Donald Trump has watched a video clip of the attempt on his life at a Pennsylvania rally “over and over again,” leading to fears that he may be suffering from PTSD, according to a report.

The former president has viewed the “seven-second” clip, in which his right ear was grazed with a bullet, multiple times – an act which has not helped a reported mental spiral brought on by Joe Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 race.

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    He doesn’t have PTSD he has a victim complex and a god complex fighting to figure out what the next profoundly stupid thing he will say or do.

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      And as an event that almost changed everything, it was forgotten about in about 3 days. It is crazy to me how quickly no one gave a fuck that he’d almost been assassinated. It fell off the news cycle before Biden stepped out of the race. I guess once they figured out it was a crazy guy and not politically motivated, no one cared.

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        But you know that if it was a minority or someone on the left, they would have milked that shit until it was desert dry, then try to milk it some more

        But instead it was a white guy who seemed to be a republican, or a centrist at best. So, not interesting to talk about

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          I think it more like they’re afraid of triggering an all out “night of the long knives” situation. The media isn’t stupid. They know Trump’s rhetoric has been leading to violence. It’s just that it’s been directed at the poor and PoC. Now that it’s coming home to them and other elites they’re being careful now.

          They did the same thing with the black guy that went on a shooting spree in Dallas because of Ferguson. It was the perfect race baiting story, the shooter was a genuinely mentally ill person who was a hardline black nationalist that attempted to join numerous anti police protest groups and just had that “scary black man look” that Fox News loves.

          But once it came out that

          1.) He had been ridiculously effective in killing cops using the “shoot and scoot” tactic he learned serving in Iraq. Only being stopped once the police tied a bomb to a robot they sicked after him.

          2.) He had killed to hardcore white nationalist police officers, kinda proving his point that the police were a force for black subjugation.

          The story seemed to disappear from the headlines over night.

          Compare that with the Ft. Hood shooter that was Muslim that Fox News talked about for YEARS after it occurred.

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        Yeah I was like oh shit, Biden is out, someone tried to kill Trump, he’s gonna win for sure… and then the response to Kamala’s campaign was crazy. It gives me hope.

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    Joe stepping down looking better all the time. It’s like when J Cole apologized for dissing Kendrick, people were mixed until everyone realized, “hoooly shit thank god he did that”

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        Drake and Kendrick were friendly - ish - around 10 years ago but they’ve been souring since then.

        Drake and J Cole recently collaborated on a song, First Person Shooter.

        Kendrick Lamar threw the first recent punch with a line on Like That that specifically calls out Drake and J Cole about that song.

        J Cole released a diss track in response, 7 Minute Drill, went to bed, woke up, and then decided he didn’t want the smoke and removed himself from the situation and removed the song from streaming services. Drake took the bait and released Pushups and Taylor Made Freestyle (which he’s being sued for for other reasons).

        I’m just gonna quote the wiki article for the next part:

        In response, Lamar released “Euphoria” on April 30 and “6:16 in LA” on May 3. Drake responded with “Family Matters” later that day, accusing Lamar of being a domestic abuser and alleging that one of Lamar’s children was fathered by Dave Free. Roughly twenty minutes later, Lamar released “Meet the Grahams”, accusing Drake of sex trafficking, being a sexual predator, and fathering another secret child. Lamar then released “Not Like Us” the following day, further accusing Drake of pedophilia and disrespecting the rap scene. On May 5, Drake responded with “The Heart Part 6”, denying Lamar’s accusations and claiming that his team gave Lamar false information about the secret child. A music video for “Not Like Us” was later released on July 4.

        After seeing what Kendrick did to Drake, it is popularly believed that J Cole made the correct move. J Cole managed to neatly sidestep this entire beef and let Kendrick hit Drake with a biblical level smackdown.

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          Thank you! Especially appreciate the commentary below the wiki article - otherwise I’m not sure I would know who’s “winning” or “losing” in that mess.

          Even if no one wins, sounds like he won by not playing.

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            That’s the general consensus, yeah. Kendrick wins the actual beef but J Cole wins the most out of all three of them by just not being present.

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        Where did you get the impression that words like covfefe and Kamabla were tweeted with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry?

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          They never were. “with full focus, stable, decent, ergonomic sitting pose and both hands dry”? Hard to imagine with Weird Don, even at the best of his times.

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    probably just jerking off. I have a few videos i always go back to for that. But i am usually not in them myself.

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    Can someone spread a credible-sounding rumour that due to this shooting Trump is considering a ban on guns?

    It would be the death of MAGA, as they internally wrestle their love of guns for their fanatic support of Trump.

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      Trump has been screeching about gun control behind closed doors. It’s hard to find information on it because his staffers are understandably keeping that from the media. But he’s been screaming about it since he was shot at.

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        Oh man, can you imagine the shitstorm if the Harris campaign were to get hold of that footage? Imagine the Dems targeting the GOP by saying “look, they want to take your guns!”