JUST IN: The man who was k*lled at Trump's Pennsylvania rally has been identified as former fire chief for Buffalo Township, Corey Comperatore.
Rest in peace.
Comperatore's last act on this planet was shielding his daughter from the bullets.
"The PA Trump Rally claimed the life of my brother, Corey Comperatore. The hatred for one man took the life of the one man we loved the most."
"He was a hero that shielded his daughters. His wife and girls just lived through the unthinkable and unimaginable," his sister said on FB.
"My baby brother just turned 50 and had so much life left to experience. Hatred has no limits and love has no bounds. Pray for my sister-in-law, nieces, my mother, sister, me and his nieces and nephews as this feels like a terrible nightmare but we know it is our painful reality."
Assassination Porn and the Sickness on the Left
If we were leftists and we were to use leftist tropes to editorialize the recent attempt on Trump’s life, then we would frame the assassination attempt in the following way:
We have witnessed for years blatant exceptions to the once common custom that we don’t normalize the imagined killing of any president or presidential candidate and thus lower the bar of violence.
But the Left constantly makes Trump an exception. Now, it as if the imagined killing of Trump had been mainstreamed and become acceptable in a way inconceivable of other presidents.
(Do we remember the rodeo clown who merely wore an Obama mask during a bull riding contest and was punished by being permanently banned by the Missouri State Fair authorities?)
So since at least 2016 there has been a parlor game among Leftist celebrities and entertainers joking (one hopes), dreaming, imagining, and just talking about the various and graphic ways they would like to assassinate or seriously injure Trump:
By slugging his face (Robert De Niro), by decapitation (Kathy Griffin, Marilyn Manson), by stabbing (Shakespeare in the Park), by clubbing (Mickey Rourke), by shooting ( Snoop Dogg), by poisoning (Anthony Bourdain), by bounty killing (George Lopez), by carrion eating his corpse (Pearl Jam), by suffocating (Larry Whilmore), by blowing him up (Madonna, Moby), by throwing him over a cliff (Rosie O’Donnell), just by generic “killing” him (Johnny Depp, Big Sean), or by martyring him (Reid Hoffman: “Yeah, I wish I had made him an actual martyr.”).
Or should we deplore the use of telescopic scope imagery, given that the Left blamed Sarah Palin for once using bullseye spots on an election map of opposition congressional districts, claiming that such usage had incited the mass shooting by Jared Lee Loughner?
Yet, recently POTUS Joe Biden was a little bit more graphic and a lot more literal.
In a widely reported call to hundreds of donors last week, Biden boasted, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.”
"In a bullseye?”
At least, Biden did not go back to the full Biden beat-up porn of the past (e.g., “If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and beat the hell out of him"/ “The press always asks me, ‘Don’t I wish I were debating him?’ No, I wish we were in high school – I could take him behind the gym. That’s what I wish.”).
Then there is the question of the Secret Service and one’s political opponents. Given the tragic history of the Kennedys, why in the world did the Biden administration not insist that third-party candidate Robert Kennedy, Jr. be accorded Secret Service protection? Because his candidacy was felt to be disadvantageous to Biden?
And why just this April would the former head of the January 6th Committee and 2004 election obstructionist Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) introduce legislation ridiculously entitled, “Denying Infinite Security and Government Resources Allocated toward Convicted and Extremely Dishonorable (DISGRACED) Former Protectees Act” to strip away Secret Service protection for former President Trump and by this April current leading presidential candidate?
Had Thompson’s bill passed, would that not have been confirmation for a potential shooter to feel his task was just made much easier?
But in a wider sense, if the common referent day after day on the Left is that Trump is another Hitler (cf. a recent The New Republic cover where Trump is literally photoshopped as Hitler), then it seems reckless not to imagine an unhinged or young shootist believing that by taking out somewhat identical to one of the greatest mass murderers in history, he would be applauded for his violence?
So is their logic, shoot Trump and save six million from the gas chambers?
After all, The New Republic defiantly explained their Hitler-Trump cover photo this way, "Today, we at The New Republic think we can spend this election year in one of two ways. We can spend it debating whether Trump meets the nine or 17 points that define fascism. Or we can spend it saying, “He’s damn close enough, and we’d better fight.”
Well, New Republic, recently someone took you up on your argument that Trump was “damn close enough” to Hitler and so he likewise chose to “fight”— albeit with a semi-automatic rifle.
If ad nauseam, a Joy Reid is screaming about Trump as a Hitlerian dictator ("Then let me know who I got to vote for to keep Hitler out of the White House”) or Rachel Maddow is bloviating about studying Hitler to understand Trump, then finally the message sinks in that a mass murderer is about to take power—unless....
Finally, the idea, if true, that bystanders spotted a 20-year-old on a nearby roof with a gun, a mere 130 yards from Trump, and in vain warned police of his presence, is surreal.
Is it all that hard for the Secret Service to post a few agents on the tops of a few surrounding buildings closest to the dais, or at least coordinate with local law enforcement to do the same?
That is a no brainer. Whoever made the decisions concerning the proper secret service security details for presidential events should be immediately fired.
Thank you to everyone for your thoughts and prayers yesterday, as it was God alone who prevented the unthinkable from happening. We will FEAR NOT, but instead remain resilient in our Faith and Defiant in the face of Wickedness. Our love goes out to the other victims and their families. We pray for the recovery of those who were wounded, and hold in our hearts the memory of the citizen who was so horribly killed. In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand United, and show our True Character as Americans, remaining Strong and Determined, and not allowing Evil to Win. I truly love our Country, and love you all, and look forward to speaking to our Great Nation this week from Wisconsin.
🙏 DJT
Donald Trump Truth Social 07:36 AM EST 07/14/24 @realDonaldTrump
This clip is worth more than $100 billion worth of campaign ads
This will go down in history beside George Washington crossing the Delaware river
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address
MLK’s “I have a Dream”
JFK’s “Ask not what your country can do for you…”
Reagan’s “Tear down this wall”
Trump rising up from near death with blood on his face and a clenched fist yelling “FIGHT! FIGHT! FIGHT”
We watched history unfold before our eyes and we will finish the job in November
@seanmdav The media will never admit they were even remotely contributing to what happened to Trump.
They are conditioned to always go on the offense and never be self reflective at this point.
I’m afraid many of them cannot be redeemed from it.
This is the ENTIRE Democrat-media industrial complex right now. These people are demonic psychopaths.
They spent the better part of a decade all but begging someone to assassinate Trump and his voters, and when it nearly succeeded, they all got on television, lied about what happened, and then tried to say it was your fault.
There will be no unity with a movement that behaves this way.
The lib media is a cosmic disgrace. The worst people on this rock we call earth reside in the media. However disgusting you think they are, they’re worse.
JUST IN: After wrapping up his slurring campaign speech in Wisconsin, President Joe Biden very clearly states that he is going to "come in the overflow room."
Big, if true.
"I'm going to come in the overflow room!" Biden proclaimed.
Unfortunately, the president's speech wasn't nearly as clear as his coming in the overflow room statement.
Biden confused the 2024 election with the 2020 election, got confused between trillions and billions, and slurred throughout the speech.
Video: @KarluskaP
BREAKING: Biden admits he pushed to expand NATO
This is specifically why Putin has stated the war started
Biden forgot he wasn’t supposed to say that part
Joe Rogan asks how we have $175 billion to send to Ukraine but NOT $5 billion to send Maui.
People who lost their homes to the fire got a measly $700 while we “accidentally” allocated an extra $6 billion towards Ukraine.
So, why did they abandon Maui? Because the whole thing is a giant land grab. That’s what Joe Rogan, Jimmy Dore, and many Maui residents think.
It's truly odd how:
• Decisions were made to keep power lines above ground despite the known risks.
• The alarm system malfunctioned during the crisis, failing to alert residents in time.
• Firefighters faced challenges as the water supply was inexplicably turned off.
• Police reportedly turned people back into the path of the fire.
“These are all just unfortunate things.”
Watch this carefully.
Biden says he’ll beat Trump “again in 2020.” He stops, looks like he’s being told he got the year wrong, & restates it with “2024.”
Is he being fed statements via an earpiece?
Did he have one during the debate, which is why he was staring off as if listening to another voice & writing things down throughout?