What? The guy who âwhatever happenedâ regarding Trump shooting (just a few hours ago)âŚ
What psychosis? Whatâs 404?
We all know that the Trump campaign is willing to make up stories and outright lies, but this is disgusting behaviour and should be condemned from all sides.
The Springfield hoax has put innocent peopleâs lives at risk and the effects will be felt for years. Not only that, it means that there is now no credibility in anything that Trump and Vance say from now on. It makes a complete mockery of the whole election process.
This is a much bigger and more serious development than some random nutter with a gun on a golf course.
I wonder if we are starting to see the Trump patchwork of support very slowly unravel given the two shooting incidents and the call out over abortion?.
Just how vile can this guy Musk actually getâŚ
FBI flagged as âmajor government contractorâ questions why Harris isnât being assassinated
Story by David McAfee
The richest man in the world, who also happens to be a U.S. defense contractor, is being criticized on social media on Sunday after questioning why people arenât trying to assassinate Vice President Kamala Harris.
Trump over the weekend was tackled by his own Secret Service after an individual was reportedly spotted hiding on the former presidentâs golf course behind a bush with an AK-47. Authorities say they fired at the man, who was later apprehended and is being questioned.
A graphic designer posted a question, âWhy they want to kill Donald Trump?â Elon Musk, who owns the social media company that he renamed from Twitter to âX,â posted a controversial statement in response.
âAnd no one is even trying to assassinate Biden/Kamala,â Musk wrote with a âthinking faceâ emoji.
The comment did not go over well.
Former Republican lawmaker Adam Kinzinger, who has endorsed Harris and who spoke at the Democratic National Convention, said, âDude Iâm not kidding here, get help. This is unhinged and dangerous.â
Civil rights lawyer Andrew C. Laufer said, âThis is a dumb tweet, Elon.â
âYou want Trump to win, great. Ginning up nonsense that, somehow, Biden/Harris is connected to any of the assassination attempts on Trump only serves to potentially foment more violence. Any violence is unacceptable,â Laufer added on Sunday.
National security attorney Bradley P. Moss simply wrote in response, âDelete your account.â
Former Trump campaign aide A.J. Delgado said, âYou sound disappointed.â
âAre you trying to egg on one of your incels???â she asked.
Former Trump administration official Olivia Troye also jumped in, saying, âThis is vile and reckless. You know better, and that makes this all the more despicable.â
Popular user @trouble_man90 tagged the FBI and Secret Service.
Democratic strategist Keith Edwards chimed in, âyour government contract should be revoked immediately.â
Conservative Tom Nichols said, âI had a security clearance for most of my adult life. If I had said something like this, I wouldâve lost it instantly. And yet this guy is still a major government contractor.â
Hasan Piker, an online streamer and YouTuber, said âthis is a defense contractor,â and tagged the FBI, the Secret Service, and the CIA.
CNN has reported that the would-be assassin voted in one of the Democratic primaries and made donations to the Democrats. So, probably not a Republican.
Given this guyâs background, itâs possible that his motivation was Trumpâs lack of support for Ukraine and his admiration of Putin.
He seems unaware that threatening the president, vice-president, or presidential candidates is a criminal offence.
How much of it is that, and how much of it is the knowledge that when youâre the richest person on the planet and a major US defense contractor you can pretty much do whatever the fuck you want?
Something similar was said about the earlier shooter too wasnât it?
Yes, I seem to remember that he had made a donation to the Dems.
Think the solution is that Democrats (or those leaning Democrat) shouldnât be allowed to own guns. You would cut the number of people who could own a firearm by around half!
Iâm sure this will have broad support - even amongst the NRA and Republicans!
He is seemingly a one time Trump fan who turned against him at some point in his presidency. You can make sense of Ukraine/Russia being the motivating factor for that turn given a record of support of Trump in 16, Biden in 20 and then back to Haley in 24, someone who presented herself as valueing old fashioned Republican display of strength in foreign policy and with respect to Russia. Except his SM posts also show a guy who seemed very supporting of Gabbard, who has been little more than a Putin sock puppet for several years now.
Like lots of voters his stated beliefs seem to be an incoherent mishmash of ideas.
Bizarre for someone who is supportive of UkraineâŚ
That turned out to be incorrect, donor had the same name. To the extent that the shooter in the first incident was political at all, it was expressing admiration for Trump in high school.
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Sorry LA, nothing personal, but this is how disinformation works. That story was quickly debunked, but for those, such as yourself, who didnât see the rebuttal, it remains true.
This election is so full of half truths, misrepresentations and downright lies, that itâs almost impossible for the voters to know whatâs going on.