'Trump rushed from White House correspondents' dinner after suspected gunshots heard'

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

Surely he's not pulling this trick again?

You've not been round the internet much then. There are UK forums that make this thread look as shocking as a WI knitting circle.

They never tell the full story. Like she went there on a B2 visa (very telling) and she tried to take a rental car across the Canadian border (which means she lied to the rental agency, because otherwise she’d have had the right paperwork). Canadian border agents rightly copped on what she was planning to do, which was turn around and go back to the US.

Oh and she overstayed a prior visa. Do you ever tire of these stories? So gullible

Ok read the news after the incident and see if this really was a self inflicted or staged attempt. As mad and awful Trump may be. There are some people who seem as mad in the stuff they come up with. May be they are bots as someone said.

That is quite the leap

You can celebrate the death of the Iranian leader and condemn Trump's war

Should we assume that you agree with Trump threatening genocide?

@RingoJuice
Why aren’t you in living in USA now? You voted for Trump to make American great again and he has. So why not go back?

What do you mean we pretend to not know what an English person is?
Who is an English person according to you?

There are many more stories like that.

Do you ever tire of defending Trump? So gullible

Just posted a thread about this, I find it weird that JD Vance was rescued before Trump. Glad I am not the only one who thinks these are suspect.

So if you believe that this is legit (and that the secret service presumably didn’t do their jobs - seems unlikely) do you believe he was shot at the other times?

Each time he has had more to gain and it helped him sew up the election.

In other words, do you think the elite trained operatives in the secret service screwed up three times?

Because (fortunately) Obama didn’t get shot during his presidency and I’m sure a lot of Trump supporting good ol’ boys would have done it, given the opportunity.

Its just odd that this happened when he has so much to gain as a result of it

Exactly, how can this happen when the secret service aren’t some keystone cops. Trump had so much to gain by this

What does the person who will go to jail for a long time get out of it? and the other one shot dead.

As ive said before if there was any truth that Crook was a lefty trump would never have shut up about it.

I havent celebrated anything, a/ he is still alive, b/ he wasnt actually shot at c/ the general consensus is that its all bunkum

You support a regime that throws everyone out based on the colour of their skin, or their accent, irregardless of their status, all of which has been well documented. You even seem quite proud of it. 🤮Even to the point of supporting the murder of Pretti and Good, who were exercising their right to freedom of speech and protest despite your constitution.

As already stated you will inevitably have an accent be it in England China or the Middle East which qualifies for ICE detention at the very least by the government you support. After all you dont even have to have broken the law to be arrested by ICE.

You did actually say we should not be focusing on the Potus and stick with having an opinion on the UK .

I dont wish death on him, I fervently hope he ends up in jail but the sycophants and invertebrates in the usa are ignoring the constitution and the law. However having a laugh at his expense is what is keeping most of us sane. As for the very opportune shootings..well until proven otherwise I will continue to enjoy the wicked dry humour that the brits and the Irish are famous for, at trumps expense. If you have such a visceral aversion and reaction to hate speech it appears incongruous with your support for the man whose whole life is about hate speech, laughing at others misfortune, wallowing in it and instigating it.

I didnt say you couldn't have an opinion about the UK, merely pointing out your hypocrisy in telling this primarily UK site to stick to UK politics, and although you married a brit but didnt live here you were perfectly entitled to lecture us on our politics while living out of the UK as an immigrant elsewhere. I think in the USA that wouldnt really go down too well somehow...you know...if the shoe were on the other foot.

@Tinytimmy123 brilliant post! 💪

Because America isnt in any way made up almost entirely of ...immigrants.

Unless you are a true native American that the immigrants are still trying to steal land from.

Trumps, grandfather ..German ....left germany to skip the draft funnily enough and his mother was Scots. Then trump himself so bathed in fervent pride and patriotism for America skipped the draft because ifbhis bone spurs. Daddy paid for it. Funny that.

So would you have killed Hitler?

I think trying to frame it as 'murdering people they don't agree with' is a bit disingenuous. Obviously the demographics positioned at either of the sharp ends of the political spectrum are always going to contain a dangerous minority, and obviously the incidents you cite are as problematic as some of the things the far right have perpetuated. In a lot of ways both of the extremes are as bad as each other.

However, pp had claimed that the far left were much more dangerous than the far right. I remain unconvinced that they can substantiate that claim.

Why is that relevant? The point of this is the huge advantage Trump gets from it.

Whether the shooters were legit or not, they get the same result. Prison or shot

Married to immigrants, twice

I am beginning to consider if this is an inside job by republicans , who realise Trump at the moment is proving to be somewhat of a liability electorally but don’t want to be painted as the bad guys who ‘got rid of him’ - although if so they are lousy at it and not sure how they can persuade someone to do the job - the lack of screening though and the keenness on pulling Vance out first looks suspect

Because they need to have a reason for your take to make sense.

If you look at the profile of the current person why would they agree to stage it? A teacher / anti Trump etc going to prison for a long time.

And the other one to die for it. Your version is that it’s staged and you accept a teacher is happy to take the hit or in the other case, be shot.

Well you could try countering with a list of recent prominent assassinations, fire bombings and physical attacks by far right activists.

Historically though the far left are responsible for significantly more deaths than the far right and the far left can accurately be described as more dangerous than the far right.

Deaths by
Hitler- 11 to 12 million
Stalin - 9 to 20 million
Mao - 40 to 70 million

No one bothered protecting Melanie, it was as fake as my Christmas nails. IMO.
The man who cried wolf.

It's funny how they keep missing. 🤔

I have this feeling as well. It all seems very strange. Despite his pompous statements Trump is nowhere near winning the war with Iran, in fact he is stuck in the corner and doesn’t have any exit strategy. Based on his previous actions it is likely he will now try to distract people’s attention.
Then all of sudden this happens at the event he had previously boycotted. The shooting itself was bizarre. If the attacker really wanted to get Trump, why did he start shooting when he was nowhere near Trump?
If you look at other famous assassinations/ assassination attempts, such as JFK, RFK, Reagan, John Paul II, they all had plans/ strategies to get close to harming the victims. This was totally random. Unless the shooter wanted to get anyone from the administration.
Then the fact that he was not shot dead but arrested is also unusual.

I don’t think the Mumsnetters are the only ones doubting this is genuine. Trump’s story is a centre piece on BBC but I looked at other European news websites such as France 24, Corriere della Sera and some other ones and this story is there somewhere but doesn’t take the centre of attention. Surely genuine assassination attempt on American President would get more attention.

Is that your list of Lefties”?😂

I wonder if all the attemps were staged by the republicans, first 2 for sympathy vote, this one as he losing support because of the war, prices are rising, EF, now the depiction of him as Jesus will have put off lots of MAGAs.