While that was taking place in Butler, Pennsylvania, I was part of a group of volunteers at an event in Murphys, California. I heard about it secondhand from someone who heard about it on the radio. My response was, "Is President Trump okay? Please tell me he wasn't killed."
I was told that he was wounded and rushed away. I then got a call from my wife telling me what happened and how the assassin's bullet came so close to hitting him in the head that the bullet ripped through his ear just as he turned his head. Turning his head to look to his right at that moment actually saved his life.
It's interesting what we think about after something like that takes place. As for me, in another year or so, I will turn 70 years old, and after hearing about the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump, I started thinking about how I was in the Second Grade and just a kid growing up in Hawaii in 1963 when we all heard about President John F. Kennedy being assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
I remember how the teachers told us that our parents would be there soon to take us out of school that day. I remember my grandfather picking me up from school. I remember thinking how strange that was since my brother and I always walked to school. I remember getting home and seeing my Mom and Grandmother in tears. I remember how a lot of people cried that day. It seemed like the entire nation cried that day. And no, I don't remember if anyone was a Democrat or a Republican that day. I really believe we were all Americans at the time.
It wasn't that many years later in 1968 when his brother Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated. He was shot and killed in a hotel in Los Angeles. Believe it or not, he was shot dead because he supported Israel. Even back then Israel had to fight to survive. And if you've come to the same conclusion as I have about Israel, you know as well as I do that they are surrounded by enemies.
Years later, in 1975, I was in the Marine Corps and overseas when I heard about some crazy woman, a follower of Charles Manson, who tried to shoot President Gerald Ford in Sacramento, California. It seemed like it was only a couple of weeks later when I heard that another maniac, also a woman, tried to shoot President Ford again. The second time was in San Fransisco.
In that second attempt on his life, President Ford was just leaving the St. Francis Hotel in downtown San Francisco, when that crazy woman standing across the street fired a shot at him. The shot just missed President Ford. And no, I don't remember anyone saying things like "Too bad they missed" like I did when, in 1981, President Ronald Reagan was shot outside the Washington Hilton by a nutcase who was supposedly in love with some actress.
When that insane young man opened fire on President Reagan, he also shot James Brady, Thomas Delahanty, and Tim McCarthy. In that assassination attempt, it was said at the time that President Reagan was "right on the margin of death" when he arrived at George Washington University Hospital. Fortunately for America, President Reagan underwent surgery and recovered from a broken rib, a punctured lung, and internal bleeding.
I was working full-time as a security supervisor and consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area in the early 1980s. Because I was holding down a full course load at a local junior college during the day, I worked the swing shift and graves at night. I actually enjoyed working in private security because it was always different and my job of checking on security guards took me all over the East Bay from the worse parts of Richmond and Oakland and Berkeley all the way over to the Livermore Valley and down to San Jose. It was a big district.
I remember how I met a lot of people who hated President Reagan. Many said things like how it was "a shame he lived" and "maybe they'll get him next time."
Of course, like I said, I was also attending a local junior college at the time. Yes, I was trying to learn all of the things that I should have learned in High School but didn't. The week after President Reagan was shot, it seemed like most of the students and almost all of the teachers that I came in contact with were talking about it. I remember there being a lot of jokes going around campus. All were empty of any sort of empathy, humanity, or basic kindness.
While I thought there should have been some sort of discussion about how the hate for President Reagan may have attributed to the would-be assassin's decision to try to kill the president, no one was talking about that. I was very surprised that many of the people on campus, students and teachers alike, those who were supposed "very educated and intelligent" were in fact as callous as could be. I remember thinking how most there, especially the teachers, had zero compassion and were loaded with hate for anyone who was a Republican, Christian, Catholic, or Conservative.
I thought there should have been some sort of sentiment of sadness over President Reagan and the three others being shot. But there wasn't. And frankly, it was then that I started to take note of the students and faculty who were making jokes about how sad it was that the assassin didn't kill President Reagan.
And yes, I knew a student at the time who was still wearing a black armband because he was in mourning and was so deeply upset about Beatle John Lennon being killed in New York in December of 1980. But, just a few months later in March of 1981, while still wearing his black armband, he acted as though he was filled with joy when hearing that someone tried to kill President Reagan. It was back then that I started to really understand how the Left hates anyone not like them.
As for their hate and demonizing President Donald Trump?
Let's make something clear. It's one thing to disagree with a President's policies and it's another to hate a President just because your political party tells you to. The Left, the Democrat Party, hasn't cared about focusing on the issues or policies. All they have cared about is comparing him to Adolf Hitler and creating hatred for him. Projecting their own greed and authoritarian desires, the Left has painted Donald Trump as a "Dictator," a man only interested in power, a man wanting to destroy America. Too bad for them that Americans are not as blind to the truth as they wish we were.
And really, think about it, how does their portrayal of Donald Trump as some sort of diabolically evil jibe with the reality of what Donald Trump did when in office? How can the Left legitimize their hate when Donald Trump puts American interests ahead of others? How can they if they look at what he did while in office? Not what the Democrat propagandists say he did, but all the good that he did for Americans.
As sad as it is, the Left depends on the help of the uneducated, the ignorant, the haters, and the uninformed to get their vile messages to take root. It's been proven time and time again that most Democrats merely parrot the Democrat Party's hateful propaganda.
Most Democrats are completely oblivious of what Trump's policies are. The reason is that they listen to anti-Trump sources who want to distort how Donald Trump wants to put the interest of Americans ahead of the interest of the rest of the world -- something which we should all be for.
The same ruthless lack of humanity that came from the Democrats when President Reagan was shot is the same sort of vile hatred coming from the Left since President Trump was shot. The hate coming from the Left is horrible, just horrible, and what's worse is the hatefulness from the Left has Democrats now applauding those who attempt to assassinate a Republican President. Check out the following examples of hate speech taken from social media Facebook:
Dem staffer axed after saying Trump gunman should have taken ‘shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time’
Story by Olivia Land
A staffer for a Democratic congressman from Mississippi was fired for her inflammatory comments that she hoped the shooter who targeted Donald Trump “wouldn’t miss next time.”
“I don’t condone violence but please get you some shooting lessons so you don’t miss next time ooops that wasn’t me talking,” Jacqueline Marsaw wrote on Facebook Saturday evening, shortly after Trump narrowly avoided being shot in the head during a rally in Pennsylvania.
Marsaw, of Natchez, worked as a field director for Rep. Bennie Thompson, the Natchez Democrat reported.
Marsaw was fired shortly after publishing the post.
Marsaw also wrote that the shooting — which killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others — “couldn’t [have] happened to a nicer fellow,” though she insisted that it was a “staged” incident.
“That’s what your hate speech got you!” she added in a third post, seemingly referring to Trump’s often-controversial takes on social and political issues.
As of Sunday morning, all the posts had been deleted.
“I got overwhelmed in the moment,” Marsaw told the Natchez Democrat.
“I am a diehard Democrat,” she added.
She deleted her posts after she was instructed to do so by a manager on Thompson’s team, Marsaw explained. (-- end of New York Post news story)
To his credit, after Congressman Thompson became aware of the social media post above, he promptly fired her.
Then there's this news story from Shore News Network on July 17, 2024;
Marsaw also wrote that the shooting — which killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others — “couldn’t [have] happened to a nicer fellow,” though she insisted that it was a “staged” incident.
“That’s what your hate speech got you!” she added in a third post, seemingly referring to Trump’s often-controversial takes on social and political issues.
As of Sunday morning, all the posts had been deleted.
“I got overwhelmed in the moment,” Marsaw told the Natchez Democrat.
“I am a diehard Democrat,” she added.
She deleted her posts after she was instructed to do so by a manager on Thompson’s team, Marsaw explained. (-- end of New York Post news story)
To his credit, after Congressman Thompson became aware of the social media post above, he promptly fired her.
Elementary School Teacher Wanted to See Trump Dead in Failed Assassination Attempt
DENVER, CO — The Jefferson County School District has issued a statement affirming that it does not “endorse violence” after one of its teachers made controversial remarks about an assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump. Jennifer Ripper, a teacher at Semper Elementary School, faced backlash following her comments on social media expressing disappointment that the assassination attempt was unsuccessful.
Ripper wrote “Looks like he ALMOST got taken out” on Facebook, which quickly went viral after being shared by popular social media accounts, including Libs of TikTok. The post included a response from Ripper to another user who expressed remorse that the shooter “missed,” to which Ripper replied, “my thoughts exactly”.
Libs of TikTokShe then defended herself saying, “Yes, I’m a teacher. I think for myself and want others to do the same. No matter, now he’s a martyr.” (-- end of the Shore News Network news story.)
So, do you think it's ended here? It hasn't.
Democrats have used the Department of Justice to go after Donald Trump instead of going after the people behind the Russian collusion conspiracy. Biden's DOJ has searched his home, arrested him, and orchestrated his convictions on misdemeanors that ran their statute of limitations. Democrats have charged him with things that other presidents are forgiven for. And yes, they have succeeded in getting one of their followers to attempt to assassinate him.
Are there more? Are there other followers of the Democrat Party who will now step forward to try to kill former President Donald Trump on behalf of the Democrat Party? What do you think?
Fox News reported today, July 20th, 2024:
The Florida man made multiple threats, including bodily harm, against Trump and Vance's families
"A Florida man was accused of making 'written threats to kill' former President Trump and Sen. JD Vance and their families just days after a Pennsylvania man attempted to assassinate the 45th. President. The Jupiter Police Department announced that 68-year-old Michael M. Wiseman was arrested on Friday for charges of written threats to kill. Authorities alleged that Wiseman wrote threats against the Republican presidential nominee and vice presidential nominee on his Facebook account and also made to members of the Trump and Vance families."
And by the way, this latest wannabe assassin is reported to live only 20 miles or so from President Trump's home Mar-a-Lago. Yes, Jupiter, Florida is about 20 miles, or an approximately 30-minute drive, north of President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach.
This leads me to ask how many other followers of the Democrat Party's hateful propaganda are out there, wanting to kill President Trump? How many others have the Democrats incited to assassinate former President Donald Trump? And really, how many other Democrats will celebrate every time there's an attempt on his life?
Tom Correa
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