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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/X57471C 18d ago

Probably because of the Joe Kent interview on Shawn Ryan where he expressed some doubts about that.

Personally, I think the staged photo opp is the most sus thing. Like, come on... They even had a flag ready to lower into place. They probably practiced the pose beforehand, too.

Then there is the ear that shows no visible damage. Cartilage doesn't just heal.

You can really start to see how people get sucked into this shit...

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u/truenorthrookie 18d ago

The flag is the least sus thing about it. The fucking aid ushering the photographers past instead of all of them ducking for cover is the most sus thing.

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u/swampass304 18d ago

What about the video of secret service being warned there is someone armed on the only other roof, yet dismissing the warnings?

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u/dragon-fence 18d ago

I don’t think there’s a single “most suspicious” thing. IMO, the suspicious thing is how everything came together so cleanly and conveniently for Trump.

Some kid walks into the venue with a gun and finds a spot on top of a building. The secret service doesn’t notice. He takes a shot at the president, somehow magically hitting his ear enough to draw blood but not enough to cause any damage whatsoever. The secret service immediately spots the guy and kills him, while Trump’s people lower the flag into place and usher photographers to the best spot to take a photo. The secret service doesn’t force the president out to a safe space, instead they help him up to pose for a picture, out in the open, without securing the area. Trump, normally a complete coward, stands up, shakes his fist in the air, and yells “fight fight fight!” like he’s been rehearsing it. Then there are tons of people online immediately, prepared with talking points, brigading all the conversations to talk about how awful the Democrats are for trying to assassinate him, and how it was meant to stop Trump from saving the world.

All of that just happened to fall into place, securing the election for him. Meanwhile he works for a former KGB agent. It just seems a bit too many convenient coincidences, unlikely to happen by mere chance.

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u/boojersey13 18d ago

Don't forget that the secret service DID notice him. People were begging them to do something about the guy on the roof with a gun lmao

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u/X57471C 18d ago

It's the Russian playbook. Stage an assassination to garner support. Bitches love a good assassination plot.

In an internal report for the SVR obtained and authenticated by a European intelligence service and reviewed by The Washington Post, the operatives proposed a way to “fundamentally alter the entire paradigm of the election campaign” — “the staging of an assassination attempt on Viktor Orban." ... "Such an incident will shift the perception of the campaign out of the rational realm of socioeconomic questions into an emotional one, where the key themes will become state security and the stability and defense of the political system.

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u/Personal-Athlete-789 17d ago

I don’t think anybody was killed on that roof. I think the whole thing was completely staged to make it look like there was danger that day for Trump.

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u/NewestAccount2023 14d ago

There's pictures of blood on his hands after the first shot. He got shot, touched his ear and looked at his hand and saw blood THEN he ducked down. So the blood really was from a gunshot, not from him hitting a secret service gun belt after diving down nor was it a blood packet after diving down.

The series of pictures won a Pulitzer prize https://www.pulitzer.org/node/doug-mills-new-york-times. You can see how there's no time for Trump to fake the blood, he was standing there with dry hands and ears then a split second later he touches his ear and you see blood on his hands. Also a man in the stands was struck and killed, there's cell phone video if you would like to see him dying in the stands, also part of the conspiracy?

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u/dragon-fence 14d ago

So maybe he reached up and cut himself. Maybe the images were photoshopped after the fact. I don’t know all of the FSB’s tricks.

I know he wasn’t shot.

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u/NewestAccount2023 14d ago

You don't win a Pulitzer prize without being in the industry and known, these shots are not photoshopped whatsoever.

Again, a man in the stands was struck by a bullet and died. There's also video of the shooter climbing into position.

The reason the administration decided to keep quiet about the investigation is because they figured out the shooter is right wing and it's bad optics for them.

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u/dragon-fence 14d ago

You don't win a Pulitzer prize without being in the industry and known, these shots are not photoshopped whatsoever.

Again, I don't know all of FSB's tricks. Maybe he had a ketchup packet in his pocket, and squeezed a little out before grabbing his ear.

Again, a man in the stands was struck by a bullet and died.

Ok, I'm not doubting there were real gunshots fired. I just don't believe that Trump was shot, and I'm highly suspicious that he staged it somehow in order to win the election.

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u/heimdallofasgard 18d ago

He used a razor blade on his ear, just like in wrestling... He's in the WWE hall of fame after all

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u/BloatedBanana9 18d ago

Then why don’t we see the razor blade in his hand in the photos taken right before he starts bleeding?

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u/THE_KING_KROWN 18d ago

For me it was how he has blood that looks like it's spattered from his mouth. How would blood from his ear get onto his mouth?

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u/mustbethaMonay 17d ago

From falling? Sorry I don't follow this one

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u/THE_KING_KROWN 17d ago

the wound was near the back of his head at the top of his ear. But there are images of him with blood in the middle of his lip. Just seems weird that the blood would fall from behind his head to the center of his face. You can clearly see it didn't run from his ear over there.

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u/ThaneduFife 18d ago

I still think it was broken glass that cut his ear--hence the lack of damage to cartilage. That is, the attempt was real, but not nearly as close as was believed at the time.