The 21-year-old man shot dead after entering Mar-a-Lago with a shotgun and gas canister on Sunday was an “outspoken” Christian, a strong Trump supporter, and obsessed with the cover-up of the Epstein files, according to people who knew him.

  • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
    111·
    19 hours ago

    Going off:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_presidential_assassination_attempts_and_plots

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/7f0896b7-0026-4651-8aef-d3a02f569927.png

    And Trump’s still got almost three-quarters of his second term to go.

    GNU R source

    assassination-attempts.csv:

    Number,Name,Assassination Attempts
7,Andrew Jackson,1
16,Abraham Lincoln,5
20,James A. Garfield,1
25,William McKinley,1
26,Theodore Roosevelt,1
27,William Howard Taft,2
31,Herbert Hoover,1
32,Franklin D. Roosevelt,1
33,Harry S. Truman,2
35,John F. Kennedy,2
37,Richard Nixon,2
38,Gerald Ford,3
40,Ronald Reagan,1
41,George H. W. Bush,1
42,Bill Clinton,5
43,George W. Bush,2
44,Barack Obama,13
45,Donald Trump,16
46,Joe Biden,2

    assassination-attempts.r:

    if (!require("pacman")) install.packages("pacman")
  pacman::p_load(
              ggdark,
              ggplot2
          )

  df <- read.csv("assassination-attempts.csv")

  ggplot() +
      aes(x=Number, y=df$Assassination.Attempts) +
      geom_col(data=df) +
      geom_text(aes(x=df$Number,label=df$Name,angle=90,y=.1,hjust=0)) +
      labs(x="Presidential Number", y="Number of Assassination Attempts")

  ggsave("assassination-attempts.png",
         plot=last_plot(),
         width=16,
         height=9,
         type="cairo-png",
         dpi="retina")
    • iturnedintoanewt@lemmy.world
      5·
      18 hours ago

      Seems they’re including some elder people on that list for merely making facebook threats? I mean sure investigate these by all means, but I wouldn’t consider it a…credible assassination attempt.