Shortly after shots rang out in Butler, Pennsylvania, my coworker and best friend texted me with one simple thing: “I can’t believe it.” He was wrong. What the world witnessed on Saturday was, in fact, inevitable. Here’s how it happened.
What do we know so far?
A 20-year-old man tried to assassinate President Trump but failed.
WATCH — Lindsey Graham: Trump’s reaction after the shooting ‘will go down as an iconic moment in American history’
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While the assassin failed to kill President Trump, he narrowly missed the mark.
Instead, he killed an innocent bystander and seriously injured two supporters of the former president.
How did this happen, who is to blame, and what will happen next?
On an operational level, the Secret Service appears to have failed in every concrete way, most egregiously in failing to secure the building used by the would-be assassin, located within 200 yards of where the president stood.
Additionally, if we believe the testimony of witnesses already caught on camera, several attendees at President Trump’s rally saw a gunman scaling the building and contacted the authorities, but no decisive action was taken.
WATCH — DEFANTIC: A bloodied Trump pumps his fist into the crowd after assassination attempt at rally:
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Finally, unlike previous cases, particularly when Ronald Reagan was shot, investigators responsible for protecting the President’s life did not immediately remove the suspect from the “kill box” and rush him to the hospital, even though they did not know the extent of President Trump’s injuries or whether the initial assailant had accomplices in the crowd ready to fire another shot or detonate explosives while he remained there.
But what about issues beyond tactics and operations? Who is responsible at the national and strategic levels?
It is indeed remarkable that even some prominent conservatives have joined the “let’s unite” cliche, calling for unity and urging their MAGA brethren to avoid “divisive rhetoric.”
President Trump got shot yesterday, and apparently it’s conservatives who have to “behave.”
WATCH — Axelrod: Trump will be hailed as a ‘martyr’ at the Republican National Convention:
Well, I wholeheartedly reject that, because it is only one political party in America that normalizes political violence, not the Republican Party.
No matter how hard they try, no conservative politician, let alone President Trump, has done any of the following:
- They threatened Supreme Court justices because they held different views from the party on the issue of abortion. Senator Chuck Schumer did.
- He publicly called on his followers to surround and harass members of Trump’s cabinet, like members of Congress, if they were seen in public. Maxine Waters did.
- Former Democratic Party Chairman Trump Again Calls for Physical Violence Nancy Pelosi Hooray.
- Raised money to pay bail for BLM rioters arrested for arson and vandalism. Kamala HarrisThe Vice President,
- Or, as President Joe Biden did just five days ago, telling his political supporters that they must put a “target” on President Trump.
No, if there is any political party in America that has played up emotions and dehumanized those with whom we disagree politically, especially President Donald Trump, it is the Democratic Party.
