Goodbye

Thanks for holding me accountable for being a good lemmy/fediverse netizen. 😊

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I saw that, thank you!! 😊

I would guess that it’s either right-wing trolls or foreign misinformation bots.

Let me search the web for you

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=police+officer+confronts+trump+shooter&t=ffip&ia=web

~~Non-Reddit linked sauce: https://apnews.com/live/election-biden-trump-campaign-updates-07-13-2024#00000190-b27e-dc4e-ab9d-ba7eb1060000~~

Edit: Jk it won’t work. Edit: here’s the text:

Local police officer encountered shooter before he fired towards Trump, AP sources say

BY COLLEEN LONG Share Not long before shots rang out, rally goers noticed a man climbing to the top of a roof of a nearby building and warned local law enforcement, according to two law enforcement officials.

One officer climbed to the roof and encountered Crooks, who pointed his rifle at the officer. The officer retreated down the ladder and Crooks quickly took a shot toward former President Donald Trump, and that’s when the U.S. Secret Service counter snipers shot him, said the officials who spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

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The best part is there was a police officer who climbed the roof and saw the shooter, who threatened him with the gun, so he turned around. Trump got shot because of scaredy-cop.

Edit: The cop possibly made him rush his shot and miss according to source (below). Thanks Blanketswithsmallpox. Apparently when I make a claim that is on a news site, I should put the link or get downvoted. 🤷

Emerson T. Brooking @etbrooking ~20 hours after a seismic event in American history (with a lot of very bad discourse), this is the first real attempt at AI disinformation that I’ve seen.

Wake-up call for anyone worried that it was deepfakes that were going to radically alter 2024.

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Mike Rothschild (no relation) @rothschildmd · 10h There’s a fake version of the Trump photo getting passed around by resistance accounts that claims to show Secret Service agents smiling as they grab Trump. The real photo clearly doesn’t show them smiling.

and posting a crass joke about Robert F. Kennedy Jr’s brain worm and the assassinations that have killed multiple members of his family.

I don’t know the joke, but I can imagine what it is….

That hit was so unprofessional, i.e. it missed, that I would sooner believe it was faked than official.

Unless when Biden called him later, instead of checking up on him, he said, “That one was a warning shot.”

For real, though, the fact that it was a 20 year old shooter says to me the kid had mental problems or got indoctrinated. You step into that operation assuming you will die, and what 20yo would do that for his government or money for his family?

Was it a camera phone video from the crowd? I saw where one guy said they tried to warn the SS because they saw the shooter.

Some people even liken him to Jesus.

It was some fast thinking and good political instinct (although bad survival instinct) to make a photo perfect pose while getting escorted out by secret service.

I’ve heard reporting say that he was informed that the shooter was already taken out by the time he fist-pumped.

Reports are coming in that he was a registered republican, but had donated to dems once in the past. He was only 20 so not a lot of political history to go on.

I think this poster is saying: “since you believe two wrongs don’t make a right, then when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, the correct thing to do in your view would to turn the other cheek.”

Thanks for the info!

Thank you for your help!