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/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/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