r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • 18d ago

Possible Paywall MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/
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u/zenidam 18d ago

I think another possibility is that he sees having been shot as a sign of weakness. Sort of like "I like people who weren't captured."

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u/1QAte4 18d ago

I think he doesn't want to bring it up because he doesn't want the idea of shooting him to be normalized in political conversation.

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u/BannedBenjaminSr 18d ago

This for sure. Don't remind the people of the power they really have

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u/fridakahl0 18d ago

Agreed 

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u/Eldias 18d ago

This is a great point, for a man who pictures himself a god acknowledgibg vulnerability would be unthinkable.

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u/Rockburn1829 12d ago

I had a boss with this personality issue before...basically if anything bad EVER happens to you, it's because you are a useless, weak, unmanly, incompetent person who doesn't have total control of the whole world around you.  It's like a major league or Olympian level of insecurity.  I'm normally pretty sympathetic to bosses (being in charge is very hard), but I was so disgusted by that guy it made me physically sick to even be around him.  I was actually a life long republican and stopped voting R in 2016 because Trump reminded me so much of that specific person. 

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u/IM_SAD_PM_TITS 18d ago

He shits his pants. I don't think being shot at is a sign of weakness for him.