Does anyone remember this? It just happened in February. I admit that I didn’t and that’s because the media has hardly mentioned it. It certainly hasn’t come up in any of the reporting of last night’s events as far as I know:
The 21-year-old man who was shot and killed after having entered Donald Trump’s Florida resort on Sunday – while carrying a shotgun – came from a North Carolina family of the president’s supporters and had reportedly become increasingly fixated on the so-called Jeffrey Epstein files.
The focus of the FBI’s investigation into the intrusion attributed to Austin Tucker Martin is tightening on his movements and motives. Martin was confronted by Secret Service agents and a local sheriff’s deputy inside the secure perimeter of Mar-a-Lago and killed after he had raised a shotgun into the shooting position at about 1.30am on Sunday, law enforcement said.
Martin was a recent high school graduate who is believed to have driven down to Florida from his home in North Carolina on Saturday afternoon, obtaining the weapon en route. The New York Times reported that last year he set up his own company, Fresh Sky Illustrations, trading in original drawings of golf courses that were sold through golf course gift shops and on commission.
TMZ reported that Martin had grown increasingly obsessed with Epstein – a former friend of Trump and many other powerful people – after the recent release of files connected to the prosecution of the sex offender and disgraced financier. The website said that it had obtained a text message that he sent to a co-worker earlier in February.
According to TMZ, the text said: “I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable … Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”
The illustrator came from Cameron, North Carolina, where his relatives described him as quiet and generally opposed to guns. Martin’s cousin told the Associated Press that the family was staunchly pro-Trump.
“We are big Trump supporters, all of us,” Braeden Fields said. “Everybody.”
Just thought I’d mention it since we are suddenly very, very concerned with all the violent left wing rhetoric that’s inspiring all the California commies to try to kill our leaders.
Obviously, this latest made a much bigger splash because it was at an event in DC with the president and his cabinet all there along with most of the political press corps who are now making the rounds to tell “their story” about what it was like when they had to dive under he table and while they were eating their salads. It’s really about them so naturally it’s much bigger than that earlier attempt by a man who was shot dead in Mar-a-lago.
The Village is still intact.