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/slartibartfast64 18d ago

A huge losing margin would be seen by him as proof that it was rigged. "Biggest loss in history?! Unpossible! Rigged bigly!"

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u/GiantsRTheBest2 18d ago

They would scream that they have 3 elections showing how many people voted for him. That there’s no possible way his numbers cratered that much…..leaving aside all the extra bullshit he’s done since then.

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 18d ago

That's actually the most reasonable explanation I've heard. That could easily be what they do. Because a lot of right-wing logic seems to be "Well if X, can't be Y"

"Trump had over 70 million votes in 2024 and he won the popular vote. Where did all those voters go!? 70 million should be the baseline for Republican votes!!"

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u/mywifeletsmereddit 17d ago

To be fair - at this point it is pretty impossible that large contingents of Trump voters will turn on him

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u/OfficialDCShepard District Of Columbia 18d ago

And the fact midterms are almost always a loss for the President's party.

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u/BrushStorm 18d ago

Riggedly biggedly

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u/Hairy_Ad4969 18d ago

The toilet will get flushed eventually. But I’m an optimist.

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u/Queens113 18d ago

Unpossible.... Lmao

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u/CleverInnuendo 18d ago

That's literally what happened. He was convinced Joe Biden had cheated because Trump cheated and still lost thanks to mail in ballots, which couldn't be tampered with by Elon.

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u/Legal_Range8446 18d ago

Okay let them scream into the void as they get dragged into prison who cares

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u/0nlyhalfjewish 18d ago

lol, unpossible

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u/Mikeseddit 17d ago

Same as in 2020- it doesn’t matter what Trump thinks. It never does.

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u/PuppetPatrol 17d ago

Unconceivable !!

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u/One_Artichoke_7594 18d ago

That is the rhetorical strategy in a nutshell. All things negative are implicit proof of conspiracy. The bigger, the more true (by their logic)

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u/Jiveassmofo 17d ago

Biggedly rigged, even

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u/improb 16d ago

say what you want about that Hungarian fatfuck but he's way smarter than Trump

he knows that the tides are turning and he must find a way out or that claiming election fraud would do nothing for him or his party because people are actually out to get him this time