The fact that politics are being put into this, rather than the fact the man was simply a lunatic who shouldn’t have been allowed to own a firearm based on past behavior, shows how much this “man is a raging leftist” smear has been propagated by the right
The reality is that, though he leans right, his politics were all over the place. He seems to have only supported the current contrarian thing, even Bernie Sanders and the Biden/Harris campaign respectively for like a week. It seems his final straw though might’ve been Trump’s non-answer regarding protecting Ukraine, which likely validated some thoughts he had regarding Trump’s relationship with Putin
Either way political violence is wrong. Biden and Harris, alongside many democrats, independents and moderate republicans, have denounced it as such. Wanna know who keeps stoking the flames of violent rhetoric? Trump, Vance, and their sycophants in MAGA
itsatumbleweed on
I don’t like both sidesing, but it applies here.
He supported Trump in 2016 and then when he was disillusioned with Trump he supported everyone he thought could stop him. That included Gabbard, Viveck, Haley, Biden, and Harris.
Then he decided that it was on him to stop Trump. There isn’t any partisanship in sight, rather a mentally ill guy who was for and then against Trump.
MarcusDA on
So let’s be real. Guy loved Trump, Trump balked on his shitty campaign promises because that’s what does, guy gets mad.
AtsignAmpersat on
Of course he did. Trump’s rhetoric is going to get him killed.
Skorpyos on
The only thing this occurrence tells me is that lunatics should not have access to guns. Gun safety laws must be implemented.
ejohn916 on
Didn’t Trump predict this in 2016 except he was referring to Clinton? The 2nd Amendment people could do something about her…. or something like that!
Don’t remember much outrage happening then…
BackOff2023 on
Whatever – Democrat, Republican, this is a crazy man with an assault weapon despite numerous prior arrests and convictions. Isn’t the real problem that he was out there with a gun?
outremonty on
Trump is only worth assassinating if you think he will win in November. The only people who think Trump will win are Republicans. You have to buy into the power of Trump -his cult of personality- to believe he can’t be defeated by The People.
brogmatic on
Technically he said Trump was his pick in 2106
flux_of_grey_kittens on
If only there was a place Trump could be taken to where he would be safe. Like, a big compound with armed guards, doors that auto lock and need to be opened by a person in a control room.. a massive surrounding wall with razor wire on top of it. Anyone that wanted to be near him from outside would need to be vetted and frisked. 🤔
Seems like that would be a good place for him to be..
Mcboatface3sghost on
Dude bought a lemon, realized it was a lemon and tried to return it, was ignored and is now stuck with the lemon, took matters in to his own hands. Plus some diagnosed mental health issues that perhaps force multiply his anger at the Trump Dealership.
warpcoil on
Be careful guys, Katy Tur might call you out as examples of “violent rhetoric coming from the left.” Yes, she said that, is it a surprise, no.
lesla222 on
Ya, I don’t think it matters how many assassination attempts they stage, they aren’t working to endear Trump to anyone.
ChaoticNonsense on
The saying “Don’t stick your dick in crazy” comes to mind.
Spend a decade whipping nutjobs into a frenzy, and you will reap the consequences.
Kind-City-2173 on
Now everyone on the right must come out and said they were wrong for calling him a Harris/Biden operative and or sympathizer
mjzim9022 on
So far sounds like a military LARPer who liked Trump but hates Russia more.
wittor on
So the only people really targeting him are his own disgruntled supporters.
McCoyPatrick822 on
That’s quite believable!
McCoyPatrick822 on
Trump has a tendency to let you down. “Make America Great Again?” How? By destroying it, by being an immature child that won’t listen to anyone?
SpaceCaptainFlapjack on
But you see, Conservative reddit assured me both shooters were “lefty lunatics” so checkmate, please don’t read me any more facts
Onefortheteem on
The question is how many “ assassination attempts” is he gonna stage to try and boost his numbers?
Is it gonna be one a month now? Or try and ramp it up? He’s so desperate it’s pathetic and scary
ExploreTrails on
So many Trump voters are shooting at Trump. At least he knows who to look out for…..anyone in the crowd at his rally or a Trump sign on his yard.
LinearFluid on
When your rhetoric is violence and you work people up to believe you are the answer to all their problems, then when they realize you can’t deliver and conned them, You are going to have a bad time of it watching your back.
Trump is a victim of his own doing.
When he screwed people over in business, they numbered in the 100s. When he screws over his constituents there are a possible 75 million that can wake up and want to take action. The odds are not on his side.
Silly-Scene6524 on
It kind of makes sense it’s republicans coming after Trump, they’re more likely to be gun crazy and more likely to commit ideology/politically based crimes now.
Based on the projection..
WhoMD85 on
Okay my question is how did this guy know where the FORMER president was? The golf trip was unplanned, unannounced, and not on his schedule.
With his background, prior felonies, history of violence and mental illness, HOW THE HELL DID HE PURCHASE A FIREARM?!? Even in Florida dealers and buyers have to fill out a ATF form 4473 which needs to be called in and approved. How did he get the gun!?
billybobboy123456789 on
Maybe donald Trump (with a little d) should get a glass encased motorized cart he can ride around in.
mishma2005 on
MAGA world is having a hard time coping. HE HAD A BIDEN/HARRIS STICKER ON HIS TRUCK!!! Which I see no evidence of except….on MAGA world news sites
Sure-Swim7459 on
Swifties getting out of control!
Oceanbreeze871 on
Florida is a permit-less carry state. He was a convicted felon with a long criminal history. How was he able to buy an assault style rifle and ammo?
What gun store sold it to him?
TheNewTonyBennett on
Yeah. This is the result of a person who actually got conned after having sincerely believed the clearly obvious lies and nonsense Trump started running with in 2016.
Democrats never believed him in the first place. Ergo: **Republican voters ARE Trump’s marks.** I mean clearly Trump has never once even bothered to try and convince any Democrats whatsoever. ***Because he knows it’s 100% a waste of his time that will gain him nothing***.
Republican voters are bound to be the only ones who have SUCH a sense of shock wash over them, since it was their belief system in the first place that opened up a spot for Trump in their hearts and minds.
Trump’s marks have an exceptionally unhealthy obsession with guns and sure enough, **those** are the people he’s conning.
Itool4looti on
Trump was also his choice in Sept 2024.
joshhupp on
“You were supposed to be the chosen one!”
HurricaneFloyd on
He was convicted of possession of an illegal fully automatic machine gun, fleeing arrest, and having a stand-off with police in 2002. He did not legally vote in 2016.
EDIT: In fact he should have still been in prison.
CAM6913 on
There was a news report that the secret service gave just a few minutes ago saying that the suspected gunman did not fire a shot so it was pure propaganda that he fired three times at trump. Could be trump set this up to try to raise his pole numbers it would not surprise me
dancingbriefcase on
GOP loves guns. Doesn’t do anything to protect people from gun violence. Says that it is a fact of life. Thoughts and prayers are all they offer. This is what’s going to happen. And they have the audacity to blame liberals for this.
LunaLloveley on
Seems to me like this dude was obsessed with Ukraine. Probably got pissed that Trump basically said he was going to gift Ukraine to Russia.
Once-and-Future on
Basically a dude who had no actual political principles – just drifting from one thing to another.
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The fact that politics are being put into this, rather than the fact the man was simply a lunatic who shouldn’t have been allowed to own a firearm based on past behavior, shows how much this “man is a raging leftist” smear has been propagated by the right
The reality is that, though he leans right, his politics were all over the place. He seems to have only supported the current contrarian thing, even Bernie Sanders and the Biden/Harris campaign respectively for like a week. It seems his final straw though might’ve been Trump’s non-answer regarding protecting Ukraine, which likely validated some thoughts he had regarding Trump’s relationship with Putin
Either way political violence is wrong. Biden and Harris, alongside many democrats, independents and moderate republicans, have denounced it as such. Wanna know who keeps stoking the flames of violent rhetoric? Trump, Vance, and their sycophants in MAGA
I don’t like both sidesing, but it applies here.
He supported Trump in 2016 and then when he was disillusioned with Trump he supported everyone he thought could stop him. That included Gabbard, Viveck, Haley, Biden, and Harris.
Then he decided that it was on him to stop Trump. There isn’t any partisanship in sight, rather a mentally ill guy who was for and then against Trump.
So let’s be real. Guy loved Trump, Trump balked on his shitty campaign promises because that’s what does, guy gets mad.
Of course he did. Trump’s rhetoric is going to get him killed.
The only thing this occurrence tells me is that lunatics should not have access to guns. Gun safety laws must be implemented.
Didn’t Trump predict this in 2016 except he was referring to Clinton? The 2nd Amendment people could do something about her…. or something like that!
Don’t remember much outrage happening then…
Whatever – Democrat, Republican, this is a crazy man with an assault weapon despite numerous prior arrests and convictions. Isn’t the real problem that he was out there with a gun?
Trump is only worth assassinating if you think he will win in November. The only people who think Trump will win are Republicans. You have to buy into the power of Trump -his cult of personality- to believe he can’t be defeated by The People.
Technically he said Trump was his pick in 2106
If only there was a place Trump could be taken to where he would be safe. Like, a big compound with armed guards, doors that auto lock and need to be opened by a person in a control room.. a massive surrounding wall with razor wire on top of it. Anyone that wanted to be near him from outside would need to be vetted and frisked. 🤔
Seems like that would be a good place for him to be..
Dude bought a lemon, realized it was a lemon and tried to return it, was ignored and is now stuck with the lemon, took matters in to his own hands. Plus some diagnosed mental health issues that perhaps force multiply his anger at the Trump Dealership.
Be careful guys, Katy Tur might call you out as examples of “violent rhetoric coming from the left.” Yes, she said that, is it a surprise, no.
Ya, I don’t think it matters how many assassination attempts they stage, they aren’t working to endear Trump to anyone.
The saying “Don’t stick your dick in crazy” comes to mind.
Spend a decade whipping nutjobs into a frenzy, and you will reap the consequences.
Now everyone on the right must come out and said they were wrong for calling him a Harris/Biden operative and or sympathizer
So far sounds like a military LARPer who liked Trump but hates Russia more.
So the only people really targeting him are his own disgruntled supporters.
That’s quite believable!
Trump has a tendency to let you down. “Make America Great Again?” How? By destroying it, by being an immature child that won’t listen to anyone?
But you see, Conservative reddit assured me both shooters were “lefty lunatics” so checkmate, please don’t read me any more facts
The question is how many “ assassination attempts” is he gonna stage to try and boost his numbers?
Is it gonna be one a month now? Or try and ramp it up? He’s so desperate it’s pathetic and scary
So many Trump voters are shooting at Trump. At least he knows who to look out for…..anyone in the crowd at his rally or a Trump sign on his yard.
When your rhetoric is violence and you work people up to believe you are the answer to all their problems, then when they realize you can’t deliver and conned them, You are going to have a bad time of it watching your back.
Trump is a victim of his own doing.
When he screwed people over in business, they numbered in the 100s. When he screws over his constituents there are a possible 75 million that can wake up and want to take action. The odds are not on his side.
It kind of makes sense it’s republicans coming after Trump, they’re more likely to be gun crazy and more likely to commit ideology/politically based crimes now.
Based on the projection..
Okay my question is how did this guy know where the FORMER president was? The golf trip was unplanned, unannounced, and not on his schedule.
With his background, prior felonies, history of violence and mental illness, HOW THE HELL DID HE PURCHASE A FIREARM?!? Even in Florida dealers and buyers have to fill out a ATF form 4473 which needs to be called in and approved. How did he get the gun!?
Maybe donald Trump (with a little d) should get a glass encased motorized cart he can ride around in.
MAGA world is having a hard time coping. HE HAD A BIDEN/HARRIS STICKER ON HIS TRUCK!!! Which I see no evidence of except….on MAGA world news sites
Swifties getting out of control!
Florida is a permit-less carry state. He was a convicted felon with a long criminal history. How was he able to buy an assault style rifle and ammo?
What gun store sold it to him?
Yeah. This is the result of a person who actually got conned after having sincerely believed the clearly obvious lies and nonsense Trump started running with in 2016.
Democrats never believed him in the first place. Ergo: **Republican voters ARE Trump’s marks.** I mean clearly Trump has never once even bothered to try and convince any Democrats whatsoever. ***Because he knows it’s 100% a waste of his time that will gain him nothing***.
Republican voters are bound to be the only ones who have SUCH a sense of shock wash over them, since it was their belief system in the first place that opened up a spot for Trump in their hearts and minds.
Trump’s marks have an exceptionally unhealthy obsession with guns and sure enough, **those** are the people he’s conning.
Trump was also his choice in Sept 2024.
“You were supposed to be the chosen one!”
He was convicted of possession of an illegal fully automatic machine gun, fleeing arrest, and having a stand-off with police in 2002. He did not legally vote in 2016.
EDIT: In fact he should have still been in prison.
There was a news report that the secret service gave just a few minutes ago saying that the suspected gunman did not fire a shot so it was pure propaganda that he fired three times at trump. Could be trump set this up to try to raise his pole numbers it would not surprise me
GOP loves guns. Doesn’t do anything to protect people from gun violence. Says that it is a fact of life. Thoughts and prayers are all they offer. This is what’s going to happen. And they have the audacity to blame liberals for this.
Seems to me like this dude was obsessed with Ukraine. Probably got pissed that Trump basically said he was going to gift Ukraine to Russia.
Basically a dude who had no actual political principles – just drifting from one thing to another.
Leopards are starting to gnaw at Donnie’s face
Dude was 2 holes from being a hero.