I'm not so sure he's left or right than a confused, mixed-up 20-year-old kid with no obvious future prospects.
So mental illness confirmed then?
As with Bolsonaro, I wouldn't rule it out.
He also donated through ActBlue before. So at this point it’s not really known.
Yeah, but a $15 donation at age 17 three years ago? Amazing the conclusions people insist on drawing early based on scant evidence of anything.
This is what I was alluding to in my somewhat drunken rants last night.
The shooter was apparently outside of the active security perimeter, but the sniper details were already focused on the shooter before he supposedly fired. If the suspect was outside of the security perimeter, the sniper detail would know that, so clearly the shooter should have been ID'd as a hostile threat as soon as they saw him. But instead, they waited to fire back until after he supposedly fired. This is highly suspect.
I won't entertain the typical conspiracy theory here. But first of all, there's a failure in scoping the grounds to allow buildings with line-of-sight rooftops to come within 150 meters of the stage without being secured as within the event perimeter. That seems like a planning failure.
Second, it does seem odd that they had a fix on the shooter and it seemed like they may have been waiting for him to fire first. Which, for a guy with a rifle at a presidential election rally seems not at all according to protocol.
If this was Israel, that kid would have been vaporized before he reached the roofline.
Regardless, he looks like someone who could be easily manipulated. Looks like a school shooter type.
Yep. The kind of people we want to give more AR-15s to and say it's freedom.
Still, the whole thing is a mess and a tragedy. People shot at the event, and even killed, just for attending. What's probably a messed up kid and now his parents who are mourning their dead son while also inciting hatred from neighbors.
The one good thing honestly is Trump didn't get killed. I wouldn't shed a tear if he keeled over with a heart attack while scarfing a Big Mac. But we already have Cheeto Jesus and don't need to make him a national martyr too.