Volume 6, Issue No. 2
OPINION/COMMENTARY
/ News That Fears None, Views That Favor Nobody /
Our latest as of Sunday, July 14, 2024
~ Donald J. Trump, the convicted felon and presumptive Republican Party nominee, has survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday, July 13. Authorities said the alleged gunman, a 20-year-old white male, was killed by Secret Service agents. Trump's incendiary rhetoric has found its victim - Trump himself.
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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT IN PENNSYLVANIA
Donald Trump Reaps What He Sows
Secret Service Agents Killed the Alleged Gunman
By ROMEO P. MARQUEZ
Editor, The Filipino Web Channel
"If your actions were to boomerang back on you instantly, would you still act the same?" - Alexandra Katehakis
TORONTO - Donald Trump's endless use of incendiary rhetoric has found its latest victim - him.
It's unfortunate and ironical that the gunman, according to multiple news reports quoting law enforcement authorities, was a 20-year-old Republican from the same Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.
Trump was six minutes into his campaign speech in Butler, Pennsylvania when the first shots rang out. Pop, pop, pop, pop. The presumptive Republican nominee felt his right ear, ducked while Secret Service agents leapt to shield him from further harm.
More shots were heard. Pop, pop, pop, pop.
Authorities said agents were returning fire once the shooter was located on the rooftop of a building about 140 yards (128 meters) from where Trump stood. "Clear," somebody yelled. The assassin was dead, his head gushing blood.
The 78-year-old Trump, a convicted felon, said in a post on his Truth Social account that he "felt the bullet ripping through (his) skin," adding "it pierced the upper part of my right ear."
"I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin," he said. "Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening," he explained.
In most of his engagements, Trump laces his speech with attacks on President Biden and the Democrats, on black and brown people, on innocent immigrants whom he characterized as rapists, terrorists, crazies from mental asylum, etc.
It didn't matter that they were all lies, and that he had no proof of his accusations. They are his usual punching bags - that's all that mattered to him. Unsurprisingly, his acolytes in the Republican Party, especially those in the halls of Congress, echo the same lies.
I don't feel much sympathy for Trump.
However, I'm grateful he survived the assassination attempt, but only to the extent that it would hopefully be a lesson . . . for him to stop lying, for him to man up for his many transgressions, for him to stop blaming others for his failures, for him to end preaching the politics of hate. (Copyright 2024. All Rights Reserved).
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