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Family of man, 21, shot dead by police at Mar-a-Lago express disbelief: ‘We are big Trump supporters, all of us’
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Tony Bark pawb.social tonytins@pawb.social
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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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seathru quokk.au seathru@quokk.au
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#2 · (edited) Quote Reply

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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Tony Bark pawb.social tonytins@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-04
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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.

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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ZiggyTheZygote lemmy.ca ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2026-01-03
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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.

I smell another staged assassination attempt.

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sns lemmy.dbzer0.com sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Joined: 2025-10-19
#5 · Quote Reply

Republicans: "We're not just evil! We're incompetent too!"

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givesomefucks lemmy.world givesomefucks@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-30
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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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krashmo lemmy.world krashmo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-03
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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

Hopefully one of them succeeds before too long

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Bluefalcon discuss.tchncs.de Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-07-04
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MAGA was built on the idea of a cabal of pedos running the world. The outcome seems normal.

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ohulancutash feddit.uk ohulancutash@feddit.uk
Joined: 2025-02-16
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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.

He’s too busy partying at the Olympics.

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Bubbaonthebeach lemmy.ca Bubbaonthebeach@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-02-15
#10 · Quote Reply

Supports my theory that this was a version of suicide by cop. He just couldn't live with his family any more and needed a way out.

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CharlesDarwin lemmy.world CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-22
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He’s too busy partying at the Olympics.

He'll be on the scene as soon as he can get the right jacket.

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wuffah lemmy.world wuffah@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-03-12
#12 · Quote Reply

Constantly trying to make sense of MAGA rhetoric would drive me insane too.

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switcheroo lemmy.world switcheroo@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-08-01
#13 · Quote Reply

Surprise surprise. A MAGAt moron.

One so stupid he went there despite the Pedo-in-Chief not even being there...

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6stringringer lemmy.zip 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-11
#14 · (edited) Quote Reply

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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skhayfa lemmy.world skhayfa@lemmy.world
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It's becoming a trend

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Tony Bark pawb.social tonytins@pawb.social
Joined: 2023-06-04
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Constantly trying to make sense of MAGA rhetoric would drive me insane too.

Yeah... I stopped trying to make sense of it and just take the most ridiculous parts (which is most of it) in jest most of the time.

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AngryRedHerring lemmy.world AngryRedHerring@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-11
#17 · Quote Reply

Republicans: "We're not just evil! We're incompetent too!"

Their one saving grace

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RedGreenBlue lemmy.zip RedGreenBlue@lemmy.zip
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#18 · Quote Reply

He didn't leave a message? Was he just on drugs?

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mycodesucks lemmy.world mycodesucks@lemmy.world
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Supports my theory that this was a version of suicide by cop. He just couldn't live with his family any more and needed a way out.

When I think of how twisted and fucked up the world around you has to be to coexist with a Trump supporter? That makes total sense.

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6stringringer lemmy.zip 6stringringer@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-11
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Supports my theory that this was a version of suicide by cop. He just couldn't live with his family any more and needed a way out.

He could at least have done one of those big family sayonara’s & then called it an adios.
No one would be the least bit surprised or upset.

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ColeSloth discuss.tchncs.de ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-08-18
#21 · Quote Reply

I smell another staged assassination attempt.

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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KelvarCherry [They/Them] lemmy.blahaj.zone KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-21
#22 · Quote Reply

Surprise surprise. A MAGAt moron. One so stupid he went there despite the Pedo-in-Chief not even being there...

maybe show some respect to this man who got out of his house and tried something. We don't know how he voted. We don't know what this man believed, besides that he was rightfully disgusted by the Epstein Files. Lots of people disagree with their parents; like, y'know, the killers behind the last two big assassinations.

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Treczoks lemmy.world Treczoks@lemmy.world
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#23 · Quote Reply

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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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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that's another checked off bingo square

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MinnesotaGoddam lemmy.world HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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#25 · Quote Reply

i don't believe for a second their story

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brachiosaurus mander.xyz brachiosaurus@mander.xyz
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#26 · Quote Reply

Why is there a news about his family being trump supporters but not about what happened?

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FauxLiving lemmy.world FauxLiving@lemmy.world
Joined: 2025-02-10
#27 · Quote Reply

‘We are big Trump supporters, all of us’

Evidence would suggest otherwise.

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itisileclerk lemmy.world itisileclerk@lemmy.world
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#28 · Quote Reply

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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melsaskca lemmy.ca melsaskca@lemmy.ca
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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.

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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bthest lemmy.world bold_atlas@lemmy.world
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#30 · (edited) Quote Reply

Why is there a news about his family being trump supporters but not about what happened?

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.

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TranscendentalEmpire lemmy.today TranscendentalEmpire@lemmy.today
Joined: 2025-06-09
#31 · Quote Reply

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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bthest lemmy.world bold_atlas@lemmy.world
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#32 · (edited) Quote Reply

maybe show some respect to this man who got out of his house and tried something. We don't know how he voted. We don't know what this man believed, besides that he was rightfully disgusted by the Epstein Files. Lots of people disagree with their parents; like, y'know, the killers behind the last two big assassinations.

Agreed. They're heroes and shouldn't be dismissed as just crazed nutjobs. But they're innocent actually. We won't know the political motivations until the responsible mossad agents are caught.

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Gaja0 lemmy.zip Gaja0@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-06-30
#33 · Quote Reply

Agreed. They're heroes and shouldn't be dismissed as just crazed nutjobs. But they're innocent actually. We won't know the political motivations until the responsible mossad agents are caught.

We're all tired of pretending it's fine for the rich to rape and torture children on our dime. Anyone driven to act is not some villain or violent animal, but someone with a sense of justice, a firearm, and a self destructive lack of inhibition.

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CmdrShepard49 sh.itjust.works CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works
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#34 · Quote Reply

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.

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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anomnom sh.itjust.works anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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#35 · Quote Reply

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.

Occam’s Razor says he went off the deep end about the Epstein crimes and wanted justice.

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PhoenixDog lemmy.world PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
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#36 · Quote Reply

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.

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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PhoenixDog lemmy.world PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
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#37 · Quote Reply

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.

Then load site with a crippling amount of ads that you can't even read the fucking article.

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Cosmonauticus lemmy.world Cosmonauticus@lemmy.world
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#38 · Quote Reply

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.

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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PhoenixDog lemmy.world PhoenixDog@lemmy.world
Joined: 2026-01-14
#39 · Quote Reply

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.

No one has ever accused MAGA of having any sort of critical thought or intelligence.

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ColeSloth discuss.tchncs.de ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de
Joined: 2023-08-18
#40 · Quote Reply

Occam’s Razor says he went off the deep end about the Epstein crimes and wanted justice.

I'd agree.

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KelvarCherry [They/Them] lemmy.blahaj.zone KelvarCherry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Joined: 2025-09-21
#41 · Quote Reply

Then load site with a crippling amount of ads that you can't even read the fucking article.

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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Treczoks lemmy.world Treczoks@lemmy.world
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#42 · Quote Reply

Hopefully one of them succeeds before too long

They only have to get lucky once, and they basically breed stupid armed criminals.

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bearboiblake [he/him] pawb.social bearboiblake@pawb.social
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#43 · Quote Reply

Hopefully one of them succeeds before too long

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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Fedizen lemmy.world Fedizen@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-07-04
#44 · (edited) Quote Reply

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.

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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KeenFlame feddit.nu KeenFlame@feddit.nu
Joined: 2023-08-20
#45 · Quote Reply

Yeah... I stopped trying to make sense of it and just take the most ridiculous parts (which is most of it) in jest most of the time.

They are not jests, though. They really are killing people

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merdaverse lemmy.zip merdaverse@lemmy.zip
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#46 · Quote Reply

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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hayvan piefed.world hayvan@piefed.world
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#47 · Quote Reply

Constantly trying to make sense of MAGA rhetoric would drive me insane too.

The trick is not to think about, anything ever

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WindyRebel lemmy.world WindyRebel@lemmy.world
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#48 · Quote Reply

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.

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?

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Alberat lemmy.world Alberat@lemmy.world
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#49 · (edited) Quote Reply

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?

I'm helping by only reading the title and then proceeding to speculate about the suspect's ideology and ethnicity in the comments!

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bearboiblake [he/him] pawb.social bearboiblake@pawb.social
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#50 · Quote Reply

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 eve...

Vance has consistently demonstrated that he's way better at not saying the quiet part out loud. He's far better at justifying fascist behavior and sugar coating it in a way that centrists/independents find more palatable. Like the whole made up fentanyl bullshit about venezuela, then Trump came out and talked about how it's all for oil.

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SaveTheTuaHawk lemmy.ca SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
Joined: 2025-03-07
#51 · Quote Reply

Why is there a news about his family being trump supporters but not about what happened?

Idiot showed up to Maralago with gun and a can of gas, got killed.

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