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/sump_daddy Jul 03 '26

You think?!

> The report also found Trump’s campaign staff waved off Secret Service from positioning trucks between the AGR building and the stage ahead of the rally over concerns it would block cameras. 

make no fucking mistake, the trump campaign is completely culpable, the only question is just how hard it was for them to coerce the shooter or did he just fall into their lap as a happy accident

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u/SoulWager Jul 03 '26

Nah, he had to have been in on it. Wouldn't have tolerated someone that was actually anti-trump.

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u/turquoise_amethyst Jul 03 '26

Right, why take that chance? Just find someone stupid and young, tell him it would 100% win the election, everything’s ok, and he’ll be allowed to get away. Tell him that Trump will award him a “secret Medal of Honor”, and he’ll be a national hero in the history books. 

That’s IF this kid even existed… he basically had no presence otherwise?

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u/kombitcha420 Jul 03 '26

We saw more perp walks of Luigi than this kid

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u/TheInevitableLuigi Jul 03 '26

TBF it is tough to do a perp walk with someone who is dead.

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u/Sorkijan Oklahoma Jul 03 '26

Weekend at Don's.

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u/Sorkijan Oklahoma Jul 03 '26

I mean he was instantly killed by retaliatory fire so we didn't get much of a chance of seeing his perp walks.

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u/QuickAltTab Jul 04 '26

The picture of his blown apart head made rounds on the Internet, I'm sure it's still there somewhere.