The 21-year-old man shot and killed by Secret Service agents after allegedly attempting to break into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in the early hours of Sunday came from a family of “avid Trump supporters,” according to a relative.

The FBI confirmed the suspect was Austin Tucker Martin, who entered the premises at the resort’s north gate armed with a shotgun and a gas canister around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were not at the Florida residence at the time.

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    And the only photo showing the supposed weapons is a shitty faxed (note the scan lines) picture printed out and laying on the asphalt?

    Color me sus. If it was real, Kash would have already been tweeting classified information.

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      I had similar thoughts about the Butler shooter, at the time. If they were associated with the Democrats, his administration would have made an example of them by now.

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      Also note that they claim he was shot after aiming the shotgun at police yet there doesn’t appear to be any blood on the weapon.

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        A really bad one? From a guy with a family of trump supporters? That went to a house no one was staying at? Who traveled from North Carolina? Seems like a pointless staging. No one’s going to get all up in arms about this.

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    Was he wearing a suit from Men’s Wearhouse? Some tactical gear? Abercrombie & Fitch? Bass Pro Shops panties? It doesn’t matter one bit what he was wearing. I’m just curious about failed mission fashions.

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    Wo-ho! Just as i predicted when I first read the news. A Trump fanboy. Armed, dangerous, and too stupid to check if his target is actually in.

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      It’s the job of the cops to make an X post explaining what happened.

      The news media’s job is to embed that X post in an article, then repeat what the X post says verbatim in the text followed by search engine fodder words and then spam their site with irrelevant sane-washing filler propaganda articles. This is an example of the latter.

        • Why would we want people to read? Sensational headlines are far more compelling. The body of an article? That’s just to legitimize our opinions. How else do we set ourselves apart from the hundreds of thousands of other opinion makers on mainstream social media?

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    Every American armed agency: “shoot first, ask questions later.” It turns out that every American soldier, policeman, agent is a bloodthirsty killer, for money. Not a nice people.

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      I take it the other way…they have a job but they are scared shitless when something even mildly threatening happens, and react accordingly. It’s more about cowardice and fear than machismo.

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        Why go through life being a coward afraid of anything that moves, when you can go through life being a coward while getting paid with a loaded weapon at all times to be afraid of anything that moves.

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          I mean my favorite JFK theory is that that JFK got shot when the secret service car slammed on the brakes after Oswald opened fire on the governor of texas.

          The funniest possible way for trump to die is his own secret service blasting him while trying to take down a perp.

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    Apparently there was a history of mental illness in the suspect’s family:

    We are big Trump supporters, all of us

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    I knew this guy was going to be a crazed maga dude just because they called him a crazy gunman and not some kind of leftist antifa assassin.

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      I just assume their right wing because they turn to violence. Not saying leftist groups can’t be violent but the scales are about as unbalanced as the amount of Republicans convicted of child molestation. Shit is not EVEN REMOTELY even

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    How many more trump voters are gonna have to try and kill trump before people realize he’s quickly losing support?

    MAGA is eating itself, and has been for a while now

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        A Vance presidency would be worse than a Trump presidency, IMO. Trump is doing a fantastic job fucking everything up, exposing US imperialism, pushing the entire country towards the left, and revealing fascists for who they are. At this point, his death would be a negative for us.

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          Vance is less charismatic than Trump and MAGA (or perhaps Republicans who were leaning that way) has people waking up and pushing back. Approval is going down and courts are even doing some things against his power now.

          Despite Vance being smarter, if they can’t pull this off under their own charismatic leader with a major base backing them then I doubt Vance could do much. I think he’d get even more push back from courts and I doubt the military would side with the couch fucker if he tried to actually push martial law or turn the military against the people.

          In short, Vance’s agenda would be the same as Trump’s and if it’s not popular now, do we really think it would be successful with a less charismatic person in charge?