Not diminishing the seriousness and trauma of an assassination attempt, but surely many reporters with top of the shelf DSLR must have photographed something?

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    6 months ago

    Nah, I’ll happily diminish the seriousness and trauma of his assassination attempt, because he and his crew have been actively trying to get an assassination attempt to occur - they were just surprised that the first incident was directed at them.

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      6 months ago

      It’s a damn shame the person missed :-(. Or maybe he hired the guy and it went exactly as planned. Nothing like a little “people want me dead” to help a psychopath feel like a hero.

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        6 months ago

        If he hired him he would have to have infinite faith in his sharpshooter capabilities

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        6 months ago

        What if the guy on the roof had blanks, and the shooter who hit people in the crowd was on some sort of grassy… hill. Like a slightly elevated section of turf… I’m sure there is word for it.

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      6 months ago

      I mean he’s only been holding small, indoor rallies since then, or surrounded by bullet proof glass. He’s obviously scared by the incident so it’s time to twist the knife – popping paper bags or dropping serving platters around him at any public events to really gets his nerves on edge.

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          6 months ago

          It would be rather fitting to see him have a stroke in November as the election counts come in for a landslide defeat, but it’s doubtful either one of those things will happen.