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10 min ago
Trump briefed on LDS church shooting
From CNN's Sara Smart and Maureen Chowdhury
President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social that he has been briefed on the horrendous shooting that took place at the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in Grand Blanc, Michigan.
The FBI was immediately on scene, and will be leading the Federal Investigation, and providing full support to State and Local Officials. The suspect is dead, but there is still a lot to learn, the president wrote.
This appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians in the United States of America. The Trump Administration will keep the Public posted, as we always do. In the meantime, PRAY for the victims, and their families. THIS EPIDEMIC OF VIOLENCE IN OUR COUNTRY MUST END, IMMEDIATELY! Trump added.
https://www.cnn.com/us/live-news/church-shooting-fire-michigan-09-28-25?t=1759081981529

Klarkashton
(4,139 posts)The toxic bastard spends every minute of the day talking shit and making threats about everybody except maga. The whole thing is sick.
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(1,604 posts)I'm not sure if Evangelicals even consider LDS Christians. Just saying.
Klarkashton
(4,139 posts)malaise
(289,598 posts)Mother Emmanuel church?
Another church was attacked recently - not a word.
Its the effin guns Donvict.
Lovie777
(20,503 posts)blame the left.
shithole embellishes on hatred.
leftstreet
(37,402 posts)
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,969 posts)tanyev
(47,926 posts)😒
Ping Tung
(3,760 posts)Now he's decided to be the protector of an (alleged) All Powerful, All Seeing, and Everywhere Deity that can't defend itself.
newdeal2
(4,244 posts)Both intentional (Trump/Miller) and unintentional (Kash).
riversedge
(78,034 posts)to keep us truthfully informed!!
newdeal2
(4,244 posts)This is the admins calling card.
milestogo
(21,889 posts)It probably has nothing to do with politics or Christianity.
ananda
(33,430 posts)Maybe the pastor was too pro lbgtq or something.
Irish_Dem
(75,589 posts)Peace, love, getting along with others, etc.
MAGAs hate that stuff.
ananda
(33,430 posts)For sure.
Irish_Dem
(75,589 posts)eShirl
(19,701 posts)madinmaryland
(65,588 posts)spanone
(140,300 posts)Instead we have a fucking authoritarian who only wants to blame his political rivals.
Irish_Dem
(75,589 posts)When they are part of the ruling elite.
yardwork
(68,155 posts)ZDU
(798 posts)Christian on Christian violence
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ok_cpu
(2,208 posts)but if the pic I saw of the vehicle that drove into the church is real, it's a truck with 2 full-sized American flags in the bed.
Edit to add mlive article with pic: https://www.mlive.com/news/flint/2025/09/live-updates-multiple-shot-at-michigan-church-suspect-down.html?gift=dfd98b66-caff-479b-8ee9-90920563ef55
GoodRaisin
(10,543 posts)Plenty of magats though.
LastDemocratInSC
(4,150 posts)Is that a Michigan veterans tag?
Abolishinist
(2,786 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(58,969 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(58,969 posts)
ok_cpu
(2,208 posts)taxi
(2,546 posts)It's not like they throw a dart at a wall map and pick the nearest church. If they know nothing about a particular church or religion, then that church or religion would not be a target. In other words, the call is coming from inside the house.
Ocelot II
(127,487 posts)IIRC, there was a particularly deadly incident in TX a few years back where the shooter, who had a history of violent behavior, killed a number of people but specifically targeted his mother-in-law.
BlueKota
(4,645 posts)Someone set the Catholic School on fire at the end of my 5th grade year. Luckily no one was hurt, because it was after school had let out for the day, but there was band practice going on. Some of my friends were in the locker room, chaging their uniforms when they smelled smoke. I had a doctor's appointment that day, or I would have been there too.
The fire department determined it was arson, and they announced a few days later that they had found the perpetrator, but they never released the name. So likely it was a student or a past student who did it. Also likely it was a child of wealthy church donors, the way it was hushed up.
Given that a number of the teachers were often cruel, we all figured it was someone, who went over the edge because of something done to them. I was really upset because one of my friends or the fireman could have been hurt. It wasn't their fault we had some mean teachers.
We had to have classes in quickly assembled temporary classrooms the following year, in the gym as some of the rooms in the older section burned and had to be repaired. The smell of smoke lingered for a couple of years.
ms liberty
(10,643 posts)- Professor Radcliffe Emerson to his wife, the inimitable Amelia Peabody Emerson in "The Mummy Case"
Bernardo de La Paz
(58,969 posts)BeyondGeography
(40,680 posts)617Blue
(2,062 posts)intrepidity
(8,488 posts)That's much more probable than it being ideological.
chia
(2,662 posts)another white American and I don't know how much more reality they can absorb before their heads explode from the cognitive dissonance.