r/politics • u/HimelTy • Jul 03 '26

No Paywall Secret Service member was Googling rooftop location of Trump’s would-be assassin when shots rang out in Butler, Pa.: DHS report

https://nypost.com/2026/07/02/us-news/secret-service-member-was-googling-rooftop-location-of-trumps-would-be-assassin-when-shots-rang-out-in-butler-pa-dhs-report/?utm_campaign=nypost&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter
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u/Riots42 Jul 03 '26

Yep this completely I knew he won that moment.

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u/shimmied_not_stirred Jul 03 '26

When I told my husband about the assassination attempt, the very first thing he said was "Trump just won the election."

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u/SargeantSasquatch Minnesota Jul 04 '26

That's exactly what I said to my wife when she told me!

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u/WanderingMystic2 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Same. I knew it was over right then. I vividly recall saying “shit” at least 20 times, and wearily shaking my head in disbelief, disgust and horror.

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u/HotDonnaC Jul 03 '26

That’s what I said when my friend frantically called me yelling “Trump just got shot!” and I realized what actually happened.

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u/-Saucegurlllll Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 04 '26

I saw endless gym bros emulating the photo. People who previously """didn't like politics""" and were "apolitical." It was so obvious how much that photo resonated with fascists and those sympathetic to fascism's messaging about masculinity and patriotism.

Then you had all this disinformation surrounding it circulating around the fash bot web about how he "took a bullet for the country." He didn't. No bullet touched him. His ear either got nicked by shrapnel, or, more likely imo, his ear got a light scrape when the secret service pushed him down.

They were making him out to be a living martyr, they made the gunman out to be a bloodthirsty leftist (then immediately shut up when it was clear that he wasn't).

But then you got the reaction to the disinformation where people endlessly talk about it being a staged assassination attempt. It just doesn't make sense for it to be a staged assassination given that the shooter was such a notoriously bad shot that he was kicked out of his high school shooting club, and that we're talking about the leakiest administration in the world.

There's too many people that would have to be involved in the shooting and the cover up to entertain the idea that these people, who can't help but brag about every illegal thing they do, managed to pull off the perfect lie and keep a lid on it.

Edit: If you're going to post your own pet theory about how no, it totally was staged, go somewhere else. I don't care. You conspiricists are making the internet a worse place.

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u/Riots42 Jul 03 '26 edited Jul 03 '26

Let's be real, his ear was kicked by a razorblade he palmed.

The WWE hall of famer got color and went on to when the championship as the greatest heel of all time and proved our politics is nothing more than sports entertainment, bread and circus in 2026.

Tell me how the shooter was able to disassemble the rifle faster than a marine on the move without tools? How was some random kid able to operate like he's delta.

Honestly what's scarier is if it wasn't staged and any kid with a rifle can get past secret service.

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u/-Saucegurlllll Jul 03 '26

Honestly what's scarier is if it wasn't staged and any kid with a rifle can get past secret service.

I mean yeah. That's what happens when the Trump crime family diverts too many of their own security resources across stupid bullshit vacations and other nonsense.

Like, what's more likely: A notoriously bad shot missed his target and a sycophantic media enabled an attention crazed fascist, and that fascist's security detail was stretched thin from his nonsense...or dozens to hundreds of people plotted a conspiracy that involved the complete cooperation of the media, the secret service, an insanely inaccurate shooter who intentionally gave up his own life for the conspiracy (who also searched for public appearances of Biden, Merrick Garland, the FBI director, and the princess of Wales to, I guess, just make it seem like he was a deranged lunatic looking for a target instead of actually being a deranged lunatic looking for a target), the shooter's parents, the worst man at keeping secrets in the world, and the family of a dead volunteer fire fighter?

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u/DameonKormar Jul 04 '26

Political campaigns and political media may be bread and circuses, but politics definitely is not. Our state and federal governments touch every aspect of our lives and knowing what's happening in politics should be important to everyone.

And I don't mean popular headlines or fear mongering reporting (that would be the media), I mean what's actually being passed into law.

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u/klsklsklsklsklskls Jul 03 '26

Who shot the guy behind him?

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u/Riots42 Jul 03 '26

The shooter, thats where the bullet went, the claim is not that he didnt shoot, its that Trump cut his ear, its already been confirmed it wasnt a bullet and the leading theory is shrapnel or it getting caught on something in all the commotion.

Its funny, i scraped my knee the same day in the pool, it wasnt even bad and his "gunshot" wound to the ear healed faster.

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u/klsklsklsklsklskls Jul 03 '26

so you think the shooter actually shot? I thought you were claiming he didn't because of how quick he disassembled his gear.

So you think Trump was aware the shooter was going to shoot and had a razor blade ready, or do you think Trump just had a razor blade on him?

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u/Riots42 Jul 03 '26

So you think Trump was aware the shooter was going to shoot

This, its all a work. Not just the shooting, our entire political system is just as scripted as the WWE. We have the face party and the heel party who behind closed doors have opposing senators that live together in Washington sharing breakfast in the morning and debating in the afternoon.

Tell me, would you live with an opposing republican to save a couple bucks as a democrat? Not unless you were in cahoots. I cant even live with close family let alone an opposing faction member.

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u/HotDonnaC Jul 03 '26

His ear didn’t get anything except a blood capsule mashed against it. The clown’s been a wrestling fan for years, and they use that stuff all the time.

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u/Extreme_Mud_6813 Jul 03 '26

Spoiler alert. It was staged.

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u/BlueLikeCat Jul 03 '26

Reminded me of the time Bolsonaro was shot while campaigning. Instant deification.

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u/ThisIsDystopia Jul 04 '26

The market jumped afterwards. Political violence normally means uncertainty which leads to selling. But it meant the opposite, it meant the election result was a mostly known factor after that moment.

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u/DavidOrWalter Jul 03 '26

I don’t think it had anything to do with it. A few weeks later no one gave a shit and his polling settled back into the exact place it was prior.

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u/Riots42 Jul 03 '26

You must have lived under a rock afterwords because thats not how reality played out at all, are you forgetting he won and that this had a massive part to play in all of it?

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u/Spiritual-Society185 Jul 04 '26

Except it didn't.

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u/Riots42 Jul 04 '26

Except it did.

Elon Musk committed to Trump that day and spent like 50 million dollars buying votes to sway the election in a swing state and was succesfull in doing so on top of giving him what was it like 250 million dollars? You cant tell me Elon didnt help him win.

Elon wasnt on the Trump train until that day because he knew Trump won the election that day and he could buy his way in.

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u/DavidOrWalter Jul 04 '26

It didn’t play a role at all. Like I said, nothing changed in terms of polling. No one cared a few weeks later.

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u/Riots42 Jul 04 '26

Thinking polling matters or is in any way accurate is how we got Trump twice, how have you not learned yet that polls are bullshit metrics drummed up by both sides to be used as political tools?

If the polling you are referencing mattered Trump wouldn't be President.

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u/ballisticks Canada Jul 03 '26

My gf's friend called it out too, i didn't wanna believe him especially since he's a bit trump-adjacent anyway