The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him.

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[–] 125 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Martin is the second person to attempt to enter Mar-a-Lago with the intent to kill the president, and the third in general. In 2024, Ryan Routh attempted to assassinate Donald Trump at the Florida estate. He was recently sentenced to life in prison. And of course, Thomas Matthew Crooks attempted to kill Trump in Pennsylvania in 2024. All three were white men.

I don't know how many more trump supporters trying to kill trump it will take for people to realize he's actually losing support...

But at least they're not attacking innocent people.

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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    and this is just the dumb/emotionally unregulated, acting on pure impulse as their programming breaks.

    i have a feeling there are a lot more calculated killers out there waiting to see how the midterms turn out. will a wave of progressives get enough control to hold people accountable or just "business as usual"

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    Every poll shows him with a steady 30% support.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Gallup literally stopped once it was 27% with no indication of the drop halting...

    Sometimes I overestimate how long ago something was, but I swear that was weeks ago

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago (2 children)

    That’s one source of polling.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Well ,thanks for linking what you meant or even mentioning it.

    Because surely you're just not talking out of your ass

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  • [–] 63 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    The 21-year-old man... was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files...

    They left out "really bad planner" from the list.

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  • [–] 111 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    For anyone confused, this article is from February 23, 2026

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  • [–] 49 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    Wish more Trump supporters were like him

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  • [–] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    QAnon's whole thing was find the Deep State Pedo ring.....?

    I don't understand why the

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  • [–] 19 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    And qanon likely had direct involvement by.....

    None other than Epstein himself.

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  • [–] 2 points 8 months ago

    Epstein literally emailing that "it's easier to pick up things on the way to collapse than find the next bargain". He was 100% stoking qanon and all crazies and he's likely not the only one with power who thinks this way.

    It's becoming clear that there's an immense value in destruction given you have the power to short stuff and it's not even a secret anymore. How do we even fix something like this...

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  • [–] 26 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    So what I’m hearing you say was that he was a democrat.

    /s

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  • [–] 18 points 8 months ago

    Well, that's one "shoot your local pedophile" that tried to fulfill the boast.

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  • [–] 17 points 8 months ago

    At least some of them are willing to attempt something. They're redeemed IMHO.

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    Too bad these trump supporters aren’t competent at anything

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  • [–] 11 points 8 months ago

    Now that trump has started a war there is no other distraction he can use to avoid pedophilia charges other than nuclear. That old quote by Burke about evil gaining a foothold if good people do nothing seems to be true. But this was one good person acting alone. Maybe there are more?

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  • [–] 10 points 8 months ago

    He must have gotten tired of Trump making a fool out of him.

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  • [–] 9 points 8 months ago

    A CHRISTIAN MAGA? Trans Gay Libtard?

    -Republicans!

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  • [–] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

    Going off:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7f0896b7-0026-4651-8aef-d3a02f569927.png

    And Trump's still got almost three-quarters of his second term to go.

    :::spoiler GNU R source

    assassination-attempts.csv:

    Number,Name,Assassination Attempts
    7,Andrew Jackson,1
    16,Abraham Lincoln,5
    20,James A. Garfield,1
    25,William McKinley,1
    26,Theodore Roosevelt,1
    27,William Howard Taft,2
    31,Herbert Hoover,1
    32,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1
    33,Harry S. Truman,2
    35,John F. Kennedy,2
    37,Richard Nixon,2
    38,Gerald Ford,3
    40,Ronald Reagan,1
    41,George H. W. Bush,1
    42,Bill Clinton,5
    43,George W. Bush,2
    44,Barack Obama,13
    45,Donald Trump,16
    46,Joe Biden,2
    

    assassination-attempts.r:

    if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
      pacman::p_load(
                  ggdark,
                  ggplot2
              )
    
      df <- read.csv("assassination-attempts.csv")
    
      ggplot() +
          aes(x=Number, y=df$Assassination.Attempts) +
          dark_theme_light() +
          geom_col(data=df) +
          geom_text(aes(x=df$Number,label=df$Name,angle=90,y=.1,hjust=0)) +
          labs(x="Presidential Number", y="Number of Assassination Attempts")
    
      ggsave("assassination-attempts.png",
             plot=last_plot(),
             width=16,
             height=9,
             type="cairo-png",
             dpi="retina")
    
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  • [–] 12 points 8 months ago

    Well that must be a relief for Trump.

    Obviously a total one-off

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    Not the first, definitely not the last…

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  • [–] 4 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    One nit to pick: the guy who was just convicted and given life in prison did not make his attempt at Mar-a-Lago, but at Trump's golf course in Southern West Palm Beach (located, fittingly enough, on Gun Club Road). Mar-a-Lago does not have a golf course.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    This is about the guy who was killed this year 2026 at Mar-a-Lago though not about the security incident further in the past.

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  • [–] 6 points 8 months ago*

    callllled it.

    they're dripping the Trump-Epstein Friendship Archive (ooo, that acronyms well) until a qanon loses it makes a serious enough attempt on Krasnov that they can call it a terrorism and martial law us

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Also not good at knowing when Trump was somewhere else.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Another wannabe hero taken before his time.

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago

    Why are you posting this old article now?

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  • [–] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)