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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho choses not to investigate their own assassination attempt?
I have a hunch.
That is THE question...
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RandySF
(85,325 posts)the 'shooter's' body was snatched up and disposed of post-haste. The 'investigation' quickly dropped off the radar.
sarisataka
(22,721 posts)We will just ignore inconvenient facts that disagree with a meme.
Kingofalldems
(40,334 posts)with everything else Democrats investigate?
OAITW r.2.0
(32,376 posts)That, alone, ought to be a reason to fully investigate. The person murdered, was a Trump MAGA supporter. You'd think Trump would want the attempt to be fully investigated. at the very least, for the family of the guy who was killed.
Unless, of course, this was a planned event that got someone accidentally killed.
themaguffin
(5,286 posts)magicarpet
(19,008 posts)Might not want a formal, professional, or thorough investigation to ensue.
canetoad
(20,856 posts)Going to get that from the trump administration.
magicarpet
(19,008 posts)He knows to avoid that at all costs
Roy Cohen taught djt well.
That is how djt became "The Teflon Mafioso Don" par excellence.
The law men can't catch him, the greasy pig and his dirty money out maneuvers them every time.
Qutzupalotl
(15,842 posts)That kind of thing is just too risky. Ask the families of the victims whether they were hit with real bullets.
Wuddles440
(2,104 posts)the apparent legitimacy of an event that has been staged or designed as a false flag and is right out of the Putin playbook.
GiqueCee
(4,503 posts)... that a president would not stoop so low might be forgiven under any other circumstances, but we ARE talking about a narcissistic psychopath named Donald J. Trump. HE wouldn't bat an eyelash at such depravity. And anyone who doesn't believe that is a fool.
MadameButterfly
(4,115 posts)people dying. So I wouldn't put it past Trump. But since he couldn't do it alone, I would think it would be hard to get others involved AND have a bank of supporters standing behind him.
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sop
(18,946 posts)Deuxcents
(27,359 posts)John1956PA
(5,041 posts). . . who in a sensible society should have never been allowed anywhere near a semi-automatic rifle, practiced with such a weapon on a regular basis and eventually aimed it at a political target. The MAGAs would gain no political capital from such investigations, since the crime was perpetrated by a member of a family adhering to their mentality.
Jack Valentino
(5,156 posts)who probably should have used a bolt-action rifle with a good scope, instead of an AR-15 knockoff....
liberalla
(11,157 posts)for Charlie Kirk's murder???
Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)ColoringFool
(845 posts)Trembling, scared out of his mind, if this were a real attempt.
NO WAY WOULD DRAFT-DODGER TRUMP HAVE STOOD UP WITH A FIST PUMP, WHILE HIS SS TEAM KNELT DOWN FOR A BETTER PHOTO OP!
How people can believe that a group of men willing to murder in plain sight American Blacks, Venezuelan fishermen, and Iranian schoolgirls would flinch at a Blue Pennsylvania sacrifice or two, I have no idea.
Cha
(319,756 posts)Wild guess.
Interesting, all this is coming out now.. there must be credible evidence that it might have been an elaborate set up... where 2 people ended up dead.
But, PEDO didn't have any scars. And doesn't want it investigated apparently.
Martin Eden
(15,745 posts)Discovery is to be feared.
misanthrope
(9,543 posts)is that his wound was more superficial than he has tried to say, and that facts lead to the conclusion it was just as likely, if not more than likely, from debris spread by an errant shot.
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)AZJonnie
(3,843 posts)I lack context, clearly
One thing you know for sure is that that there was no way to link the shooter to Democrats/Liberals, otherwise IQ47 would harp about it all the time.
John1956PA
(5,041 posts)Enola
(38 posts)murdered the man who agreed to shoot at Trump. And they murdered the man who was in the crowd. And Trump and company felt that was just fine. People were murdered to help the stupidest, most immoral man to ever live in the Whitehouse. Sounds about right.
sarisataka
(22,721 posts)and there were several investigations...?
I didn't think so.
I miss the days when DU was a "fact-based community" and we made fun of wild, evidence-free conspiracy theories promoted by the Right.
EdmondDantes_
(1,966 posts)https://www.fbi.gov/news/press-releases/butler-investigation-updates
Some of those investigations you mentioned in case others want to see that there were investigations done.
Orrex
(67,249 posts)or the cheerleaders will attack you for daring to question The Official Story.
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Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Kid Berwyn
(24,757 posts)For starters:
Even though they were required by law to preserve them, the Secret Service destroyed its phone logs, text messages, etc. from when the mob wanted to lynch Pence and Pelosi as traitor pedo choked the agent who refused to drive him to the Cap-IT-ol on January 6.
Orrex
(67,249 posts)Including all directives and guidelines issued re: the handling and management of those resources and materials.
After that, I will be happy to answer.
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)As you apparently have concerns that can only be addressed by a public airing of all information related to the incident.
Orrex
(67,249 posts)Is it my turn?
RedWhiteBlueIsRacist
(2,110 posts)Freaky!
Come to think of it, he seems to have stopped calling people, crooks!.
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)attempt against a president.
They allowed the target to stand exposed before they took him away. Always before in these cases, they keep the president covered in case there are more shooters and hustle him away without any stops and certainly without any exposure. So the SS was acting in a completely unexpected way.
HOWEVER, the guy who herded the photographers to the optimal photo spot somehow KNEW IN ADVANCE that the SS would act in that completely unexpected way, and he even knew exactly where they would do it.
How did he know that?
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)Also, that doesn't answer my question: How did that guy know when and where to place the photographers?
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)was playing out?
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)For that photo to happen, the secret service had to violate all its own protocols. They didn't keep him covered as they moved him away, opening him to possibly of injury by another shooter. When have you ever seen that happen before in an assassination attempt?
It was an unprecedented and completely unexpected breach of security.
And yet, BEFORE it happened, the guy knew to move the photographers to the exact spot to get the best photo of the secret service performing that unprecedented and unexpected breach of security, and allowing trump to strike his pose.
Jedi Guy
(3,489 posts)Just how deep does this rabbit hole go?!
in case it's needed...
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,641 posts)1. Democratic presidents don't insert themselves into criminal investigations.
2. The deadly assassination attempt that didn't take a chunk out of Piggy's ear, and left no scar whatsoever, happened July 13, 2024. President Biden withdrew from the presidential race on July 21, 2024. He and the DNC probably had other things on their minds, like screwing over our incumbent.
3. Piggy didn't have to be in office to "control" whoever he wanted to. Why didn't the hospital or the doctors announce what happened, what his "injury" was or how he was treated? A maxi pad and no stitches? No meds or follow up? Not even bedrest to recover from the immense emotional and physical trauma? Because...
On July 15: Piggy was fully functional (for him) and fully cured (praise Allah!) for the RNC convention two days later.
You can't just whip out, "You don't believe Biden???!!" without recognizing the actual history of what happened, and what didn't happen.
Scrivener7
(59,849 posts)This was a good idea after a group of secret service agents appeared to have been part of orange Jesus's attempt at a coup on January 6. We all remember all the warnings to Pence to avoid getting into the secret service car at all costs. And I don't remember there being any firings after that.
The secret service was polluted by orange Jesus, just like everything else he touches.
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,641 posts)But I'm sure THIS time, it was totally legit.
Kaleva
(40,391 posts)Do you think the Biden Administration dropped the ball on this?
MorbidButterflyTat
(4,641 posts)But literally nothing about his near death attempted assassination?
Except lots and lot and lots of merch!
Jose Garcia
(3,529 posts)Combine that with Trump's inability to keep his mouth shut about anything, it takes quite a bit of suspension of belief to buy this conspiracy theory.
Wednesdays
(22,877 posts)With all the crazy conspiracy theories out there, you'd think there'd be something like that mentioned at least a few times.