The UFC match plot: how a far-right group tried to assassinate Trump at his own event

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/27/trump-assassination-plot-ufc-fight-tycen-proper

Almost two weeks ago, the US Department of Justice announced that it had foiled a plot by Proper and a number of co-conspirators to assassinate Donald Trump and other elected officials at the Ultimate Fighting Championship event recently held at the White House. As of Friday, eight people from around the country are in custody. All appear to be men in their 20s or early 30s.

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floofloof@lemmy.ca · 197 pts · 37d (6 replies)

Unsurprisingly, right-wing media is lying, claiming that these were lefties:

some conservative media outlets have seized on aspects of the story to imply that the plotters were actually bad seeds of the far left. One of the alleged plotters, an article in the Federalist argued, “parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein”.

Also, Donald Trump does protect child predators connected to sex offender and former best buddy of Trump, Jeffrey Epstein.

subverted_per@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 39 pts · 37d (1 reply)

I thought it was interesting at the time how it was a conspiracy of like five dudes, but the headline across several news sites was like, "two dudes from California lead conspiracy to assassinate the president."

AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d

They refuse to admit there are more MAGAts here than any other state. They're just a minority of the population here.

Rentlar@lemmy.ca · 30 pts · 37d

"Democrat"-ic camera taking photos of the two together?

"Democrat"-ic birthday card Trump wrote and signed for Epstein?

"Democrat"-ic condoms depicting Trump saying I'M HUUUUGE?

"Democrat"-ic Mike Johnson saying just yesterday he is running a protection program for keeping Trump connected Republicans with potential dirty laundry away from investigation or prosecution?

lectricleopard@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 37d

Lefty rhetoric, like the truth. SMH. If they still believe it then they never will.

finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 36d

"tHe LeFt Is ThE pArTy Of ViOlEnCe!"

Thebeardedsinglemalt@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 36d

parroted Democrat conspiracy theories about President Trump protecting child predators connected to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein

It's not a conspiracy theory if it's a quantifiable fact with substantial evidence to back it up

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 86 pts · 37d (7 replies)

It's Anti Antifa, the most dangerous of the Antifas! /s

meco03211@lemmy.world · 40 pts · 37d (2 replies)

Honestly if we just started calling them "profa" they would probably take up that mantle without understanding it.

itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 36d

Profa deez nuts

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d

They put the "profa" in "prophylactic".

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 36d (3 replies)

Fa fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d

Fa fa fa fa fa, fa fa fa fa fa.

Dude now i got it stuck in my head thanks

Nouvellalia@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

I been singing them sad sad sooooongs, sad songs is all I know

agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 36d

They can't seem to face up to the facts

Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 71 pts · 37d

Imagine sleeping through your own assassination

palordrolap@fedia.io · 53 pts · 37d (9 replies)

Don't you think he looks tired?

numerator3962@fedinsfw.app · 24 pts · 37d (3 replies)

Amazing what just six words could accomplish.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d (1 reply)

...?

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 11 pts · 36d

Dr. Who reference

thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip · 1 pts · 36d

Similar phrase used in "Stand Still Stay Silent" webcomic to great effect.

"Aren't you tired?"

SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 37d (1 reply)

low energy

HerrVorragend@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 37d

Small pp energy, even

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 37d

It's okay, he built a hospital below the ballroom (true).

shittydwarf@piefed.ca · 2 pts · 37d

So tired its weird. Weird guy

wabafee@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d

He should rest tbh.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 52 pts · 36d (1 reply)

the 5th staged assassination attempt.

Doomsider@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 35d

Yeah, this one has FBI honeypot all over it.

D_C@sh.itjust.works · 40 pts · 36d

Why stop them? That seems a bit unfair to the rest of the world! Selfish bastards.

DarkCloud@lemmy.world · 30 pts · 37d

The plotters bandied biblically-tinged language about “shepherds” and “lions’ dens”, and believed that demons (or at least demon-worshipers) were preying on children, itself a QAnon- and Epstein-era update of a centuries-old Christian antisemitic trope. According to court documents, investigators found a diary in which Proper “wrote that the government sought to control people and to sacrifice children and others to a demonic figure”.

I mean they're on the right track. Epstein was not disconnected from Israel, and a type of Israeli statist extremism... And he was sacrificing people/children to elites, people and children were definitely killed. It wasn't a vacation camp, or even some sort of 'clean' sex trafficking ring with rules against murder, or against letting in elites practice snuff/death/rage.

Trump himself is that kind of rapist, official witness statement say he beat girls/children and degrades them when they try to refuse him.

So this group really isn't far off the mark, despite the articles spin.

JoeKrogan@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 37d

At least they are fighting each other

linuxguy@piefed.ca · 23 pts · 37d (3 replies)

Such a shame.

_fryerDan@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 37d

I know. It sounded like they had their shit together. Leave it to Mom to fuck it up for everyone

LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 4 pts · 37d

That it didn't succeed.

nymnympseudonym@piefed.social · 1 pts · 37d

If only these right wing assholes would consult with us, we could offer them good advice

Gates9@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 37d (1 reply)

Trump whipped these freaks into a frenzy and now they want to kill him. Nobody could have predicted this.

Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 9 pts · 36d

that is why GOP events ban firearms, they afraid for the same monsters they created.

Zaktor@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 37d (11 replies)

The left is really falling behind the assassination plot counts. Kind of embarrassing tbh.

UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 36d

Im making as many hamburgers as I can over here okay?

Photonic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d (9 replies)

Hey now, what would Luigi think about that?

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 4 pts · 36d (8 replies)

Idk, whats Luigi's political identity?

He seems pretty "self-correcting free market" kind of dude if he went after a CEO and not a Republican Legislator.

Keep in mind he's the rich heir to a fortune, with an ivy league education and used to have a six figure tech company desk job.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 36d (6 replies)

I was joking, but since you asked: why would a left wing attacker have to go after a ring wing politician? Anti-CEO sentiment is usually a pretty solid left wing view, especially when they’re squeezing people out of their savings by denying healthcare claims.

And he can be an heir, can have money but still be left wing. Those two are not mutually exclusive you know

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 36d (5 replies)

Brian was immediately replaced, and the interim CEO who replaced him was later replaced by the shareholders in favor of a more profit-oriented CEO.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 36d (4 replies)

Yes, and? We were talking about political affiliation of the killer.

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 1 pts · 36d (3 replies)

Nothing notably anti-CEO took place, the CEO is a position, a title, not a man.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

As I said before, that has nothing to do with the discussion.

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

i mean i am theoretically distantly related to potato billionaires if i pull that thread of relations i've never met hard enough. but like so is the rest of the state of idaho so whatcha gonna do. but like, i'm poor. don't judge a person by their relations

the story is really good though it involves shady pool halls, angry drunken cigarette wives and Uncle... I forget his name so let's call him Uncle Darryl I don't have an Uncle Darryl that's what we've named Bigfoot. I'm going to have to ask Gran next reunion for all her sisters to figure out the official version of the story.

grte@lemmy.ca · 18 pts · 37d

Oh, yet another conveniently foiled assassination attempt for the guy claiming he really needs his secure ballroom. Well I say, all these foiled assassination attempts seem to suggest security is just fine.

TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works · 14 pts · 36d (2 replies)

Americans are such losers

Guns everywhere yet not one of you meek mother fuckers gets the job done on time

HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 36d (1 reply)

those of us competent enough to do it are not competent enough to get away with it and are smart enough to know that. so we're like "huh. do i want to road trip across the country and get caught in kentucky? nah. I'll let kentucky do it. It's kind of THEIR whole deal anyways."

TheparishofChigwell@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 36d

Understandable. But come on there must be one cool dude who just got the call and knows he's terminal, nothing left to lose

One girl that saw her world fall apart after selling her soul for the umpteenth time

One radical teenager that figured out shooting kids ain't going out with a bang at all

One mad boomer that ground up his own teeth over the years being bothered enough

One minority member that picks the path of the hero instead of the gangbanger

One father that saw his son radicalise voicing opinions that would make any man's neck hair stand

One downtrodden beat down slob that feels so low there's no downside to trying anyway

FiniteBanjo@feddit.online · 8 pts · 36d (2 replies)

Department of Justice in name only.

ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 36d

Department of Just Us

Etterra@discuss.online · 2 pts · 36d

It's the Department of Punishment in actuality.

switcheroo@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 37d (6 replies)

Oh yeah that's totally believable. Right.

Please, that ass-faced moron wasn't targeted. This is more fake crap to keep the MAGAt morons worked up and frothing at the mouth that anyone would dare go after their (fat ugly stupid geriatric rapist pedo) golden god.

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 36d (3 replies)

Then why would they choose hard right fuckheads for their patsies?

phutatorius@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 36d (1 reply)

Easy to find, easy to manipulate, and cheap?

TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

Touché

fonix232@fedia.io · 1 pts · 36d

Because they're easy to convince, and any internal issues can be handwaved away with "they were Antifa".

That's all there is to it.

Trump (or his handlers) saw how the first assassination attempt was a yuuuuuge success in getting support going. The second one was a bit lackluster but then they kept going with the correspondents dinner and now this.

HubertManne@piefed.social · 2 pts · 37d

yeah I feel this way. Its like what actually took place at the event. Are they going after trash talk bs or something.

GreenKnight23@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

not just but it's possible that it's also being used to dissuade legitimate threats.

"see, we foiled these guys and we'll get you too"

SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip · 5 pts · 37d

For those of us who watched Babylon 5, this seems like G'kar trying to assassinate Emperor Turhan. (Except this idiot is incapable of repenting.)

thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 4 pts · 37d

They'd rather have a martyr at this point, as he drags their progress down in the dirt.

Dadifer@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 37d

Always the family are snitching

blueworld@piefed.world · 3 pts · 36d (1 reply)

You know it's time to step out of the ring when your own side wants you out. He can't read the room at all, but why would I expected a narcissistic narcoleptic dementia patient to do that?

P1k1e@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 36d

To be fair, they're more likely to succeed if he's not in the Whitehouse

TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 36d

And yet they will blame the left and label the left as a terror organisation.

Adderbox76@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 37d

Its a shame they didn't succeed.

Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d

When I heard about the event this was my first thought. What a great opportunity for some real right wing nationalists, WHO HATE THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO BEGIN WITH, would realize that Trump is just a dreidel.

Fishnoodle@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 37d

I don't know who this proper is, but I think his valid display of political opinion should be heard preferably in a cage match with Trump. Only a week pussy would lose and weak pussies shouldn't be in charge of America... Right?