I had actually almost finished another piece for Substack when people began texting me yesterday about Donald Trump being shot. I never watch the news, so unless MeTV broke into their weekly airing of Three Stooges shorts, I was not going to know about it from my large and trusty television.

Several people have asked for my impressions of this assassination attempt. I am kind of an expert on the subject, seeing as how the JFK assassination first took me down the rabbit hole and has consumed a lot of my thinking for almost fifty years. First off, there is the following image, which has an almost Iwo Jima feel to it. Iconic. Like a scene lifted from Braveheart. It takes a strong man to rise up with blood on his face and instantly raise his fist in defiance. You’d think he might have spent a moment or two worried about his potential injuries. He is seventy eight years old, after all. More importantly, you’d think the Secret Service would prevent him from doing this. Wasn’t he still a potential target? It violated all their procedures to permit this. But it did make for a great picture. I assume it will be used extensively by his campaign. Bullyocracy: How the S... Jeffries, Donald Best Price: $15.55 Buy New $14.00 (as of 11:47 UTC - Details)

In this photo, Trump looks a bit like poor Lee Harvey Oswald, surrounded by over seventy police officers in that Dallas basement. And somehow, none of them thought to stand in front of him. Protect his front. Oops. Isn’t that what we’re seeing here? Maybe these Secret Service agents had spent too much time watching footage of Oswald being shot? Did surviving JFK Secret Service detail agent Clint Hill give them a pep talk? On how not to protect a president? I think the same rules apply for ex-presidents. I don’t know, aren’t they trained to throw themselves over the person they’re guarding in such a situation, and rush him off for medical treatment as quickly as possible? I don’t believe propping an injured victim up, so that the crowd (including any other shooters, if not the same would be assassin who clipped his ear) can see him clearly? No one could miss that blood on his face.

Amazingly, Donald Trump can be heard on audio, as he is being lifted to his feet (and not completely covered as standard operating procedure would require), saying, “Let me get my shoes.” What? He was speaking on stage without shoes? The flesh wound to his ear knocked him out of his shoes? I was advised by some on Twitter/X that it is actually quite easy to slip out of your shoes in such a situation, especially if you are very wealthy. Apparently, the more expensive the shoe, the more easily it just slips off in these situations. This seems very dubious to me. But I have never been shot at. And I am known to look for my shoes on sale.

This was the first assassination attempt on an American politician since Ronald Reagan in March, 1981. Forty three years between assassination attempts is a long time for a country like America. What with our love of guns and everything, and our propensity for deranged lone nuts, who manage to circumvent all that sterling Secret Service protection we pay for. There was never any doubt that this act was going to be attributed to a lone nut. In America, politicians are never shot at for political reasons. It’s an American exceptionalism thing, you wouldn’t understand. This was in spite of early eyewitness reports that there were some eight shots, and they had been heard coming from different directions. Uh oh. No, we can’t have that. Different directions means more than one shooter. That never happens here.

So let’s look at some facts, before they are shoved down the memory hole. In all these cases, early reports are the most interesting. The narrative hasn’t been officially established yet. Contrary witnesses appear. The BBC interviewed an eyewitness who described seeing a man scaling a wall in their midst, rifle in hand. He tried to alert the police, but clearly wasn’t successful. Well, really, why should the police be any more alert at a presidential speech than the Secret Service? The interview can be seen at the following link: BBC Interview- Gunman was Visible. Watch it before they take it down. As some anonymous wit pointed out online, they had police on another rooftop, as can be seen in the amusing meme/photo below. But none on the roof the gunman shot from? And these guys didn’t notice him? Anatomy of the State Rothbard, Murray Best Price: $13.62 Buy New $17.28 (as of 03:26 UTC - Details)

Now, I will say that Trump reacted quickly and got down on the ground exceptionally well for an overweight seventy eight year old. Must be all that Diet Coke and fast food. And the small wound on his right ear was the most insignificant injury suffered in a major assassination attempt since Teddy Roosevelt was supposedly protected from a bullet by a fifty page speech in his pocket. Boy, they must have given long-winded speeches in those days. What good fortune. If only JFK had had his Inaugural Address protecting his head on November 22, 1963. That was a pretty long speech, too, albeit no mammoth fifty pager. Teddy Roosevelt was the kind of guy the assassins usually miss. Just like his cousin, the odious FDR. Or Warren Commission member Gerald Ford. Not sure what this says about Trump, but they did miss killing him.

So just who are they attributing this bloody ear wound/near assassination to? The initial reports claimed that Mark Violets, who was associated with Antifa, was the lone nut. He even posted a video on YouTube proclaiming, “Justice is coming.” But Violets was a not a three namer. America has a long tradition of lone nuts, and they like to refer to them using all three of their names. Sure, he was called Lee Oswald by his friends and family, but not the state controlled media. James Earl Ray was known as Jimmy. Even Richard Hauptman was constantly referred to as Bruno Richard Hauptman (he really hated the name Bruno, and no one called him that) as they framed him for the Lindbergh Baby kidnapping.

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