Jimmy Jones is a retired Special Forces soldier, a former Fayetteville resident, and American patriot. His perspective on the attempted assassination of Donald Trump and the overall state of our nation is frightfully compelling. There's no denying, God has provided us a not-so-subtle wake-up call to get our country in order. I doubt we will get another.
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Any political assassination can be a significant tipping point in history. WWI started with a series of events following the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, resulting in the deaths of 40 million people.
Will Saturday, July 13, 2024, go down as a two minute tipping point in history?
For many, January 6th, 2021, was a tipping point when President Trump said, “I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”
Since the beginning of the Trump era, Trump supporters have been labeled extremists, terrorists, deplorables, racists, ignorant, bigoted, dumber than hammers, a nihilistic death cult, anti-immigrant, and collectively enablers of harmful politics. Yet, short of a few bad actors on that day, there was no protest, burning of buildings, or significant “extremist” activity of any note by these people.
Since Biden took office, we have discovered that the Biden Administration worked to control free speech during Covid. Hunter Biden’s laptop story was real, and the Steel Dossier story about Trump and Russia collusion was paid for by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic National Committee, and Hunter Biden made $6 million for his involvement in Ukraine.
In contrast, Trump was impeached in 2019, for allegedly pressuring Ukrainian President Zelensky to investigate Joe and Hunter Biden. We have approved aid amounts to $175 billion to support Ukraine's war with Russia.
More recently, concerns of both parties (and the world) is President Biden's struggles to form words, which clearly manifested during the Presidential Debate on June 22nd. In the aftermath, his own party has talked about him stepping down. It is reported that during a private call with donors on July 8th, President Biden reportedly said, “I have one job, and that’s to beat Donald Trump. I’m absolutely certain I’m the best person to be able to do that. So, we’re done talking about the debate, it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye”.
I believe that the “bullseye” comment was a metaphor in the context of a political statement, but as Senator Mitch McConnell said about Trump’s speech on January 6th, “words matter,” and Saturday, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks climbed onto a rooftop and pulled the trigger five times killing one and injuring two (including Trump) before being killed by a Secret Service sniper team.
The powers that be will call the Secret Service agents heroes. Their director and that detail had only one job: to protect the person they are to protect. It is reported that the Trump campaign requested additional security, but Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas has repeatedly denied the request.
Does that matter? No. Witnesses at the event spotted the shooter with his rifle going up the building and on the roof and notified the police and Secret Service. The NY Post reported that a policeman did climb the building, and Crooks pointed his gun at him, and he retreated. The Secret Service snipers shot Crooks seconds after he first pulled the trigger, which means they already had eyes on him. At either point, radios should have been screaming to get Trump out of there.
In the coming days, we are going to hear that the shooter had mental health issues, he was bullied, weird, and guns are bad. Poppycock. When a man picks a weapon, gets ammo, drives to a location, climbs to a vantage point, sets up a gun, waits, and shoots someone in the head, that takes thought, preparation, training, and determination.
I just described what a Secret Service sniper does each day. What we will not hear about the shooter is how much time he spent on violent video games, where he got his news, who else knew, how he knew where to go, where Trump would be, where he learned to shoot, or why the Secret Service failed to respond.
Presidential fitness (mental and physical) has been a topic for both candidates, but we all know that President Biden is now handicapped and is often escorted off the stage, dazed and confused.
This I can tell you, after being shot, the Secret Service must have walloped Trump so hard that his shoes came off because Trump said, “Come on, let me get my shoes. Let me get my shoes.”
With those 12 words, he put together more cohesive words than Biden did during the debate with a week's worth of prep. Trump came up and raised his hand and said, “Fight, Fight, Fight!” With blood on his face, he was proud to be on that stage in front of people who love him, he proudly walked to his SUV, holding his fist high.
For Trump, his will is strong and vital reminding me more of Muhammad Ali than Lia Thomas. His “will” and “willpower” were not about him but about America. We all saw Trump being Trump as the crowd responded with roars of, “USA! USA! USA!”
Pray for America.

(Photo: Former President and current Presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a rally. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia)