Yesterday afternoon while watching baseball, my phone started blowing up. President Trump had been shot. Instantly I had flashbacks to the assassination of John F Kennedy and the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan. It was surreal. Not surprising, but surreal.
The rhetoric in the Country, mostly one-sided, has normalized this type of action. For 8 years they tried to prosecute him, ruin him financially, throw him in jail, and do anything else they could do to get rid of him. So, is it really surprising that next, they would try to kill him? I think not.
The day before, Biden compared Trump to Hitler! Dems have been telling the Country Trump is a threat to democracy and life itself. Celebrities and left wing tv personalities have been telling us Trump is the devil, and yes, some have even said he should be killed. Then you have Democratic politicians themselves. One in Colorado posted, after the shooting, and I quote, “The last thing America needed was sympathy for the devil, but here we are”. Unbelievable. Yet now they are all condemning the shooting. You know many of them are quietly wishing he was dead! They should all be ashamed, and I hope they take a good look at themselves today and change the way they talk. They have a responsibility to tone it down. Same on the Republican side, they’re not immune. However, I will say, outside of a few far-right loonies, it’s nothing compared to the coordinated effort by the left to systematically destroy their opponent. Does anyone think Trump would have been prosecuted if he wasn’t running? I think not. God help us.
Questions are many concerning the event itself. How was a rooftop, 130 yards from the President, not cleared and why wasn’t the Secret Service there? There’s a video of a man saying he was pointing at a guy with a rifle on the roof for 2 or 3 minutes, letting the police and Secret Service know he was there. Yet no one checked it out. Is this another JFK mystery? I hope not, yet questions need to be answered.
On social media, Dem operatives were saying, right after the shooting, that it was fake, or it was a bb gun, or get this, that Trump staged the whole thing. That narrative quickly fell apart when people in the crowd were shot and killed. The shooter was apparently a 20-year-old registered republican, who never voted in an election, yet he raised money and donated to progressive and Democratic groups. Think about it, that’s Ty’s age! Frankly it doesn’t matter who or what he did. What matters is the political climate and division in this Country that has been raised so high that something like this can happen. Mark my words, Dems will say he was a republican and say see, even they want Trump gone and the Republicans will say he was a RINO who supported progressive groups trying to eliminate Trump. All I know is you don’t see Republicans burning down cities, physically attacking those that don’t agree with them, and telling the Country and its people, Trump will destroy the World. No one tried to assassinate Obama or Biden, did they? Enough said.
Last, Trump raising his fist after he was shot, surrounded by the Secret Service trying to get him out of there, will go down in history as an iconic moment. The picture itself is historic. If the Dems don’t somehow try to cancel the election or if Trump is not killed, he should win in a landslide. Can’t believe I can even say, “if Trump is not killed”, but obviously it’s a possibility.
Well, onto the day. Up until the point my phone started blowing up, it was a good day. We had Brian out here early fertilizing and spraying for weeds around 8am, before the heat kicked in. We went to the gym and then went to see Ty for breakfast. I cleaned my office and today will finish that up. Lori is still recuperating but getting better. It’s a little smokey from fires across the west, but not too bad this morning. Today we’ll hang around the house and get some more work done. We were talking that in 90 days, it’ll be mid-October, wow.
That’s it, God Bless.