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Austin Tucker Martin, gunman shot dead
by Secret Service at Mar-a-Lago, was obsessed
with Epstein files: report

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Posted By: NorthernDog, 2/23/2026 9:18:01 AM

The armed madman who was shot and killed by the Secret Service after he snuck onto President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate Sunday was reportedly obsessed with the Jeffrey Epstein files — and implored others to “raise awareness” just days before the deadly encounter. Austin Tucker Martin, 21, was gunned down by local Florida police and members of the Secret Service after he brandished his shotgun in a “shooting position” on Trump’s property, authorities said. He was reported missing by his family after he vanished Saturday. His mother, Melissa Martin, made a missing person poster for him, describing the silver Volkswagen he

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Another person radicalized to the point of trying to physically harm DJT. Dems will probably redouble their efforts.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: Newtsche 2/23/2026 9:23:14 AM (No. 2072148)
Righteously bitter incel, warped by the usual suspects' noise machine.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: philsner 2/23/2026 9:24:37 AM (No. 2072149)
Another "Trump supporter" who went looking for Trump with a shotgun.
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Reply 3 - Posted by: Kafka2 2/23/2026 10:20:38 AM (No. 2072177)
Most MSM accounts conveniently do not mention that Martin was shot after he raised the shotgun into a shooting position. This leaves the impression that he was shot just for sneaking onto the Mar-a-Lago grounds and not for being a potential deadly threat. Another example of the MSM lying by omission of pertinent facts.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: hurricanegirl 2/23/2026 10:26:58 AM (No. 2072182)
#3: I don't even need to know that he had a gun. Shooting mere trespassers is fine with me!!
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Reply 5 - Posted by: LC Chihuahua 2/23/2026 10:28:27 AM (No. 2072183)
Another victim of the 'violence is justified' meme. That's what happens when one doesn't use their brain. Now the left has another 'martyr'.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: PrayerWarrior 2/23/2026 10:47:16 AM (No. 2072190)
This is another suicide by police. Austin Tucker Martin knew the consequences of brandishing a weapon at the local Florida police and members of the Secret Service.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: Safari Man 2/23/2026 11:15:24 AM (No. 2072201)
Dimocrats are a vicious cartel of fraud and terrorism. They know exactly how to cajole their useful idiots into doing their bidding.
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Reply 8 - Posted by: janjan 2/23/2026 11:19:34 AM (No. 2072204)
Does anyone really care about his motive or what his grandma has to say? Walk in the gate at Mar-A-Lago with a shotgun and a gasoline can and see what happens to you. He’s dead.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: paral04 2/23/2026 12:05:52 PM (No. 2072244)
He "snuck" onto the the estate? What happened to the editor of this rag. The past tense of sneak is sneaked If they are that slopy then they shouldn't be in the news business as their content is just as messed up.
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Reply 10 - Posted by: red1066 2/23/2026 1:11:32 PM (No. 2072268)
If he was so obsessed with the Epstein files, he should have known Trump had nothing to do with Epstein.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: enemyofthestate 2/23/2026 1:26:12 PM (No. 2072274)
"Authorities haven't revealed a motive" Well, let me help. Martin was a nut case!
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Reply 12 - Posted by: Rumblehog 2/23/2026 1:34:51 PM (No. 2072282)
Austin Tucker Martin... or, "ATM." So, I guess someone's gonna make a lot of money off this guy's story.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: earlybird 2/23/2026 2:12:15 PM (No. 2072310)
Friends already characterizing him as an artist who - along wigth his family - was an avif Trump supporter. His obsession with Epstein files was about the apparent failure to proseute the perps. Another disaffected [ajama boy, IMO.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: earlybird 2/23/2026 2:18:48 PM (No. 2072312)
Re #9, read it and weeo: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/snuck
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Reply 15 - Posted by: earlybird 2/23/2026 2:21:00 PM (No. 2072313)
Correction: Read it and weep
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Reply 16 - Posted by: chumley 2/23/2026 3:10:13 PM (No. 2072328)
I'm missing something. What possible take on the Epstein files demands sneaking onto a president's place in a suicide mission where suicide is the only attainable goal? We all do dumb stuff that defies logic when we're young, but this is over the top.
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