From the report, this was a recent picture - Hard to see the war wound if it was
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https://www.news.com.au/world/north-america/us-politics/donald-trump-blames-democrats-rhetoric-for-encouraging-assassination-attempts/news-story/0a7ed155458910d6521ec19723ab3cb2
Yep, thats right folkes.
The reason so many people want to kill Mr poop-his-pants is because of Joe and Kamala
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Trump in one sentence: It’s a disgrace. They way these people talk about me, calling me a danger to democracy, puts a target on my back and encourages sickos to try to take me out
Trump in the very next sentence: Well you know what. They are the danger. They are a danger to the country. If they win we will not have a country anymore. We must stop them. They must be stopped.
Trump’s brain: I see no contradiction here.
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Trump’s brain:
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Not sure how much more abhorrent this guy can get…
No cents of shame: Trump unveils new commemorative coin for $100 in latest merchandise grab
Former President Donald Trump is selling commemorative coins for $100 as he continues to ask his supporters for cash by purchasing various merchandise.
The coins display Trump’s face and an image of the White House with the words “In God We Trust.”
Earlier this year, Trump launched golden Trump sneakers and Trump bibles. He has also been selling several batches of NFTs as well as physical Trump cards.
Trump wrote on Truth Social on Saturday that the coins are “The ONLY OFFICIAL coin designed by me—and proudly minted here in the USA.”
The “Silver Medallion” coins will be available on Wednesday via a website set up specifically to hawk the merchandise.
Trump also shared a video on Truth Social, saying “This beautiful, limited-edition coin commemorates our movement, our fight for freedom, prosperity, and putting America first, we always put America first.”
“It’s more than just a collector’s item, it’s a testament to the resilience and strength of the American people, our American patriots that we love so much,” he said.
A description on the site selling the coins states that they’re a “1oz .999% silver medallion.”
The coins are “struck with a proof finish featuring our 45th President’s profile on the obverse and the White House on the reverse,” it adds
Trump launched God Bless the USA Bibles ahead of Easter alongside country musician Lee Greenwood, who sang the tune during the Republican National Convention this summer. Trump frequently uses the song as he enters his campaign events.
“Happy Holy Week! Let’s Make America Pray Again. As we lead into Good Friday and Easter, I encourage you to get a copy of the God Bless The USA Bible,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in March.
In February, Trump launched a golden sneaker embossed with a large “T.” The “Never Surrender High-Tops” for “go-getters who don’t know the word quit” were made available for $399.
Trump also released a book entitled Save America after he narrowly escaped an assassination attempt during a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July.
At $99, the book offers an “unparalleled look” into Trump’s first and so far only term in the White House. The book’s cover features the now iconic image of a bloodied Trump waving his fist in the air as he urged his supporters to “fight.” Another pair of sneakers, also featuring the image, are being sold for $299.
The Trump Store, where Trump sells his merchandise, also features beach balls, flip-flops, bibles, mugs, dog collars, and golf ball markers. There are also t-shirts, mugs, and posters featuring his mug shot following his arrest in Georgia in the election-interference case.
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Gotta pay off the women he sexually abused somehow.
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Watch this video…
The answer is, much more.
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For those doubting the Iran links to the recent incident
I presume I’m missing something, but the fact that the, clearly deranged, would be assassin mentioned Iran isn’t exactly firm proof that they were behind it. Apparently, he was a supporter of Ukraine, but no one seems to be suggesting that they are involved.
It seems to have been a very amateurish attempt which points to a lone nutter with a grudge.
If there’s more evidence of Iranian involvement it would be interesting to see.
There is no serious reporting that Ukraine have multiple ops going to try to get Trump assassinated. The fact he fits the lone nutter with a grudge profile is why he is a likely target to the Iranians running that part of the operation.
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Ok, but isn’t it a stretch to use a mention of Iran in a note to build a theory of a full blown state sponsored assassination plot?
It may well be true, but it just seems a bit thin.
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We already have reporting that 1) Iran have multiple ops intended to assassinate Trump, and 2) one of those involves cultivating patsys on the internet to be radicalized into doing it for them.
So when you then get a lone nutter get busted seemingly trying to do it, someone who leaves us with questions of where his money came from, it is a reasonable speculation that he was the product of an influence op. And to be clear, that is all I have ever said, that this is my speculation.
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Yeah, that’s true, none of us really know what’s going on.
Kushner firm may be front to ‘funnel foreign government money’ to Trump family: Senate Dem
Story by Carl Gibson
One Senate Democrat investigating the company headed by Jared Kushner — former President Donald Trump’s son-in-law (husband of Ivanka Trump) and onetime White House senior advisor — is suggesting the firm may simply be a vehicle for accepting gifts from other governments.
The New York Times reported Wednesday that Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) recently asked numerous questions of Kushner’s Miami, Florida-based Affinity Partners firm in a letter sent earlier this week: Namely, why the company has yet to pay out any dividends to investors despite pulling in more than $3 billion since 2021.
According to the Times , More than 99% of the $3 billion Kushner’s company has taken in since it was launched is from foreign governments — including roughly $2 billion just from Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. Other foreign governments that have contributed include the sovereign wealth funds of Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Taiwan-based billionaire Terry Gou, who founded tech manufacturer Foxconn. An additional “mystery” investor that Affinity has not revealed to the public is also reportedly a stakeholder in the firm.
“Affinity’s investors may not be motivated by commercial considerations but rather the opportunity to funnel foreign government money to members of President Trump’s family, namely Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump,” Wyden wrote in his letter. He notably observed Kushner’s company hadn’t “distributed a penny of earnings back to clients.”
“A potential future Trump administration will have financial motives to make foreign policy decisions that may be counter to the national interest in order to ensure Kushner and Ivanka Trump continue to collect millions of dollars in fees from foreign governments through Affinity,” Wyden added. “Unfortunately, Affinity declined to provide information as to how these conflicts of interest will be addressed should former President Trump be elected to a second term in office.”
The company’s spokesperson responded in a statement that it was following all regulations as required by law, and that Wyden’s letter was a “political move.”
“Partisan politics aside, Affinity Partners is an SEC-registered investment firm that has always acted appropriately and any suggestion to the contrary is false,” Affinity chief legal officer Chad Mizelle stated. “We are fortunate to have the support of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors and work hard on their behalf every day.”
One particular project that has come under congressional scrutiny is Kushner’s plans to develop land in the Baltic region, including plans for a luxury resort in Albania and a hotel development in the Serbian capital of Belgrade. His business partner in those ventures is Richard Grenell, who is Trump’s former acting Director of National Intelligence. Patagonia CEO Ryan Zellert had particular concerns about what Kushner’s plans to develop protected acreage in the Zvernec region of Albania would do to the local ecosystem.
“It is a stunning area, unique across the Mediterranean,” Zellert said in August. “And the idea of them developing this, particularly in the absence of a master plan, is a really bad idea.”
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Trump says Ukraine is ‘dead’ and dismisses its defense against Russia’s invasion
Story by JONATHAN J. COOPER, Associated Press
Former President Donald Trump described Ukraine in bleak and mournful terms Wednesday, referring to its people as “dead” and the country itself as “demolished," and further raising questions about how much the former president would be willing if elected again to concede in a negotiation over the country’s future.
Trump argued Ukraine should have made concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin in the months before Russia’s February 2022 attack, declaring that even “the worst deal would’ve been better than what we have now."
Trump, who has long been critical of U.S. aid to Ukraine, frequently claims that Russia never would have invaded if he was president and that he would put an end to the war if he returned to the White House. But rarely has he discussed the conflict in such detail.
His remarks, at a North Carolina event billed as an economic speech, come on the heels of a debate this month in which he pointedly refused to say whether he wanted Ukraine to win the war. On Tuesday, Trump touted the prowess of Russia and its predecessor Soviet Union, saying that wars are “what they do.”
The Republican former president, notoriously attuned to slights, began his denunciation of Ukraine by alluding to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent criticism of Trump and running mate JD Vance.
Zelenskyy, who is visiting the U.S. this week to attend the U.N. General Assembly, told The New Yorker that Vance was “too radical” for proposing that Ukraine surrender territories under Russian control and that Trump “doesn’t really know how to stop the war even if he might think he knows how.”
Said Trump, “It’s something we have to have a quick discussion about because the president of Ukraine is in our country and he’s making little nasty aspersions toward your favorite president, me."
Trump painted Ukraine as a country in ruins outside its capital, Kyiv, short on soldiers and losing population to war deaths and neighboring countries. He questioned whether the country has any bargaining chips left to negotiate an end to the war.
“Any deal — the worst deal — would’ve been better than what we have now,” Trump said. "If they made a bad deal it would’ve been much better. They would’ve given up a little bit and everybody would be living and every building would be built and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years.”
“What deal can we make? It’s demolished,” he added. “The people are dead. The country is in rubble.”
Zelenskyy is pitching the White House on what he calls a victory plan for the war, expected to include an ask to use long-range Western weapons to strike Russian targets.
While Ukraine outperformed many expectations that it would fall quickly to Russia, outnumbered Ukrainian forces face grinding battles against one of the world’s most powerful armies in the country’s east. A deal with Russia would almost certainly be unfavorable for Ukraine, which has lost a fifth of its territory and tens of thousands of lives in the conflict.
Trump laid blame for the conflict on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in November. He said Biden “egged it all on" by pledging to help Ukraine defend itself rather than pushing it to cede territory to Russia.
“Biden and Kamala allowed this to happen by feeding Zelenskyy money and munitions like no country has ever seen before,” Trump said.
Notably, Trump did not attack Putin’s reasoning for launching the invasion, only suggesting Putin would not have started the war had Trump been in office. He did say of Putin, “He’s no angel.”
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B-b-but Putin endorsed Harris?! 
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This comments now reads completely differently with JD as the VP. The 25th wont be invoked for Trump demonstrating incompetence, but with the Heritage candidate waiting in the wings, it is going to be an attractive options should Trump’s capriciousness get in the way of the program.
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