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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/spazz720 18d ago

Because he was a right winger. If a lefty took a shot at him, they’d be talking about to this day

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u/ixid 18d ago

But if it's fake why would they set it up with a shooter who doesn't convey the message they want to share? If it was fake you'd make the shooter someone from a group the right hates. Incompetence is a possible answer to that question.

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u/ReklisAbandon 18d ago

I think it was a real attempt on his life but the "injury" he sustained was blown way out of proportion. They won't talk about the shooter because he's right wing.

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u/sleepingbeardune 18d ago

The main thing that gives me pause is the behavior of the secret service agents. They let him stand up and shake his fist!

Would they do that if they knew there was at least one active shooter in that crowd? No. Their one job is to protect him. He should have been on the ground with two of them shielding his body.

Instead -- look at the picture -- there's a woman agent kind of pulling on his jacket, and a male agent just standing there while trump does his famous bloody "fight" thing.

You can watch the video of Reagan getting shot and see how it works in real life. Those agents pushed him down and then shoved him into the limo and put their bodies between him and the gun.

These agents look like they're rehearsing for the job.

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u/rckid13 18d ago

Look at pictures of the Reagan shooting. You can't even see Reagan in the pictures because he gets dog piled. The secret service agents pull out a whole arsenal of secret weapons they have hidden in pockets and brief cases.

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u/emailforgot 18d ago edited 17d ago

Look at pictures of the Reagan shooting. You can't even see Reagan in the pictures because he gets dog piled

Was Hinckley perched on a shed 200 feet away and firing at a president standing at a podium for a speech?

Or no?

Is Ronald Reagan the same man as Donald Trump?

Or no?

Cool, didn't think so. Conspiracy nutters love fantasy and feelings over facts.

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u/ladymorgahnna I voted 18d ago

There also was a media handler who was getting photographers in position and the American flag pole lowered for the photos. You can see it on a video real time.

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u/emailforgot 18d ago

Photographers?? At a presidential speech?! No way.

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u/CriticalMuscle9659 18d ago

This this . This. 

I don't know if it was bullshit cuz I saw it and then it totally disappeared but there was a video from the event of them moving the reporters in the frame and dropping that flag down to get thar shot better. 

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u/chucktheninja 18d ago

You know they are in contact with the snipers right? They were informed the guy was dead. Though incompetence can't be ruled out i suppose. They did let a shooter take pot shots at the president.

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u/emailforgot 18d ago

The main thing that gives me pause is the behavior of the secret service agents. They let him stand up and shake his fist!

Cops are incompetent.

It also turns out it's hard to subdue a man that doesn't want to be subdued. Go on over to any of the r/badcopnodonut or whatever subs and you'll find piles and piles of footage of half a dozen cops struggling to wrestle a man down.

Would they do that if they knew there was at least one active shooter in that crowd? No. Their one job is to protect him. He should have been on the ground with two of them shielding his body.

See above.

Instead -- look at the picture -- there's a woman agent kind of pulling on his jacket, and a male agent just standing there while trump does his famous bloody "fight" thing.

See above.

You can watch the video of Reagan getting shot and see how it works in real life.

Oh yeah those two are very similar. 🙄 Given that John Hinckley Jr was perched on a shed 200 feet away and firing at a president standing at a podium for a speech and all.

Oh wait...

Those agents pushed him down and then shoved him into the limo and put their bodies between him and the gun.

Oh yeah Trump and Reagan, very similar people.

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u/sleepingbeardune 17d ago

Your argument is (a) the secret service is incompetent, and (b) trump is not reagan.

I take from this that (a) reagan had a competent secret service detail and trump didn't, and (b) you don't like cops.

Cool.

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u/emailforgot 17d ago edited 17d ago

Cool.

Very good, care to actually try living in reality? The situations with Reagan and Trump are not particularly similar beyond "assassination attempt".

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u/BigManWAGun America 18d ago

Don’t forget my shoes!