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Breaking News: Tonight, assassination attempt at White House Correspondence Dinner. Trump safe. Gunman captured

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Donald Trump's conviction was for a Class E Felony. The lowest Felony offense in New York.

He also received an unconditional discharge at sentencing.
Yet he does have 37 felony criminal convictions. So yes, he is a criminal felon. He has also been found liable for committing sexual assault (E. Jean Carroll), which the judge of that trial said was 'rape as most people understand it'. And he was found civilly liable for fraud (Trump U., Trump Foundation, and tax violations.
He received an unconditional discharge at sentencing because he had been re-elected president, and that is all. IF he were anyone else, there would have been some type of punishment. Unconditional discharges are rare and do acknowledge the conviction. He is not innocent of the crimes.

His home territory of Manhattan has certainly become a hunting ground against him , and by the enemies that occupy it. Hillary Clinton and George Soros as just two examples.

Meanwhile, while opponents of the Conservative party will happily invoke the charge of Felon against Trup,it does not a thing to vacate his presence and authority in office.
Where unindicted offenders did dwell.
Democrat Barack Obama committed Treason,as did his co- conspirator Hillary R. Clinton ,when giving America's enemy,Iran,the necessary materials and cash so to manufacture nuclear weapons.
That is a bunch of baloney and conspiracy. No, Obama did not treason. That is yet another lie by Trump, who has repeatedly lied.
Prove it. Trump's claims (lies) were debunked.

VP Joseph Biden in 2018 while attending the Council on Foreign Relations event, boasted that he'd told Ukrainian officials in 2016 that he was flying out in six hours. If Viktor Shokin, the prosecutor in the Burisma Holdings case against Hunter Biden, was not fired, Ukraine was not getting the more than one billion dollars promised them in U.S loan guarantees.
More baloney.

Joe Biden is falsely alleged to have, as vice president of the United States (2009–2017), withheld a loan guarantee and taken a bribe to pressure Ukraine into firing prosecutor general Viktor Shokin to prevent a corruption investigation of Ukrainian gas company Burisma and to protect his son Hunter Biden, who was on the Burisma board.[1] As part of efforts by Donald Trump[2] and his campaign in the Trump–Ukraine scandal, which led to Trump's first impeachment, these falsehoods were spread in an attempt to damage Joe Biden's reputation and chances during the 2020 presidential campaign, and later in an effort to impeach him.[3]

Joe Biden followed State Department intentions when he withheld the loan guarantee to pressure Ukraine into removing the prosecutor,[4][5] who was seen as corrupt and failing to clean up Ukrainian corruption,[6] in accordance with the official and bipartisan policy of the United States, the European Union, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.[7][8][9] A confidential informant told the FBI that Burisma's owner said he was coerced to pay bribes to both Bidens to ensure Shokin was fired, though the informant was indicted in 2024 on charges he had fabricated the account.​

That whole conspiracy theory about Biden has been thoroughly debunked.
Interestingly,though not really all that surprising in the atmosphere of cronyism in D.C , an investigation in 2020 by Senate Republicans found that Joe was not guilty there of any wrong doing.
They accepted Bidens defense. That , while Biden did admit to withholding money to force the removal of Viktor Shokin, that act was typical of U.S. policy . Because it was done in an effort to fight corruption.

Given Hunter's alleged wrong doing while with Burisma Holdings, I think Bidens defense of his actions would seem,to the reasonable person, to be contrary to that argument.

Why would it sound reasonable to the GOP Senate or anyone, that a threat to withhold a billion dollars in loan guarantees was America's SOP in fighting corruption?

When,in this instance the impetus behind the threat is the removal of a prosecutor pursuing a corruption case against Burisma Holdings and,by extension,Hunter Biden?

Yes,President Trump is a convicted Felon. However,this doesn't mean other unindicted Felons have not corrupted policy in our White House.

God Bless America. And President Trump. And keep us all in God's Light. And free of our enemies,both foreign and domestic. Amen. :praying:
Per Google AI:
Hunter Biden's Convicted Felonies (Pardoned)
Nothing to do with Burisma.

Stop beating a dead horse regarding Obama, and Joe Biden.
 
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I like how critics of Viktor Shokin just dismiss him as corrupt when he was prevented from doing his very job. He became chief prosecutor in 2015 & was accused of coverups of cases that were years old & he inherited.

First there is an assassination attempt on Shokin.


Within weeks a major suspicious US official threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine. Of course to think these might be linked is just a wild conspiracy theory to some.


While visiting Kyiv in December 2015, then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that, if he did not fire Shokin, the Obama administration was prepared to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees




So Shokin gets piles of years of mishandled corruption thrown at him. He is only on the job a few months & someone ( or cabal) tries to kill him. A few weeks later a US vice prez wants him fired with shakedown tactics. Somehow, Shokin is the guy who had to be fired though soon after.


Shokin has stuck to his script and has written a book about it ( I intend to read it):




No one can accuse Shokin of being a Putin stooge since he is a Ukrainian patriot living in his country under the same fire as his countrymen. His adult sons & daughter are deputy prosecutors in Ukrainian cites part of an honorable family tradition.
 
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I like how critics of Viktor Shokin just dismiss him as corrupt when he was prevented from doing his very job. He became chief prosecutor in 2015 & was accused of coverups of cases that were years old & he inherited.

First there is an assassination attempt on Shokin.


Within weeks a major suspicious US official threatened to withhold aid to Ukraine. Of course to think these might be linked is just a wild conspiracy theory to some.


While visiting Kyiv in December 2015, then-U.S. Vice President Joe Biden warned Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko that, if he did not fire Shokin, the Obama administration was prepared to withhold $1 billion in loan guarantees




So Shokin gets piles of years of mishandled corruption thrown at him. He is only on the job a few months & someone ( or cabal) tries to kill him. A few weeks later a US vice prez wants him fired with shakedown tactics. Somehow, Shokin is the guy who had to be fired though soon after.


Shokin has stuck to his script and has written a book about it ( I intend to read it):




No one can accuse Shokin of being a Putin stooge since he is a Ukrainian patriot living in his country under the same fire as his countrymen. His adult sons & daughter are deputy prosecutors in Ukrainian cites part of an honorable family tradition.

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Grothman Plays Video Of Biden Bragging About Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired In Oversight Cmte


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At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) questioned ex-Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski about the alleged actions of Hunter Biden and President Biden.

29 year old Joe Biden
 
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I don't think it was staged, but I do think it's funny that the main talking point across the MAGA-sphere (and adjacent territory) appears to be, "This is why we need a ballroom!". Because yeah, that's a logical response to someone trying to kill the President...
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They've been given their talking points - we'll see the exact same lines pop up for weeks on every forum now.
 
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Grothman Plays Video Of Biden Bragging About Getting Ukrainian Prosecutor Fired In Oversight Cmte


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At today's House Oversight Committee hearing, Rep. Glenn Grothman (R-WI) questioned ex-Hunter Biden business partner Tony Bobulinski about the alleged actions of Hunter Biden and President Biden.

Yes, the Republicans kept bringing it up in an election year. Imagine that! Yet, as I already posted, Biden was following the intentions of the State Department of the US, the European Union and the International Monetary Fund. It wasn't about Hunter.

29 year old Joe Biden
Biden didn't say he was corrupt, he was saying one shouldn't assume that he wasn't. Don't assume.


No need to beat the dead horse more.
 
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I was posting at the time what media was reporting as events were unfolding. The media is intent on getting a story out,first.
Even if the details are skewed,as long as they report first,that's what matters.

If you watch the video where the gunman runs past the checkpoint,you'll see SS draw their weapons and aim. I can see why it would look like they'd shot. But as fast as he was,they had to watch the background so to not hit innocent people.

I feel for the gunmans family and friends. I can't imagine the phknecalls they received and exchanged after this.
Exactly. Get a story out, no matter the inconsistencies. I just finished speaking with a friend about the man's family. From what I also heard on the news, his family was being cooperative and had complained (to whom???) about him. I'm sure it would be difficult beyond measure to have a family member commit such a heinous action, and then have the rest of them live with the fall-out, the glares, the stares, the whispers, the accusations, all the accompanying ugliness that comes from these actions.
 
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IT seems every assassination attempt on Trump ends up getting branded...
This one seems to be "This is why we need a ballroom!"

They're not going to let a good assassination attempt go to waste. He thinks everything works in his favor, and given the support he's had, he's not wrong.
 
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It is. Over one thousand pages.
Article
A thousand words. That's like 2-3 pages. It sounds pretty sane, even if I don't agree with the conclusion he came to.

NY Post has published the whole thing if anyone wants to read it.
 
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I'm not sure I should post it, but there's a hilarious photo of Stephen Miller hiding behind his pregnant wife while they hurry out of the ballroom. He's groping her chest, so it may not be suitable here. You can Google it.

But it sure is reminiscent of the scene in the Dead Zone where a presidential candidate holds a baby up to shield himself from an assassin.

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The shooter being allowed to live does fit a staged event. Much is known about him.
What I found interesting is that Vance was off the stage loooong before people even reached Trump.

Makes me wonder what he knew about the situation. Especially given Trump sidelining him from foreign negotiations.

Motive and opportunity seems legit.
 
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I just heard an interview with Trump saying he heard an loud noise and thought it was an tray hitting the ground.

Just how out of touch is this guy from the everyday experience of Americans living in America everyday, today?

An loud noise means an active shooter and people are going to die! It doesn’t matter whether it’s an school, an bespoke burger bar or an gaudy hotel function room.

Americans know death can come for them and their loved ones at ANY second! So Trump thinking that an loud noise could be anything other that an shooter out for blood clearly shows how out of touch he this the common experience of common Americans just going about their daily, day to day, day.
 
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Just like everyone else, you'll have to wait for the day after my sanity finally snaps like a twix bar.

I have mein completed but am having trouble with a title. All I have so far is "Viereinhalb Jahre..."
 
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I'm not sure I should post it, but there's a hilarious photo of Stephen Miller hiding behind his pregnant wife while they hurry out of the ballroom. He's groping her chest, so it may not be suitable here. You can Google it.
I know that’s the meme’s interpretation of things, but the shooter would’ve been behind them, meaning the secret service agent and Stephen were between the shooter and Stephen’s wife.
 
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