Multiple confirmations that 2 people are dead, including the apparent shooter, after gunfire at #Trump #rally
#TrumpRally
3 sources:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/
The #TrumpRally incident is being investigated as an attempted assassination, w/ the #FBI, #SecretService, & #ATF all working on the case, acc/to 2 people.
#Trump
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/07/13/2024-election-campaign-updates-biden-trump-rally/
In a post on his social media platform Truth Social, Donald Trump said he was “shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear.”
#Trump #TrumpRally
Unsubstantiated claims about the #TrumpRally in Butler, PA, immediately flooded social media after #Trump was escorted off the stage.
Without proof, posts built on ideas circulated by Trump that the “deep state,” or a government cabal, blamed shadowy figures on the left targeted Trump to stop him from returning to office. The #disinformation surfaced on platforms favored by the #FarRight including Gab, Truth Social & Parler, as well as on X, Telegram, Facebook & Instagram.
Some said that a gunman w/ties to the so-called “deep state” had opened fire & shot #Trump. Without evidence, the posts also blamed govt agencies such as the FBI & the CDC.
Rep #MikeCollins, #Republican of #Georgia, quickly accused President #Biden of ordering an apparent shooting at the #TrumpRally, but provided no proof. “Joe Biden sent the orders,” he wrote on X.
The #HouseRepublicans judiciary committee is also spreading #disinformation #ConspiracyTheories accusing President Biden or targeting #Trump.
#Republicans are sick.
@Nonilex Makes one think that this really was an op. Biden pulling ads and the Fascist GOP are using it for propaganda and infowar
The Biden campaign is pulling ads because you don't keep campaigning when your opponent has fallen foul of political violence. At least, not if you're a decent person.
If this was Biden's doing, with the resources he has to call on, Trump would be dead. Quietly, at night, in his bed, from "natural causes."
@PeterLG @lawyersgunsnmoney @Nonilex If this were Biden's doing, it also would have been legal, per SCOTUS ruling in Trump's favor.
@PeterLG @lawyersgunsnmoney @Nonilex
And the supreme Court just made it so that it would be legal.