Targeting Trump: A Fatal Game Of Political Warfare

How Did One Man Become The Sickening Target Of Derangement

“The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves.” Leo Tolstoy

On the edge of Eve, Saturday, July 13, 2024, the chants: “USA…USA…USA…” rumbled from a crowd of 15,000, packed into a grassy farm show election rally, in the small township of Butler, Pennsylvania.

Amidst the waving American flags; signs reading No Tax On Tips, and, a sea of red baseball caps embroidered with Make America Great Again (MAGA), the Republican Presidential Candidate of the 2024 United States (US) Election, awaits the perfect moment to start his speech.

“This is a big crowd, a big beautiful crowd… I wish the ‘fake news’ (mainstream media) right there would show it,” he said pointing towards the back of the rally. “I wish they would spin their cameras around because nobody would believe it.”

Around ten minutes into the Presidential Candidate’s speech, three shots are fired. Grasping the right side of his head, Secret Service agents engulf the Presidential Candidate, acting as his human shield.

Seconds later, the last of the shots ceased. The crowd waits, and watches. They have anticipated seeing this man speak. To the people, he is more than a candidate, he represents freedom, the American dream.

His name is Donald.J.Trump and he speaks for what they cannot. Seconds later he rises and pumps his fist into the air, commanding: “Fight…Fight…Fight…” The crowd erupts. An iconic moment is born.

Trump's “wish” came true that the “fake media” would spin the cameras around at the big crowd.

Millions of Americans and nations worldwide watched the assassination attempt light up their screens. And how the crowd of thousands of people stayed by his side, forgoing the instinct to stampede in the face of danger.

Within sixty seconds of the first gunshot; one spectator was fatally shot, two were critically injured, and blood flowed from a gunshot wound on Trump’s right ear. Many basic questions since this fatal day remain unanswered on how and why Donald Trump was targeted, including the security failure to prevent it.

The alleged shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, motives are still unknown according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).