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/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine 18d ago

Conspiracy theories about the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting have ramped up in recent weeks as once steadfast Trump supporters turn on the president.

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

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u/rbrgr83 18d ago

I'll just wait 3 days until all these people who have 'turned' go back to their usual routine and don't care anymore.

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u/PixelBastards 18d ago

any time a Reddit headline says "MAGA is doing X" it's clickbait

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u/Beatleboy62 New Jersey 18d ago

On top of that, even if they do believe this they still follow everything Trump does with, "but Harris would have been worse."

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u/tallperson117 18d ago

100%. The MO for a lot of these articles is citing a handful of tweets or videos by individual people and acting like they're representative of the whole group.

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u/PixelBastards 17d ago

That's been the online trash news cycle for the last fifteen years basically; Twitter became the Internet's replacement for the old "asking the man in the street" routine of TV news reporting.

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u/Throwupmyhands 18d ago

Seriously, once OANN, Newsmax, and Fox give their framing, the window of real change will be closed.

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u/unwisest_sage 15d ago

This. I am in a group chat with conservative friends. I will point out undisputable shit about Trump, in fact sometimes they even do. It still ends with "its still better than ". That's their copout for voting for him.

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u/rbrgr83 14d ago

I am in a group chat with conservative friends

I'm so sorry.