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Trump ‘Fine’ After Being Shot at Pennsylvania Campaign Rally

nymag.com Trump Shot at Pennsylvania Campaign Rally: Live Updates

He appears to have been struck in the ear, but a spokesperson says he is “fine” and being treated at a local medical facility.

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He’s a fucking martyr now, great.
- Martyrs are dead
  
  For the literal definition of a martyr, yes. For the political concept of a martyr, definitely not.
  
  Just ask Steve Scalise.
  
  Straight from the dictionary:
  
  a person who is put to death or endures great suffering on behalf of any belief, principle, or cause:
- Stormy Daniels is the fucking martyr.
Hey did they finally find the "good guy with a gun"?
- I believe they shot him for trying to stop a criminal. Very sad.
  
  Wouldn't be the first time.
  
  https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/11/us/colorado-officer-not-charged/index.html
God damn it... Get some better fuckin' aim!

Joe sent the orders

Please. If he had, he would have used a professional who wouldn't have missed.
- "HOW COULD YOU MISS" is trending on Xitter.
  
  lmao
  
  Don't worry, Musk will doubtlessly jump in to protect his fellow fascist and ban the tag.
- Okay. Anyone know a professional?
  
  This isn't helping though. We've actually been very fortunate so far that the pro-fascism candidate has been such an incoherent idiot.
  
  Trump is a symptom, not the cause. Attacking him physically like this only makes our problems worse.
They missed the head
- Would it have made a difference if they didn't?
  
  Nothing inside anyway.
  
  The universe might have imploded from the sudden imbalance between mass and un-mass (the opposing axis of the "dark matter" posit). We might count ourselves lucky ¹.
  
  For values of lucky exceeding 10^-20
- Ears are part of heads…
  
  Oh, barely. An ear is basically a pull tab for the human face. One good yank'll do.
Well, this event will definitely be exploited by Trump's team and he will be strengthened. Just like happened with Bolsonaro and the stab.

Unfortunately I think Trump will be reelected.
He was bleeding.

If it bleeds...
TMZ has reported that he was struck by glass from the teleprompter and not directly shot/grazed: https://www.tmz.com/2024/07/13/donald-trump-appear-shot-pennsylvania-rally-president-election/
- Wait he bothers with teleprompters for these rambling sessions?
  
  Gotta make sure he hits all of ~~Putins~~ his talking points.
Damn.
There's no high road to take with this guy. He should get over it
with this, i think we can say now that donald trump winned
- Sadly yes. I think Trump will win.
All the mods are going to have a fun time justifying removing all the calls for killing Trump after allowing all the "let's do guillotines" comments since forever.

To those wishing the shooter had better aim - imagine what that might unleash from the right? They already did Jan 6. Just think about what they'd feel justified in doing if someone killed Trump.

To others on the fence - stop to think for a moment that those wishing for his death might be well aware of the above and in calling for the death of Trump, they know exactly what the response from the right would be and that may be their point in making such comments.

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