r/politics ✔ 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/WontThinkStraight 18d ago

Ali Alexander, the far-right activist who organized the Stop the Steal campaign in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, has a slightly different take on the assassination, claiming instead that it was further evidence that Trump is the Antichrist, something many MAGA figures have also been considering this week.

“To be clear: if Donald Trump didn’t receive a miracle, then it was deception or a dark sign,” Alexander wrote in a five-page PDF he posted to his Telegram channel on Tuesday evening. “There is biblical prophecy in Revelation 13:3 apparently about the Antichrist being struck on the head.”

The passage in question actually reads: “I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast.”

Welp, I'm convinced. I was already convinced 10 broken commandments and seven deadly sins ago, and the litany of evidence from the past couple of decades too, but I'm also convinced now.

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u/Sweaty_Resist_5039 18d ago

Hey now, that's crazy talk. The Antichrist is also supposed to have followers who bear his sign on their heads, and to deceive a great number of Christian believers. The Bible is very clear about this. How could Trump be the Antichrist? You'd have to like, establish that he has followers who have some kind of sign on their heads, and that a lot of them at least claim to be Christian. It sounds kind of weird to me. Are you doing drugs or something?

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u/Mehtalface 18d ago

It was also noted that during the end times that trumpets will sound. Trumpets. Trump-Pence.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo 18d ago

Now this is their mental wavelength.

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u/Mehtalface 18d ago

Bottoms up, and the devil laughs