Secret Service Saved Trump From Attempted Assassination

[Totally Tunsie]

Source: Newsweek

Operatives of the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) attempted to assassinate Donald Trump when the president was in Manila, the Philippines, last year but were stopped by Secret Service agents.

In November 2017, Trump was in the city for the Association of South East Asian Nations’ ASEAN 50 Summit, where he met with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, when the botched assassination effort took place. The planned killing was previously kept under wraps until National Geographic disclosed it during Sunday’s two-hour television special about the Secret Service, United States Secret Service: On the Front Line.


Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/secret-service-saved-trump-from-attempted-assassination/ar-BBOqK0j?li=BBnbfcL

[bdamomma]

1. I thought

Duerte was Trump's ace boy.

[Totally Tunsie]

3. A case of "What have you done for me lately?"

Trust no one when in a position of power.

[LovingA2andMI]

2. No Comment....

.....

[Shrike47]

4. Do we find this credible?

[Totally Tunsie]

6. If we can swallow the thought that tRump is President, then virtually anything else

in this life can be credible...sorry to say.

[dhol82]

5. Sounds like White House propaganda.

Selling it for the base.

[iluvtennis]

8. +++ agree. right before the mid terms. Something is smelly.

[dhol82]

11. By the way, I love tennis also

Sadly, I had to stop last year. Multiple herniated discs got so bad that I just couldn’t swivel for my forehands. Major pain.
Really pissed I could not continue. It was a major part of my life for more than thirty years.
Have found another sport that does not impact my back - flying trapeze. Have no problem with back issues and am really closing in on a kick-ass layout!
Happy!

[efhmc]

7. Don't usually write in all caps but I DO NOT BELIEVE IT!!!

nt

[wysi]

9. I call bullshit

This never happened.

[llmart]

22. Yep.

It took almost a year to report this AND we supposedly are to find out about it on a TV program?

Give me a break.

[EarthFirst]

10. Fake News!

I’m not buying it.

[jmowreader]

12. I have no idea why ISIS would want to kill Little Hands

He has done so much for their recruitment efforts...

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. depends on how much Pence might have paid them?

[Baitball Blogger]

13. Thank goodness.

We don't need this S.O.B. to become a martyr.

[Grassy Knoll]

14. Caca Don...

[flotsam]

15. Total horseshit!

Read the story-internet threats and two guys captured it a park before Trump even arrived...no weapons, no concrete plan, no logistics, no nothing...

[Totally Tunsie]

17. Hey, I didn't write it. LOL

I just laid it out for discussion.

[flotsam]

18. LOL

Consider it discussed...

[ProfessorGAC]

49. My First Thought As Well

I simply don't believe this story.

[Jarqui]

16. My mother use to say "if you don't have something nice to say, don't say it" ... nt

[JohnnyRingo]

20. Good. I want them to do their job.

Trump is our problem. We'll take care of him in our traditional way. Besides, martyrdom is exactly what would rouse his base to put him on Rushmore and seek someone just like him.

I want him in Leavenworth.

[cstanleytech]

21. I doubt the story as if it happened Trump would have been milking it and milking it.

[LiberalFighter]

23. Either NG was trying to sensationalise their show or

the Secret Service is trying to increase their stature.

[mikeysnot]

57. Who owns NG now...?

Rupert Murdock.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/national-geographic-magazine-shifts-to-for-profit-status-with-fox-partnership/2015/09/09/7c9f034e-56f0-11e5-8bb1-b488d231bba2_story.html

[left-of-center2012]

24. Attempted Assassination ?

Reads as if none were 'attempted'.

[pansypoo53219]

25. WOLF! WOLF! WOLF!

[Beacool]

26. Pity...

[tenderfoot]

27. LOL

what a steaming pile of bullshit.

[packman]

28. Naw, not true - If there was an attempt

Don would have leapt out of his bulletproof car, grabbed two mini-submachine guns and killed any and all ISIS soldiers in the area. He is the bestest for this sort of thing - a combination of G.I. Joe and Rambo.

[PSPS]

29. LOL. Pure propaganda. Rupert Murdoch took over NG three years ago.

[sheshe2]

30. If this happened, and this is a bigly IF.

Trump would have been in front of his adoring fans after smearing himself in goats blood. He would be telling them how he heroically tackled 12 would be assassins and killed them all by beating them to death with his putter.

[Journeyman]

31. If true, good for them . . .

Last thing we need is Trump martyred. Worse, to have murder determine our politics yet again. We need to rid ourselves of Trump through judicial, constitutional means. Only then shall we have a possibility of rebuilding what he, and the Republicans, have so ruthlessly destroyed.

[demtenjeep]

32. they should have responded-I see nothing I hear nothing

other than becoming a mayrter that would BE BEST

[Glorfindel]

33. National Geographic is no longer a reliable source for anything since Rupert Murdoch bought it

Consider the source.

[Freethinker65]

34. Nice to know the Secret Service is still staffed by qualified professionals

[Bernardo de La Paz]

35. Timing of this release is very suspicious just before the election

Very distracting too.

I understand documentaries are in the works for a long time, but golly. Three weeks before the election. NatGeo knew the meaning of that date long beforehand, and knew and know the sympathy effect of an announcement like this.

[More_Cowbell]

36. Pence would be worse than Trump

Since he's what the GOP wanted all along, but they knew that Pence couldn't win the nomination.

So, I guess, thanks, Secret Service?

[LenaBaby61]

37. Secret Service Saved Trump From Attempted Assassination.

IF true:

[BlueStater]

38. Probably best that I don't touch this subject with a ten foot poll.

Nope. Staying out of it.

[IndianaDave]

39. You folks do know that the National Geographic channel is owned by Fox, right?

It was bought by Fox News around a year ago. Maybe a little longer. When I read about it, I remember thinking, "This can't be good!" Now NG features lots of shows about drug trafficking, and other problematic issues. Check out their programming schedule. They still have some cool stuff, but they also insert material that supports the agenda of the radical right. Don't you just wonder how they learned about the assassination attempt and how they got permission to include it, conveniently, right before the mid-term elections? Hmmmm!

[muriel_volestrangler]

40. "Secret Service members apprehended them" ... and then what?

I know the is the Philippines, and Duterte has a reputation for killing people without investigation or trial, but is that what happened - the Secret Service gave these two to Duterte to kill? Or were there, you know, charges, and maybe a trial? With names for this "world-be assassin" and associate?

Did anyone watch the NG TV show? Did they give any more details of this alleged plot?

[Paladin]

41. I don't believe it. Not for one damn minute.

It's just another "Look At Me, Me, Me!!!!" deflection maneuver, an effort to get his dumbfuck base charged up for the midterms.

[old guy]

42. BS.

[thearchive]

43. Remember: They tried to assassinate Clinton when he visited

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/philippines/6867331/Osama-bin-Laden-came-within-minutes-of-killing-Bill-Clinton.html

The US leader was saved shortly before his car was due to drive over a bridge in Manila where a bomb had been planted.

The foiled attack came during Mr Clinton's visit to the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in the city in 1996.

[MrModerate]

44. A good thing. Trump at least hasn't wrecked . . .

The Secret Service, yet.

They still do their jobs, regardless of how much teeth-gritting is involved.

[elmac]

45. fake news nt

[Mosby]

46. im surprised at the response here

I don't see any reason not to believe it, honestly I'm surprised there aren't more attempts to kill the bastard.

[VWolf]

47. I don't get it. What was their motivation?

He's done more to damage our country than ISIS ever could.

[Texin]

48. Shame they do such a good job.

[Blue_Tires]

50. This is supposed to be *good* news?

[yesphan]

51. People

are saying this. It must be true.

[kimbutgar]

52. Sounds like a phoney distraction to take off this Khashoggi story

Timing is really coincidental.

[RockRaven]

53. This is Trumpist propaganda designed to rile up the Right Wing before the election.

The Secret Service is always interfering with bad actors trying to harm POTUS, regardless of who is POTUS. That's what they do.

This isn't breaking news nor a revelation. But it gets talked up NOW of all times because it is politically useful to do so.

Wake up and recognize the game corporate media is an enthusiastic participant in -- access journalism-based propaganda disguised as "scoops" and "breaking news."

[Totally Tunsie]

56. Showing our DUers material that is filmed by NG, published by Newsweek and

highlighted on MSN serves the purpose of arming us to be on the ready to counteract with information to dispute the original premise. I feel it is important for us to be totally aware of all that is being presented for public consumption, pro or con our Democratic beliefs and caveats.

To consistently read only those materials which fall completely in line with Democratic principles does us as much harm as viewers listening only to Faux News for their particular point of view. To be able to counterpoint that with which we do not agree, we must first be aware that it exists.

[CatMor]

54. I don't believe it happened ...

more propaganda.

[blueinredohio]

55. I call bullshit

[mikeysnot]

58. They pulled this stunt before in the 2016 election

[pwb]

59. Didn't Rupert Murdoch buy the national geographic?

Think so. Enough said.

[yurbud]

60. this has a whiff of propaganda about it.

Why would ISIS go after a president who is on good terms with countries that write their paychecks?