[Update] Another Assassination Attempt?

Shots fired at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was golfing. It appears someone with a gun penetrated the Secret Service’s security perimeter (which extends beyond Mar-a-Lago proper), but no one pulled Trump inside until after shots were fired.

But who knows. It’s been three hours, and “news” reports are all over the map.

SS saw the guy and investigated, then fired when they saw a possible gun barrel. Or…

The suspect began shooting at the golf course, and SS returned fire. Or…

It was just a shoot-out between the suspect and the SS agent. Or…

Only the SS agent fired.

Alternately, both shooters were off Mar-a-Lago grounds, or the suspect was on the grounds. (I think some reporter is Googling “mar-a-lago shooting” to see other reports to plagiarize and don’t realize they’re seeing reports of a July shooting outside of Mar-a-Lago mixed in with the recent results.)

Most stories seem to agree that no one was shot. The suspect supposedly fled in an SUV, but was caught in another county.

The suspect’s weapon was an AK-47/AR-type/assault rifle/high-power rifle. He may have left his magically morphing weapon at the scene with a Go-Pro camera.

By tomorrow, I hope they’ll have settled on the preferred version of the events. Which you can choose to believe or not.

Update: Apparently the “AK-47/AR-type/assault rifle/high-power rifle” was actually a SKS.

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2 thoughts on “[Update] Another Assassination Attempt?”

  1. Rule number one of assassination is to KILL THE ASSASIN….so they can’t talk. That didn’t happen so the odds are pretty good this is likely just a typical leftist wacko. Not that the FBI/DHS etc. aren’t likely to try again.

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