Tag: Assassination

WTF Is This?

We all know that the loud mouth so-called christian got popped and the whole MAGA country went bat crap crazy…..and now they, MAGA-ites, want to make a monument to this person….

Classes are off, security is up, and tensions are high at Utah Valley University as a remembrance for Charlie Kirk lands on the anniversary of his killing. Turning Point USA is staging what it calls a “deliberate act of remembrance” for its founder on Thursday night at the Orem campus, drawing high-profile conservative speakers including Glenn Beck and Michael Knowles, per the New York Times. The memorial has split the 48,000-student campus. Some students praise Kirk as a free-speech martyr and plan to attend; others resent the university’s one-day shutdown and describe the event as turning a trauma into a quasi-holiday. A left-leaning student group is organizing a protest, reports the Salt Lake Tribune. Kirk’s accused killer, Tyler Robinson, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges. More on the anniversary of Kirk’s death:

  • The Intercept delves into how the far right tried to turn Kirk into a martyr but instead “made him a meme.”
  • How is Turning Point USA doing a year after the shooting? NPR says its future is “uncertain.”
  • Six people talk to the Washington Post about how Kirk’s murder reshaped them. “Charlie’s death is what caused me to ask questions and eventually find Jesus,” one Virginia attorney reveals.
  • The Tribune also talks to Hunter Kozak, the student and new dad who was at the mic asking Kirk a question when the latter was gunned down. Kozak says in the year since, he’s been the subject of death threats and conspiracy theories. He and his family have had to move, and he’s now in weekly therapy, but he says he doesn’t want to live being constantly paranoid. “I want to trust the people around me,” he says. “I think that’s the only way through.”
  • Axios notes that Kirk’s wife, Erika Kirk, recently penned an essay for the New York Times, reflecting on how she has handled her grief since his murder. “A year ago, when I felt it coming over me, I wondered whether it would swallow me completely,” she wrote. “Now, I recognize it; sometimes I even welcome it, because for a moment the grief makes Charlie feel impossibly close.” She also reveals the one piece of advice that second lady Usha Vance gave her right after Charlie’s killing.
  • More here.

Why a monument?

Hell NO!  This person deserves nothing more than a head stone.

A place for MAGA worship or a loud mouth bag of hot air racist.

This is a pathetic attempt to turn this person into some sort of symbol for the whole country…..I will pass.

Anyone with thoughts?

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Donny Pulls A Switch-A-Roo

US intelligence was given a tip that Iran was planning to assassinate Donny and he was to go to Turkey for a NATO summit….the Secret Service came up with the bright idea of using a dodge to keep him safe…..

Donald Trump secretly swapped planes as he left a Nato summit in Turkey last month, as part of an elaborate ruse in response to a possible Iranian threat, US media report.

The US president boarded Air Force One in view of television cameras before being transported to a military aircraft with the help of a catering truck, according to the Washington Post. Journalists and some White House staff on board did not know he had been smuggled out.

Officials told the BBC’s US partner CBS News that the US had detected a credible Iranian threat to fire a missile at the plane. The White House has not confirmed the secret switch.

Trump had earlier said he was Iran’s “number one target” during the summit in Ankara.

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-used-catering-truck-air-force-one-decoy-evade-iran-threat-report

Now some are calling the ‘hot’ tip about the assassination as a fake report…..

Turkish officials suspect that an Israeli intelligence report about an Iranian plot to assassinate President Trump at the NATO summit in Ankara last month was a ruse designed to derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, Middle East Eye reported on Tuesday.

The Washington Post first reported on Monday that the US thought there was a credible enough threat against Trump that he secretly swapped planes when he departed Turkey. The president flew into Ankara on a new version of Air Force One donated by Qatar, but made a public show of departing on the older Air Force One, saying he was doing so for “old time’s sake.”

According to the Post report, after boarding the older Air Force One, Trump was then moved to a third plane, an Air Force C-32A, via a catering truck. Some White House staffers and reporters on the older Air Force One thought President Trump was also onboard as they flew to the UK, making them unwitting decoys.

Missing from the Post report was where the intelligence about a plot against Trump came from. According to Middle East Eye and also a report from The Wall Street Journal, it came from Israel, which aligns with reports from the time.

Sources told MEE that the Israeli intelligence report warned that Iranian covert forces could target Air Force One at the airport in Ankara using shoulder-fired rockets, known as MANPADS, from just one kilometer away. Due to the alleged threat, the Secret Service moved the departure point from Ankara Airport to Esenboga Airport and wanted to switch from the new Air Force One to the old one.

The report said Turkish officials believe that the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu devised the plot to make it appear that Israel was protecting Trump, further derail diplomacy between the US and Iran, and also strain relations between Trump and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, whom the US president repeatedly praised during the summit. Israel has strongly opposed the idea of the US selling F-35 fighter jets to Turkey, something Trump has said he’s strongly considering.

Another source, described as an Ankara insider, told MEE that it was ironic that the Secret Service’s decision to move Trump has been leaked just one month after it happened. “I guess they need heroes for an attack that never happened and, most likely, was never planned,” the insider said.

(antiwar.com)

After years of watching the Israeli government I tend to agree with Turkey….this does sound like a load of crap for Israel wants Donny to keep up his attacks on Iran and they will do anything to preserve the attacks now that they finally got a president dumb enough to believe their lies.

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Is It 86 47?

In case you have no idea about 86 47…..Merriam-Webster says “86” is restaurant industry-derived slang which means “to throw out,” “to get rid of,” or “to refuse service to,” while noting that it has also recently been used to mean “to kill.” Meanwhile “47” may be used as a reference to Trump, the 47th U.S. President.

I bring this up because Israel is stringing Donny on and lying to get him to continue the attacks on Iran.

Israel has reportedly warned Washington that Iran is actively plotting to assassinate the US president, adding a new layer of tension to the already volatile conflict between the United States and Tehran. The Wall Street Journal reports that Israeli intelligence pointed to a fresh plan targeting President Trump, who ordered the 2020 killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani. Iran has long vowed revenge, though it hasn’t commented on the latest allegation; Israel also declined to discuss it publicly. Trump himself hinted at the threat while speaking to reporters in the Turkish city of Ankara on Wednesday.

“They want to take out the US leader—me,” he noted. “I’m on every single one of their lists. And so far, I guess I’ve been a little bit lucky, but that maybe doesn’t last very long.” He added that he speaks openly about the risks to his life “a lot, because the life of a president is very dangerous,” per USA Today. On his flight back to the US this week after attending a NATO summit in Turkey, which shares a border with Iran, reporters asked Trump why they were told to keep the shades drawn on the first leg of their flight to the UK, to which Trump replied it was probably due to the “sleazebags over here,” an apparent reference to Iran, per the AP.

The revelation comes as Trump’s relationship with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shows strain, per the Journal. Netanyahu has pushed for sustained military pressure on Iran, while Trump has advocated dialing back the conflict, warning of economic fallout and backing a shaky ceasefire reached last month. The two leaders spoke on Thursday and pledged continued coordination, according to Netanyahu’s office. The news comes as public chants in Iran—most recently at the funeral of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, where a banner read “We Will Kill Trump”—underscore the risk of further escalation.

Will Donny be taken in by Israeli lies….when they need something from the US they make up a story to help their cause.

I say crap on them the lying bastards and stop worrying about the made up problems.

What say you….bullshit or a valid warning?

You know what I think….

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What’s The Assassinate Skinny?

What got me thinking along these lines was this obscure post…..

https://www.morninghoney.com/p/trump-assassination-attempt-conspiracy-theories-gain-tractionthis-time-from-inside-maga-circles

You guys remember a couple of years ago when some random guy attempted to assassinate Donny and only nicked his ear…..remember that fateful day?

We all were given the defiant fist bumps of a ‘wounded’ soon to be leader and we were all so aghast.

I remember when I got my ear nicked at the barber shop and it bled a helluva lot more than Donny’s supposed assassination attempt.  For that reason I have always been a bit skeptical about what really happened.

After all this time and the constant images even the MAGA faithful are starting to ask questions….

As Donald Trump’s MAGA base sours on him, some of them now think the 2024 assassination attempt on him in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.

Wired reports that this conspiracy theory started to take hold after Joe Kent, who resigned from the Trump administration over the Iran war, went on conservative pundit Tucker Carlson’s show and asserted without evidence that investigations into the shooting were halted before they were finished.

“If you don’t want to address that question, then you just go silent and say you can’t ask that question,” Kent, formerly the director of the National Counterterrorism Center, said. “Which then creates people who come out of nowhere and they start drawing their own conclusions.”

Kent noted that this would fuel conspiracy theories, and ever since his interview, that is exactly what seems to be happening within MAGA. Trisha Hope, who served as a delegate from Texas during the 2024 Republican National Convention, posted on X last week that “if you cannot look at this story, and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it.”

“Since the attempt on his life, Trump has show [sic] no interest in investigating what really happened. He never mentions it, it’s as if it never happened, except when he tells us, he took a bullet for us,” Hope said in a long post.

Comedian Tim Dillon, who interviewed JD Vance on his podcast during Trump’s presidential campaign, said last week that he thinks “maybe it was staged,” adding that Trump should now say publicly that “some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them.”

Candace Owens, a far-right conspiracy theorist who has abandoned Trump, claimed on her podcast last week that Miriam Adelson, an Israeli-American billionaire and Republican donor, was actually behind the assassination attempt because Trump hadn’t followed through on a promise to allow Israel to annex the occupied West Bank.

https://newrepublic.com/post/209222/maga-trump-assassination-attempt-fake

There is more that might interest people…..

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-assassination-attempt-2676757340/

I would like to hear the tale but we all know that Donny will never reveal what really happened for it would lessen him to those still worshiping at his crotch.

Even ex-MAGA MTG has decided to weigh in on this ‘tale of woe’……

Former Georgia congresswoman and one-time Donald Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the disgruntled group of MAGA stalwarts raising questions about the assassination attempt on the president when he was running for office.

“President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge” to determine all the facts of what happened that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a campaign speech two years ago, she noted on X. “Why isn’t he?” Greene demanded. “That’s the question.”

https://www.thedailybeast.com/marjorie-taylor-greene-stokes-donald-trump-assassination-plot-rumors/

What do you think happened on the day?

You know mine now please tell me what you thinking.

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Canonization Of Charlie

Warning:  I wanted to move on from this saga but the media has made that impossible….this is my thoughts on this whole thing and I will probably go off into some rants that may offend some readers that have a dislike for harsh words….if the reader is one of those people than I suggest that they move on from this post and go to TikTok and watch some funny cat videos.

Donny and his silly ilk are painting Charlie in a light he does not deserve….especially by MAGA supporters….its is fucking bullshit.

But Kirk was no hero. The record is clear. If Kirk was a victim of a pernicious culture of violence in America, it must also be acknowledged that he was an author of that culture.

His primary accomplishment in life was to foment hatred and division across the United States. He blamed all of America’s ills on the left, and cheered violent attacks on Democrats. He fought against equal rights for many Americans; some of his last words were condemning women’s reproductive freedoms. He promoted America’s gun pathology (Ironic isn’t it), and asserted the death of innocents was an acceptable cost for that culture.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-magas-canonization-of-charlie-kirk-is-truly-monstrous/

A ‘martyr’?

Charlie was not what I would call a compassionate person….he proved it every time he opened his mouth….

One of Charlie Kirk’s most controversial statements comes from a Turning Point USA Faith event Q&A (starting around the 1:13:00 mark) in April 2023 where he was fielding a question about gun rights:

“It’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year, so that we can have the Second Amendment to protect our other God-given rights… That is a prudent deal. It is rational.”

On the October 12, 2022, episode of his podcast (around 36:40), Charlie Kirk stated:

“I can’t stand the word empathy, actually. I think empathy is a made-up, new age term that does a lot of damage.”

During a TPUSA Faith event on March 21, 2025, Charlie Kirk criticized birth control (around 36:50), stating:

“…birth control really screws up female brains, by the way. Every single one of you needs to make sure that your loved ones are not on birth control. It increases depression, anxiety, and suicidal ideation. Birth control is the number one prescribed medication for young ladies under the age of 25. They will give young ladies birth control for pimples, for acne, to control their moods, and their period. It is awful, it’s terrible, and it creates very angry and bitter young ladies and young women.”

Just a few of Charlie’s words of wisdom (that is also sarcasm)….

The MAGA silliness and even the puke spilling from Donny’s useless mouth praise this worthless POS….

Imagine that President Donald Trump actively wanted to encourage radical right-wing groups and “lone wolf” individuals to wage open violent warfare on anyone they deem a leftist anywhere in America. If Trump wanted to send that precise message, he could hardly do much better than the words he actually did deliver on Fox and Friends on Friday morning.

…

Look at what the president said just after the assassination of Kirk:

For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country and must stop right now. My administration will find each and every one of those who contributed to this atrocity and to other political violence, including the organizations that fund it and support it, as well as those who go after our judges and law enforcement officials.

As Jonathan Chait notes, here Trump treats political violence as if it only exists on one side of the spectrum. I’d add something else: I’m unaware of any other recent president explicitly vowing to unleash the power of the American state on a vast, inchoate ideological group in quite this way.

Trump’s wording in this prewritten speech is deliberate: He says his administration will target everyone it can find who contributed to the assassination of Kirk. The clear message is that anyone who can be blamed for Kirk’s death even speciously and pretextually is now subject to retribution by the full force of the government and Trump’s security services. Note that this includes liberal-left “organizations” as well.

“The radicals on the left are the problem,” he continued, “and they’re vicious and they’re horrible and they’re politically savvy.”

https://newrepublic.com/article/200410/trump-issued-unnerving-threat-liberals

The fucking dipshit we call ‘president’ is doing what he did for those treasonous bastards on 06 January giving them permission to take the law in the own hands.

It seems clear that Trump isn’t interested in turning down the temperature on political tensions in the United States, and he’s just given the go-ahead to right-wing radicals to take matters into their own hands.

Within hours of Kirk’s death and without knowing any information about the shooter, Trump blamed the “radical left” and their rhetoric for political violence by “demonizing those with whom you disagree day after day, year after year in the most hateful and despicable way possible.”

Radicals on the Left?  Yes they are some radicals but so far not one of them has taken up to assassination and besides has any of these dickless morons mentioned the the shooter was an independent that comes from a Republican family? (Of course for that would defeat Donny’s effort to turn this situation into the emergency he needs to go beyond)

Just for the MAGA supporters that think they are all that….Democrats are NOT radical Left.  Democrats are not socialists.  To believe otherwise makes them fucking mindless assholes.

Apparently none of the mindless herd does see any problem with the lameass rhetoric of their leaders just as they still defend those pricks on 06 January.

None of what they are saying or doing will solve the problem of these assholes and their guns.  And what kind of leaders shoots off a dumbass mouth in this way?

I have had about a fucking enough of these cocksuckers and their lies and actions….

We can all look for some sort of ‘Reichstag’ fire moment coming.

Makes me so proud to be an American.  (And that is fucking sarcasm douche bag).

More thoughts on this propaganda.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/columnist/2025/09/12/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-suspect-left-trump/86115056007/

I am under no obligation to mourn….but in this case I will mourn not for the person but for the nation he and his ilk have tried so hard to destroy.

Enough said!

If you were offended all I can say is you were warned.

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Sorry Charlie

I read this post in Moderate Voice and wanted to share it with the IST readers….

I don’t wish death on anyone. I’ve scolded more than one friend for posting in my comments on Facebook death wishes for Donald Trump. I don’t do that, and I don’t think liberals or Democrats should do it either. Let the other side be vile. Half of the reason I don’t want political opponents dead is that I don’t wish bad things to anyone. ANYONE. The other reason is that MAGAts would martyr the hell out of it if something happened.

When someone, a Republican, shot at Trump at one of his hate rallies, it pissed me off. When a man with a gun was found waiting to shoot Trump at one of his shitty golf resorts, it pissed me off again. I was shouting at my TV, “You’re hurting us more than helping, f—ers!” Violence leads to more violence. This was followed by the murder of Democratic state legislators in Minnesota.

I don’t wish bad crap to happen to bad people, but when it does, I don’t go all thoughts-and-prayers about it. Even if I did care about those people, I know that thoughts and prayers don’t work. Even when their own are murdered by guns, the thoughts-and-prayers crowd never tries to find solutions other than suggesting stupid ideas like giving teachers guns.

SORRY CHARLIE

Then to give another side to this story….

There are so many words and cliches condemning the killing of Charles James Kirk, and none of the refrains are unique. “We need to dial back our discourse”, “we need to be tolerant of different opinions,” and “there is no room in American politics for political violence.” Are people blind to the realities that have been swirling all around us? The language has been violent. The discord has been great. There has been a consistent invitation to dine at the table of heated racist discussion posing as legitimate political speech.

The killing of Charlie Kirk fits within this arena of speech that is racist and hate-filled, but is designed to pose as rational and logical political speech. In his rhetoric and so-called debate style this 31-year-old evangelical firebrand of the right has stated that Black pilots were incompetent, Gays should be stoned, ironically he was opposed to gun control, abortion, LGBTQ rights, criticized the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and Martin Luther King Jr., promoted Christian nationalism, advanced COVID-19 misinformation, made false claims of electoral fraud in 2020, and is a proponent of the Great Replacement conspiracy theory.

https://www.counterpunch.org/2025/09/11/the-killing-of-charles-james-kirk-violent-speech-leads-to-violence/

Words have consequences….while I do not condone this type of political expression I do see how we got to this spot in our history.

There is only so much hate that can be passed around before someone takes some sort of misguided action.

I will mourn but not for this guy…..I mourn for what has become of my country that use to be called ‘the beacon of freedom’.

This will probably be my last post on this incident unless something earth shaking comes out.

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The Shot Heard Throughout MAGA-ville

Yesterday there was yet another shooting and this time it took out a MAGA favorite, Charlie Kirk….

Conservative commentator Charlie Kirk was shot during an event at Utah Valley University on Wednesday. A law enforcement official tells the AP that Kirk was hospitalized in critical condition. NBC News reports that disturbing videos from the scene show Kirk slumping down in his seat, with blood flowing from his neck. In an alert, the Orem, Utah, university said “a single shot was fired on campus toward a visiting speaker,” Deseret News reports.The university initially said a suspect was in custody, but UVU spokesman Scott Trotter later said police had determined the man taken into custody was not the shooter, the New York Times reports. Videos on social media showed police detaining an older man at the event.

Kirk is the CEO and co-founder of conservative youth organization Turning Point USA, the AP reports. “We are confirming that he was shot and we are praying for Charlie,” said Aubrey Laitsch, the organization’s public relations manager. Kirk, 31, is a close ally of President Trump and the “America First” movement. “We must all pray for Charlie Kirk, who has been shot,” the president said in a Truth Social post. “A great guy from top to bottom. GOD BLESS HIM!” The shooting was condemned by Republican and Democratic politicians alike, with California Gov. Gavin Newsom calling it “disgusting, vile, and reprehensible,” reports CNN.

Kirk was speaking at the university as part of his “American Comeback” tour. UVU professor Michael Andersen tells KSL News that he heard what he thought was a firework while Kirk, who was sitting in a tent, answered a question. “Then people started running out of the amphitheater and I saw some people trying to get up out of the terraces, Andersen says. “As I was walking away, as we were evacuating, the person next to me said he saw Charlie Kirk get hit.” He says the atmosphere was “fairly panicked” after the shooting.

Then later yesterday it had been confirmed the Kirk was indeed dead.

Charlie Kirk is dead, President Trump announced Wednesday, hours after the conservative commentator was shot in the neck during an event at Utah Valley University. Kirk was 31.

  • “The Great, and even Legendary, Charlie Kirk, is dead. No one understood or had the Heart of the Youth in the United States of America better than Charlie,” Trump said in a post on Truth Social. “He was loved and admired by ALL, especially me, and now, he is no longer with us. Melania and my Sympathies go out to his beautiful wife Erika, and family. Charlie, we love you!”
  • In another post, Trump said he was ordering all American flags in the US be lowered to half-mast until 6pm Sunday to honor Kirk, “a truly Great American Patriot.”
  • Utah House Speaker Mike Schultz said law enforcement officials told him the Turning Point USA founder had died, Deseret News reports. University officials say the shooter is not in custody. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox said he had spoken to Trump about Kirk’s death, KSL News reports. “Working with the FBI and Utah law enforcement, we will bring to justice the individual responsible for this tragedy,” he said. “Those responsible will be held fully accountable. Violence has no place in our public life. Americans of every political persuasion must unite in condemning this act. Our prayers are with Charlie, his family, and all those affected.”

And the hunt goes on….

The person of interest who was taken into custody in connection with the murder of Charlie Kirk at Utah Valley University on Wednesday has been released following an interrogation, says FBI Director Kash Patel. He wrote on X, “Our investigation continues and we will continue to release information in interest of transparency.” NBC News reports Patel’s about-face came about 90 minutes after he had announced the shooter was in custody. Utah Gov. Spencer Cox had strong words for the shooter, per the Deseret News: “I want to make it crystal clear right now to whoever did this, we will find you.”

President Trump posted a four-minute video on Truth Social Wednesday night addressing the shooting:

  • He called Kirk a “martyr for truth and freedom, and there’s never been anyone who was so respected by youth. … This is a dark moment for America. Charlie Kirk traveled the nation joyfully engaging with everyone interested in good faith debate. His mission was to bring young people into the political process, which he did better than anybody ever, to share his love of country and to spread the simple words of common sense.”
  • “It’s long past time for all Americans and the media to confront the fact that violence and murder are the tragic consequence of demonizing those with whom you disagree,” Trump continued. “For years those on the radical left have compared wonderful Americans like Charlie to Nazis and the world’s worst mass murderers and criminals. This kind of rhetoric is directly responsible for the terrorism that we’re seeing in our country today and it must stop right now.”

What typical bullshit from Donny….stoking the fires of hatred.

My thoughts and prayers are with the family (is that not what one says when there is a shooting death?)

Never fret….this will happen again…just a matter of time.

Then there is the call for all people to come together against this type of violence…..and the House was not the poster child for this call….

Two thousand miles east of Orem, Utah, where Charlie Kirk was shot to death on Wednesday, the House of Representatives honored the political commentator with a moment of silence—followed by a shouting match. With every lawmaker in the chamber still standing quietly in observance, Rep. Lauren Boebert demanded that Speaker Mike Johnson recite a prayer for Kirk aloud, the Washington Post reports. “Silent prayers get silent results,” the Republican hollered from the back of the chamber. That was met with jeers from Democrats about gun laws. Rep. Jahana Hayes shouted that school shootings, including one earlier in the day in Boebert’s home state of Colorado, are ignored, per the Wall Street Journal.

Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a friend of Kirk’s, stormed out of the chamber while yelling profanities at the Democrats, per Politico. Johnson, who had led the moment of silence, eventually was able to gavel a brief halt to the chaos and move on to the next piece of business. That was the swearing-in of Democratic Rep. James Walkinshaw, who’d won a special election the day before in northern Virginia. When he ripped President Trump in his remarks for actions including the mass layoffs of federal employees, Republicans jeered back. “Scoreboard,” one member said, referring to the GOP holding a House majority.

What a pack of clowns!

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More Assassination Files Released

Recently the government has released otherwise classified files about the death of JFK…so this controversy can continue (seems like a misdirection to me)….

Previously classified documents related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy were released Tuesday following an order by President Trump shortly after he took office. The 1,123 files were posted on the website of the US National Archives and Records Administration. The vast majority of the National Archives’ collection of over 6 million pages of records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts related to the assassination have previously been released, the AP reports.

  • Trump told reporters Monday that has administration will be releasing 80,000 files, though it’s not clear how many of those are among the millions of pages of records that have already been made public. “We have a tremendous amount of paper. You’ve got a lot of reading,” Trump said while visiting the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington.
  • Researchers have estimated that 3,000 records or so hadn’t been released, either in whole or in part. And last month, the FBI said that it had discovered about 2,400 new records related to the assassination.
  • Many who have studied what’s been released so far by the government say the public shouldn’t anticipate any earth-shattering revelations from the newly released documents, but there is still intense interest in details related to the assassination and the events surrounding it.
  • Trump’s January order directed the national intelligence director and attorney general to develop a plan to release the records. A year after the Nov. 22, 1963 assassination, the Warren Commission, which President Lyndon B. Johnson established to investigate, concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone and that there was no evidence of a conspiracy. But that didn’t quell a web of alternative theories over the decades.
  • In the early 1990s, the federal government mandated that all assassination-related documents be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration. The collection was required to be opened by 2017, barring any exemptions designated by the president. Trump, who took office for his first term in 2017, had said that he would allow the release of all of the remaining records but ended up holding some back because of what he called the potential harm to national security.

This ought to keep the conspiracy theorists busy for awhile and not paying attention to the happening daily.

However I would like to add a little fire to this debate…..

If anything, the latest declassification of records in December 2022, coming after an inexplicable five-year delay, only sparked further debate. As one poll showed, over two-thirds of Americans were unhappy with Joe Biden for upholding the redaction of thousands of documents with the vague excuse of preventing ‘possible harm’.

The facts are these: on 22 November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was visiting Dallas, Texas, to shore up support in the south for his re-election. To connect with future voters, Kennedy sat in the back of a slow-moving limousine next to his glamorous wife, Jackie. As the motorcade turned onto Elm Street towards the Dealey Plaza, several shots were heard and Kennedy’s head jerked violently backwards. Abraham Zapruder, a spectator, captured the scene on his home-movie camera.

Within an hour of the president’s death, local police had arrested Lee Harvey Oswald, who worked at the Texas School Book Depository overlooking the parade route. The media soon circulated a picture of Oswald holding a Carcano bolt-action rifle resembling the one found on the sixth floor of the book depository. A former US Marine and self-declared Marxist, Oswald had defected to the Soviet Union in 1959 and returned to the US with a Russian wife in 1962. He fitted the profile of a communist agent. His mysterious visits to the Cuban and Soviet embassies in Mexico two months before the assassination only furthered suspicion.

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/what-killed-kennedy

Let the theories abound.

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For All Those Conspiracy Theorists

For decades there has been some wild speculation on the assassinations of JFK, RFK and MLK and only small amounts of info has been released to the public…..and the whining went on and it finally fell on the ears of the new Lord High Monarch……

There will be a release of more information on these killings….

An executive order signed by President Trump on Thursday calls for making thousands of documents related to the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr. public. “Lot of people are waiting for this a long, for years, for decades,” Trump said, per CNN. “Give that to RFK Jr.,” his pick to run the Department of Health and Human Services, the president said when he finished with one pen. Another Kennedy descendant immediately criticized Trump’s decision. “There’s nothing heroic about it,” Jack Schlossberg, JFK’s grandson, posted on X.

Many of the documents connected to the JFK assassination have already been declassified, including 13,000 released during the Biden administration, though plenty have been redacted. Trump’s order gives the director of national intelligence and the attorney general 45 days to come up with a plan for releasing all RFK and King files, per CBS News. They’re given 15 days on the JFK files, though neither office has been filled yet. President Kennedy was assassinated in 1963, and RFK and King in 1968. “Everything will be revealed,” Trump told reporters at the signing, the Guardian reports.

Trump promised to release the files during the campaign. He said that in his first campaign but reversed once in office. The CIA, Pentagon, and State Department have held back files, saying it’s mostly to protect the identities of confidential sources who are still alive and safeguard the agencies’ methods, per CNN. Schlossberg suggested Thursday that people looking for evidence of conspiracy theories will be disappointed. “The truth is a lot sadder than the myth—a tragedy that didn’t need to happen. Not part of an inevitable grand scheme,” Schlossberg posted, saying that “declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back.”

Will the public learn anything they already do not know about these assassinations?

This should keep those conspiracist busy trying to glean more info out of the documents.

Whatcha think?

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”

Twice In Just Weeks

The media and some pundits have been making a big deal out of the fact that Trump has had to endure two assassination attempts in mere weeks….unprecedented, right?

And that opens it up for me to drop some history on these people.

Think back to 1975….if you can possibly do that without hurting yourself……the President is Gerald Ford and he had to deal with two attempts in the month of September….

In September 1975, the nation was stunned when President Gerald Ford survived two assassination attempts within just 17 days, both occurring in California and both carried out by women.

While unsuccessful, the shootings highlighted the social and political tensions in a country still reeling from the Vietnam War and the Watergate scandal. The year before, Ford had unexpectedly become president when Richard Nixon resigned. Before that he had been appointed to the vice presidency when Spiro Agnew had resigned.

“Ford had come into office under a great wave of popularity, which he enjoyed for the first month—until September 8, 1974, when he pardoned Richard Nixon,” says Mirelle Luecke, supervisor curator for the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan. “Ford “[He] struggled with his popularity ratings after that. The country was also facing the end of the Vietnam War and massive inflation, so it was a time of a lot of change and a lot of difficulty.”

At first, the two assassination attempts against Ford seemed as if they might turn the clock back to the dark days of the 1960s, when the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy convulsed American politics, according to Ken Hughes, a historian with the University of Virginia’s Miller Center. 

“But Ford survived both attempts on his life without so much a scratch, so the assassination attempts did no lasting damage,” he says. “The buzzword was ‘decompression.’ After years of tumult and controversy, the pressure was finally off.” 

https://www.history.com/news/gerald-ford-assassination-attempts-1975-lessons

You see poor little Trump is not the only presidential candidate to suffer with assassination attempts.

I love some history!

So get over it and move on to the real important stuff in this election.

Class Dismissed!

I Read, I Write, You Know

“lego ergo scribo”