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Melania Trump questions response to Trump assasination attempt: 'Silence around it feels heavy'

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Suspect in 2nd assassination attempt identified as Ryan Wesley Routh


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Former first lady Melania Trump warned Americans about government encroachment on their freedoms and discussed the July assassination attempt against her husband in two video messages promoting her memoir days before a Secret Service stopped a second potential assassin targeting former President Donald Trump.

In her first video released last Tuesday, Melania Trump said, "The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience," referring to the July 13 assassination attempt during a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the assailant, fired eight shots into the crowd, resulting in the tragic death of former fire chief Corey Comperatore and wounding two others, marine veteran David Dutch and retiree James Copenhaver. A bullet pierced Trump's ear.

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It is difficult being married to a public figure. I often think of Zelensky's wife and her anxiety as her husband, a hero and freedom fighter, leads his valiant defense against Soviet aggression.
Her freedoms and privacy are compromised by her husband's position but she has fought back with NDOs and lawsuits.
As for the freedom to abscond with hundreds of boxes of top secret material--it's a crime. After search warrants were executed, the FBI reclaimed the stolen material. All completely constitutional.
 
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I watched a report on this this morning. I was shocked to hear the reporter explain that the visceral rhetoric
by Trump was what is driving people who are on the edge. It sounded as borderline justification for the attempts
at assassinating Trump.
 
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I watched a report on this this morning. I was shocked to hear the reporter explain that the visceral rhetoric
by Trump was what is driving people who are on the edge. It sounded as borderline justification for the attempts
at assassinating a Trump.
Well then there is Trump who said Democratic rhetoric is what got him almost killed.
 
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Well then there is Trump who said Democratic rhetoric is what got him almost killed.
It goes both ways. Criticism of Trump convinces the person who follows and believes the Democrat rhetoric to
go off the rails.
 
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It goes both ways. Criticism of Trump convinces the person who follows and believes the Democrat rhetoric to
go off the rails.
Absolutely.
 
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I watched a report on this this morning. I was shocked to hear the reporter explain that the visceral rhetoric
by Trump was what is driving people who are on the edge. It sounded as borderline justification for the attempts
at assassinating a Trump.

They have to justify it because they're the ones that have been pushing 24/7 propaganda that Trump is Hitler.
 
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It is difficult being married to a public figure. I often think of Zelensky's wife and her anxiety as her husband, a hero and freedom fighter, leads his valiant defense against Soviet aggression.
Her freedoms and privacy are compromised by her husband's position but she has fought back with NDOs and lawsuits.
As for the freedom to abscond with hundreds of boxes of top secret material--it's a crime. After search warrants were executed, the FBI reclaimed the stolen material. All completely constitutional.
Is fighting a war in which hundreds of thousands of your people are displaced. hurt and killed really heroic? I understand Neocons like yourself love wars to the death but Ukraine didn't have to happen and he's not a freedom fighter. He's an extension of western power in Ukraine.

Also, you don't sound all that upset Trump has been targeted twice for assassination. Instead you refer to him as a criminal (Joe Biden was a Criminal as well but wouldn't qualify any assassination attempt on him like this as well). Are you aware of what stochastic terrorism Fanti?
 
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Well then there is Trump who said Democratic rhetoric is what got him almost killed.
Gee, will have to add that to Trump's inflammatory rhetoric list.
Democrats, based on the criminal indictments of two grand juries in GA and DC, have said there is ample evidence of Trump's ongoing efforts to end democracy. Stating facts in evidence.
And they urged people to vote! To vote!
If Trump is criticizing Democrats for asking people to "vote," that's more evidence of his autocratic bent.
We all know people who have been driven to the edge. For example, the people who stormed the Capitol on 1/6.
 
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Gee, will have to add that to Trump's inflammatory rhetoric list.
Democrats, based on the criminal indictments of two grand juries in GA and DC, have said there is ample evidence of Trump's ongoing efforts to end democracy. Stating facts in evidence.
And they urged people to vote! To vote!
If Trump is criticizing Democrats for asking people to "vote," that's more evidence of his autocratic bent.
We all know people who have been driven to the edge. For example, the people who stormed the Capitol on 1/6.
Sounds like Trump is incredibly dangerous and a threat to democracy.
 
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Suspect in 2nd assassination attempt identified as Ryan Wesley Routh


Melania Trump
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Former first lady Melania Trump warned Americans about government encroachment on their freedoms and discussed the July assassination attempt against her husband in two video messages promoting her memoir days before a Secret Service stopped a second potential assassin targeting former President Donald Trump.

In her first video released last Tuesday, Melania Trump said, "The attempt to end my husband's life was a horrible, distressing experience," referring to the July 13 assassination attempt during a Trump campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the assailant, fired eight shots into the crowd, resulting in the tragic death of former fire chief Corey Comperatore and wounding two others, marine veteran David Dutch and retiree James Copenhaver. A bullet pierced Trump's ear.

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That silence is even more deafening with the 2nd assination attempt on Trump. Its a weird phenomena happening in US politics at the moment. How the attempted assassination of an x president and running candidate can be treated so casually by the media and the Left. You get this feeling that they secretly are hoping for it to come true.

The bias in the media has been obvious and now exposed and the almost deranged fixation on Trump from Leftist is there for all to see.

It almost seems like we are watching radicals on the Left publically orchestrate the taking out of a political opponent using the manipulation and control of government institutions, corporations, the media and if necessary by some deranged individual.

We see this in the way the Left frames Trump and uses the media to push certain narratives which fuel this crazy mentality. I think this is a dangerous time for US politics.

The Left claims Trump is a threat to democracy but right now what we are seeing in US politics is already a threat to democracy.

That a free and democratic nation can manipulate things to the point of 2 attempted assinations of an x president is downplayed as nothing and that a political party can publically manipulate things for this to happen is a sign that the US is in trouble.
 
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Sounds like Trump is incredibly dangerous and a threat to democracy.
He is a mind virus that has infected the woke, kind of like Kuru, incurable and degenerative. These infected people tremble at the mention of the word 'trump'.

I don't want Trump for president, but on the other hand who in their right mind would want Kamala? Happily I get to vote for Sonski and am not trapped by the two candidates everyone else see to be trapped into voting for.
 
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Sounds like Trump is incredibly dangerous and a threat to democracy.
It is his supporter, the people who believe him that are the threat to democracy. They empower him, encourage him and approve of his behaviors.
 
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It is his supporter, the people who believe him that are the threat to democracy. They empower him, encourage him and approve of his behaviors.
Sounds like these people are dangerous and need to be imprisoned.
 
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It is his supporter, the people who believe him that are the threat to democracy. They empower him, encourage him and approve of his behaviors.
How is it possible that 75 million Americans who have voted for Trump in 2020, as well as the multiple millions of Americans who will vote for Trump in 2024 to be any kind of threat to democracy??????
 
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How is it possible that 75 million Americans who have voted for Trump in 2020, as well as the multiple millions of Americans who will vote for Trump in 2024 to be any kind of threat to democracy??????
Have you forgotten January 6th already? That was only a preview.
 
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Have you forgotten January 6th already? That was only a preview.
Gimme a break. None of those people on the 6th had any lethal weapons there, and there wasn't any real chance of the federal government being overthrown by those protestors.
 
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