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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    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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      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.

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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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    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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      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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    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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      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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    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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    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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        A really bad one? From a guy with a family of trump supporters? That went to a house no one was staying at? Who traveled from North Carolina? Seems like a pointless staging. No one’s going to get all up in arms about this.

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      I had similar thoughts about the Butler shooter, at the time. If they were associated with the Democrats, his administration would have made an example of them by now.

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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.