23 February 2026

MAGA turning on Trump?


The embed is from Facebook, which is often unreliable.  But I found confirmation in The Guardian.  
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’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.” He added, though, that Marin tended not to talk about politics.
There has been evidence of Trump's support eroding among voters, especially evident in some statewide elections where Democrats have easily won districts that were solidly Republican in the last presidential election.  But those results didn't clarify if the change was just in enthusiasm and turnout.  This looks different.

If this young man's focus was on the Epstein ties, I would bet his grievance is with pedophilia, rather than the (unproven) possibility that Epstein's entire operation was a honeytrap aimed at politicians and businessmen in order to influence national legislation and policy. 

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