• @BassTurd@lemmy.world
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    483 months ago

    It would be within his legal right to do so that is to SCOTUS. That said, if the POTUS wanted to whack a guy, they probably wouldn’t have gone with the 20 year old at a political rally.

    • @Guy_Fieris_Hair@lemmy.world
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      73 months ago

      Seriously, he could order the secret service agent driving him around or a number of other trained armed individuals close to him. Instead of making the orange piece of shit a martyr.

      • @jaybone@lemmy.world
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        43 months ago

        He’s still be a martyr though. Unless maybe you make him disappear without any trace. Then start rumors a la Hoffa or Elvis.

        Still I think some of his hand picked SS detail really support him and might not follow such an order.

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      23 months ago

      Normally it would provide +12 armor and increased agility bonuses.

      On a piece of shit Qanon pinheaded republiQan senator it’s just -40 intelligence and increased batshit modifiers.

  • Pennomi
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    123 months ago

    Sounds like a defamation lawsuit waiting to happen.

    • @Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
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      Except it seems that “political speech” has a blanket exception.

      That’s how some politicians can have careers spanning decades having said not one true word in public.

  • @detectivemittens@beehaw.org
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    For fuck’s sake. All these Republicans are just ignoring the fact that the shooter WAS A REGISTERED REPUBLICAN.

    We need this shouted from the rooftops and thrown into every headline. This should be the only response any time someone in the GOP in Congress says that the left has been calling for civil war.

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    This can always be made into an opportunity to improve faith in American politics. With a sly admission from Biden that much of his mumbling is due to restraint to a manner a civility that Magats can only aspire to a quarter of, Trump camp can make a humanistic shift in hopes of a genuine PR victory. This means bringing real issues to the table and speaking with a whole lot more common ground when publicly debating. I’m tired of what has only amounted to the same mudslinging of old.

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    13 months ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    This quote does not substantiate Collins’ claim, but instead reflects Biden’s desire to shift the national conversation away from his declining health and onto Trump’s right-wing plans if he wins.

    Despite the lack of information, Collins — who’s office did not respond to a request for comment from Rolling Stone — and other Republican figures have seized on the portion of Biden’s statement referencing a “bullseye” as proof that the president ordered or tacitly endorsed an attempt on Trump’s life.

    Despite the lack of information, Collins and other Republican figures have seized on the portion of Biden’s statement referencing a “bullseye” as proof that the president ordered or tacitly endorsed an attempt on Trump’s life.

    The X account of the Republican-controlled House Judiciary Committee attempted to connect the same statement to the shooting, “Joe Biden: ‘It’s time to put Trump in a bullseye.

    Sean Davis, founder of the far-right publication The Federalist, suggested that “the Biden regime knew about this and either allowed it to happen… or made it happen.”

    Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones claimed that the shooting was evidence of “globalists” desire to kill Trump and other prominent conservative allies and supporters.


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