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The above was split from a thread in another forum.

Trump is taking somewhat of a chance in choosing JDV, because election of a Republican to his Senate seat is not at all guaranteed.

Thread is moved to the Embassy/Consulate forum -- topic involves that phase.

Thread is moved to the Embassy/Consulate forum -- topic involves that phase.

Bingo. This seems "inconvenient" in terms of, e.g., enforcing the southern border, but we can all shudder to think how 0bummer would have used/abused this... Bingo. As explained plainly and often on conservative radio and in conservative print. The SCOTUS ruling exempts 0bummer for vaporizing that Afghan family, for one thing.

Thanks for posting it in this thread, Bill! Trump is thinking about the future of the Party. I can't wait for the VP debate between JDV and Kama-Lama-Ding-Dong.

Eminently reasonable-sounding, but I never underestimate the vitriol of radical leftists who are in power.

Like most other "alleged" attributions. If true, he might simply have been thinking out loud about a variety of options.

Office of Management & Budget? Osteopathic Medical Board? Oregon Marching Band? Olde Mecklenburg Brewery? Oh My Bacon?

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Justice Thomas, and the others who concurred in the relevant recent opinion, gave Judge Cannon the blueprint and the basis for this decision. Frankly, the dismissal couldn't have come at a better time, given the sympathy surrounding the assassination attempt. The leftists and media (redundant) will have a hard time fighting this one. That creep Merchan will find it massively daunting to impose even house arrest, I'm confident.

Just listened to part of Clay Travis/Buck Sexton. Buck is retired CIA; Clay is an attorney. -- Buck says that this is catastrophic USSS failure in their ONE job. -- Clay says that this is either gross criminal negligence (open to lawsuits) or intentional.

Or how many associates named Guido or Vinnie.

It was not long ago that the Congressional Democrats wanted to pass a bill to remove Trump's USSS protection altogether.

A relevant thread has been merged into this master thread.

She'll be back to normal when she resumes yelling at us daily, si D ma'am. And some of the things we sell have made us a $uce$$ful Bu$ine$$ Typhoon, buy your POTS today man! Si, D ma'am. Mini-B. phoned us to ask us if we could buy him a new iPhone, si and sigh man. We told him to ask ex-Mrs.-T-B., and he said, "I did, and she's shaming me about it, si man," si man. Hugs, D ma'am.

NEW: Biden Stumbles Through Dishonest and Tone-Deaf Oval Office Address on Trump Assassination Attempt After a would-be assassin tried to shoot Donald Trump in the head on Saturday, was anyone asking for Joe Biden to give multiple public addresses on the matter? That's what we got, though, with the president bumbling his way through three different appearances, with the latest being an Oval Office address. Sitting in front of the camera on Sunday evening, Biden read from a teleprompter, often losing his train of thought and stumbling over his words. [...] https://redstate.com/bonchie/2024/07/14/new-biden-stumbles-through-dishonest-and-tone-deaf-oval-office-address-on-trump-assassination-attempt-n2176866

Very interesting. Unfortunately, it also sounds like a very basic failure by the USSS. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Retired Army General: 'Somebody Failed to Appreciate the Militarily Significant Aspects of Terrain' [...] The general said that the Army has a process for making threat assessments that would have produced for the Secret Service personnel a limited set of locations where a hostile actor could attack the president. He said the Army calls the battlespace analysis process OAKOC for obstacles, avenues of approach, key terrain, observation and fields of fire, and cover and concealment. "Without any other information right now, my guess is there were likely failures during the planning and reconnaissance phase," said the former director of nuclear support for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. "When they received the mission, they should have [...] https://redstate.com/mccabe/2024/07/14/retired-army-general-somebody-failed-to-appreciate-the-militarily-significant-aspects-of-terrain-n2176868

Big indictment of the USSS here, with specifics. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This Is Why We Drill: Embarrassing Secret Service Response to Attempted Trump Assassination I spent a couple of years in my career with Broaddus Defense, a private company that helps clients prevent and prepare to respond to violent attacks. The Secret Service fumbled the response to the attempted assassination of President Trump yesterday, and every member of the assigned team and their superiors should be taken in front of a Senate committee and grilled during a session that is carried live by every single media platform. This event and the Secret Service's response is why we drill. First, [...] https://pjmedia.com/ashleymccully/2024/07/14/this-is-why-we-drill-embarrassing-secret-service-response-to-attempted-assassination-of-president-trump-n4930674

CPA = corrupt price-adjustor

Of course, just after I post a great article, an even better one from a P.R. expert comes up... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ How the Trump Assassination Attempt Changes the Presidential Campaign [...] The moment Donald Trump's rally was transformed into the closing scene of "Rocky IV" was the seminal moment of the 2024 presidential campaign. All that was missing was "Hearts on Fire" by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band blazing in the background (honorable mention to Survivor's "Burning Heart"). The true impact of the assassination attempt won't be felt for weeks. When something profoundly shocking and emotionally uncomfortable happens, we psychologically deal with it piecemeal because it's just too big and overwhelming to comprehend. So, we first try to analogize the attempt on Trump's life by comparing and contrasting it to other events (JFK? The George W. Bush shoe incident? RFK? Reagan and Hinkley? Or maybe a foreign assassination, i.e., Shinzo Abe?), but these analogies fail to capture the sheer magnitude of what we all witnessed. This was… different. In part, it was different because [...] https://pjmedia.com/scott-pinsker/2024/07/14/how-the-trump-assassination-attempt-changes-the-presidential-campaign-n4930686

Five out of four people are bad at math, and I'm at least one of them.

Wow. Thoughts on this? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Democrat Strategists Say the 'Presidential Contest Ended' After Assassination Attempt Stick a fork in Joe Biden. He's done. After the recent turmoil his party went through after the debate, which significantly damaged his candidacy and prompted calls for him to drop out, Democratic strategists who spoke with NBC News on Sunday say that now the failed assassination attempt on Donald Trump most certainly was the true end of his hopes of getting reelected. "We're so beyond f---ed," lamented a longtime Democratic insider, emphasizing that the image of Trump thrusting his fist in the air, blood dramatically smeared across his face, will be an unforgettable image between now and Election Day. [...] https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2024/07/14/democrat-strategists-say-the-presidential-contest-ended-after-assassination-attempt-n4930690

X (Twitter) post by a Diplomatic Security veteran. Wow. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ [...] DJT was not saved by USSS brilliance. The fact that USSS allowed a rifle armed shooter within 150 yds to a preplanned event is either malice or massive incompetence. Clearly there was [...] https://x.com/realerikdprince/status/1812538250931642534?s=42