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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    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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      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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      Also note that they claim he was shot after aiming the shotgun at police yet there doesn’t appear to be any blood on the weapon.

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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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    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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        Yeah, I stopped taking it in jest the first time fuckhead won. I immediately knew that this, widespread political violence, was the only way the Trump era could possibly go out. When people asked how I felt or what I was thinking post-election, I’d somberly say, “This isn’t going to end peacefully.”

        All signs pointed here. It was clear this narcissist cult-leader was leading a movement of violent, hate-filled, devoted followers who were itching to take out their impotent rage on anyone dear leader pointed to. Then it was clear a huge swath of the country saw all of this and thought it worth putting into power. The time to laugh was over the minute that election was called.

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

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    Apparently there was a history of mental illness in the suspect’s family:

    We are big Trump supporters, all of us

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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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          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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            I’m helping by only reading the title and then proceeding to speculate about the suspect’s ideology and ethnicity in the comments!

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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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          I mean my favorite JFK theory is that that JFK got shot when the secret service car slammed on the brakes after Oswald opened fire on the governor of texas.

          The funniest possible way for trump to die is his own secret service blasting him while trying to take down a perp.

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    Surprise surprise. A MAGAt moron.

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

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      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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    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.