The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him.

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    9 days ago

    Martin is the second person to attempt to enter Mar-a-Lago with the intent to kill the president, and the third in general. In 2024, Ryan Routh attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the Florida estate. He was recently sentenced to life in prison. And of course, Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill Trump in Pennsylvania in 2024. All three were white men.

    I don’t know how many more trump supporters trying to kill trump it will take for people to realize he’s actually losing support…

    But at least they’re not attacking innocent people.

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      and this is just the dumb/emotionally unregulated, acting on pure impulse as their programming breaks.

      i have a feeling there are a lot more calculated killers out there waiting to see how the midterms turn out. will a wave of progressives get enough control to hold people accountable or just “business as usual”

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    The 21-year-old man… was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files…

    They left out “really bad planner” from the list.

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    Now that trump has started a war there is no other distraction he can use to avoid pedophilia charges other than nuclear. That old quote by Burke about evil gaining a foothold if good people do nothing seems to be true. But this was one good person acting alone. Maybe there are more?

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      It’s hilarious that trump cult is so incompetent it can’t even sabotage itself. Reality feels like satire of itself these days.

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    callllled it.

    they’re dripping the Trump-Epstein Friendship Archive (ooo, that acronyms well) until a qanon loses it makes a serious enough attempt on Krasnov that they can call it a terrorism and martial law us