Nut Tries to Shoot Trump – How Might This Play Out in Our Insane World ?

Addendum – 16 September 2024:
As I type this, it IS “tomorrow”. Yesterday, I thought of the possibility that somebody could set up an assassination nest and it wouldn’t even be against Florida law. Today, talking heads on TV are just waking up to that possibility. Amazing! I wonder what they’re going to do about that. Expect more nuts to emerge as the realization sinks in.

I remember when Reagan, as governor of California, (Yes! I’m THAT old.) was in favor of laws to regulate the ownership of guns. Why? Because the Black Panthers in California had realized that if whitey could walk around armed, they could too.

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As I watch news and write (It’s my weird retirement hobby.), I imagine what strange developments might pop out of the mosh pit. The initial rush of news about the second assassination attempt against Trump has washed past. They got the guy in jail now. It’s all over except for the long, involved, convoluted and labyrinthine legal process.

Ah, what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive.

• Sir Walther Scott

They got him red-handed right in the act. What could go wrong? … Plenty, once lawyers get involved.

I haven’t seen a detailed timeline, but here’s my amateur recollection of what happened.

1 – The nut sets up with gun and camera in a prime location just outside the fence at Trump’s golf course and waits.

2 – A very alert Secret Service agent, scounting ahead of Trump, spots the guy.

3 – Here’s where I might have it a little wrong and it makes a difference. I *think* that the Secret Service agent lets off one or more shots since it’s clearly an assassination ambush.

4 – The nut runs off, to be captured by the County Mounties not long after that.

So … Assuming that the guy hires a lawyer who is as slippery as an eel in thin mud – which describes most of them – here’s how the defense might proceed.

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the case is simple. My client has committed no crime. And, in fact, the federal officer assaulted him when he was simply exercising his rights in the Free State of Florida. As a patriotic citizen and in view of the fact that the Secret Service failed Donald J. Trump, the hope of America, in a very recent attempt on his life, my client recognized the obvious risk of another attempt on President Trump’s life and was ONLY there to prevent it, should it occur. In the great Free State of Florida, citizens are encouraged to be proactive in their armed defense of themselves and others That is the ONLY thing my client is guilty of. It makes no difference in proving my client’s innocence, but we will be filing suit against the Secret Service agent who endangered my client’s life by firing at him.

Think it might work? It sounds like something Trump or Vance might say and ALMOST half the country believes them implicitly. It should be easy to get one member of a jury to believe it.