A Concept Of An Attempt

wouldn’t really call it an assassination attempt

more like a concept of an assassination attempt

— YS (@NYinLA2121) September 15, 2024

I'm trying to figure out what the charges will be. I know making verbal threats against a protected person (like Trump) could get you a visit from the Secret Service.  But that's investigatory, not necessarily in pursuit of an arrest.

This guy poked a gun through a fence (early reporting was he was on the golf course.  Later reporting is he was outside the fence of the golf course.)  Florida is an "open carry" state, so simply walking around within 500 yards of Trump with a gun is not a state crime, at least. (Federal law could definitely have other ideas.)  But still: it's Florida.

If being within 500 yards of a gun means you’re the target of an assassination attempt then everybody in Florida is the target of an assassination attempt by nearly everybody else in Florida.

— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) September 15, 2024

So there's that. Which isn't necessarily a counter-argument to bringing charges, but it's gonna be pretty weak tea. I mean, I saw an AUSA absolutely HAMMMER a felon for the crime of being stopped for a busted taillight and sent back to the Federal pen for having a shotgun in the passage tray (ask yer grandpa!).  That constituted "possession" of a firearm, a whole new violation.  So this guy could get hammered into oblivion.  I'm just not sure for what.  Poking a gun through a fence?  Carrying a gun within 500 feet of the GOP candidate?  Help me out here.

if you include the debate this is like no. 3 for assassination attempts

— YS (@NYinLA2121) September 15, 2024

As long as we're stretching the concept of "assassination attempt."

Secret Service goes ahead and counts "super loud" dropped dinner fork as assassination attempt pic.twitter.com/GGhJog56W4

— Conspiratorial Templates (@mynamehear) September 16, 2024

Yeah, it sorta sounds like that.

All the right-wing conspiracy theorists who told us in 2021 that everyone who got the Covid vax would be dead in two years because the Deep State wanted to depopulate the planet have now moved on to Deep State Trump shooting conspiracies.

— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) September 16, 2024

Except, of course, this was not a shooting.

trump campaign has two strategies.

1. Lie
2. Assassination Attempts

— YS (@NYinLA2121) September 15, 2024

Still wondering how loosely that term can be used. And speaking of conspiracies:

Ryan Routh had an extensive criminal record but he had no problem obtaining an AK-47. Only in America can a loony tune have access to weapons like this. pic.twitter.com/LsMPQaTVPb

— Carlos Turnbull (@cturnbull1968) September 15, 2024

The chaos creator, the perpetrator of sexual violence, the inciter of violence against immigrants, and the instigator of a violent coup has attempts made on his life with guns possessed by mentally unstable men?

One of his first acts in office: pic.twitter.com/XdY6jvdTTL

— AntiNarcopathyPharmD (@narceducator) September 16, 2024

We the people get to protect Trump from his own stupidity.