Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage

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Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage
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(I hate the source, F this guy) but here's him being ushered off the stage after... https://x.com/stillgray/status/1812250467071885730

Edit: his base is going to be insanely fired up now. I'm genuinely scared about what's going to happen now. I can see it already "the deep state tried to stop him and God saved Trump!" ugh.

Yeah this is not going to result in anything good. I keep thinking about what's happened after Robert Fico got shot, basically how it's being used as a confirmation of everything bad his supporters believe about his opponents and as a justification for further sliding into authoritarianism

Yeah, this is my real fear with all of this. Trump is definitely going to feed on his new victimhood to further rally his supporters and make them more extreme.

Yep.

I fully expect at least several "retaliatory" attacks against democrats in the next week by rabid MAGAts.

Edit Suprised the mods havent deleted this yet, consindering how hog wild they are going and labeling everything conspiracy and deleting it.

So at the end there…

expressing their feelings about news media? Unless there’s someone with a blue hat somewhere behind the camera (or they were leading the perp away back there). All speculation here to be clear, not that it’s too critical of an issue in the larger scheme of the incident.

NBC was reporting that the crowd had turned on the press, which may be what’s happening here… but again, speculation.

This fucking idiot was being shot at, and he refuses to get off the stage so he can fist up rile the crowd?

Demanding his shoes was also interesting.

it used to be shoes off = dead.

Does he take them off during a speech and put them back on when he's done? What's the full shoestory?

What happens next was going to happen eventually anyways. It's been too late for a long time.

I'm finding it so bizarre to witness this mass cognitive dissonance where people can make the connection to Hitler's rise to power, but not to the heroic act so many claim they would perform themselves if they had a time machine..

It's almost like they need a few million marginalised people to die first, just to be sure..

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