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Gunshots reportedly fired at Donald Trump rally - as former president rushed off stage (news.sky.com)

submitted 2 years ago by hellfire103@lemmy.ca to c/usa@midwest.social

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[–] IvyRaven@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago

More like slowly moved off stage while his head was fully exposed so he could do his sieg heil fist pump combo.

[–] RinseDrizzle@midwest.social 9 points 2 years ago

Welp, surely we will proceed calmly into November from here... 😖

[–] turtlepower@lemm.ee 8 points 2 years ago

Why'd you miss?! Range time is important!

[–] anachronist@midwest.social 3 points 2 years ago

At this rate the October Surprise is really going to be something.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Someone I know said trump probably planned this himself.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Everyone is thinking it, but there's just no way. It's way way too risky to let someone shoot your ear from 100m away, and if it was fake blood or something, Trump's reaction times were amazing. He's not sufficiently capable a human or actor to fake it.

It wasn't just blanks either, as it killed one random attendee, severely injured another, and got the gunman killed.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Yeah, given that someone else was killed, I guess not. What a shame that the bullet hit a bystander. Now they're going to bump Trump's security to the moon, and he's going to act like he's Teddy Roosevelt or some shit. Ugh!

[–] Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

given that someone else was killed

That is literally the least convincing piece of evidence. I don't think he did it, but that's definitely not why.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Fascist who constantly talks about killing others gets shot at.

Nobody's allowed to say a goddamn word about it.