IF it’s accurate that the shooter was affiliated with antifa, is Xiden going to FINALLY declare antifa a domestic terrorist organization and bring to bear any and all legal ramifications that might mean???
That's what they said about the first guy they reported and he wasn't the guy who was the shooter. No affiliation known with Antifa and Crooks at this point. He was actually a registered Republican.
It’s my understanding that PA primary voters are required to be registered with the political party that represents the ballot they request. Quite possibly Crooks got wind of the D plot to register R so that they could sway the R general election choice. His short- lived political leanings suggest that he was on team woke.
Oh & was the dead dude the actually DJT shooter? Observers comment this guy was on a metal roof on a hot sunny day. Relaxed & comfortable enough to take a shot that missed the cranium by 1 mm? Must have had a great firearms instructor.
Yeah, the dead guy was the shooter. Look at the AR-15 beside him on the roof. What was he doin'? shooting pigeons? Plus the anti-sniper team was zeroed in on him and fired about a second after his last shot. The reason the shooter missed is that he was not a trained rifleman. He was a dumb kid that, "Learned," to shoot by watching action videos.
The hard-left of the Democrats are currently circulating a crazy theory that the Trump campaign staged the whole thing.
Uh huh. They decided to shoot Trump in the ear from 130 yards in order to generate sympathy for their candidate but not hit his head 1/2" away which would have killed their candidate. And to make that incredible marksman trick-shot, they found a 20-year-old scuzzball with no formal firearms training.
These conspiracy theorists are some combination of evil and stupid. (Bear that in mind next time you hear conspiracy theories on the Right as well.)
Glenn: I know that you and several of your commenters are/were practicing attorneys. I have also read (and I will not swear that my references are God's own Truth) but Trump is not YET convicted of ANYTHING, and would not be so UNTIL a Judge actually sentences him. In addition, I also read that to be a convicted FELON, one needs to be sentenced for at least one year and a day, in which case you serve time in a Federal lockup. Less than a year would mean a state prison. Since the NYC case is a state only case (the Feds long pulled out of that case due to no standing) could Trump EVER be a convicted felon if--as you mentioned after the resent SCOTUS decision on POTUS immunity--charges might be dropped? And IF SO, could he, even now SUE every media member who was calling him a Convicted Felon---which is what Soros' younger son is begging every dem to do?
I've seen that distinction you referenced, suggesting that a person is not convicted until he's sentenced. That's not my understanding of the law, however. My understanding is that you're a convicted felon if a jury convicts you of a felony. It doesn't require that you be sentenced.
As for the importance of the length of the sentence, it's pretty clear that a felony is a crime for which you COULD BE sentenced to more than one year, whether you do get such a sentence or not.
A common misperception is that "felony" means a federal crime as opposed to a state crime. That's not the case at all. Felony means a crime that carries a potential sentence of over one year. That's why the crimes for which Trump was convicted in NY were felonies even though they were purely state crimes.
You're incorrect about the distinction between state and federal prison. State prison is for state crimes -- most murders and rapes, for example -- while federal prison is for federal crimes such as lying to the FBI (and a zillion other things). It has nothing to do with the length of the sentence. (That's why Martha Stewart served her 5-month sentence for lying to the SEC in a federal pen.)
I caution you that I never practiced criminal law. Don't take this explanation to the bank.
And if the appeals process is still ongoing, are you a convicted felon until the day it is overturned? And if the conviction is overturned on appeal… are you a convicted felon forever anyway?
Now you are forcing me to guess, but it's not worth it to me to research the issue. My guess is that if your conviction is overturned on appeal, it's no longer a conviction, and so you are no longer a convicted felon , just as when you are found liable in a civil suit, and the liability is overturned on appeal, you are no longer liable.
Yes … Nietzsche is in Hell, as he was the nihilistic philosopher who proclaimed “God is dead” and whose ideas later served as foundation blocks for Germany’s National Socialism from the 1920s - 1945.
The Left, and this includes the DNC and all of its acolytes, as well as academia, the MSM, Big Tech, the creepy Davos globalists, teachers’ unions, government at all levels, and of course those purple-haired Munchausen moms who puberty block their fatherless kids while screaming for LGBTQ?!$%+ “rights” for kids who do not know better, have all been bitten by the authoritarian bug. There’s an adage that goes something like … scratch a leftist and out comes totalitarian blood.
I’ve briefly wandered into a few of the leftist fever swamps on social media, and there are now conspiracy theories from the left that this assassination attempt on DJT was staged. “Reichstag Fire” is apparently trending as a hashtag and search term, while some leftwing armchair “analysts” are suggesting that DJT self-inflicted the wound to his ear (it’s an old WWF stage trick, ya know, and Trump is tight with the pro-wrestling crowd.)
While some folks, even including some of our very own on the right, might suggest that such events portend to the Apocalypse, I would gently say that the term apocalypse doesn’t always have bad connotations. As imperfect as he is (and aren’t we all imperfect too?) DJT has exposed the dirty underside of our political and social institutions through his sheer willingness to stand his ground when it comes to our basic American principles, as well as remain absolutely defiant against the leftist machine that has been working overtime against him, and us too, for the better part of a decade.
Even this assassination attempt against DJT has been a revelation (not necessarily the Book of Revelations, but a revelation still) as to the gross incompetence of the Secret Service … who performed the site surveys at Butler? How did a shooter get within 150 yards of a major presidential campaign event? Why do those three DEI female “agents” around DJT look so reminiscent of the olde timey Keystone Cops silent comedies from a century ago? Is modern day progressivism so progressive that we have actually regressed back to the early 20th century in many ways?
That comes back to one last thing, totalitarianism in general, and fascism more specifically. Over a century ago tyranny began its 20th century march with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and then shortly afterwards, the rise of Mussolini’s Fascism when he and his blackshirt squadristi marched on Rome and just took over the government.
While the term fascism remains a very toxic word among polite society, as it ranks down there with racism, rapists, pedophilia and cannibalism, what the modern day progressive left is actually practicing and advocating for is indeed a newly constructed form of fascism. It’s still okay to be a socialist or even a communist in high society get togethers in places like Davos. After all, I’m certain that the top ranking ChiComs are always welcomed with open arms at these incestuous soirées.
But get labeled with the term fascist and you are dead to the world … at least their world. Yet, when government agencies like the FBI, Homeland Security, the CDC, and others collude with the Democrat Party, billion dollar pharmaceutical corporations, the MSM, Big Tech, academia, labor unions, and a myriad of society’s other institutions, and they are all on the same message operating lockstep and synchronized, what can you call all of this but fascism?
Perhaps the only difference from fascism of a century ago and today, is that 20th century fascism included a focus on national or even racial identity (i.e., Nazism,) while today’s neo-fascism has a globalist tweak to it. Just look at the agendas and future plans coming out of the ivory tower sewers like Davos, Brussels, and the U.N., and this becomes all the more apparent.
Fascism and Communism are and have long been two sides of the same totalitarian coin. They share more in common with each other than their differences … and both ideologies are and always have been leftwing in nature. Fascism is just slightly to the right of communism, and as such the left dishonestly brands conservatives, constitutionalists, Christians, Jews, libertarians and other individual freedom loving patriots as “fascists.” This has been a slander and lie for so long, yet very few ever make mention of it.
The simple truth is fascism is BIG government … high taxes, a hatred of free-market captalism, an antipathy towards religion and the belief in God (worship the State, ya know,) a total prohibition against private gun ownership, speech codes, a twisted fetish for burdensome regulations, red tape and diktats, and a strong aversion to individual freedom, autonomy and free agency. Does any of this sound like the conservative political agenda coming out of the GOP or from conservative think tanks like the Hoover Institute or the Manhattan Institute?
Compare and contrast this week’s RNC platform at their convention in Milwaukee to Il Duce’s fascist manifesto and then it becomes quite evident that fascism is indeed a leftwing ideology … Mussolini’s manifesto is big government on steroids. It only differs from Lenin’s Communism in that Bolshevism was even BIGGER government on steroids than fascism was.
Finally, and back to DJT and the assassination attempt … they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think I could safely bet the farm that DJT’s perseverance and open defiance against this assassination attempt and leftists in general just won him the 2024 Presidential election. Godspeed to the shooting victims, to the dead patriotic retired fire chief, and to their surviving family.
I haven't seen this type of comment posted anywhere else so I thought I would post here. I think that millions of people had the same initial reaction to the video I did:
It is gratifying when your prayers are answered.
Like me, millions of people have been praying for years for God to keep Trump safe.
I don’t think we need anyone in hell “approving” of the vindication and triumph of Donald Trump, but the rest of this of beautiful, Glenn.
IF it’s accurate that the shooter was affiliated with antifa, is Xiden going to FINALLY declare antifa a domestic terrorist organization and bring to bear any and all legal ramifications that might mean???
Nah, Antifa is just an idea.
You’re right. I list my head. Oops, no that was almost Trump yesterday. 🫤
That's what they said about the first guy they reported and he wasn't the guy who was the shooter. No affiliation known with Antifa and Crooks at this point. He was actually a registered Republican.
It’s my understanding that PA primary voters are required to be registered with the political party that represents the ballot they request. Quite possibly Crooks got wind of the D plot to register R so that they could sway the R general election choice. His short- lived political leanings suggest that he was on team woke.
I voted for Trump because of the Supreme Court
Gosh, has anyone heard of a call to ban “assault rifles” yet? Must be too distracted to get to the banning guns stage.
Oh & was the dead dude the actually DJT shooter? Observers comment this guy was on a metal roof on a hot sunny day. Relaxed & comfortable enough to take a shot that missed the cranium by 1 mm? Must have had a great firearms instructor.
Oh no, not a conspiracy theorist already?
Passes the time son.
They have video of him sooting.
I wonder if he was using iron sights or a scope...
As per usual Glenn excellent and thoughtful writing.
Yeah, the dead guy was the shooter. Look at the AR-15 beside him on the roof. What was he doin'? shooting pigeons? Plus the anti-sniper team was zeroed in on him and fired about a second after his last shot. The reason the shooter missed is that he was not a trained rifleman. He was a dumb kid that, "Learned," to shoot by watching action videos.
I haven't seen that picture. But would like to know from someone who has. Iron sites, or glass?
The hard-left of the Democrats are currently circulating a crazy theory that the Trump campaign staged the whole thing.
Uh huh. They decided to shoot Trump in the ear from 130 yards in order to generate sympathy for their candidate but not hit his head 1/2" away which would have killed their candidate. And to make that incredible marksman trick-shot, they found a 20-year-old scuzzball with no formal firearms training.
These conspiracy theorists are some combination of evil and stupid. (Bear that in mind next time you hear conspiracy theories on the Right as well.)
Glenn: I know that you and several of your commenters are/were practicing attorneys. I have also read (and I will not swear that my references are God's own Truth) but Trump is not YET convicted of ANYTHING, and would not be so UNTIL a Judge actually sentences him. In addition, I also read that to be a convicted FELON, one needs to be sentenced for at least one year and a day, in which case you serve time in a Federal lockup. Less than a year would mean a state prison. Since the NYC case is a state only case (the Feds long pulled out of that case due to no standing) could Trump EVER be a convicted felon if--as you mentioned after the resent SCOTUS decision on POTUS immunity--charges might be dropped? And IF SO, could he, even now SUE every media member who was calling him a Convicted Felon---which is what Soros' younger son is begging every dem to do?
I've seen that distinction you referenced, suggesting that a person is not convicted until he's sentenced. That's not my understanding of the law, however. My understanding is that you're a convicted felon if a jury convicts you of a felony. It doesn't require that you be sentenced.
As for the importance of the length of the sentence, it's pretty clear that a felony is a crime for which you COULD BE sentenced to more than one year, whether you do get such a sentence or not.
A common misperception is that "felony" means a federal crime as opposed to a state crime. That's not the case at all. Felony means a crime that carries a potential sentence of over one year. That's why the crimes for which Trump was convicted in NY were felonies even though they were purely state crimes.
You're incorrect about the distinction between state and federal prison. State prison is for state crimes -- most murders and rapes, for example -- while federal prison is for federal crimes such as lying to the FBI (and a zillion other things). It has nothing to do with the length of the sentence. (That's why Martha Stewart served her 5-month sentence for lying to the SEC in a federal pen.)
I caution you that I never practiced criminal law. Don't take this explanation to the bank.
Glenn: YOUR explanation if far more accurate than what I had read! Sorry for MY confusion--and ignorance!
And if the appeals process is still ongoing, are you a convicted felon until the day it is overturned? And if the conviction is overturned on appeal… are you a convicted felon forever anyway?
Now you are forcing me to guess, but it's not worth it to me to research the issue. My guess is that if your conviction is overturned on appeal, it's no longer a conviction, and so you are no longer a convicted felon , just as when you are found liable in a civil suit, and the liability is overturned on appeal, you are no longer liable.
Trump’s shoes are much nicer than Nietzsche‘s.
A. McCarthy:
“SCOTUS Reminder on Due-Process Mandate of Unanimous Juries Requires Trump’s Guilty Verdicts to Be Vacated“
Spot on!
I would like to see a list of the medications this young man took for the last two years.
Get in line behind those wanting this information for the Nashville tranny shooter. Who ya gonna call —the FBI? Merrick Garland?
Great article Glenn.
Only complaint - that likely wasn't a high powered round but almost certainly an intermediate powered round.
Yes … Nietzsche is in Hell, as he was the nihilistic philosopher who proclaimed “God is dead” and whose ideas later served as foundation blocks for Germany’s National Socialism from the 1920s - 1945.
The Left, and this includes the DNC and all of its acolytes, as well as academia, the MSM, Big Tech, the creepy Davos globalists, teachers’ unions, government at all levels, and of course those purple-haired Munchausen moms who puberty block their fatherless kids while screaming for LGBTQ?!$%+ “rights” for kids who do not know better, have all been bitten by the authoritarian bug. There’s an adage that goes something like … scratch a leftist and out comes totalitarian blood.
I’ve briefly wandered into a few of the leftist fever swamps on social media, and there are now conspiracy theories from the left that this assassination attempt on DJT was staged. “Reichstag Fire” is apparently trending as a hashtag and search term, while some leftwing armchair “analysts” are suggesting that DJT self-inflicted the wound to his ear (it’s an old WWF stage trick, ya know, and Trump is tight with the pro-wrestling crowd.)
While some folks, even including some of our very own on the right, might suggest that such events portend to the Apocalypse, I would gently say that the term apocalypse doesn’t always have bad connotations. As imperfect as he is (and aren’t we all imperfect too?) DJT has exposed the dirty underside of our political and social institutions through his sheer willingness to stand his ground when it comes to our basic American principles, as well as remain absolutely defiant against the leftist machine that has been working overtime against him, and us too, for the better part of a decade.
Even this assassination attempt against DJT has been a revelation (not necessarily the Book of Revelations, but a revelation still) as to the gross incompetence of the Secret Service … who performed the site surveys at Butler? How did a shooter get within 150 yards of a major presidential campaign event? Why do those three DEI female “agents” around DJT look so reminiscent of the olde timey Keystone Cops silent comedies from a century ago? Is modern day progressivism so progressive that we have actually regressed back to the early 20th century in many ways?
That comes back to one last thing, totalitarianism in general, and fascism more specifically. Over a century ago tyranny began its 20th century march with the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and then shortly afterwards, the rise of Mussolini’s Fascism when he and his blackshirt squadristi marched on Rome and just took over the government.
While the term fascism remains a very toxic word among polite society, as it ranks down there with racism, rapists, pedophilia and cannibalism, what the modern day progressive left is actually practicing and advocating for is indeed a newly constructed form of fascism. It’s still okay to be a socialist or even a communist in high society get togethers in places like Davos. After all, I’m certain that the top ranking ChiComs are always welcomed with open arms at these incestuous soirées.
But get labeled with the term fascist and you are dead to the world … at least their world. Yet, when government agencies like the FBI, Homeland Security, the CDC, and others collude with the Democrat Party, billion dollar pharmaceutical corporations, the MSM, Big Tech, academia, labor unions, and a myriad of society’s other institutions, and they are all on the same message operating lockstep and synchronized, what can you call all of this but fascism?
Perhaps the only difference from fascism of a century ago and today, is that 20th century fascism included a focus on national or even racial identity (i.e., Nazism,) while today’s neo-fascism has a globalist tweak to it. Just look at the agendas and future plans coming out of the ivory tower sewers like Davos, Brussels, and the U.N., and this becomes all the more apparent.
Fascism and Communism are and have long been two sides of the same totalitarian coin. They share more in common with each other than their differences … and both ideologies are and always have been leftwing in nature. Fascism is just slightly to the right of communism, and as such the left dishonestly brands conservatives, constitutionalists, Christians, Jews, libertarians and other individual freedom loving patriots as “fascists.” This has been a slander and lie for so long, yet very few ever make mention of it.
The simple truth is fascism is BIG government … high taxes, a hatred of free-market captalism, an antipathy towards religion and the belief in God (worship the State, ya know,) a total prohibition against private gun ownership, speech codes, a twisted fetish for burdensome regulations, red tape and diktats, and a strong aversion to individual freedom, autonomy and free agency. Does any of this sound like the conservative political agenda coming out of the GOP or from conservative think tanks like the Hoover Institute or the Manhattan Institute?
Compare and contrast this week’s RNC platform at their convention in Milwaukee to Il Duce’s fascist manifesto and then it becomes quite evident that fascism is indeed a leftwing ideology … Mussolini’s manifesto is big government on steroids. It only differs from Lenin’s Communism in that Bolshevism was even BIGGER government on steroids than fascism was.
Please see: https://worldfuturefund.org/wffmaster/reading/germany/mussolini.htm
Finally, and back to DJT and the assassination attempt … they say that a picture is worth a thousand words. I think I could safely bet the farm that DJT’s perseverance and open defiance against this assassination attempt and leftists in general just won him the 2024 Presidential election. Godspeed to the shooting victims, to the dead patriotic retired fire chief, and to their surviving family.
https://a57.foxnews.com/static.foxnews.com/foxnews.com/content/uploads/2024/07/1200/675/Donald-Trump-Butler-PA-Shooting_05.jpg?ve=1&tl=1
I haven't seen this type of comment posted anywhere else so I thought I would post here. I think that millions of people had the same initial reaction to the video I did:
It is gratifying when your prayers are answered.
Like me, millions of people have been praying for years for God to keep Trump safe.