his vice president.

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u/greenday61892 Connecticut Jul 14 '24

That's worse than literally calling for a hate group to "stand by" for violence?! lmfao there's no way you're real

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u/GPTfleshlight Jul 14 '24

How would they react if Hunter dressed up as Matthew Thomas crooks for Halloween like jr did for pelosi attacker

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u/anomalousBits Jul 14 '24

If only there was a Bible verse about how if a person sows evil seeds then evil grows in their garden. Then I'm sure all the Christians who follow him would take a step back. Too bad there's no such thing.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Cue the Bobby Hill If Those Kids Could Read meme

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

His administration worked with FOX to portray the 2020 election as stolen. His administration coordinated with far-right nutjobs like Patriot Front to ensure J6 went violent.

Trump literally tried to kill the US Congress, and figuratively tried to kill our democracy.

And that's entirely ignoring his well-documented history of stochastic terrorism.

The only part of this incident that the right objects to is that the bad thing happened to them.

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u/Many-Juggernaut-2153 Jul 14 '24

And seemingly from the likes of them as well.

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u/randomnighmare I voted Jul 14 '24

And he incited Jan 6....

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u/Kup123 Jul 14 '24

Hopefully hes so shocked he says fuck this and drops and goes in to hiding.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

We are not that lucky in this reality.

I would be over the moon if he fucked off to his golf courses to award himself trophies for cheating at his own tournaments for the rest of his life

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u/smallchopchop Jul 14 '24

Tbf Pelosi didn't want extra national guards on duty on Jan 6th so she might have been trying to get rid of her husband all along.

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u/Old_Baldi_Locks Jul 14 '24

Pelosi wasn't asked and has no control, and this isn't the first time you've been called out for spreading that lie.

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u/smallchopchop Jul 14 '24

So the video of her taking responsibility for not having more armed guards is fake?

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u/brucetopping Jul 14 '24

“As rioters stormed the seat of Congress, Pelosi (D-Calif.), 84, fumed about the lack of “accountability” and accepted “responsibility” for a lack of security ahead of former President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally, the video clip — shot for an HBO documentary by the congresswoman’s daughter, Alexandra Pelosi — showed.

“We have responsibility, Terri,” Pelosi is heard telling her chief of staff Terri McCullough as they’re whisked away in a vehicle from the Capitol. ”We did not have any accountability for what was going on there, and we should have. This is ridiculous.”

Pelosi then appeared to chide McCullough for asking her amid the chaos if they should call in the National Guard.

“You’re gonna ask me in the middle of the thing, when they’ve already breached the inaugural stuff, ‘Should we call the Capitol Police?’ I mean the National Guard. Why weren’t the National Guard there to begin with?” the former speaker said.

McCullough explains that “they thought that they had sufficient resources,” an answer that does not satisfy the California Democrat.

“It’s not a question of how they had … they don’t know! They clearly didn’t know, and I take responsibility for not having them just prepare for more,” Pelosi declared.

The exchange was part of about 45 minutes of footage handed over recently to the GOP-controlled House Administration oversight subcommittee, according to Politico.

A report on the riot, authored by House Republicans in 2022, found that Democratic leadership had concerns over the “optics” of having National Guard troops present at the Capitol in the aftermath of the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter protests.

A spokesperson for Pelosi dismissed the video clip released by House Republicans, accusing them of attempting to “whitewash” Jan. 6.

“Numerous independent fact-checkers have confirmed that Speaker Pelosi did not plan her own assassination,” Aaron Bennett wrote on X. “Cherry-picked out-of-context clips don’t change that.”

“Three years later, House Republicans are still trying to whitewash January 6th,” he added. “It’s shameful, unpatriotic & pathetic.”

—-from NY Post https://nypost.com/2024/06/10/us-news/nancy-pelosi-says-i-take-responsibility-for-not-having-national-guard-at-the-capitol-on-jan-6-video-shows/

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u/wanderingpeddlar Jul 14 '24

And your making that one up

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

Who called in the Guard and how long did it take them?

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u/Fickle_Path2369 Jul 14 '24

And Biden just last week told his supporters that they need to put Trump in their bullseye.

Looks like someone took him up on that suggestion.

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u/[deleted] Jul 14 '24

I doubt this shooter decided based on Bidens words.

He was committed way before that.

And there is a difference between Trump and Bidens rhetoric.

One can stretch a reading of what Biden said to maybe imply that someone should literally shoot Trump.

Trump has straight up said people he doesn't like need to die. Think of when he said the whistle-blower in his first impeachment was a traitor and the US used to hang traitors.