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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    1 day ago

    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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      23 hours ago

      Then load site with a crippling amount of ads that you can’t even read the fucking article.

      • 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!