Unless you’ve been living in a cave for the last few weeks, then, you know that Donald Trump was shot a few weeks ago while on a campaign stop in Butler, Pennsylvania. I’d like to think that all decent people, regardless of their political preferences, would agree that attempts to kill political candidates are evil and wrong, but there are some twisted people in the world.
And speaking of twisted and messed up people and things, allegations around the Trump shooter are making that whole situation more and more bizarre. The BlazeTV Staff writes,
In yet another blow to the media narrative formed after the events of July 13, photo evidence reveals someone resembling the Trump shooter openly carrying a long gun at Trump’s Butler rally.
The photo was posted to X by Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.), who claims to have received the photo from someone in law enforcement.
“The question becomes ‘How in your face was this guy that he was able to just literally carry a rifle around the perimeter, get up on the roof?’” Sara Gonzales of “Sara Gonzales Unfiltered” asks.
“You saw him, you took pictures of him, he tried to go through the metal detectors, and he had a range finder and you guys were like, ‘He’s probably just trying to golf,’” she says. “‘It’s not technically a device that’s not allowed, so we won’t detain him, we’ll just let him go. In fact, we’ll just lose total sight of him.’”
“He’s just walking around with a rifle slung around his shoulder like, ‘Nothing to see here,’” she adds in disbelief.
And I share that disbelief. It’s insane to me that a presidential candidate for one of the two major political parties in the U.S., especially one that has a Secret Service protection detail, was allowed to go on stage after this guy was spotted with a gun near the grounds.
It just doesn’t make any sense.
And while I’d rather not go speculating that people in the U.S. government were actively working to get Trump killed, at the very least, this is the worst Secret Service protection that I’ve heard of in my lifetime.
And that’s just not acceptable.
Frankly, the more that we find out about this situation, the more that it explains why you and I need to be trained and carrying our firearm at all times: Because the best of the best in law enforcement can’t stop all attempts by people with evil intent.