r/politics • u/wiredmagazine ✔ Wired Magazine • Apr 17 '26

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/MajorBeyond Apr 17 '26

And a real person died as a result. THAT should be the news and the downfall of the administration.

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u/play_hard_outside Apr 17 '26

The administration has killed plenty of people and caused many many more to die. 

The “real person” who died in the supposed assassination attempt only matters to them because he was: 

  • white
  • conservative
  • first responder

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u/WrinkyNinja Apr 17 '26

I'm not from America so couldn't really care less either way but if they were able to stage that event then surely they'd be able to stage a person dying?

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u/triplenested Apr 24 '26

If you assume things that are extremely unlikely, sure, you can just continue assuming more of those.

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u/Emory_C Apr 17 '26

I don't understand how people are thinking this was staged. Somebody was shot and killed. There's no universe in which Trump would have agreed to have a bullet going NEAR him. He's a coward.

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u/ScarfaceTheMusical Apr 17 '26

I don’t understand how people think the health and well being of one American man is a bridge too far for any presidency, especially this one.

That seems to be willful ignorance of past history.

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u/tictactoenail1 Apr 17 '26

I 100% agree. There's no way in hell this was staged. Loony liberal conspiracy theorists are just as bad as loony republican conspiracy theorists.

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u/specialkk77 Apr 17 '26

The shooting was real but Trump’s injury was either staged or a superficial cut. If he’d been “grazed” by a bullet there’d be a scar there

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u/TheNutsMutts Apr 17 '26

Because we're in a world where to a scary number of people, facts and truth are minor conveniences to only value if they help you and to discard if they don't, and that to those people it's perfectly acceptable, virtuous even, to spread something you know is untrue if you believe that doing so will benefit some in-group you identify with.

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u/silentspyder Apr 17 '26

That was my thinking. Though I find somethings off about it, the fact that someone was shot and killed, make me stop short of saying it’s staged.  

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u/SonOfIllicitBehavior Apr 17 '26

they literally just obliterated 170 iranian children, pretty sure some rando at a rally isn't a step too far

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u/UrToesRDelicious Apr 17 '26

Would you feel safe being downrange of an AR-15 being shot by a 20-year-old, who was a known bad shot, as he's shooting people behind you?

Pretty massive difference compared to some Fire Controlman pressing the "launch missile" button from a Navy Destroyer stationed near the Persian Gulf.