Moron, bully boy, defalcator, racist, narcissist… oh, and Former President, Donald Trump, has narrowly avoided assassination, it would appear.
Shortly after 6 pm, July 13th, during a rally of his deluded bovine supporters, near Butler, Pennsylvania, shots rang out. The former POTUS was seen grabbing his right ear. Secret service security guards immediately crowded him.
Security forces and onlookers quickly spotted the shooter, on a nearby industrial unit rooftop, who was swiftly dispatched.
One bystander was killed instantly (a shot to the head), two others are seriously injured. This is by the shooter, by the way. All adult males, according to the news sources I’ve been reading. No names have yet been released.
The would-be assassin has been named, as 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks:
If I’m totally honest with myself, I have to admit I wouldn’t have been too upset to hear Trump had been killed. I’m sure that many people have died as a result of his immoral ways of doing business and politics.
I also think he’s a certifiable lunatic, and a threat to peace in both US and internationally. That said, I’d rather politics was carried out in a civilised manner. And assassination is not civilised.
And worse still, this might well further polarise and destabilise America’s already febrile politics. Trump should be in jail. If he were to become a martyr to the loony American right, things might just get even worse.
Some time later, checking back in on the news, I learn that the man killed by the shooter is Corey Comperatore.
