apnews.com wrote:BUTLER, Pa. (AP) — Donald Trump was whisked off the stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd.
Trump was showing off a chart of border crossing numbers when bangs started ringing through the crowd. Trump could be seen reaching with his right hand toward his neck. There appeared to be blood on his face.
He quickly ducked behind the riser as agents from his protective detail rushed the stage and screams rang out from the crowd. The bangs continued as agents tended to him on stage.
The crowd cheered as he got back up and pumped his fist.
His motorcade has left the venue. His condition was not immediately known.
Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left the stage.
The U.S. Secret Service and other law enforcement agencies did not immediately respond to messages.
Leaving Mass in Rehoboth Beach, President Joe Biden simply responded, “No,” when asked if he’d been briefed about the incident.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:41 pm
by hepcat
I mean, it's heavily NRA. So it's likely that was just their version of applause.
edit: just saw more on this. apparently he did sustain some injuries. but i'm guessing it was from throwing himself to the ground or something. all i know is he just got his vote getting photo.
Expect to see that on t-shirts, mugs, billboards and what not over the next few months.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:43 pm
by Holman
Police began vacating the fairgrounds shortly after Trump left the stage.
Um, what?
If it's thought that someone tried to assassinate a former president, wouldn't they detain everyone??
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:43 pm
by Octavious
This is really weird. They let photographers run up. Nobody else is hit?
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:47 pm
by Holman
If this is a legitimate assassination attempt, whatever moron did it just got Trump re-elected.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:48 pm
by hepcat
Yeah, it's over if it was really an assassination attempt. This would seal the deal, I would think.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:49 pm
by Anonymous Bosch
hepcat wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:41 pm
edit: just saw more on this. apparently he did sustain some injuries. but i'm guessing it was from throwing himself to the ground or something.
I don't think so; if you watch the video, you see Trump immediately clutch his ear prior to going to the ground:
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:53 pm
by Kraken
Hard to say what really happened there. As much as I hate TFG I don't want him martyred.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:01 pm
by hepcat
We’re now just a little closer to a true civil war thanks to the wannabe John Wilkes Booth.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:07 pm
by Unagi
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:53 pm
Hard to say what really happened there. As much as I hate TFG I don't want him martyred.
He is a cult leader, the cult dies with him - there will be no 'martyr' effect.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:07 pm
by McNutt
This is not what I wanted to see. And I don't mean an assassin missing.
It's very strange though. Trump immediately grabs his ear like he got some sort of bullet/shrapnel wound and comes up bleeding. He manages a truly fantastic photo before being rushed off the stage.
If there really was a shooter, what the hell happened? Did he miss everything? Trump is surrounded by people, so certainly somebody would have been hit by one of those many shots.
I am so hoping this was some sort of stunt. We shall see.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Kraken wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 6:53 pm
Hard to say what really happened there. As much as I hate TFG I don't want him martyred.
He is a cult leader, the cult dies with him - there will be no 'martyr' effect.
There would be political violence that I don't want to begin to imagine.
This is what I’m thinking. It feels like the MAGA base just got exactly what they were hoping for, an excuse for violence.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:21 pm
by WYBaugh
McNutt wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:07 pm
This is not what I wanted to see. And I don't mean an assassin missing.
It's very strange though. Trump immediately grabs his ear like he got some sort of bullet/shrapnel wound and comes up bleeding. He manages a truly fantastic photo before being rushed off the stage.
If there really was a shooter, what the hell happened? Did he miss everything? Trump is surrounded by people, so certainly somebody would have been hit by one of those many shots.
I am so hoping this was some sort of stunt. We shall see.
This was my thought as well that someone behind him would have been hit.
And this is just awesome. Shit just continues to get better and better.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:22 pm
by WYBaugh
There's a twitter video of someone being dragged off by police.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:27 pm
by Unagi
"Although the Second Amendment people, maybe there is. I don't know."
-Donald Trump lamenting there was no way to stop an elected HRC
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:28 pm
by gilraen
WYBaugh wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:21 pm
This was my thought as well that someone behind him would have been hit.
There may have been. They reported blood in the bleachers.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:29 pm
by Isgrimnur
gilraen wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:28 pm
blood in the bleachers
Coming to Shudder this fall.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 7:31 pm
by Daehawk
What a great country we are. Welp we're goin down the shitter a little faster now kids.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
apnews.com wrote:WASHINGTON (AP) — Shooter dead and rally attendee killed at Trump event in Pennsylvania, Butler County District attorney tells AP.
Damn
Dead men tell no tales.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:12 pm
by Kurth
Nothing good about this. Nothing.
Also, if things weren't bad enough for Biden before this, juxtapose that picture of Trump with blood streaming down his face and his fist in the air with almost any recent picture of Biden . . . Trump is going to cruise to victory on the back of this stupid attempted assassination. What a cluster.
And the slow (or not so slow) march to authoritarianism continues.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:17 pm
by RunningMn9
I feel like at some point we should learn our lesson to not overreact to something that happens 4 months before an election.
There isn’t a person in this country that wasn’t already voting for Trump that is suddenly going to vote for Trump now. This isn’t a normal election where voters are going to ebb and flow.
Every single person that votes for Trump in November was 100% voting for him yesterday.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:28 pm
by Skinypupy
RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:17 pm
I feel like at some point we should learn our lesson to not overreact to something that happens 4 months before an election.
There isn’t a person in this country that wasn’t already voting for Trump that is suddenly going to vote for Trump now. This isn’t a normal election where voters are going to ebb and flow.
Every single person that votes for Trump in November was 100% voting for him yesterday.
If it were literally any other candidate statement, action, or event, I’d agree with you.
An assassination attempt feels like an entirely different animal though. Galvanizes anyone who might possibly be persuadable.
Certainly feels like we’re fucked. Well, more than usual.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:30 pm
by WYBaugh
CNN saying the shooter was outside the venue. And multiple people were shot.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
RunningMn9 wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:17 pm
I feel like at some point we should learn our lesson to not overreact to something that happens 4 months before an election.
There isn’t a person in this country that wasn’t already voting for Trump that is suddenly going to vote for Trump now. This isn’t a normal election where voters are going to ebb and flow.
Every single person that votes for Trump in November was 100% voting for him yesterday.
If it were literally any other candidate statement, action, or event, I’d agree with you.
An assassination attempt feels like an entirely different animal though. Galvanizes anyone who might possibly be persuadable.
Certainly feels like we’re fucked. Well, more than usual.
Not only that, but this will increase turnout. I feel like that is the real impact over persuading people.
And Election Day is going to be the goddamn purge.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:39 pm
by Brian
I'm so cynical these days that I would 100% not be surprised to learn this was staged.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:41 pm
by Trent Steel
Also, pretty crazy how we have a thread dedicated to see if Biden will be on the ballot or not come November… and Trump was almost taken off today.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:43 pm
by LawBeefaroni
WYBaugh wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:30 pm
CNN saying the shooter was outside the venue. And multiple people were shot.
It's really early and rumors are usually wrong but I'm hearing that fed snipers took out one suspected shooter. Whether this is true, no idea and whether there was more than one suspect, no idea.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:43 pm
by Trent Steel
Brian wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:39 pm
I'm so cynical these days that I would 100% not be surprised to learn this was staged.
The pictures of him with his fist in the air and blood on his face are almost too good.
Re: Donald Trump whisked off stage in Pennsylvania after apparent gunshots rang through the crowd
Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:43 pm
by Smoove_B
Trent Steel wrote: ↑Sat Jul 13, 2024 8:41 pm
Also, pretty crazy how we have a thread dedicated to see if Biden will be on the ballot or not come November… and Trump was almost taken off today.
I'd imagine the news is going to finally stop talking about how old Biden is.
