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Ohio Joe

(21,812 posts)
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 04:54 PM Aug 2022

Yet another person has died in defense of Trump's lies. When will it end?

The Trump death toll climbed last week. On Friday, a man armed with an assault-style rifle tried to breach security at the Cincinnati, Ohio, FBI field office. After fleeing that office, authorities say Ricky Shiffer exchanged shots with police and was eventually killed by law enforcement in a cornfield near Wilmington. The Ohio man, who was already under investigation as a potential threat, wasn’t the first deluded victim of the deadly contagion of disinformation spewing from a depraved former president and his soulless sycophants, and it’s not likely he’ll be the last.

On Friday, a man armed with an assault-style rifle tried to breach security at the Cincinnati FBI field office.

As Alyssa Rosenberg wrote for The Washington Post, at least four of Trump’s supporters died at the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot: “Ashli Babbit, who was shot while trying to climb through a broken window; Kevin Greeson, who suffered a fatal heart attack; Benjamin Philips, who succumbed to a stroke; and Rosanne Boyland, whose official cause of death was “acute amphetamine intoxication,” but who was caught up in a crush of bodies on the Capitol grounds. Christopher Stanton Georgia died by suicide later that month after he was arrested on unlawful entry charges stemming from Jan. 6. We also know that three police officers died following their defense of our Capitol.

Shiffer was already under investigation by the FBI for possible involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol. According to The New York Times, “Law enforcement officials separately said they were investigating whether Mr. Shiffer appeared in a video posted on Facebook on Jan. 5, 2021, showing him attending a pro-Trump rally at Black Lives Matter Plaza in Washington the night before the Capitol was stormed.”

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/yet-another-person-has-died-in-defense-of-trump-s-lies-when-will-it-end/ar-AA10H2M5?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fe0ecaadd6fa42669feed28b0b7a2aef

He enjoys it when his followers commit suicide for him... And they are still willing to do it... Let them die.

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Yet another person has died in defense of Trump's lies. When will it end? (Original Post) Ohio Joe Aug 2022 OP
Malignant narcissists do, indeed savor such "sacrifices" for them. And Trump is as sadistic as he is hlthe2b Aug 2022 #1
Trump probably convinced them that they will receive 73 Meadowoak Aug 2022 #2
Kamikazes dying for their emperor........ lastlib Aug 2022 #3
Not until they're all dead, I'm guessing. Aristus Aug 2022 #4
One Less Vote for him MagickMuffin Aug 2022 #5
He's a psychopath and his followers are expendable to him. Initech Aug 2022 #6
Don't forget to count the 4000/day who died central scrutinizer Aug 2022 #7
THiS, n/t malaise Aug 2022 #11
Well inthewind21 Aug 2022 #8
Ricky had some 'splainin to do GreenWave Aug 2022 #9
The MAGATS will soon be martyring him like they do Ashley Babbit. TheRealNorth Aug 2022 #10
and there's another that died because of his lies tenderfoot Aug 2022 #12

hlthe2b

(103,036 posts)
1. Malignant narcissists do, indeed savor such "sacrifices" for them. And Trump is as sadistic as he is
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 04:56 PM
Aug 2022

sociopathic.

Initech

(100,424 posts)
6. He's a psychopath and his followers are expendable to him.
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 05:12 PM
Aug 2022

He doesn't care if you live or die for his cause.

central scrutinizer

(11,745 posts)
7. Don't forget to count the 4000/day who died
Mon Aug 15, 2022, 05:16 PM
Aug 2022

Because Covid was a hoax or could be cured by bleach or horse wormer or UV light up your butt.

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