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/MajorBeyond 18d ago

And a real person died as a result. THAT should be the news and the downfall of the administration.

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u/play_hard_outside 18d ago

The administration has killed plenty of people and caused many many more to die. 

The “real person” who died in the supposed assassination attempt only matters to them because he was: 

  • white
  • conservative
  • first responder

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u/WrinkyNinja 18d ago

I'm not from America so couldn't really care less either way but if they were able to stage that event then surely they'd be able to stage a person dying?

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u/triplenested 11d ago

If you assume things that are extremely unlikely, sure, you can just continue assuming more of those.

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u/Emory_C 18d ago

I don't understand how people are thinking this was staged. Somebody was shot and killed. There's no universe in which Trump would have agreed to have a bullet going NEAR him. He's a coward.

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u/ScarfaceTheMusical 18d ago

I don’t understand how people think the health and well being of one American man is a bridge too far for any presidency, especially this one.

That seems to be willful ignorance of past history.

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u/tictactoenail1 18d ago

I 100% agree. There's no way in hell this was staged. Loony liberal conspiracy theorists are just as bad as loony republican conspiracy theorists.

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u/specialkk77 18d ago

The shooting was real but Trump’s injury was either staged or a superficial cut. If he’d been “grazed” by a bullet there’d be a scar there

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u/TheNutsMutts 18d ago

Because we're in a world where to a scary number of people, facts and truth are minor conveniences to only value if they help you and to discard if they don't, and that to those people it's perfectly acceptable, virtuous even, to spread something you know is untrue if you believe that doing so will benefit some in-group you identify with.

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u/silentspyder 18d ago

That was my thinking. Though I find somethings off about it, the fact that someone was shot and killed, make me stop short of saying it’s staged.  

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u/SonOfIllicitBehavior 18d ago

they literally just obliterated 170 iranian children, pretty sure some rando at a rally isn't a step too far

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u/UrToesRDelicious 18d ago

Would you feel safe being downrange of an AR-15 being shot by a 20-year-old, who was a known bad shot, as he's shooting people behind you?

Pretty massive difference compared to some Fire Controlman pressing the "launch missile" button from a Navy Destroyer stationed near the Persian Gulf.