My Thoughts On The Assassination Attempt

This is a collection of my various thoughts on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on 7/13/24.

Donald Trump’s Secret Service

It may be that the Secret Service team did a horrible job. I think you all know about the guy who said he saw the sniper and tried to warn them before Trump was shot. Maybe that was on purpose or they were incompetent DEI hires. I don’t know. We’ll have to wait to see what comes out over time. These guys are supposed to have the lens that they are to “save” Trump from actual persecutors. I think they failed. I think he lived in spite of them, not because of them.

The Shot & Fist Pump

Donald Trump moved his head slightly and the bullet grazed him so if he had not moved he may have died yesterday, God forbid. I think it truly was by the grace of God that he lived. And I’m sorry for the man who died. I hope you’ll pray for his family and also those who were injured as I have. At least the shooter faced quick consequences.

Trump, after ducking down, said, “Let me get my shoes.” I think once he was down there, he felt like he’d survived and wanted to walk out proudly. I don’t think playing like a “victim” was even a thought in his mind. You can see that attitude in him telling the service to wait, and then the fist pump afterward with a call to “fight, fight, fight.” Of course, because he doesn’t play “victim” some have said he was acting. Could that reaction be because if they were in that situation they would play the victim and cannot understand how someone else would not?

If it had been Biden, I think Biden would have wanted to play up the sympathy and really ham up the victim narrative and label all MAGA folks as “persecutors” who allowed it to happen with hate. Trump’s wife wrote something that really tried to unite people, the opposite of what I would expect from Biden.

…Let us not forget that differing opinions, policy, and political games are inferior to love. Our personal, structural, and life commitment - until death - is at serious risk. Political concepts are simple when compared to us, human beings.

We are all humans, and fundamentally, instinctively, we want to help one another. American politics are only one vehicle that can uplift our communities. Love, compassion, kindness and empathy are necessities.

And let us remember that when the time comes to look beyond the left and the right, beyond the red and the blue, we all come from families with the passion to fight for a better life together, while we are here, in this earthly realm.

Dawn is here again. Let us reunite. Now.

This morning, ascend above the hate, the vitriol, and the simple-minded ideas that ignite violence. We all want a world where respect is paramount, family is first, and love transcends. We can realize this world again. Each of us must demand to get it back. We must insist that respect fills the cornerstone of our relationships again.

I am thinking of you, my fellow Americans…

Read the full statement here.

I don’t know how many people who identify with being a Democrat will take her seriously and that’s a shame. I can tell by what she writes that she means to unite all sides. And I’ve written before about how Biden has always given off a vibe that he wants to demonize many of us, even though he talks of peace. His actions speak louder than his words, but his words are still divisive most of the time as well.

Why Won't Democrats Drop the Bone?

Trump will likely be harsh in the future in his references to everyone he thinks started this hatred, like the media. I don’t think he’s completely out of the Drama Triangle. I just think he’s a lot more likely than Biden to actually take responsibility for himself instead of blameshift. And, his criticisms are a lot more accurate than Biden’s are. And, Biden will label a large swath of the public as “persecutors” whereas Trump is more likely to say there are good people on all sides of the political aisle. Trump doesn’t demonize the whole group.

The Far-Left-Trump-Haters Want You Dead

Even if they don’t know you and couldn’t possibly want you specifically dead, they would laugh it off as if it were nothing if you were to die. Destiny on Twitter/X jokes about the innocent victim of yesterday’s assassination attempt on Trump. The tweet got over 4,000 likes. To be fair, some of those “likes” may be bots. We can’t tell how many actual people found it funny.