One handwritten letter, addressed to “The World,” stated, among other things, “This was an assassination attempt on Donald Trump but I failed you. I tried my best and gave it all the gumption I could muster. It is up to you now to finish the job; and I will offer $150,000 to whomever can complete the job.” //
Barr said in a statement to Fox News Digital:
I was dumbfounded that the DOJ made public this morning the contents of the letter that, Ryan Routh, left with an acquaintance prior to the attempted assassination of former President Trump
Even if DOJ thought it important to provide the letter to the court, it could have redacted inflammatory material or arranged to have the letter submitted under seal. It was rash to put out this letter in the midst of an election during which two attempts on the life of President Trump had been made.
"It served no purpose other than to risk inciting further violence," he added. //
anon-7lqi
39 minutes ago
Which are we to believe:
The Secret Service and DoJ are suddenly hopelessly incompetent and negligent
or
The Secret Service and DoJ knowingly and willfully pulled back protective resources and put their least competent staff on Trump
It was a nice moment and came across as pretty standard fare for a presidential campaign. It's certainly not the first time a nominee has walked into an establishment and paid for something. Trump has routinely bought food for people at campaign stops as well. Leave it to Democrats to try to ruin everything, though. //
Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal
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I’m reasonably sure that’s a federal crime
Ron Filipkowski @RonFilipkowski
Trump is now handing out cash to voters.
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The logic here is as stupid as it sounds. By giving the mother of three money, Trump supposedly broke federal laws surrounding vote buying. Of course, the woman never indicates that she is going to vote for the former president because he helped buy her groceries. //
Meanwhile, actual corruption and possible criminality by Democrats are ignored. It's mind-numbing.
I would posit that it is far more than Democrats trying to absolve themselves of their contributions to America’s current political divisions and tensions. Indeed, I believe it is an effort to silence those who oppose their ideology.
People pretending that Trump brought the assassination attempts on himself are, consciously or unconsciously, sending the message that if a prominent individual forcefully opposes progressive views, then they could also face violence or other types of punishments. Even further, any negative consequences for expressing their views are their own fault for daring to argue against progressivism.
To put it simply, they want to blame the assassination attempt on Trump because they want you to shut up.
This isn’t just about deflecting blame from themselves. Their arguments carry with it a covert threat: If you don’t shut up, something like this can happen to you. //
St. Joseph, Terror of Demons
19 hours ago
It might be even darker than Jeff posited. The media are actually saying Trump is not only asking for assassination because of his rhetoric, but he deserves it.
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Megyn Kelly DESTROYS the lawfare against President Trump🔥🔥🔥‼️
11:16 AM · Sep 21, 2024
https://x.com/TheThe1776/status/1837511249321685004
Jason Calacanis asked about some of the cases, erroneously saying Trump had been found "guilty" in civil cases.
Kelly brought him up short, correcting him on the facts and the terminology.
His partners on the show also came back on him a bit, asking whether he knows Kelly is a lawyer,and said, "You said three convictions, now you're walking it back."
Then he asked if she thought all five cases had issues. "100 percent," she said.
That's when Kelly went to town. First, she noted the change of the law in the Carroll case. Next, she hit the problems in the fraud case brought in New York by Attorney General Letitia James, including that the banks didn't consider themselves victims and James ran on a promise of getting Trump.
She also snarked about how "Soros" Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg didn't like to bring any cases except against Donald Trump. There were questions there as well. Then she spoke about the Georgia case, where she referred to the relationship between Fulton County DA Fani Willis and Nathan Wade. Then she pointed out how the Florida classified documents case was likely to fall as well. //
David Limbaugh @DavidLimbaugh
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I almost didn't watch this because usually when someone says another got schooled or whatever it's not that big a deal, but this is just delicious. Big props to @megynkelly for not only educating this clown, but humiliating him simply with the facts and unapologetic fierceness.
It turns out that, in the history of Twitter, now X, the most-liked Farsi (Iranian) language post on that platform came from a source that may surprise you - Donald Trump.
The post reportedly says in part: “I have stood with you since the beginning of my presidency and my government will continue to stand with you.”
Now, among the members of the Iranian diaspora - people who oppose the rule of the mullahs in Iran, many of whom fled the country after the Islamic revolution - are forming an "Iranians for Trump" movement. As unlikely as that sounds, it makes more sense than one might think. //
Iran - Persia - is a nation and a people with a long history. It wasn't always a nutcase theocracy ruled by Bronze Age lunatics. It was, as recently as 1979, a modern nation. It could be again. Under a Kamala Harris presidency, though, the Iranian advocates for dumping the mullahs and returning some sanity to Persia won't stand a chance. And as long as the mullahs remain in power, Iran will continue to be the world's number-one state sponsor of terror. //
Scholar GBenton
4 hours ago
People with good memory recall that Obama refused to support the Green Revolution in Iran under the guise of "no interference in internal affairs of another country" but later interfered in Egypt and Libya.
TheBlaze @theblaze
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Tim Walz: “We can’t afford four more years of this!”
1:56 PM · Sep 21, 2024 //
Wait, what? Who's occupying the White House right now, Tim? Who's been responsible for all this tumult?
Eric Abbenante @EricAbbenante
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Bret Stephens asks Stephanie Ruhle why Kamala Harris has not done interviews and stated clearly what her policy positions are. Ruhle responds that 'We don't live in Nirvana':
Bret Stephens: "I'm an undecided voter. I'm not sure I want to vote for Kamala. My fear is that she… Show more
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"If you don't like her answer, are you going to vote for Trump?" Ruhle railed. "Kamala Harris is not running for perfect, she is running against Trump." Translation? You don't need to know anything other than she's a warm body.
"The problem that a lot of people have with Kamala is that we don't know her answer to anything," Stephens said. "I don't think it's a lot to ask for her to sit down for a real interview."
Ruhle dismissed that, "When you move to Nirvana, I'll be your next door neighbor. We don't live there."
She's not a journalist, she's an advocate for Harris. //
Please list how he is a "threat to democracy." Notice they don't say.
So, let's review who the "threat to democracy" is.
Maher suggests Trump doesn't concede elections. Trump challenged the results in 2020, but he also left when he didn't win the legal challenges. And they ignore the many Democrats who challenged the 2016 election, and all the efforts to try to stop Trump from taking office even though he had won. They forget about the riot during Trump's inauguration on Jan. 20, 2017, and they don't blame the Democrats for that riot.
Under Trump, we had more money in our pockets, low inflation, lower taxes, no new wars, more peace in the Middle East, and a more secure border. Trump didn't prosecute his opponents, he didn't try to kick them off ballots, and he didn't try to tie up his opponents in lawfare to cost them money. Trump wasn't the one who pushed aside the candidate that more than 14 million Democrats had voted for in the 2024 primary, and replaced him because they knew he was going to lose.
But Ruhle doesn't think we even should ask about that replacement or even what Harris knew when all that coup-ing went down.
Rep. Barry Loudermilk @RepLoudermilk
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President Trump directed senior DoD leaders to ensure events on J6 be safe.
They ignored his guidance, prioritized optics concerns over security, and pushed a flawed narrative in their IG report.
The American people deserve the full truth.
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Transcripts Show President Trump's Directives to Pentagon Leadership to
12:09 PM · Sep 20, 2024 //
We’ve known some of this before, but the transcripts themselves are pretty startling. They all but tell the sitting president of the United States to shove off:
Kamala Dishes an Unbelievable Word Salad Festival With Oprah, but Reality Just Levels Her – RedState
Perhaps the funniest admission about this vibe-laden extravaganza was when Oprah confessed that she ran into a black man at the airport. I don't think she liked the answer that she got.
Trump War Room @TrumpWarRoom
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Oprah says a Black man stopped her at the airport to tell her he's voting for Trump 😂🔥
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Reality is not on Kamala's side.
You can have celebrities, you can talk about feelings, but people know how empty Kamala is. They know former President Donald Trump has done and will do a better job.
Trump has the results; she has the failures. //
Retired Professor
an hour ago
Elections are a time for voting and the time for voting for the best qualified person, and no time is better than an election for voting, and voting for someone who can clearly and plainly articulate a firm vision of why the voters who will soon be voting should make an informed choice based on the candidate who most directly articulates a vision and a plan for moving forward. //
IMEUBU
2 minutes ago
I know all the words she used but they’ve never made less sense to me
As cool as it is to watch him produce his pieces, he's also got plenty to say. In an interview after the rally, he compared Trump to a firefighter:
"Your house is burning down, your children on the second floor, flames shooting off the back, screaming out the window. The guy across the street is a fireman, but you don't like his hairdo. You don't like his tan. You don't like what he tweets. That guy is going to come in and save your house from burning and save your children. Do you give a crap about his hair, his mean tweets or the tan that he has?"
"I don't think so. That's what people need to think about," he added.
Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) announced that there are at least five assassination teams in the United States that are intent on assassinating former President Donald Trump, according to an interview published on Thursday. //
“I have Republican colleagues who have not ruled out a mole inside the Secret Service of providing information about points of vulnerability,” he said. “I’ve not seen evidence of that, but I’ve got colleagues that are very, very smart at this who say they can’t rule that out, given some of the anomalies and the fact pattern here.” //
The Vigilant Fox 🦊 @VigilantFox
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BREAKING: Whistleblowers tell Senator Josh Hawley that “it’s not even clear Secret Service swept the perimeter before Trump took to the course.”
That’s a massive and inexcusable failure.
But that’s just the beginning of the problems that unfolded. Whistleblowers also revealed… Show more
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Butler County law enforcement officials stated that at separate times during the walkthrough, when they reiterated their concerns to the agents and counter sniper about securing the AGR complex buildings, the agents responded: “we will take care of it.”
The Iowa senator questioned Rowe whether the Butler County law enforcement officials' claim is true and, if so, what the Secret Service did to secure the area with the AGR complex buildings.
Grassley noted that in the weeks following the first assassination attempt, Rowe told senators during a hearing, "what was communicated is that the locals had a plan and that they had been there before," in regard to the roof of the AGR building where Crooks took his shots from.
Despite a rigorous campaign schedule -- not to mention the stress of being on the receiving end of yet another assassination attempt -- President Trump took the time to meet with Liam and his family Wednesday evening, telling, "I'm supposed to be on that stage, but that doesn't matter."
That's not all -- Trump was bearing a large package of goodies for Liam.
"If I looked like that, I would be President"
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JD Vance nukes NYT reporter🔥
JD: "This is the New York Times, don't hold it against them."
NYT: "The paper of record, New York Times. What's something you're willing not to say to make a point?"
JD: "One thing I wouldn't be willing to say is that NYT is a respectable paper."
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the media are hyper-focused on this story not out of any actual concern for the Haitian migrants and residents but because it reflects very poorly on the Biden-Harris administration and its dangerous amnesty policies. And because of that, the MSM's mission is to discredit Trump and Vance by trying to make them look like racists, all in order to deflect from the very real issues plaguing Springfield -- whether that includes cat-eating or not. //
The fact of the matter is that the more reporters demand Vance stop talking about the issues his consituents are bringing to his attention, the more he's going to expose the media for wanting to suppress those stories, which in turn will lead to questions from voters as to why they'd want to keep them under wraps.
The only thing that will be left to conclude will be that it's the media who looks worse here by trying to squelch the story, not Trump and Vance for bringing it up.
Republican vice-presidential candidate defends spreading false, racist claims demonizing Haitian immigrants. //
Vance’s remarks came during an appearance on Sunday on CNN’s State of the Union, where he said he felt the need “to create stories so that the … media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people”.
Asked by the CNN host Dana Bash whether the false rumors centering on Springfield, Ohio, were “a story that you created”, Vance replied, “Yes!” He then said the claims were rooted in “accounts from … constituents” and that he as well as the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, had spoken publicly about them to draw attention to Springfield’s relatively large Haitian population.
Would-be Donald Trump assassin and leftist tool Ryan Routh apparently arrived at his firing position nearly twelve hours before the Secret Service discovered him on Sunday. Cell phone data indicates that Ryan Wesley Routh arrived at the tree line fence near the Trump International Golf Club at 1:59 a.m. Sunday. The former president's security detail discovered him at 1:31 p.m. //
In the area of the tree line from which ROUTH fled, agents found a digital camera, two (2) bags, including a backpack, a loaded SKS-style, 7.62x39 caliber rifle with a scope, and a black plastic bag containing food. The serial number on the SKS-style rifle was obliterated and unreadable to the naked eye.
The rifle appears to be a Chinese knock-off of the ancient Soviet SKS made by Norinco. The SKS, scope or no scope, is not the rifle, nor does it fire the round (Warsaw Pact 7.62mm x 39mm) needed for reliable shooting at any distance. //
Had he had sufficient skills to avoid sticking the barrel of the rifle through the fence, he could very well have succeeded.
At approximately 1:31 PM, a United States Secret Service ("USSS") Special Agent assigned to the former President's security detail was walking the perimeter of Trump International when the USSS Agent saw what appeared to be a rifle poking out of the tree line. //
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anon-brte a day ago
A simple sweep with an infrared camera should have picked him up. That's pretty basic tech and not a function of understaffing. Yet another easily preventable situation botched by the SS, which is of course ultimately under DHS Sec Mayorkas and Pres Biden. Meanwhile, the MSM is obsessed with talking about whether Haitian illegals are eating cats in Springfield OH. //
Billy Wallace DoubleXman a day ago
They did secure it, the got the guy who was outside of the course itself
Min Headroom llme Billy Wallace a day ago
No they didn’t. Looking at the aerial map, this was an obvious point of vulnerability, compared to much of the course; it should have gotten special attention. To a significant extent, this is a replay of failing to secure the most obvious rooftop at Butler. The USSS needs some basic site and perimeter skills it either doesn’t have or isn’t choosing to use. //
etba_ss anon-brte a day ago
If the MSM is talking about Haitian illegals not eating cats, we are still winning the argument. The point isn't that they eat cats, that was just the clickbait that got the story going. The point is that tens of thousands of immigrants are being dumped into communities, overrunning them and destroying them. Whether they are eating pets or just raping and pillaging and not eating pets, doesn't make that much of a difference.
Some stories you win by simply getting them covered, even if they are claiming a real problem is not a problem.
Media talking heads like former CNN and current News Nation correspondent Chris Cuomo, who were vociferous about how dangerous, stupid, and corrupt Donald Trump is, are now seeing him through new eyes after not one but two attempted assassinations.
I did not have that on my 2024 Bingo card.
On Monday, Cuomo did an 18-minute monologue about this change of perspective on the matters of this election and on Donald Trump. Cuomo talked about it being his mother's birthday and him asking her what she wants to see in the world. Mama Cuomo insisted that she wished people would come together. That family and community are the linchpins of our society. From there, Cuomo launched into what turned out to be an amazingly thoughtful treatise on what America could be, and what it will take to get there.
I don't know if enough of us believe that anymore. The unique truth about America is that she only works if we tap into our interconnectedness and "interdependentness." Those are big words indicating a simple idea: Here, we have to care about one another. It is our only bond. We don't have homogeneity, we don't have common heritage or even really culture. What we have and what has made our greatness so durable is our ability to combine to magnified effect. The whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
And the great news is, we have so much more potential in America than I see anywhere else.
Who red-pilled Chris Cuomo? Who knew Fredo could actually reason?
We are so desperate to drag ourselves away from greatness, from progress, from each other. That is what I see that really bothers me, and the reaction and lack of reaction to the second attempt on Trump in the last couple of months. Oh, but the guy didn't even shoot. What if it was your father? Or what if it was Kamala Harris? Or President Biden—God forbid. Do you think it would be almost a shoulder shrug and more talk about the Secret Service and allocation of funds than just how crazy it is that this is what's happening in our country? That reaction of, well, come on, don't make too much of it. He had an AK-47 pointed at him! The reaction is unacceptable, and it's the second time media and political players have gotten away with playing down what should be a cause for panic. //
But the sheer fact that this man who has spent countless hours and years on cable television bashing Donald Trump is now able to put himself in another man's shoes and reach out. "I'm not supporting Trump, I'm supporting us," is a profound statement and in a way, kind of mind-blowing.
This is the difference between debate--even aggressive debate--and censorship. It is one thing to attack Kamala Harris for "destroying the country" and quite another to say that President Trump should be "eliminated." It is one thing to criticize overheated rhetoric, and another to say that a former president has invited an assassination on himself. It is one thing to say that Donald J. Trump's arguments about the election of 2020 are wrong; it is another thing to attempt to remove him from the ballot over it.
It is one thing to say that pets are not, in fact being eaten, and another thing to say that anyone who disagrees is trying to murder people. Dissent, even vigorous dissent, is a great tradition of the United States. Censorship is not.
For the next 7 weeks of this campaign, I will vigorously defend your right to speak your mind. I believe you have every right to criticize me and Donald J. Trump, even if you say terrible or untrue things about us. But when I ask you to "tone down the rhetoric" it's not about being nice--our citizens have every right to be mean, even if I don't like it--or empty platitudes.
Instead, I'm asking all of us to reject censorship. Reject the idea that you can control what other people think and say. Embrace persuasion of your fellow citizens over silencing them--either through the powers of Big Tech or through moral blackmail.
I think this will make our public debate much better. But there's something else. Reject censorship and you reject political violence. Embrace censorship, and you will inevitably embrace violence on its behalf.
The reason is simple. The logic of censorship leads directly to one place, for there is only one way to permanently silence a human being: put a bullet in his brain.
BASH: You just said that you're creating a story.
VANCE: We ought to be talking about public policy. [09:15:05]
BASH: Sir, you just said that you're creating the story.
VANCE: What's that, Dana?
BASH: You just said that this is a story that you created...
VANCE: Yes.
BASH: So, the eating dogs and cats thing is not accurate.
VANCE: We are creating -- we are -- Dana, it comes from firsthand accounts from my constituents.
I say that we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it. I didn't create 20,000 illegal migrants coming into Springfield, thanks to Kamala Harris' policies. Her policies did that, but yes, we created the actual focus that allowed the American media to talk about this story and the suffering caused by Kamala Harris' policies.
As my colleague Teri Cristopher chronicled, Kamala Harris has repeatedly used that phrase to describe the former president, presenting him as a dictator-in-waiting ready to end the republic. According to the Trump campaign, that kind of rhetoric has consequences, and they sought to prove that on Monday by dropping a laundry list of statements made by Democrat politicians and media figures.
When you continually tell people that one man is not just bad for the country, but that he's akin to Adolf Hitler and will put "LGBTQ" people in prisons, that is an invitation for the less mentally stable among us to act. Think about it. If Trump really is the second coming of one of the most murderous figures in world history, then why wouldn't someone try to eliminate him before the election? //
Democrats are so convinced they are righteous among the few, though, that they will say anything at this point. Does that mean that every person quoted above was explicitly calling for Trump to be assassinated? No, but it does mean that they are purposely feeding into something very dangerous. This is the second, not the first attempt on Trump's life. If ignorance was an excuse prior, it's not anymore. //
Liberty Belle
8 hours ago
When you see it compiled together like that, it's even more appalling. And apparently, yesterday, Elon Musk pointed out that no one is taking a shot at Biden or Harris. Which is accurate. That simple factual statement led for calls for his deportment from the U.S., with the hashtag regarding it trending on X. It's maddening.