WHAT

  • Former U.S. President Donald J. Trump was shot at a rally in PA.

TRUMPS STATEMENT

“I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured. It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening. GOD BLESS AMERICA!”

WHAT WE THINK WE KNOW SO FAR

  • gunman is dead
  • Trump “is fine”
  • one attendee is dead
  • another attendee is in critical condition

News Sources

  • @Soltros@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    What peeves me is that the right are all clutching their pearls about anyone who says anything other than blind Trump sympathy. Don’t get me wrong, political violence is wrong. But, remember this:

    When Paul Pelosi got his face bashed in with a hammer, the right made fun of it. Mocked him. Idk, man.

    • @ByteOnBikes@slrpnk.net
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      5 months ago

      This is what is so frustrating.

      Conservatives call for violence; Call for rising up; Literally calling themselves DOMESTIC TERRORISTS: Absolutely a nothing burger. Just a bunch of locker room talk. Relax that’s normal conservative speech.

      Liberals blinking aggressively: WHY ARENT YOU MORE TOLERANT BE BETTER.

    • @kescusay@lemmy.world
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      195 months ago

      That shit was amazingly disgusting. And yeah, Trump gets no sympathy from me. But I won’t call for his death, either. I want him to live a very long time. In prison.

        • @snooggums@midwest.social
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          35 months ago

          I’d be happy with aggressive pancreatic cancer, because it will feel like a lifetime for him and shut him up faster.

        • @kescusay@lemmy.world
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          35 months ago

          Not if he can’t get on video. The man’s bizarre hold on his base is all about his verbal delivery. If he has to rely on written messages, he can’t verbally circumvent the higher brain function in his victims and they’re more likely to actually become aware that his messages are gibberish.

      • @ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        35 months ago

        There are people on the right, that would call you out on even that. They’re gaslighting anyone left of Mussolini on what are the rules they should be following.

    • SeaJ
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      135 months ago

      Have we considered that the gunman might be a jilted lover? /s

    • @CasualPenguin@reddthat.com
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      65 months ago

      Or how about when he said that if he lost to Clinton:

      “If she gets to pick her judges, nothing you can do, folks. Although the Second Amendment people — maybe there is, I don’t know.”