Tea at Trianon: Who’s Responsible for the Second Trump Assassination Plot?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Who’s Responsible for the Second Trump Assassination Plot?

From Dr. Gorka:

I never thought I would have to write these words: my former boss – the President of the United States, the 45th President, the current leader of the opposition – was involved in a second attempt to take his life this weekend.
It was at Trump International Golf Course, not far from his Mar-a-Lago home, where the individual concerned managed to gain access to the golf course. Apparently, according to the latest reports, he had been in the area for a whole 12 hours. That individual, Ryan Routh, secreted himself in the undergrowth along a fenceline, within maybe 300 or 400 yards of the President, who was playing golf, during which time a Secret Service agent saw his weapon protruding through the chain-link fence and opened fire on Routh.
Routh proceeded to leave the scene, leaving his body armor and his weapon – a semi-automatic SKS-style Russian scoped rifle – at the scene. A bystander who heard the shots photographed Routh getting into his black Nissan, and the plate was, therefore, at that point, provided to the authorities. It was input into the state database for plate screenings for cameras that can read the license tags of vehicles, and Ryan Routh was intercepted by the local sheriffs and captured alive. (Read more.)