The scene is imprinted and plays over and over.
The bullet zings past Donald Trump, taking off a part of his ear. He ducks. The Secret Service leaps to his defense, not knowing if more bullets are incoming. The willingness to sacrifice is astounding. Suddenly, Trump rises, blood streaming down his cheek.
He tells his rescuers to “wait.” He raises his fist, and yells, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” The people rise and cheer.
This man is willing to die for us.
For all he knew another round was coming, but he paused to tell us, “Fight. Fight. Fight.”
When this man plays a round of golf, usually he owns the whole damned country club. He can live anywhere, in the greatest of luxury, deny himself nothing, but there he was, bleeding, defiant in the face of the enemy. Is this not the essence of what made America great?
World leaders recently have had to worry about the president of the United States becoming lost on stage or falling asleep at the podium. The world just previewed what America can be if unleashed from the bounds of stagnating wokeness.
Vladimir Putin was watching. Odds are he will be rethinking his Ukraine strategy. Or in China, it’s Taiwan now, or forget it.
One has to be delusional to think the 2024 election was not decided on that field in Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13.
— Mike Pottage, July 15 WorldNetDaily column
By the mercy of God, President Donald Trump was spared the assassin’s bullet that pierced his ear, and America was (for now) spared the horror of hopeless descent into Marxist hell. At this stage of the political world war, there is no other populist hero capable of defeating the deep-state globalist Hydra currently ensconced in Washington, D.C. – the de facto capital of world “democracy.” Hope for populists and conservatives is found only in the person of Trump – apparently backed by the power of God. If Trump falls, the remnants of our constitutional republic will fall with him, and “democracy” will be our painful fate.
A bullet through the ear. I’m hoping he recognizes the symbolic significance of that and begins to listen more clearly to the One who saved him. The first reports I saw had him saying only God could have saved him from assassination. We don’t know if that came from him or his PR team. However, in his first published interview after the incident he is quoted as saying, “By luck or by God, many people are saying it’s by God, I’m still here.” What say you, President Trump? That’s the quadrillion-dollar question.
Was this equivocation mere political calculation intended to reassure atheist voters, or is (God forbid) President Trump himself truly ambiguous on the matter?
[…]This John Adams quote may seem over-used to some, but “Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.” The future of our nation and the world depends on whether Donald John Trump understands this truth in his inner man, or just sees his Christian base as a fungible, expendable constituency in a numbers-based election equation.
One thing is certain: That assassin’s bullet understandably and unavoidably changed Trump’s trajectory. It remains to be seen where the new path leads spiritually – toward greater darkness or greater light. God has tickled your ear to get your attention, President Trump! Please don’t insult Him by ascribing your survival to “luck.”
— Scott Lively, July 15 WND column
Either the standards for employment as a Secret Service agent on the presidential detail have been lowered to a skill level beneath that of a playground monitor, in the relentless left-wing pursuit of diversity, or President Trump’s Secret Service team failed on a level consistent with the Keystone Cops characters, or there was planned and intentional failure. I don’t accept for an instant that the assassination attempt of President Trump nearly succeeded based upon a calamity of errors.
The errors made Saturday, at the Butler, Pennsylvania, rally, either represent gross failure on the part of Trump’s protection detail – or the “near successful assassination attempt” was a successful message delivered.
I’ve long ago learned that conspiracy theories in many instances are not theories at all, which brings me back to the still unfolding plot in Butler.
[…]There are more questions than answers for those of us who understand shooting and those who understand and are experienced with this type of protection environment.
It’s my opinion that we will never know who the real perpetrators are; but, one thing is for certain: When all else fails and panic/fear takes over, desperate people do desperate things.
It’s further my opinion, until I definitively know different, that it wasn’t the young man who was the “monster”; the monster is those who orchestrated the plan.
— Mychal Massie, July 15 WND column
Legendary heroism shined from Trump and his MAGA supporters who attended the Pennsylvania rally where a gunman shot Trump and attendees from a rooftop 400 feet away. The shooter easily evaded law enforcement but did not scare Trump or the MAGA crowd, which held their ground and chanted “USA” after Trump pumped his fist in response to the deadly gunfire.
Video captured fearless MAGA attendees who cared more about Trump’s safety than trying to flee the area to protect themselves, as customarily happens when crowds panic. Some attendees even spotted and filmed the gunman bear-crawling ominously on a nearby roof before he began shooting, and alerted law enforcement to no avail.
[…]Liberals lament how outspoken billionaires like Musk have frustrated their ability to control the narrative about this shooting. Now the Biden administration (FBI and DHS) are even falsely warning of “retaliatory acts of violence” by Trump supporters!
This shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was said to be a video game enthusiast, which means he probably spent many isolated hours each week playing violent video games. A common characteristic of young men who go on shooting sprees is their addiction to violent video games, which train them to rapidly fire to score as many points as possible.
The FBI has reportedly since told local authorities, including police and even his high school, not to speak with the media, which enables the FBI to control the narrative. The FBI has his laptop, but is not disclosing to the public how Crooks spent his time on it as he lived at home.
— Andy Schlafly, July 16 WND column
What is the pink elephant no one wants to notice this time, that’s standing right in the middle of the room?
The pundits and investigative reporters and government spokespersons are much too busy talking about all the grievous “errors” that led to this, like how the security detail failed to spot the guy on the roof with a rifle. You know. The one rally attendees pointed at and shouted about.
Are they on the right track? Or was this more than just a series of oversights?
Unfortunately, the confluence of facts presents astronomical odds against an unintended scenario.
[…]We are forced to conclude that the odds of the shooter working all this out alone are nil. And nigh unto ridiculous. Again, our apologies. Surely such a conclusion will make all of our choices much harder!
Sadly, the odds seem to be frightfully high that he was, more likely, an asset of a treasonous element of the U.S. intelligence services, perhaps working with Biden’s controllers, and that at some point he had been identified as being a vulnerable loon who could be and was groomed and trained, and aided and abetted, and directed up to the final moments of his sad life.
Either that or it was just another Russian stunt to get Trump elected all over again. Something perhaps as likely as the ever-popular narrative that it was all just an unfortunate series of blunders, allowing a lone psychopath his moment of glory.
When we are betting on the future of America, it helps to have an honest sense of the odds. And it helps to stay off of carefully constructed rabbit trails, if we’re going to define the nature of the road we’re really traveling.
— Jim Darlington, July 16 WND column
Did God providentially spare former President Donald J. Trump’s life on Saturday, July 13, 2024? The front-runner presidential candidate could easily have been killed in an assassination attempt, had he not turned his head about an inch or so.
As everyone knows, Trump was campaigning in Butler, Pennsylvania, a city north of Pittsburgh, at an outdoor rally when he was shot at by a 20-year-old with a rifle on the roof of a nearby building.
On Sunday, Trump gave honor to the Almighty, writing that it was “God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening.”
[…]It certainly wouldn’t be the first time God’s Providence touched America. Indeed, I believe that He helped create America itself, which despite all its flaws, has become the freest and most prosperous nation.
[…]As our first president, in his first official Proclamation for a Day of Thanksgiving (to God), Washington stated the goal: “That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks – for his kind care and protection of the People of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation – for the signal and manifold mercies, and the favorable interpositions of his Providence which we experienced in the course and conclusion of the late war.”
Without God’s help, we would not have won this thing, said the father of our country. Thus, said Washington in a proclamation for the ages: “It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favor.”
What happened on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, may well have been another example of God in His sovereign care keeping watch over America.
— Jerry Newcombe, July 16 WND column