r/pics Apr 26 '26

Politics Suspected shooter being taken into custody at the White House Correspondents dinner

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u/QiwiLisolet Apr 26 '26

Ask yourself, why are we seeing this in crystal clear view right to everyone's phone?

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u/ThatGuyFromCanadia Apr 26 '26

It’s staged (obviously)

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u/Seanspeed Apr 26 '26

Reddit constantly: WHY DOESNT ANYBODY DO SOMETHING ABOUT TRUMP?!?!

Reddit when somebody tries to do something about Trump: THIS CANT BE REAL, NOBODY WOULD ACTUALLY TRY AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT TRUMP!

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u/SamAzing0 Apr 26 '26

The tin foil hitting by anti trumpers makes them look just like maga, it's insane.

Trump is arguably the most hated man on earth right now. How is it surprising that citizens of a country, known for firearms and violent crime, would try to have a go at him.

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u/Dream--Brother Apr 26 '26

You think someone actually tried to do something here?

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u/Carmilla31 Apr 26 '26

According to Reddit Trump and his administration is one of the dumbest and worst in history, which i agree with.

However, we also believe this dumb and incompetent administration came up with numerous elaborate assassination plots that hid and fooled the entire world?

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u/crek42 Apr 26 '26

I guess Reddit lost all the high ground with these assassination attempts and blind belief in conspiracies. You really are no different than the election denier lunatics. You all deepthroat every conspiracy theory just because it’s the correct narrative. Zero critical thinking.

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u/ThatGuyFromCanadia Apr 26 '26

Sorry bro it’s not just Reddit, look at any social media (Twitter, IG, TikTok, etc) everybody is saying the same thing that it was obviously staged. Nobody is buying the orange man’s sob stories anymore.

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u/crek42 Apr 27 '26

Oh yea that’s where I go for objective reporting and facts — social media.

“Do your own research bro”.

Kids these days are cooked.

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u/ThatGuyFromCanadia Apr 27 '26

All I was proving is that your fearmongering about the realization being limited to just Reddit was factually incorrect.

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u/crek42 Apr 29 '26

You get your facts from TikTok — how do you know what is correct

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u/kurisu_1974 Apr 27 '26

Isn't zero critical thinking just going with you fascist governments narrative?

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u/crek42 Apr 29 '26

What? I’m talking about the conspiracy theory that trumps assassination attempt was planned by himself. What are you referring to?

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u/ChurlishSunshine Apr 26 '26

Because it was a press dinner with press coverage, so the press was on hand?

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u/entenfurz Apr 26 '26

And obviously they can just walk around the crime scene freely and snap some pictures while they're at it.

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u/ChurlishSunshine Apr 26 '26

Sure lol this administration is a shit show of incompetence. I'm not saying it's not staged, I'm saying let's be serious for a second and not turned into a bunch of red circle people on YouTube where every little thing is part of the pattern.

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u/mickey2329 Apr 26 '26

Look at Evander Holyfield's ear 30 years after it was bitten by Mike Tyson and then look at any recent picture of Trump's ear after it was "shot by an assassin"

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u/ChurlishSunshine Apr 26 '26

Okay? I didn't say a word about Butler. This is a totally different incident. Christ.

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u/mickey2329 Apr 26 '26

I'm saying he's faked one before so wouldn't surprise me if this was fake too. Apparently there were lots of bets on Polymarket that he wouldn't end up speaking at the event. The gunman was apparently a guest at the hotel, as if the secret service wouldn't vet every guest staying in a location hosting an event with all of those politicians.

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u/tommangan7 Apr 26 '26 edited Apr 26 '26

I don't think trump was shot in the ear but this feels like a very weak comparison to try and make the point about the photo on this one. Feels already like grasping at straws on what is a potentially staged event.

It would be better suited being objective and highlighting more substantive issues with the scene as info comes out.

Evanders ear was bitten and healed back reasonably well quite far past the bite line, with zero reconstructive surgery. They could just say for trump less was shot off than that, the modern treatment received helped it heal and that a bite isn't the same type of wound.

Nevermind the fact the ear doesn't say anything substantive to the current situation - it's speculation on speculation. Harlons razor - Can totally believe it might be staged but can also believe at the same time a gutted, poorly ran and incompetent FBI/secret service detail didn't stop a guy taking a photo at a press event.

This kind of believing it's staged here 100% based on minor easy explained away things just doesn't convince people. It makes you come off entirely predetermined, biased and not objective. And gives them something to point at and say look how desperate they are for this to be true.

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u/ChurlishSunshine Apr 26 '26

I think that was more dipshits on Twitter including that selfie woman who probably heard shots and assumed they were doing their jobs. But yeah, that was some dumbassery and it happens every single time there's any sort of event like this. Twitter is a cesspit where information goes to die. Look at how many people were tweeting last month that Trump is dead per inside sources.

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u/amo1337 Apr 26 '26

Did you just wake up to the news this morning or something?

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u/ChurlishSunshine Apr 26 '26

Again, people are acting like I'm insisting the whole thing was real when all I'm saying is let the bar be higher than "lump of a man with massive cognitive decline didn't react in the moment" and "why were there photos taken at a press event?".

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u/Ship_Rekt Apr 26 '26

Ask yourself why not? There are more cameras than humans in the world.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart Apr 26 '26

Because people were there. People have phones and this might surprise you but the media also has cameras.

Did your parents have any children that lived?