All The News That Fits

UPDATE: District Attorney says he believes the person who died was “someone in the crowd.” @WTAE

— Mike Valente (@ValenteWTAE) July 13, 2024

Butler county district attorney Richard Goldinger tells me Trump was grazed by gunfire but is safe. An audience member was killed and the shooter is dead. Another person is in serious condition, the prosecutor said.

— Meryl Kornfield (@MerylKornfield) July 13, 2024

The SS agents protecting Trump seem appropriate on the stage, but they also seem satisfied the shooter was down (and not a sniper) because they do expose Trump on the way to the car. 

Or so it seems to this layperson.

Still, would have taken a sharpshooter to hit that small target; and no more shots were heard. They must have had some confidence there wouldn’t be any more.

Trump was hit by glass fragments -- not a bullet: report https://t.co/yYHgAzqndm

— Raw Story (@RawStory) July 14, 2024

Glass fragments supposedly from a shattered teleprompter screen.

I watched that video ad nauseum on NBC, and Trump’s head was turned with his right ear away from the teleprompter screens in front of him. If those exploded from gunfire, they seemed perfectly whole as he was hustled from the stage. The fragments would also have to turn back on their trajectory to hit on the side turned almost 100 degrees from them. Seems much more likely the left ear would be wounded in this scenario.

Such is the problem with early reports. This one sounds seriously subject to change.

This, for example, sounds like absolute bullshit:

this BBC interview with a guy outside the security perimeter who claims he saw the shooter before he fired is absolutely wild pic.twitter.com/vJpKZTxSAe

— Warren Sharp (@SharpFootball) July 13, 2024

He also says the SS blew the shooter’s head off. Which sounds like somebody who’s seen too many movies, instead of someone who actually witnessed carnage.

The voice of reason weighs in. pic.twitter.com/fkw6LEtjlV

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) July 13, 2024

Thecreal voice of reason:

Statement from President Biden on the apparent shooting at the Trump rally in Pennsylvania: pic.twitter.com/rEEuCcpNmN

— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) July 13, 2024

Biden: There is no place in America for this kind of violence. It's sick. It's sick. It is one of the reasons we have to unite this country. We cannot allow for this to be happening. We cannot be like this. We cannot condone this. pic.twitter.com/Hgce6vs0ni

— Acyn (@Acyn) July 14, 2024

Trump has sown dragons’ teeth, and finally come near to reaping the whirlwind. Violence is as American as cherry pie, but you can’t exhort violence and then expect to be safe from it.