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The unthinkable has happened!
Last Sunday, I published "Unthinkable," about the threats made against Donald Trump's life. This Sunday, I regret to say, I'm focusing on last evenings attempted assassination. The words are no longer words, they have become fact.
Assassination!
BUTLER, Pennsylvania, July 14 (Reuters) -- Donald Trump was shot in the ear in an attempted assassination during a campaign rally Saturday evening, an attack that will likely reshape this year’s presidential race while raising sharp questions about security provided to the Republican candidate.
The shooter was a sniper fired from a building outside the venue. He was shot and killed by Secret Service snipers.
In the moments after the shooting, Trump was swarmed and covered up by his security agents. He quickly emerged, his face streaked with blood, and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
Speaking from Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, about two hours after the shooting, Joe Biden said he was grateful Trump was safe after the shooting
Biden said, “There’s no place in America for this kind of violence.”
Joe Biden is a damned liar
During a fundraiser on July 8th, just five day earlier, Joe Biden told a group of wealthy backers:
“I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,”
On Friday, the day before the shooting, Joe Biden made a campaign stop in Detroit where he repeatedly lied and slandered Trump before a crowd of hundreds.
The fact is, Joe Biden has been sowing the seeds of Trump hatred for years His "Fear and Loathing Campaign" is based upon vilifying Trump. Those seeds have now born fruit.
CNN laughingly wrote, "the nation’s counselor in chief is now tasked with bringing the United States together during a serious crisis."
Fat chance of that happening! What does Biden expect to happen when he tells his supporters that:
"Trump is a threat to this nation!"
The Shooter
Early on Sunday the FBI identified 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, as the "subject involved" in what it termed an attempted assassination.
Crooks was shot dead by Secret Service agents, the agency said, after he opened fire from the roof of a building about 150 yards from the stage where Trump was speaking. An AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle was recovered near his body.
The shooter failed in his mission, but he did manage to murder one of the rally attendees and wound two others, both badly.
Around 1:30 a.m. Sunday, dozens of law enforcement vehicles were stationed outside Crooks' residence. The home sits along a winding suburban road in Bethel Park, about 42 miles south of Butler. Agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives were on the scene and a bomb squad was at the residence and planned to enter the home.
A member of the Allegheny County bomb squad told reporters he and several officers would be going into the house imminently around midnight. He did not say what they were looking for.
Trump
I was channel-surfing and saw the Trump rally on NewsMax. I was watching the rally for only a few minutes, when I heard the rifle fire, saw Trump touch the right side of his face, and then drop to the stage behind the podium.
Donald Trump was shot in the ear in an attempted assassination during a campaign rally Saturday evening, an attack that will likely reshape this year’s presidential race while raising sharp questions about security provided to the Republican candidate.
In the moments after the shooting, Trump was swarmed and covered up by his security agents.
He quickly emerged, his face streaked with blood, and pumped his fist in the air, mouthing the words "Fight! Fight! Fight!"
And that was the moment that Donald Trump became legendary!
Trump is blessed.
It was a well-placed shot -- two seconds from the muzzle to target -- when Trump turned his head, just a bit to the right. Instead of hitting Trump's ear full on, the round clipped the top of Trump's ear. A few millimeters to the right and that bullet would have been lethal.
Trump was taken to a local hospital near Butler and was placed under observation. He was in “good spirits”and vowed to “never quit.”
He was finally released -- and as the sun set in the west, our hero, like Odysseus, has survived another challenge, and thus departs the hospital and on to the next stop in the Trump saga -- the Republican National Convention where Trump will be greeted as the hero he has become.
We all feared for this.
All the gloves are off now.
They will stop at nothing!
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