The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him.

  • melsaskca@lemmy.ca
    4·
    8 hours ago

    Now that trump has started a war there is no other distraction he can use to avoid pedophilia charges other than nuclear. That old quote by Burke about evil gaining a foothold if good people do nothing seems to be true. But this was one good person acting alone. Maybe there are more?

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    107·
    21 hours ago

    Martin is the second person to attempt to enter Mar-a-Lago with the intent to kill the president, and the third in general. In 2024, Ryan Routh attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the Florida estate. He was recently sentenced to life in prison. And of course, Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill Trump in Pennsylvania in 2024. All three were white men.

    I don’t know how many more trump supporters trying to kill trump it will take for people to realize he’s actually losing support…

    But at least they’re not attacking innocent people.

    • IronBird@lemmy.world
      101·
      19 hours ago

      and this is just the dumb/emotionally unregulated, acting on pure impulse as their programming breaks.

      i have a feeling there are a lot more calculated killers out there waiting to see how the midterms turn out. will a wave of progressives get enough control to hold people accountable or just “business as usual”

  • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
    53·
    21 hours ago

    The 21-year-old man… was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files…

    They left out “really bad planner” from the list.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    101·
    20 hours ago

    Going off:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7f0896b7-0026-4651-8aef-d3a02f569927.png

    And Trump’s still got almost three-quarters of his second term to go.

    GNU R source

    assassination-attempts.csv:

    Number,Name,Assassination Attempts
7,Andrew Jackson,1
16,Abraham Lincoln,5
20,James A. Garfield,1
25,William McKinley,1
26,Theodore Roosevelt,1
27,William Howard Taft,2
31,Herbert Hoover,1
32,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1
33,Harry S. Truman,2
35,John F. Kennedy,2
37,Richard Nixon,2
38,Gerald Ford,3
40,Ronald Reagan,1
41,George H. W. Bush,1
42,Bill Clinton,5
43,George W. Bush,2
44,Barack Obama,13
45,Donald Trump,16
46,Joe Biden,2

    assassination-attempts.r:

    if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
  pacman::p_load(
              ggdark,
              ggplot2
          )

  df <- read.csv("assassination-attempts.csv")

  ggplot() +
      aes(x=Number, y=df$Assassination.Attempts) +
      dark_theme_light() +
      geom_col(data=df) +
      geom_text(aes(x=df$Number,label=df$Name,angle=90,y=.1,hjust=0)) +
      labs(x="Presidential Number", y="Number of Assassination Attempts")

  ggsave("assassination-attempts.png",
         plot=last_plot(),
         width=16,
         height=9,
         type="cairo-png",
         dpi="retina")
    • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world
      5·
      18 hours ago

      Seems they’re including some elder people on that list for merely making facebook threats? I mean sure investigate these by all means, but I wouldn’t consider it a…credible assassination attempt.