I think it's rather more that it's painfully clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald Trump and his campaign is once again trying to manipulatively present himself as in more danger than he actually is and falsely blaming Democrats for violent vitriol. Donald Trump is firmly the one producing all the violent rhetoric in this campaign. The worst the Democrats have done is imply that JD Vance fucked a couch, and when they did, it was clearly in jest and not serious. Yet he turns it around and blames it on the Harris campaign immediately.
So, let's go over. What makes this a nothingburger compared to what Trump makes it out to be:
This guy who they caught with the guns previously voted for Trump, and had also previously supported Vivek, after he was disillusioned with Trump. He's clearly not well, but he's also clearly not a true and blue progressive who was pushed to violence by evil Democrats being mean to Donald Trump.
Trump was never actually in any serious danger, probably because due to the previous massive fuckup the Secret Service is probably actually doing their job this time around. Since he was never in actual serious danger, because they were doing their job, it's as much of a nothingburger as the number of times that such a thing has happened to sitting Presidents. It doesn't blow up the news because it's stupid when they've already failed.
If Kamala was at this golf course would you be singing a different tune? I have zero doubt they're going to get whatever mileage they can out of this, but idk how we can pretend this is "nothing".
Also, I'm positive a person intending to kill a (former) president being arrested 600yds away from their target is newsworthy.
I think Trump is reaping what he's sown too, but I can't pretend it's remotely close to "nothing"
edit: Im literally just saying this news story is newsworthy y'all. surprisingly controversial
The media calling it an "attempt" is just clickbait. At best this is a "possible assassination plan." And something similar happened to Gretchin Whitmer... it turned out to be an FBI entrapment scheme
Does he have to fire his weapon for it to be an attempt? Wheres the line? The FBI is calling it an attempt. I suppose we'll see if this is entrapment too. Until then, this kinda looks like an assassination attempt
To be completely fair here: the reports are all saying that Trump's location that day was not public information. So either this guy got real lucky to show up on a day Trump was playing golf, or else he had some information that very few other people had. Okay, granted, Trump plays golf a lot, so it could just be a coincidence. Still, it would be kind of ironic if it turned out someone in his own campaign was leaking info to the crazies.
Okay, granted, Trump plays golf a lot, so it could just be a coincidence
I think it's rather more that it's painfully clear to anyone with a functioning brain that Donald Trump and his campaign is once again trying to manipulatively present himself as in more danger than he actually is and falsely blaming Democrats for violent vitriol. Donald Trump is firmly the one producing all the violent rhetoric in this campaign. The worst the Democrats have done is imply that JD Vance fucked a couch, and when they did, it was clearly in jest and not serious. Yet he turns it around and blames it on the Harris campaign immediately.
So, let's go over. What makes this a nothingburger compared to what Trump makes it out to be:
This guy who they caught with the guns previously voted for Trump, and had also previously supported Vivek, after he was disillusioned with Trump. He's clearly not well, but he's also clearly not a true and blue progressive who was pushed to violence by evil Democrats being mean to Donald Trump.
Trump was never actually in any serious danger, probably because due to the previous massive fuckup the Secret Service is probably actually doing their job this time around. Since he was never in actual serious danger, because they were doing their job, it's as much of a nothingburger as the number of times that such a thing has happened to sitting Presidents. It doesn't blow up the news because it's stupid when they've already failed.
If Kamala was at this golf course would you be singing a different tune? I have zero doubt they're going to get whatever mileage they can out of this, but idk how we can pretend this is "nothing".
Also, I'm positive a person intending to kill a (former) president being arrested 600yds away from their target is newsworthy.
I think Trump is reaping what he's sown too, but I can't pretend it's remotely close to "nothing"
edit: Im literally just saying this news story is newsworthy y'all. surprisingly controversial
The media calling it an "attempt" is just clickbait. At best this is a "possible assassination plan." And something similar happened to Gretchin Whitmer... it turned out to be an FBI entrapment scheme
Does he have to fire his weapon for it to be an attempt? Wheres the line? The FBI is calling it an attempt. I suppose we'll see if this is entrapment too. Until then, this kinda looks like an assassination attempt
To be completely fair here: the reports are all saying that Trump's location that day was not public information. So either this guy got real lucky to show up on a day Trump was playing golf, or else he had some information that very few other people had. Okay, granted, Trump plays golf a lot, so it could just be a coincidence. Still, it would be kind of ironic if it turned out someone in his own campaign was leaking info to the crazies.
like, 50/50 chance