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On March 30, 1981, a 30-year-old man named John Hinckley Jr. tried to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. After giving a speech at the Washington Hilton in Washington, D.C., Reagan was returning to his limo when Hinkley shot him and wounded three others. Reagan’s press secretary James Brady was struck in the head and became permanently disabled.
As Reagan was waving to a crowd, a bullet ricocheted off his limo, struck him under his left arm, broke a rib and caused massive internal bleeding. His injuries were far more serious than first thought. In fact, some initial reporting claimed Reagan was “unharmed.” In fact, Reagan almost died. The would-be assassin was wrestled to the ground.
At the hospital, Reagan reportedly said to first lady Nancy, “Honey, I forgot to duck.”
As Reagan was wheeled to the operating room, Reagan said to his doctors, “Please tell me you’re Republicans.”
About the would-be assassin, he said, “Does anybody know what that guy’s beef was?”
When Reagan regained consciousness from anesthesia, he wrote a note saying, “All in all, I’d rather be in Philadelphia.”
He wrote in another note, “Send me to L.A., where I can see the air I’m breathing.”
In yet another note to his medical staff, he wrote, “If I had this much attention in Hollywood, I’d have stayed there.”
After a nurse praised his recovery by saying, “Keep up the good work,” Reagan said, “You mean this may happen several more times?”
When a top aide told him the government was continuing to perform normally, Reagan said, “What makes you think I’d be happy about that?”
On July 13, 2024, a 20-year-old man named Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump. As Trump stood on an outdoor stage at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, Crooks, from a nearby rooftop, fired eight rounds. He killed one audience member and seriously wounded two others. A bullet struck Trump in his upper right ear. As agents surrounded him and escorted him off stage toward his SUV, the bloodied former president thrust his right fist in the air, pumped his arm and shouted, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” He was taken to a hospital, treated and released the same day.
The day after the assassination attempt against Reagan, The New York Times wrote: “(M)ost (members of Congress) wore the glazed expressions and had the subdued manners of those in shock. Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, took the floor, after initial reports were received, and declared: ‘My family has been touched by violence. Year after year in recent times we have seen violence in this country: My brother John Kennedy and my brother Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Medgar Evers, George Wallace, Al Lowenstein, Vernon Jordan, the attack on President Ford, and now the attack on President Reagan. All of us who care about this country and who care about our fellow citizens bear an important responsibility in whatever way we possibly can to rid this society and to rid this country of the kind of violence and hatred that we have seen.'”
Reagan’s approval ratings jumped 8 points to nearly 68%.
President Joe Biden, two days after the Trump assassination attempt, gave a brief address from the White House and urged Americans to “lower the temperature in our politics.”
A Florida Atlantic University/Mainstreet poll conducted after the assassination attempt found a “small bump” in favor of Trump, but nothing like the 8-point increase Reagan experienced. One survey of Democratic voters found that one-third agreed with the following statement: “I wish Trump’s (would-be) assassination hadn’t missed.”
Reagan had many detractors. A Democratic member of the House, for example, accused him of “trying to replace the Bill of Rights with fascist precepts lifted verbatim from Mein Kampf.” Trump detractors include first lady Jill Biden who, five days before the assassination attempt, pronounced Trump “evil.” Trump’s detractors include Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz, Vice President Kamala Harris’ running mate, who three weeks after the assassination attempt called Trump supporters “fascist.”
Reagan’s critics disliked Reagan. Trump’s critics hate Trump.
A huge difference to take note of.
Hinkley was a nut-job. The attempt on Trump came from within.
(The ones that arranged the set-up are in a near panic, so another set-up will come; either by rigging the coming election, or . . .)
“Though seldom giving much evidence of affection for the exploited, he is perfectly capable of displaying hatred—a sort of queer, theoretical, in vacuo hatred—against the exploiters.” — George Orwell on “the intellectual, tract-writing type of Socialist” in his book THE ROAD TO WIGAN PIER, chapter 11
The only difference is the didn’t Kill John Hinkley which it what they should have done in the first place
Killing Crooks may have been a cover up because the Justice Department and Secret Service members complicit didn’t want him to talk.
Crooks was a Manchurian Candidate. If there is one, there are others.
Absolutely! The security provided had more holes than a Nevada whorehouse.
And he walks around a free man today.
One heck of a screwed up society we have today.
Because Trump said “Fight Fight Fight” the TDS sufferers have decided that he arranged the attempted assassination.
The LEFT is TERRIFIED that they will LOSE the ABILITY to HIDE THEIR CRIMES!! That is the MAIN impetus guiding the LEFT right now – the NEED to remain in POWER! They know that when PRESIDENT TRUMP takes office THIS TIME it WILL be different! He will have a VP that actually BACKS him and will have “experienced” the deep state enough to know WHO and WHERE to deploy his BEST ASSETS!
Most people don’t realize just how much in DANGER we really are! With the DEMOcrats sabotaging Our Nation and the ARMIES of INVADERS they have allowed to ‘WALZ” in, who KNOWS what plans have been made and awaiting the “GO” signal! Does anyone think all those CHINESE Military Age Men came to make fried rice???
The TRUTH about the ASSASSINATION should result in MANY people facing the DEATH PENALTY for their TREASON! I guess that old, “well meaning” with a bad memory piece of scum might get off with a few months!
I wish it were just a matter of left vs. right, but I’m afraid there’s more to it. We are in a psyop war with globalists who’ve plotted to destroy national identity through mass immigration for the last decade or more. England, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, France, Sweden all overrun by immigrants with culturally nothing in common. The result is chaos, and it was planned. The Biden admin was just as complicit as European leaders with our open borders. Add to that the loss of all of our manufacturing and the independence it provided, and you have the same chaos happening here. Trump recognized the danger this caused, and he sought to correct it. That had our masters crapping in their drawers, and something needed to be done. So…impeach, impeach, impeach. That didn’t work, so, indict, indict, indict, and that’s not working either. Next, let’s kill… So far it hasn’t worked either. This is the real difference between the Regan assassination attempt and Trump’s. Trump’s assassin is a system, not a lone nut.
If you wish to know who a man is or what he thinks then look no further than who his enemies are.