The 21-year-old man shot and killed by Secret Service agents after allegedly attempting to break into President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home in the early hours of Sunday came from a family of “avid Trump supporters,” according to a relative.

The FBI confirmed the suspect was Austin Tucker Martin, who entered the premises at the resort’s north gate armed with a shotgun and a gas canister around 1:30 a.m. Sunday.

Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, were not at the Florida residence at the time.

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    I knew this guy was going to be a crazed maga dude just because they called him a crazy gunman and not some kind of leftist antifa assassin.

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      I just assume their right wing because they turn to violence. Not saying leftist groups can’t be violent but the scales are about as unbalanced as the amount of Republicans convicted of child molestation. Shit is not EVEN REMOTELY even

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    Every American armed agency: “shoot first, ask questions later.” It turns out that every American soldier, policeman, agent is a bloodthirsty killer, for money. Not a nice people.

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      I take it the other way…they have a job but they are scared shitless when something even mildly threatening happens, and react accordingly. It’s more about cowardice and fear than machismo.

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        Why go through life being a coward afraid of anything that moves, when you can go through life being a coward while getting paid with a loaded weapon at all times to be afraid of anything that moves.

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      It’s the job of the cops to make an X post explaining what happened.

      The news media’s job is to embed that X post in an article, then repeat what the X post says verbatim in the text followed by search engine fodder words and then spam their site with irrelevant sane-washing filler propaganda articles. This is an example of the latter.

        • Why would we want people to read? Sensational headlines are far more compelling. The body of an article? That’s just to legitimize our opinions. How else do we set ourselves apart from the hundreds of thousands of other opinion makers on mainstream social media?

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    Wo-ho! Just as i predicted when I first read the news. A Trump fanboy. Armed, dangerous, and too stupid to check if his target is actually in.

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      Yeah… I stopped trying to make sense of it and just take the most ridiculous parts (which is most of it) in jest most of the time.

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    And the only photo showing the supposed weapons is a shitty faxed (note the scan lines) picture printed out and laying on the asphalt?

    Color me sus. If it was real, Kash would have already been tweeting classified information.

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    How many more trump voters are gonna have to try and kill trump before people realize he’s quickly losing support?

    MAGA is eating itself, and has been for a while now

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        A Vance presidency would be worse than a Trump presidency, IMO. Trump is doing a fantastic job fucking everything up, exposing US imperialism, pushing the entire country towards the left, and revealing fascists for who they are. At this point, his death would be a negative for us.

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    Surprise surprise. A MAGAt moron.

    One so stupid he went there despite the Pedo-in-Chief not even being there…

    • maybe show some respect to this man who got out of his house and tried something. We don’t know how he voted. We don’t know what this man believed, besides that he was rightfully disgusted by the Epstein Files. Lots of people disagree with their parents; like, y’know, the killers behind the last two big assassinations.

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        Agreed. They’re heroes and shouldn’t be dismissed as just crazed nutjobs. But they’re innocent actually. We won’t know the political motivations until the responsible mossad agents are caught.

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          We’re all tired of pretending it’s fine for the rich to rape and torture children on our dime. Anyone driven to act is not some villain or violent animal, but someone with a sense of justice, a firearm, and a self destructive lack of inhibition.

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    Supports my theory that this was a version of suicide by cop. He just couldn’t live with his family any more and needed a way out.

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      I saw something about him not having any bullets. That’s a pretty good indicator for suicide by cop.

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      When I think of how twisted and fucked up the world around you has to be to coexist with a Trump supporter? That makes total sense.

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      He could at least have done one of those big family sayonara’s & then called it an adios. No one would be the least bit surprised or upset.

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    Was he wearing a suit from Men’s Wearhouse? Some tactical gear? Abercrombie & Fitch? Bass Pro Shops panties? It doesn’t matter one bit what he was wearing. I’m just curious about failed mission fashions.