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Old 07-14-2024, 06:44 AM
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Old 07-14-2024, 07:14 AM
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Trump Indicted
Trump Indicted For Inciting Assassination Attempt



U.S. -- Former President has been indicted by a federal judge in Pennsylvania for inciting an assassination attempt that nearly killed him.

"Trump is clearly at fault for someone attempting to murder him with a rifle," said Judge Paul Stephenson. "He brought this on himself, and we will ensure justice is done."

According to sources, the motion to indict Trump was filed roughly thirty seconds after the failed assassination attempt. "It was obvious by that point that Trump had caused a man to fire several bullets at him," said District Attorney Jan Marsh. "If Trump were not literally Hitler, no one would have tried to kill him in the first place. It's time we in the legal system go after Hitler and not the people trying to murder Hitler."

At publishing time, Trump had been indicted again for Secret Service shooting the would-be assassin.
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Biden's Popularity Skyrockets After He Announces Trump Is His VP

U.S. -- In a much-needed surge in popularity after disastrous debate performances and gaffe-filled public appearances, Presiden Joe Biden's popularity skyrocketed overnight after he announced Donald Trump as his vice presidential running mate.

The announcement came during a highly anticipated press conference, with Biden making the shocking declaration that Trump had replaced Kamala Harris as Vice President. Pollsters revealed the announcement of Trump as VP did wonders for Biden's dwindling approval rating.

"He's never seen numbers like this," said political analyst James Broyles. "Even at his highest points, he's struggled to gain traction with a broad base of voters. Naming Trump as his VP last night totally changed that. His popularity among nearly every voting block is through the roof. This might turn the tide in the election."

https://babylonbee.com/news/bidens-p...rump-is-his-vp
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Old 07-14-2024, 10:52 AM
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Originally Posted by chiefmg
I've read where at least one person there saw the shooter ahead of time and tried alerting law enforcement, with no response. If true, WTH?

I doubt the truth about this will ever surface, especially if there was complicity within the administration at some level.

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Crazy, if true.
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
C'mon, man. You cannot possibly believe that those are actually true screenshots.

There's so much good material out there, you don't need to fall for that kind of cheap-**** mockup.
Didn't age well...
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Originally Posted by cordycord
Didn't age well...
You got me on that one.

I understand the desire of editors / producers to try to avoid rushing to the headline and getting it wrong, but those seemed too outlandish to be real. I was wrong.


The next few months are going to be wild. That's literally the only thing I am confident it right now.



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Compare and contrast. Is it any wonder that legacy media is dying?
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Best graphic I've seen so far.
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Anyone see that the alleged shooter was in a BlackRock video just a year or two ago? Let the conspiracy theories begin!
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Wow....the Crooks dude seems a little unstable...
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Originally Posted by Joe Perez
I understand the desire of editors / producers to try to avoid rushing to the headline and getting it wrong, but those seemed too outlandish to be real. I was wrong.
Joe, are you sure you were wrong? It's been more than 24 hours and despite seeing them referenced multiple times, I'm still having doubts those headlines were real. It seems impossible... the news outlets would have to assume no one would follow up. Anyone actually following this story would certainly come back for more, and even diehard Trump haters would be critical of the obvious bias. My brain is not able to process this as propaganda the elite believed the average citizen would accept.

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Originally Posted by poormxdad
Joe, are you sure you were wrong? It's been more than 24 hours and despite seeing them referenced multiple times, I'm still having doubts those headlines were real. It seems impossible... the news outlets would have to assume no one would follow up. Anyone actually following this story would certainly come back for more, and even diehard Trump haters would be critical of the obvious bias. My brain is not able to process this as propaganda the elite believed the average citizen would accept.


They're real. The 2 takeaways should be:

1) If this was Twitter 1.0, ALL of this information would be banned, along with the people who posted it.

2) There's certainly wrong information on X. It get's fact-checked in real time, removed, added to. It's citizen journalism, rather than the force-fed lies we get now.
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https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...g/74397918007/




The FBI will take over...

--the guys who said the Steve Scalise shooter was "suicide by cop"
--the guys who created 15 illegal FISA warrant requests to spy on Trump
--the guys who won't confirm how many undercover agents were inside the Capitol on J6 (Ray Epps, anyone?)
--the guys who signed a letter saying that Hunter Biden's laptop was Russian disinformation
--the guys who sat on the same laptop for FOUR YEARS
--and so on, and so on....

I'm feeling like they'll get to the bottom of this one...
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Originally Posted by cordycord

Wow....the Crooks dude seems a little unstable...
That's not him. Don't believe everything on the interweb
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Well deserved.
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