AlexRich

No, but he would be in a more serious election battle should Biden step down. And as support drains away from Biden that was increasingly likely. A decrepit Biden hands the WH to Trump. A new candidate is far more dangerous.

They simply thought Biden was the settled candidate. But in recent days even his closest allies are abandoning him. A new younger candidate requires a new attack strategy … and that might not work. This could never happen in the US? I beg to differ.

You are pathetic. As ever you deliberately misinterpret what is being said. if you are on the security detail you don’t know who the shooter is at that moment (professional or novice) nor do you know if he is a lone wolf, or part of a team. So once he misses he or they don’t get a second chance at a shot. You smother Trump throw him in the car and leave.

My point exactly … not a professional … that explains why he failed. Who put him up to it? And how could he get into that position at all? As for Trump being covered. Only initially, but no competent professionals would allow him to stand up and fist pump … he’d be covered and bundled into a vehicle. Not buying the narrative being pumped out in the media.

Then why use a 20 year old? If you were serious about killing Trump you’d use a professional. But it works the opposite way … an inexperienced patsy easily explains away why the attempt failed. Trump comes out of it looking like a martyr. Oswald publicly stated he was a patsy, but never lived long enough to explain what he meant by that. Dead men tell no tales.

I'm questioning whether he even got shot at all? Mike Flynn specialised in Psy Ops, and he’s on the team. It’s not beyond these criminals to engineer a stunt like this. Biden is close to stepping down. A new younger, mentally sharper and vibrant candidate was not in the Trump plans. If the game gets harder he’ll milk this incident for all it is worth.

The problem with conspiracy theories is that quite a few of them turn out to have some truth to them. But the term “conspiracy theorist” is regularly used to dismiss anyone who would suggest that the dominant narrative about an event is questionable and requires further investigation. Gulf of Tonkin, being one of many examples. I’m perfectly fine with you not appreciating any opinion expressed by me.

My point - they don’t know if it’s a lone assassin at this stage. They couldn’t possibly know if there was a second guy in the crowd with a gun, or on another nearby rooftop. How a 20 year old with an A15 got on top of a roof close to where Trump was speaking and gets off a range of shots despite people in the crowd pointing out his whereabouts is a question that requires answering? Not buying it.

A professional sniper would have taken his head off the way he was handled and exposed after the “shooting” … and as I don’t believe his security detail are that incompetent, I’m afraid I’m not buying this event as anything other than a stunt for votes.

At this stage we don't even know if he was shot? The way his Secret Service detail behaved was bizarre ... he would have been smothered in bodies and thrown in the vehicle ... not propped up for photo opportunities. What if there was a second "shooter" in a different location? I'd also like to see a close up of his injury, as a bullet, even a grazed one, would leave some permanent damage. So no, I'm not buying this until I see some hard evidence.

We need to see the evidence. Any group capable of insurrection can stage manage an event, and they couldn't care less about casualties. Biden is on the verge of stepping down, and Trump would be up against a more vibrant and energetic opponent ... that's not what they were banking on. Desperate times require desperate measures.

You could probably add Dutch to that list. There's not much between the two teams. England have a better team on paper, but Spain are in form. Could go either way.

If Donald Trump invited you to Mar A Lago, sat you down, provided the facts and explained how it all went down, you’d claim the Deep State must have brainwashed him.

Yes, that’s what you do, right? When your client has been the “victim” of an attempted shooting you lift him up and let him do his photo opportunity before whisking him away? You wouldn’t think of smothering him and keeping his head and body out of sniper range? Looking forward to all the details emerging, starting with the “shooter”.

Do you believe in Oswald and the magic bullet theory Bob? There’s an American guy on the BBC who’s telling the world he was pointing out the shooter on the roof to the Police … and they don’t act until after the shooting? Why?

We all need to ask questions about what actually happened today … and not automatically believe what we are being spoon fed. The whole event looks staged … the only beneficiary is Trump. Looking forward to reading through the details in the coming weeks.

Reports on Twitter that the “shooter” was seen on a roof with a rifle and a bystander warned the authorities … minutes before the shooting?

According to Trump, Ted Cruz’s dad.

Lee Harvey Oswald was a “Communist” who defected to Russia, and then came back to the US without any consequences. He was shot before he could explain why he was a “patsy”. We’ve seen this play before.

No doubt. Innocent people also died during the failed insurrection on January 6th.

I’ll be interested to read the full details in the coming weeks. The back story of the “shooter” should be interesting.

The whole episode looks completely staged. Now we are seeing photos of a bloodied Trump under the US flag, with his fist raised in defiance. Real or psy op?

They don't do too badly, but genetics play a part, as well as race. Not to mention coaching, athlete funding and sporting facilities. That's why the US does so well, and why Australia always produces great swimmers. The UK only really started to perform well after Lottery money was channeled into athlete funding.

I wouldn't worry about it ... there's at least 250,000 ex-SAS and Navy Seal's living here who will join the "resistance".

Your reply doesn’t surprise me, as you will excuse away anything that is put in front of you. But Farage’s ties to Russia and other right wing extremists are very real. You talk about all these good people with genuine concerns queuing up to listen to the Reform Party? The same people queued up to listen to Mosley and Mussolini and Hitler. These people tap into ordinary peoples genuine concerns because it makes them popular … but what those ordinary people seem blind to is the underlying agendas of these populists, and the mess they lead you to. With Hitler a democracy was dismantled and became a dictatorship. I wonder how these ordinary Germans felt when they were sitting in the rubble of Berlin at the end of the war, watching their women and children being brutally raped by Russian soldiers? The Penny always drops, but for the fools that take populists at face value it tends to drop too late.