Secret Service: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt did not have a line of sight on Trump, never fired his weapon

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Secret Service: Suspect in apparent assassination attempt did not have a line of sight on Trump, never fired his weapon
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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

like, 50/50 chance

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