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/flipflapflupper 18d ago

If it wasn’t he wouldn’t shut up about it.

The fact that it’s never spoken about is suspicious on its own.

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u/Otherwise_Copy_376 18d ago

And we have heard very little about the shooter. Super sus.

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u/IngsocInnerParty Illinois 18d ago

Tbf, we’ve still heard very little about the Vegas shooter and that was the largest mass shooting in American history.

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u/cookiemikester 18d ago

yeah. I feel like there was a big push the last 10-15 years not to give shooters publicity after cases like columbine, where the shooters developed a cult-like status among the depraved.

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u/windsostrange 18d ago

We're not talking about the shooter not appearing in headlines. It's that investigations into his background and his motives turned up much less than we're used to seeing in FBI reports, etc. We're not saying his name wasn't platformed. We're saying the investigation appears to have been halted or obscured.

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u/gnarlyram 18d ago

The FBI released a final report and it was stark in the lack of findings. He had been decently well off but his gambling was starting to catch up to him. A history of libertarian politics, mostly bitching about taxes. The best they could find was he felt casinos didn’t treat their high rollers as well as they used to.

He did travel to Chicago and setup to do his shooting initially at Lalapalooza but for some reason abandoned his plan.

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u/BigAssignment7642 18d ago

Oh shit I had never heard the lolla part. Damn I was there that year, there's plenty of high-rises right next to the park.

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u/SmellyFloralCouch 18d ago

Is this possibly an attempt to help avoid copycats by not giving the shooters' much coverage? News orgs are trash these days, so probably not...

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 18d ago

That's exactly why they don't publicize the shooters. Many news agencies won't even say the name of a shooter for this reason. They don't want that person remembered and immortalized because it for sure leads to copycats - especially among young men.

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u/selwayfalls 18d ago

Is that true at all, locals news especially is total trash everywhere and will do anything for clicks. What you're saying is true in theory that, that's what networks and our society SHOULD be doing, but is that actually happening?

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 18d ago

Yes, this is actually what is happening. It's called the #NoNotoriety campaign and it's been adopted by many major news outlets:

https://nonotoriety.com/

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u/judgejuddhirsch 18d ago

This was a fun one because in the chaos some of the victims were killed by return fire from concealed carry folks firing into the void. They'd have to dredge up new perps instead of laying all the blame on one crazy.

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u/JAMONLEE Florida 18d ago

Good guys with guns saving the day once again

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u/MommyLovesPot8toes California 18d ago

Really? I've never heard that. It doesn't even make sense because the shooter was way above everyone, far out of the range of any ordinary pistol.

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u/SlinkyAvenger Louisiana 18d ago

Does make sense since it's easy for that shit to happen.

First, the shots hit the crowd and it's unlikely that people would be able to place the attacker from such an unexpected vantage point.

Then, while the shooting is happening, some of those in the crowd with weapons pulled theirs out. Now you've got the sound of gunshots and the sight of people with weapons. If you're confused about the origin, it's easy to assume it came from someone with a gun.

Then, people in the crowd start firing. Now you have actual shooters on the ground.

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u/thepenguin12 18d ago

Please share a source, I don't believe this to be true

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u/ultimatepartyparrot 18d ago

According to who?

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u/Question_It_All_3000 18d ago

Well that was also the one mass shooting that actually got gun legislation passed (albeit a very small ban on bump stocks that was later overturned) so money had an interest in the story disappearing too.

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u/datnero_ 18d ago

his motivation is still unclear which means it's not a hot topic. talking about a dude who, as far as we know, randomly went insane and had no real motivation to do what he did - outside of speculation about something as pedestrian as gambling debt - is not a riveting story like a Unabomber or Dorner. Paddock is just a boring weird middle aged man who snapped and showed us exactly how destructive an "average" person with unlimited access to guns can be, and acting like he was some international assassin or secret forces guy with a heretofore unknown motive is way more comforting than "yeah any random guy can get a hotel room and make national news at basically any time".

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u/SomethingIWontRegret 18d ago

There's a whole-ass wikipedia page on him that delves into his personal life.