Whatever damn fool did this has just made the situation about a million times worse. I don’t give a shit who did this, it was the worst move you could have made at the worst time you could have made it. And those of you jumping to immediate conspiracy theories need to stop and think about how much we tend to make fun of Republicans for doing literally the exact same thing. Us spending the next 3 days circlejerking each other off our own bullshit conspiracy theories isn’t gonna help the situation, its just gonna make us all look like a bunch of hypocrites. Wait a few days, get whatever info they are willing to give us, and then try to figure out what happened. If it still looks fake or like a false flag or whatever the fuck after that point, whatever. but for gods sake use some critical thinking to get there instead of jumping to conclusions with no info.

Please let the shooter be a white dude. If he is any minority group they’re gonna be the first to get the supreme Court treatment when he takes power, which seems inevitable now.

See! If only Trump had a gun to shoot back. FREE GUN FOR ALL! UNIVERSAL BASIC GUN OWNERS!!

/s

When I first heard this news I immediately felt sad they missed.

I’m surprised this didn’t happen sooner tbh.

I’m against violence. Against political assassinarions. But damn, he missed :(

But no matter the outcome, this is only going to fuel the rage of the extreme right.

It was a false flag, some Nazi dude fake shooting him to gain him sympathy from the undecided. Alex Jones has all the evidence.

Every photo makes him look better I hate this.

Shooter has been identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. Some sources say he was affiliated with some anti-fascist group, and other places are saying he was a registered Republican.

Anyone got insights to a right-wing forum and what they’re saying? Blaming the libs? Advocating for violence? What conspiracies are they putting together?

Oh fuck.

Very much sounds like gunfire in the clip CNN is currently playing on repeat, it sounds like the report from a fairly distant shots at least a few times as the audio seems to re equalize after he gets pulled down.

CNN had a reporter on scene, showing basically the area for the crowd, then an open area, then a highway or road of some kind, then with a maybe 20 or 30 story building in the background; she indicated basically possible gunshots from that direction.

This would have been basically to Trump’s right, by the position he was facing, maybe 70 or 80 degrees to the right of the direction the podium faced.

As best I can tell, it looks like he initially got winged around his right ear? Then more shots are heard and he goes down and is tackled by Secret Service agents.

Its possible he may have just been winged, possible he took more rounds and it was not visible… he did get back up, apparently he got rushed to a motorcade and is presumably headed toward a hospital.

It seems to me to be astonishingly unlikely that a or multiple shooters could possibly have made these shots from inside the crowd without being basically murdered by them.

Update: Wolf is now interviewing someone who was apparently in the front row, and this person claims he saw or thought a General(?), one of Trump’s entourage, was shot in the head.

This is extremely not good.

Lol news and popular feeds on reddit are devoid of any coverage of this.

Fake. Grabs ear, applies blood, doubles down on maga nonsense.

Or… real and he drops out.

Glad to see the anti-Trump crowd is getting balls.

Trump after a shooting in Iowa that left one sixth-grader dead and six other staffers and students injured,

“So surprising to see it here. But, we have to get over it. We have to move forward…”

• how were the secret service not on the roofs or monitoring the roofs from aerial POV? Most obvious spot for a sniper.

• the dude interviewed by British journalist right after that says him and group saw man with gun climbing roof, told cops and secret service and neither did anything

• his first and only focus was his shoes?

• a man who is a documented coward and narcissist pushed against secret service to face cameras and have his head exposed for a long period of time?

• secret service ignores protocol to cover and remove him and let’s him vamp and pose

• straight lines of blood on his face, history with pro wrestling

• yes, the supposed gunman was killed, but on what day are there not thousands of trump cultists lined up and ready to die if someone tells them they are on a secret mission to help daddy?

• yes, some in crowd may have been injured, but when has trump shown any hesitation to have pale injured or killed for his personal benefit (January 6th, church protests, etc).

• his secret service were proven corrupt and involved in cover up measures for trump before (e.g. Deliberately erasing text messages relevant to January 6th)

• this all happens as project 2025 narrative was taking form hold, leaked video/audio by the day and days before the RNC.

• watch the footage, down the stairs, secret service is concerned with grabbing and carrying his special red hat? How the fuck would that ever be a concern in an actual emergency?

Wife repeated a line from the Butthole Surfer’s song Pepper when she reads the news :D