Was Mar-a-Lago Intruder Motivated by Epstein Obsession?
The young man who was shot and killed by Secret Service after raising a shotgun to firing position on Trump’s estate was fixated on the “evil.”
“You used to have to have facts before you said stuff,” complained Whoopi Goldberg on “The View” last week. Notwithstanding Goldberg’s extensive experience spouting off about things without the facts, her gripe was a response to reports that her name showed up in Jeffrey Epstein’s emails.
“Well, Trump is on this list 38,000 times,” retorted her cohost, Joy Behar. “I mean, come on.”
Goldberg replied, “Well, I can’t speak to him, but I’m speaking about me because I’m getting dragged.”
Like every American, I’ll await with bated breath to hear what Whoopi and the gang have to say about the man who was killed by Secret Service agents on Sunday because he showed up at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate with a shotgun and a gas can due to the president’s name being in the Epstein files. Goldberg is “getting dragged”? Well, Trump’s life is on the line. Again.
“The View” didn’t discuss it yesterday, so I guess I’ll keep waiting. Much of the rest of the media downplayed it.
To be sure, this wasn’t a near-miss like Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, when 20-year-old Thomas Crooks fired eight shots with his rifle and came within an inch of taking Trump’s life. He did kill Corey Comperatore, a former local fire chief, and critically wounded two other men.
This wasn’t even a replay of West Palm Beach, Florida. While Trump was playing a round of golf in September 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, hid in the bushes with a rifle, ready to take a shot before Secret Service agents spotted and arrested him.
On Sunday, 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin of Moore County, North Carolina, didn’t get close to Trump, who wasn’t even at his Florida estate at the time. But despite his Trump-loving family background, Martin was likely motivated by the same kind of hateful and deranged rhetoric that has become the stock in trade of Democrats these days.
There doesn’t seem to be a whole lot of “there” there with the Epstein files, but many Americans — maybe especially young, disaffected men — are obsessed with the rampant criminal corruption they believe has overrun our institutions of power, including Donald Trump’s White House. Martin seems to have been “fixated” on the files.
“I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable,” he wrote in a text thread with a coworker a week ago. “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have. Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”
He was deeply concerned about a concerted government cover-up intended to help elites keep “getting away with it.” Congressional Democrats have encouraged that exact sentiment about Trump because his Justice Department hemmed and hawed and foot-dragged about releasing the files.
So did Joe Biden’s Justice Department, but never mind that.
Also, never mind that if Trump had even a whiff of criminal behavior alleged in the files, Democrats would have been trumpeting and prosecuting it years ago.
Still, the New York Post reported an unintentionally hilarious line: “Authorities haven’t revealed a motive for the potential thwarted attack.”
Sure. Maybe Martin just wanted to go through Melania Trump’s underwear drawer like the FBI did in 2022. Yeah, that’s it.
“Got a lot of people gunning for me, don’t I?” Trump whimsically responded on Monday. “You read about all these crazy shooters, but they only go after consequential presidents,” he added. “They don’t go after non-consequential presidents.”
His daughter-in-law, Lara Trump, was much more circumspect. “Whenever you just casually throw around terms like Nazi, like fascist, like Hitler, and racist, what do you think the consequences of that ultimately will be?” she asked rhetorically. “And I’ll tell you as a family member, I keep wondering how many chances does one man get? He’s not gonna be lucky enough at some point,” she continued. “You don’t get lucky every single time.”
No, you don’t. Charlie Kirk wasn’t lucky.
In any case, with tonight’s State of the Union Address, Democrats and their Leftmedia propagandists will return to their regularly scheduled Trump derangement.
