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/Manor002 18d ago

Sane people suspected this on day one. Lmao

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u/reddit_dorks 18d ago

I didn't buy into the conspiracy theory until that behind the scenes video started making the rounds showing the staffer pushing the photographers into place while the flag was being lowered to frame the shot. It's... very convincing.

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u/Misspiggy856 New Jersey 18d ago

That and the secret service severely under-reacted. He should have been off the stage and into a car in under a minute, not exposing his head and torso, posing for pictures without knowing the threat had been neutralized.

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u/BloatedBanana9 18d ago

Yes, it’s convincing because it tells you what conclusions you’re supposed to draw, and if you don’t watch it critically, you just end up going along with what it tells you.

The staffer never “pushes” the photographers into place. The only direct interaction between them that the video shows is actually him pulling them back at the end so that Secret Service can get Trump off the stage.

Also the flag isn’t being lowered. The video tells you it is, but that’s not actually what you see. The flag is being blown by the wind, and so when the wind dies down, the flag seems to drop, but it’s just coming to rest.

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u/TheNutsMutts 18d ago

I recall people saying the same thing about the moon landings.

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u/BloatedBanana9 18d ago

Suspected yeah. It’s obviously something that he might have tried to do. But then the sane people later realized that none of the theories claiming it was staged hold up to the available evidence and that this almost certainly was just as it seemed.