John Hinckley Jr., who shot and killed former President Ronald Reagan in a failed assassination attempt, responded to calls to assassinate President-elect Donald Trump, saying he is “a man of peace right now.”
“I am now a man of peace!” Hinckley wrote. post “Please stop making negative comments!”
Hinckley's post comes months after Trump survived two assassination attempts.
On July 13, 2024, at a Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the roof of a nearby building with direct view of Trump. President Trump was ultimately shot with a “bullet” passing through the top of his right ear.
A few months later, on September 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh was arrested hiding in the bushes near the Trump International Golf Course West Palm Beach, where Trump was playing golf, for the second time. survived an assassination attempt.
Routh was captured with an AK-style rifle with a scope, a backpack, and a Go-Pro camera.
Breitbart News' Nick Gilbertson previously reported that Hinckley is scheduled to be released from court supervision in June 2022. In 1981, Hinckley shot and killed President Ronald Reagan, former White House press secretary James Brady, as well as a police officer and a Secret Service agent.
Breitbart News' Bob Price previously reported that Mr. Hinckley opened fire just as President Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton “after giving a speech” and “heading to the presidential limousine.”
On March 30, 1981, President Reagan was leaving the Washington Hilton after speaking at the AFL-CIO conference. Just before they arrived in the presidential limousine, Hinckley shot the president in the chest. Press Secretary Brady was hit on the right side of the head. Two law enforcement officers were also struck by his bullets.
Both Officer Brady and Delahunty were permanently disabled as a result of their injuries. When Mr. Brady finally died in 2014, his death was ruled to be related to the shooting and classified as a homicide. Delahanty was forced to retire from the police department. He still lives in the Washington, DC area. The fourth Secret Service agent to actually take a bullet for the president, Agent McCarthy, was shot in the abdomen but made a full recovery from his wounds. He retired from the Secret Service in 1993.
Hinckley's trial ended with a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, and he was released from a psychiatric hospital in 2016.
In response to Hinckley's release from a psychiatric hospital, President Trump said, “He should never have been released.'' According to to hill.
