Man Killed Trying to Break Into Mar-a-Lago Had Fascination with Epstein Files

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It's another day, which means there's another person with some kind of derangement trying to mess with something associated with Trump while armed, and getting domed in the process.

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This time, it was a man who was killed by the Secret Service for trying to break into Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate. He pointed a shotgun at agents and local law enforcement and got shot and killed for his trouble.

FAFO.

Now, as we learn about this individual, it turns out that he had an obsession with the Epstein files, and that's likely what sparked his little trip.

A GUNMAN who was shot dead after sneaking into Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate had a chilling obsession with the Epstein files, texts have revealed.

Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was gunned down by law enforcement after he allegedly stormed onto the property with a shotgun and a fuel can in the early hours of Sunday morning.

Authorities say he was spotted near the north gate and confronted by officers who ordered him to drop what he was holding.

He lowered the gas can – but raised the shotgun into what officials described as a “shooting position”.

Sheriff Ric Bradshaw said a deputy and two federal agents then “neutralised the threat.”


Messages obtained by TMZ shows that just a week earlier, Martin sent bizarre texts to a co-worker saying: “I don’t know if you read up on the Epstein Files, but evil is real and unmistakable.”

He added: “The best people like you and I can do is use what little influence we have.

“Tell other people about what you hear about the Epstein files and what the government is doing about it. Raise awareness.”

The co-worker never replied, but they exchanged a text writing: “Hey! Where are you?,” before the news of the shooting broke.

Sources who worked with him at North Carolina golf club told TMZ he had become fixated on Epstein-related material and believed elites were being protected by a government cover-up.

Members at the club told how the gunman had often raged about powerful people “getting away with it”.

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Look, I understand entirely how the guy felt. I'm pretty sure we're never going to see the totality of the Epstein files, no matter who does what. There's probably some that were shredded long ago and can't be released now, and yeah, the powerful people do tend to get away with stuff like this.

But whatever he was trying to do at Mar-a-Lago was not the way to deal with your disappointment that no one is going to burn over what happened. Neither arson nor shooting up the place is a winning strategy. 

Of course, family claims that he was a good guy and didn't even know how to shoot a gun, but since family members often think the best of their loved ones, I'll take that claim with a grain of salt.

Some are calling this another assassination attempt against Trump. I don't think so. After all, the president's schedule is public, and he was in Washington at the time, so either this twerp was just that incompetent--not a stretch considering the circumstances--or this was about something else. Considering his fixation on the Epstein files, this could have been anything.

And it could be a case of him just being a nutbar who fixated on the Epstein files because nutbars often fixate on things. The Epstein files have simply given people like him something a bit more tangible to latch onto than, say, the Earth being flat. After all, the Epstein files are real, and Epstein was a real piece of work who deserved to go in a far more painful way than hanging in a jail cell (which I still think he had "help" with).

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