The trump supporter who tried to kill his wife:
There’s no clear evidence that Jared Lee Loughner, the man who carried out the January 8, 2011, Tucson shooting, was a Trump supporter. Loughner’s attack—where he shot U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords and killed six people, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl—happened well before Donald Trump’s political rise. Trump announced his presidential candidacy in June 2015, over four years later, and wasn’t a prominent political figure in 2011 beyond business and TV fame.
Loughner’s motivations, as pieced together from court records, his YouTube videos, and witness accounts, point to a disturbed individual with paranoid, anti-government views, not tied to any specific political figure like Trump. His online rants fixated on bizarre obsessions—currency conspiracies, “conscience dreaming,” and distrust of authority—mixed with right-wing undertones like Tea Party-esque fears of government overreach. But friends, like Bryce Tierney in a Mother Jones interview, said he wasn’t into rallies or mainstream politics. He was a registered independent, didn’t vote in 2010, and showed no allegiance to any party or candidate. His schizophrenia diagnosis, confirmed before his 2012 guilty plea, suggests mental illness drove his actions more than ideology.
No posts, writings, or statements from Loughner mention Trump, who wasn’t a political player at the time. Claims linking him to Trump seem to stem from later speculation or misinformation, possibly conflating his anti-government leanings with Trump’s outsider rhetoric years later. But chronologically and factually, that doesn’t hold up—Loughner’s been in prison since 2012, and Trump’s campaign didn’t exist then. If you’ve seen something specific tying them together, toss it my way, and I’ll dig deeper! Based on what’s out there, though, no, he wasn’t a Trump supporter.
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