Secret Service rushes Trump off stage after shots fired at his Pennsylvania rally

Statement by the Secret Service:

An incident occurred the evening of July 13 at a Trump rally in Pennsylvania. The Secret Service has implemented protective measures and the former President is safe. This is now an active Secret Service investigation and further information will be released when available.

Statement by the Trump campaign:

President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act. He is fine and is being checked out at a local medical facility.

Live Coverage: ABC CBS NBC FOX

Sources: shooter is dead, one attendee is dead, blood on bleachers, blood on t-shirts, medical helicopters on the scene

Well I think we can all be certain there won't be any huge downwind effects from this 😐

Yup they're going to try to rally around this. His stupid little fist thing he was doing while the secret service was around him is scary. It's plays right into the fascist playbook and his narrative as a victim/brave knight enduring arrows for his common people. I'm sad to say this, but it probably would've been better for democracy if they had succeeded. I think he would be easier to handle as a martyr than this tough guy act he's going to assume after this 😩
- It may bring MAGA nuts a few steps closer to the violence they're eager for an excuse to unleash. If they believe they're under immediate attack they will feel entitled to attack back. That said, I'm not sure how much difference this will make in the end. Eventually they'll get violent anyway because they're fascists.
- And he’ll overplay his hand, freak everyone else out which drives voter turnout and he loses. Hopefully.
Maybe he’s going to be pro-gun control now.
- That's what happened with Reagan.
- He is already, but he learned not to speak his mind on that.
- sounds like the best way to ensure a Trump rally is safe is to ensure every single person there is armed.

God dammit, they had to fucking miss

Part of me wishes they didn't, part of me wonders who would use his martyrdom to do even worse.
- That last part is the terrifying bit, honestly. Trump is an egomaniac with the attention span of a toddler. He's an unguided projectile of spite and vanity.
  Imagine someone competent filling his shoes with the unprecedented powers that were recently granted by the supreme court and the rabid MAGA fanbase behind them.
  The potential for lasting damage goes (even further) off the scale. I shudder to think what that might actually look like.
  Honestly, in the event Biden loses, the best hope the US has is Trump's general incompetence.
A head that size is a sniper’s wet dream.
I'm a flaming liberal, but I'm honestly revolted that, as I write this, your comment has a bunch of upvotes and no downvotes.
- This man wants to do things that will make me and many people i love dead or suffering. How do you not understand how we could feel this way?
- Do you not realize how terrible it is that he missed? You of all people as a "flaming liberal" should be the most angry. This essentially secures trumps presidency, its the best thing that could have happened to his campaign.
- Yeah you are definitely a lib alright.
- It's almost like principles define existential enemies or something, two things you will never understand before you go extinct
- You libs drone all the time in every media how the guy is an enemy of democracy, second coming of Hitler and needs to be stopped for any price. Yet you are "revolted" when someone taken it seriously.
- I’m a flaming liberal
  tell us something we don't know
- why
- This comment section is so fucked!

Remember that Biden is immune thanks to the SCOTUS.

Not from the voters. This picture will get used to sway votes.
Gotta love it

Seems appropriate to drop this here:

https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/the-reichstag-fire

On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.

It's not like the Japanese Prime Minister (and former Prime Ministers) don't have security, but the disparity of security compared to US Secret Service protected individuals is huge.
The fact that the killer managed to get so close to Abe without being screened is indicative of the fact that such an attack was so unexpected in Japan.
- I mean they guy grazed Trump, so it's not like secret service prevented the shooting.

Man, this is gonna make things a lot more interesting in the US

I can't take anything more interesting
I think you have a different meaning of the word interesting than I do. Then again I live in this shit hole.
- “May you live in interesting times” generally isn’t said with good intentions; interesting can be bad.
We're so fucked.
The final season of burgerland is wild.

I’m hoping for the best. For the United States, that is.

There are moments in history that completely change the course of events for decades to come. We just witnessed literal inches between two possibly extremely different futures. Very strange feeling.

As much as I loathe the guy, I think we all dodged a bullet.
If he died of natural causes last month I don't think the MAGAts would have rallied behind Desantis, or whomever got the nomination. I'm not saying they wouldn't have voted for them, just that the excitement wouldn't be there.
If this has succeeded, the supporters would have transferred and been even more pumped up. And sympathy from those weird fuck undecideds could make the difference, not just in the presidency, but both chambers of Congress, and for their policy goals too.
Riding the wake of an assassination the draconian shit they would push through could have been far worse than anything Trump would have been able to accomplish in a second term.
Take civil rights legislation in the 60s; a lot of what LBJ accomplished was credited to the national feeling after the Kennedy assassination. Would JFK have been able to accomplish all that if he had served eight years with public sentiment toward civil rights being divided?
It sucks that this is boosting his chances in November. But a martyr, a new figurehead, and a more energized base could have been far worse.
- Take civil rights legislation in the 60s; a lot of what LBJ accomplished was credited to the national feeling after the Kennedy assassination. Would JFK have been able to accomplish all that if he had served eight years with public sentiment toward civil rights being divided?
  I think the same thing about the Apollo program. Kennedy gave that speech and then died, and now not only did we have to beat the Russians we had to do it for a beloved slain president.
  There's also an episode of Red Dwarf where they go back in time and convince Kennedy to be the second shooter on the grassy knoll, because his survival would have started WWIII.

Big W for the Trump campaign…

Well, that's America buggered.

do you mean anything by this beyond his election chances? i'm failing to imagine what policies would change based on this
- If there were any security/civil rights/general spying on people bills that were floating around but were too unpalatable to push through, those are most likely going through now.
  Also if the shooter turns out to be anything other than a straight white cis male, then whatever group they were part of is probably gonna have a bad time for the foreseeable future.
- The election chances have just shot up.

I was freaking scared when I saw lots of people in my country was cheering Trump's ralley. It's not even the old people, they were in their 20s-30s. If Trump succeeds, I don't see it going well in my country as well.. How do I survive in a fascist country? Sad.

How do I survive in a fascist country? Sad.
With a gun, plenty of ammunition, and disciplined range time. Hell, join a gun club before the right starts pushing for tighter gun control.
Don't worry,its's not just the US. Many 3rd world countries are dealing with the same problem if not worse. Otherwise why would so many migrate to US despite it's healthcare prices and the growing gap between the wealthy and poor?
I'm pretty sure he will succeed, unfortunately.
- The word "privatization" originates with describing the economic policy of Nazi Germany

Ugh, the duopoly's going to get so much more insufferable over this like they're not both slavemasters worthy of being reviled.

libs: this man will be the next hitler

also libs: I stand with trump after this appalling act

Libs: Violence is never acceptable, even if Trump is an immediate threat to harm countless people.
Also libs: Let's all thank the Secret Service for immediately killing the shooter.
- What disinformation? These peckerwood democrats LITERALLY CAME OUT IMMEDIATELY AFTER to condemn the 'violence' against someone they don't consider "enemies". After ALL THE BULLSHIT SPOKEN OVER THE LAST EIGHT YEARS.
  What disinformation, cac? These parties are the same wing on the same bird.
also libs: I stand with trump after this appalling act
Hard disagree. From what I'm reading, politicians are condemning an attempt at homicide, nothing more. Voters are following suit.
- I seriously do not understand the "My idealogical rival got shot at, I now endorse my idealogical rival." take. Nobody that isn't already voting for Trump LIKES Trump.

The speed at which he was turned into a hero and merchandise was made is a testament to the efficiency and responsiveness of capitalism.

Yep, the person who did this is an idiot. They don't realize all they did was help his cause and give him that much stronger of a chance of winning presidency.
I mean, they probably don't realize anything anymore given that they had bullets actually go through them.
- Liberals still believe in Great Man Theory.
  If he died, another would take his place and wins for sure as revenge.
  Now that he lived, he has excellent PR.
  Biden is constantly taking Ls with his voterbase, like pursuance of Genocide and general brain melting.
  Trump is constantly on the rise with his voterbase.
  This is why Adventurism doesn't work, and why Leftists need to join an org like PSL and work towards building dual power.
- If they wanted to help the democrats, they shot the wrong candidate
Alibaba has already gone crazy with it lmao it's so funny
Are you kidding? The only things in this universe capable of superluminal speeds are a good rumor and merchandising opportunities
- Also monarchy. You guillotine a king and the monarchy instantly jumps to the next one.

Your man here’s going to go (even more) mental when he gets back in.

He is like a fucking hundred so yeah that makes sense

Does it sound like a suppressed .22 to anyone else?

Hard to tell because it's a recording, but yeah I was thinking something very small like a 22 short or a high powered BB gun.
- Apparently the shooter was in the crowd, which means it wasn't a long gun of any kind. Probably a pistol, something small enough to conceal. 22 makes sense.

How the flap of a butterfly wing can change history.

C-SPAN video: https://www.c-span.org/video/?c5123735/shots-fired-trump-rally

Holy shit

Vídeo https://imgur.com/a/TqPqVVn

Exclusive footage of the incident: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu3s9w98MYs

How are the Dems going to top this?

Assassin leaves a banana peel in front of Biden.
- That's no attempt, that's instant death.

This is what you get from that rhetoric. Trump has been inviting it for a while. You have the Heritage Foundation, his Brain Trust, telling us that if we don't sit down and submit we will be put down forcibly. Well this is what you get Donnie.

"yeah, keep doing that and some useless fuck will spectacularly fail to assassinate you, giving a huge boost to your election campaign, take that!"

Staged af.

It could be but let's not jump to conclusions.
- I think if it was strong enough to bloody his ear like that then a few centimeters difference could potentially have done very serious damage.
- If conservatives can whine and bitch about everything being fake news, well sounds like they can dish but they can't take it.
So what's the theory here? Trump convinced one of his zealots to shoot him in the head/ear, potentially or intentionally kill others, and then die?
As crazy as trump and MAGA are, this is too much.
Did you actually read the article? There are dead and wounded, people being airlifted, blood in the bleachers, etc. You honestly think it's all staged?
- Making the mother of all omelettes here Jack. Can't fret over every egg
- Crisis actors. They have gotten quite good at this thing.
Hate that it was my first reaction to the news
Imagine thinking they would risk killing their own guy for a false flag.

No I saw the video, they did a group hug first

So the shooter was accurate enough to wing him in the ear from outside the event, but also wild enough to hit people in the crowd, ok then...

Are you trying to imply that it was staged and that they shot Trump's ear for plausibility? If you want to make a conspiracy theory, at least make it believable.