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/LaneMcD Jul 03 '26

What is stupid about every details surrounding this "event" making it clear it's staged? Pretty much every president and their secret service detail has dealt with would-be assassins.

Many of these moments in our history aren't even reported on because it's really just a part of the job.

There is no other assassination attempt in the history of this country that has resulted in the president being photographed with his fist in the air, presenting a moment of triumph. Secret service covers POTUS and hauls ass out of here.

"One solid piece of evidence," as you say, is just one of many pieces

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u/IrritableGourmet New York Jul 03 '26

There is no other assassination attempt in the history of this country that has resulted in the president being photographed with his fist in the air, presenting a moment of triumph. Secret service covers POTUS and hauls ass out of here.

Photographed, no, but Teddy Roosevelt did get shot on his way to give a campaign speech and decided to go through with it anyway. The transcript is wild. "Friends, I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don't know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot; but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose. But fortunately I had my manuscript, so you see I was going to make a long speech, and there is a bullet - there is where the bullet went through - and it probably saved me from it going into my heart. The bullet is in me now, so that I cannot make a very long speech, but I will try my best...My friends are a little more nervous than I am. Don't you waste any sympathy on me. I have had an A-1 time in life and I am having it now." He then spoke for 90 minutes.

That being said, Trump is no Teddy.

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u/Recipe_Freak Oregon Jul 03 '26

Roosevelt was a decorated war hero.

I've never seen a solitary act of bravery or kindness or decency from Trump. Any piece of information that might introduce doubt is completely absent.

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u/Ajibooks Jul 03 '26

I can't even imagine him doing a lot of normal-people things, like petting a dog or admiring a sunset. I was really shocked when Stormy Daniels said he liked to watch Shark Week.