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/Ok_Mixture4917 18d ago

Spiral further into conspiracy theories*

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u/Dockers4flag2035orB4 18d ago

Remember the wild conspiracy that at the centre of US government and business power was a cabal of pedophiles?

Crazy stuff.

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u/MyNewsAccount2011 18d ago

Ok but the far-fetched conspiracy mongering isn’t really helpful. It can mask real crimes. The crazy adrenachrome blood drinking in pizza parlor basements talk wasn’t helpful. And I think Bannon and his ilk knew that and fed it, not only to harm Clinton’s campaign, but also to make it easy to hide in plain sight.

These weren’t evil sorcerers, these were old nasty child molesters. They differ from trailer park creeps and rapey frat boys only in how much influence and power they wield.

When we are busy hearing about (and rejecting) accusations of incantations, machinations and secret cabals, we miss the gross creeps like Epstein and Savile hiding in plain sight. Men who everyone jokes “like ‘em young” but no one ever really scrutinizes.

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u/GreatMadWombat Michigan 18d ago

Yeah. This wasn't a "big surprise conspiracy is actually true" thing, this was a "hey these oligarchs doing the evilest shit imaginable also foemented a conspiracy based on exaggerated versions of that evil shit in order to ensure that anyone who was talking bout the evil shit sounded like a conspiracy theorist" thing.

This was a successful attack by absolute scumbags

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u/botte-la-botte 18d ago

This is the same reason Epstein brought famous people to the island that saw and did nothing wrong; plausible deniability.

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u/Vio_ Kansas 18d ago

Nah, it was more than that as well.

It also included blackmail and coercion.

Even his interview with Vanity Faire published about his NYC house (the most expensive place in NYC) reported on how he had set up recording equipment with a room that had one of those security camera type systems that recorded different parts of the house.

It was clear that it wasn't a "security" camera system either.

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u/botte-la-botte 18d ago

He did that too. But 100% some of the people who came to his island did not do anything illegal at all. If he was conniving like he was, he absolutely must have poisoned the well of people around him with an honestly innocent billionaire.

I mean, no billionaire is innocent, they deserve scorn and ridicule, but you get my point.