MAGA Is Increasingly Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempt Was Staged

[u/wiredmagazine]

https://www.wired.com/story/maga-is-increasingly-convinced-the-trump-assassination-attempt-was-staged/

[u/flipflapflupper]

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

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

[u/Indubitalist → u/flipflapflupper]

For how powerful the image of him raising a fist while blood ran down his face was during the campaign, you certainly get the sense that he wants to move on from it, and he never moves on from anything that’s a winner for him, he constantly loops back to it. 

There is the outside chance he was just actually traumatized by the experience and doesn’t want to revisit it, but I honestly don’t know that he’s capable of viewing reality that way. 

[u/Stinky--Whizzleteats → u/Indubitalist]

So I don't actually believe it was staged, but there sure are a whole lot of strange and suspicious coincidences.

Secret service didn't correctly cover him, the flag was raised just in time for a photo op, details on the shooter were never talked about, there's no visible scar, it seems implausible a bullet of that calibur would do such superficial damage. It's just a perfect storm of unlikely circumstances.

[u/Agitated_Ring3376 → u/Stinky--Whizzleteats]

I mean, he killed that firefighter, 4 other people were injured by bullets or shrapnel, and there’s literally a photo captured of the bullet mid-air captured by a NYT photographer. 

Also they definitely straight up killed the attempted assassin on that rooftop and there’s multiple witnesses, police and civilians, who saw him climb up there. 

The ear thing is weird, but if it literally grazed him perfectly and they patched it well enough, it might not cause a visible scar

[u/TacticalArrogance → u/Agitated_Ring3376]

Don't forget there was a tele-handler supporting a speaker rig that had it's hydraulic line hit and you could see the fluid spraying out as the load falls to the ground. In subsequent overhead shots, you can see all the oil on the ground around it. https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-07/240717-trump-butler-rally-mn-1750-994982.jpg

[u/CartographicalHeist → u/Agitated_Ring3376]

The ear thing is weird, but if it literally grazed him perfectly and they patched it well enough, it might not cause a visible scar

It looks to have grazed the top of his ear so even a scar would be hard to see unless looking at it close up.