The most recent “assassination attempt” was just drummed up by the media. I haven’t seen any evidence it was anything other than a man with some guns in his car who happened to be near the rally.
I was sitting there reading the articles thinking, “if a loaded weapon amongst Trump supporters is an assassination attempt we’re going to need a spreadsheet here …”
A couple of media places did release a very short blurb in small print that the “suspect” had no plans to assassinate anyone according to law enforcement after a short investigation.
Only one was prevented. The 3rd one, the person had no plans or interest in an assassination attempt. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Edited for missing critical word. Thanks to Warl0k3@lemmy for the proof read!
3 assassination attempts. In what 3 months? And they’re all from Republicans.
It’s a culture of violence
The most recent “assassination attempt” was just drummed up by the media. I haven’t seen any evidence it was anything other than a man with some guns in his car who happened to be near the rally.
Honestly, I’d be surprised if the venn diagram of “people who would keep guns in their car” and “trump’s base” wasn’t a circle.
There’s going to be a lot of false positives in an environment like that
I was sitting there reading the articles thinking, “if a loaded weapon amongst Trump supporters is an assassination attempt we’re going to need a spreadsheet here …”
The Riverside county sheriff is the one who first used the term assassination attempt. Media uncritically repeated what the sheriff said.
That’s their job. You might think their job is to investigate, but that is not what they’re paid to do.
A couple of media places did release a very short blurb in small print that the “suspect” had no plans to assassinate anyone according to law enforcement after a short investigation.
3? What others than the one in Butler?
The other 2 were prevented
Only one was prevented. The 3rd one, the person had no plans or interest in an assassination attempt. He was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Edited for missing critical word. Thanks to Warl0k3@lemmy for the proof read!
(I think you dropped a critical word there)
Thank you! Not enough tea yet I guess.
Didn’t know that, thanks for the info. I suppose not all news makes it across the pond
It was only reported as an after thought here too.