World leaders express solidarity with Trump after assassination attempt
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/14/world-reacts-to-shooting-at-trump-campaign-rally
by guyoffthegrid
World leaders express solidarity with Trump after assassination attempt
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/14/world-reacts-to-shooting-at-trump-campaign-rally
by guyoffthegrid
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“European Union
Josep Borrell, the EU’s foreign policy chief, said he was “shocked” by the news of the attack.
“Once again, we are witnessing unacceptable acts of violence against political representatives,” he wrote on X.
Hungary
Prime Minister Viktor Orban said his “thoughts and prayers” were with Trump “in these dark hours”.
Italy
Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni said she was “following with apprehension” updates from Pennsylvania and wished Trump a speedy recovery.
She also expressed her hope that “in the following months of the electoral campaign, dialogue and responsibility can prevail over hate and violence”.
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My prediction: He will be voted in office again. The future looks bleak.
It is time to introduce conscription in every European country again.
This is gonna solidify his victory. Sometimes I wonder scrolling through social media just how close USA is to civil war or some bigger armed conflict, since the gap between two parties just getting wider by the day.
If the shooter turns out to be someone who has even the faintest of links to the other side, the election just took a very different turn on a very disturbing path, whjch is saying something considering what all we’ve seen till now by both guys…
This won’t move the needle in the election. Both sides will see this as validation of their stance.
Shooting presidents is looking like an old American tradition.
But shooting candidates seems exceptional thing.
American freedom and democracy based on right to shoot (sometime just one time) I honestly not sure how fair all this.
I mean I am for sure condemning such shooting, but probably knowing of this make US political more responsible at least before Americans.
Wish Trump to recover an ear.
As they should.
It’s the decent thing to do, but again, don’t expect any such empathy from Trump and his followers.
He cracked jokes about Pelosi getting attacked with a Hammer the day after it happened while the crowd cheered, and his base is openly fantasizing about putting political opposition in camps. They thrive on political violence.
If anything, this will be a justification for crackdowns after he gets into office.
Reading all information and seeing the footage of the scene, the incompetence of SS is staggering
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Trump is a martyr now
Biden is tired and doesn’t want to admit that he’s too old
Trump will win the election now
Sigh
This is a character development for Trump – for the first time, he was literally inches away from having something in common with the great presidents like Lincoln, Garfield, or Kennedy.
/s
I know it’s probably impossible but they should honestly ban both of these totally polarizing candidates from running and start from zero. All new candidates and everything. And just delay the whole thing to 2026. This will have far reaching consequences.
A legitimate question that I saw on Twitter. How can a dude at a cookout spot the shooter before the fucking secret service? This is fishy.
https://x.com/Blake_Hall/status/1812320875317698645
Don’t get me wrong, Biden is far too decrepit to run. Regardless of his age, if he was 20 or 50 and doing the mistakes he’s been doing, I’d still think he was incapable of running the country.
But the way the media has only focussed on Biden’s age as opposed to Trump, a sexual offender, is despicable.
And now all of Trump’s CRIMES that have been exposed will be forgotten because Trump is now a martyr.
American politics drives me INSANE. I sort of wish they’d just close themselves off to the rest of the world like North Korea, so we don’t have to think about them anymore.
Terrible, no person in a democratic country should fear for their lives while running for office.
I hope the U.S.A. wakes up and realize what is going on with their politics.
pretty crazy, man. if that bullet that hit his ear was like a few centimeters to the right, Trump literally gets shot dead in the head on a podium. how the fuck can that even happen, it cannot be overstated what a massive security failure this was. this isn’t some ambush, this is a stationary target at a political rally, Trump stands essentially still for hours at those things, you lock that shit down tight so no long range shot is possible at all.
Massive operational failure.
I worked around some high profile events in Europe, even the regular Police would use the radio to get the public figure to safety immediately as soon as reports started coming in from public about an armed offender.
Presidential candidate of most powerful country on earth is allowed to speak after such intelligence.
Someone should have acted.
If biden had ordered this assassination attempt it wouldve most likely been legal according to the supreme court.
I find it most shocking that there is literally no news about the person who was behind him, who passed away.
The irony. Trump is gonna blame Biden for this assassination attempt, hates Europe, will if re-elected abandon Ukraine and NATO. Yet Biden and European leaders must express solidarity towards this man. It’s truly sick.
I read many comments about us and the US being cooked (after Biden’s recent showings…) but now….we are cooked and then fried multiple times, then thrown into the fire for good measure.
“I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn’t lose any voters, OK?”
LoL
Europe better start preparing for a Trump presidency. On day one he will abandon Ukraine and it’s up to the collective continent to stop Putin.