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49 sats \ 50 replies \ @JesseJames 13 Jul \ on: BREAKING: 🇺🇸 Former President Donald Trump shot at rally. bitcoin
Sounded like .22 lr (squirrel round) multiple shots at stationary target, if the shooter was serious he really needs some range time...lol
I think he got just nicked on the side of his head, someone behind him that's another story, we shall see soon..
Boy, we won't hear the end of it now...
I predict Trumps wins in a landslide...
Shooter was approximately 125m away from Trump: https://x.com/OAlexanderDK/status/1812269647908971005
Not an impossible shot. But not an easy one either.
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Trained marksman would take a center of mass shot at this range to avoid the possibility of missing. Headshots are for Hollywood movies or in situations where a center of mass shot isn't possible. You simply have more mass to hit.
This likely wasn't a trained marksman.
Source: Ex US Army sniper (me)
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Your assuming he had a clear shot to center of mass. For starters, likely that Trump was wearing a good vest. And I'm sure they put bulletproof plates in his podium.
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Why wasn't this the roof where the secret service or Trumps bodyguards where stationed to protect Trump from a shooter?
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Shooter was only 400 feet away. Not much bigger than a football field.
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standard procedure to secure high places even 1 mile away
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Its pretty early and more info might come to light, but I wouldn't want to jump to any "inside job" theories yet. Maybe they just did a bad job or it could just be complacency after week in week out rallies. Also, the shooter must have known very well that this would be a suicide mission. He would have known that he would be shot.
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That’s a nothing shot for a rifleman…beyond easy if you have any competence. My kids shoot prarie dogs at 400m and rarely miss unless it’s windy. This is probably some rando the CIA handed a rifle to.
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We have both people in this thread saying this is a tricky distance and people saying this is an easy distance.
Considering that everyone on the internet claims to have a 10 inch penis I suspect which side is right here
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Well, considering this dude was using a rifle, and IHMSA (handgun silhouette) matches routinely shoot to 200m, (and there are even 500m matches, handgun)…a very good handgun shooter could have made this shot…
With a rifle, I could teach anyone with an pulse to make a 120m shot in an hour on the range.
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It's much harder to pull this off when you know this is the last thing you will probably ever do. I'm sure the shooter knew he was likely to die in the process.
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Moving target is difficult
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Did the kid aim for the head because Trump was wearing a vest?
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He may not have had a clear line to sight to anything but Trump's head too.
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I'm sure your kids have a lot of practice and are in fact pretty good marksmen.
Point is a rando couldn't just pick up a gun without prior experience and make that shot. And of course, whoever did it missed...
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Touche, that explains the bad shot, it seems Secret Service guys are better shooters...
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Seems like they had to shoot through the bleachers as well.
My grandfather said right after, “well that’s a liberal for you. Shitty shooting” lol. I was like, can we not right now please.
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It all feels very "wag the dog".
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I don't know man, the guy was an inch from being dead or very seriously injured, the guy behind him is dead. To plan a "play" like that would be a little far fetched in my book. This is ain't Smollett's performance, just saying....
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Yeah, you're right. The people in power would never kill someone. So far fetched.
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Shooter would be paid to miss or shoot someone else most likely a trained sniper
The first episode of Monk has this scenario
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Way the dog is the new pathetic attempt at changing the narrative
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If by "new" you mean a movie from 1997 which describes a very real phenomenon that was already endemic to the system by the time the movie was made, then yeah, super "new"...
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I'm saying that the shooting was not staged
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Didn't say it was. And "wag the dog" is about creating a narrative, not only for the purpose of distraction.
It's for control. The tail controls the dog. Distracting from political scandal is only one possible use.
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To “wag the dog” means to distract attention away from a political scandal, often through military action
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WAG*
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He had an AR-15 on him when his body was recovered.
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That makes no sense. Did he think he could fight himself out of the situation and disappear afterwards? And then continue to live his life unidentified?
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No he probably knew it was a suicide mission. He just was a lousy shot.
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Why carry an AR-15 then?
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huh?
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It's not the weapon used by a sniper. There must be a reason he thought he would need an automatic weapon in addition
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AR-15 is semi automatic not automatic
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