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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    Vance is less charismatic than Trump and MAGA (or perhaps Republicans who were leaning that way) has people waking up and pushing back. Approval is going down and courts are even doing some things against his power now.

    Despite Vance being smarter, if they can’t pull this off under their own charismatic leader with a major base backing them then I doubt Vance could do much. I think he’d get even more push back from courts and I doubt the military would side with the couch fucker if he tried to actually push martial law or turn the military against the people.

    In short, Vance’s agenda would be the same as Trump’s and if it’s not popular now, do we really think it would be successful with a less charismatic person in charge?

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      Vance has consistently demonstrated that he’s way better at not saying the quiet part out loud. He’s far better at justifying fascist behavior and sugar coating it in a way that centrists/independents find more palatable. Like the whole made up fentanyl bullshit about venezuela, then Trump came out and talked about how it’s all for oil.