Donald Trump speech shooting: Gunshots heard at president's rally – latest news
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Donald Trump has been rushed off the stage after gunshots were heard as he addressed a crowd at a rally in Pennsylvania.

Looks like someone took some shots at prez candidate Donald Trump at a rally in PA. From the videos I’ve seen, it looks like he did get grazed.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.world
      134·
      5 months ago

      From the article:

      Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.

      Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.

      An excellent PR stunt and call to action for his violent insurrectionist supporters, if you ask me.

    • TipRing@lemmy.worldEnglish
      41·
      5 months ago

      Right after meeting with Orban who just met with Putin? I don’t know if I really think that, but I would say it’s possible.

    • Drusas@kbin.run
      283·
      5 months ago

      That’s called a false flag attack. I could believe it, but I could also believe it was a sincere attack.

      • pivot_root@lemmy.world
        142·
        5 months ago

        Being serious about it for a moment, it’s extremely unlikely that it’s a false flag attack. It’s fun to joke about the idea, but the reality is that it doesn’t appear to be staged, and he’s far too much of a coward to agree to have somebody shoot at him.

        Besides that, there’s plenty of politically-unaffiliated groups or individuals who would probably want him gone just for how his last term contributed to the abortion bans, reunification of church and state (in some states), government corruption, etc.

        • Valmond@lemmy.world
          1·
          5 months ago

          No one needs to actually shoot at him, he can just have a capsule of fake blood in his hand and smear it on himself at the right moment. It’s so easy even he can do it.

          Could also have been a real shooter.

        • HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
          11·
          5 months ago

          Hes fully too much of a coward to be shot at.

          But you’re assuming he was shot at. Ducked, hidden away from camera, then blood on him.

          No one is ducking a bullet

        • ComicalMayhem@lemmy.world
          21·
          5 months ago

          there’s also plenty of fence sitters and centrists who I sincerely believe would vote for him on tough guy vibes alone, despite him being a coward

        • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world
          21·
          5 months ago

          Would he be told about this plan? It’d certainly be more convincing if he didn’t know, and was set up by the RNC.

    • JimSamtanko@lemm.ee
      3012·
      5 months ago

      Some? They anyone with a functional brain that has been paying attention. Nothing the dude has ever done has been honest.