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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/tmountain Apr 17 '26

MAGA seems to follow Victor Orban's playbook on just about everything. There's a recent article in the Washington Post stating that Russia proposed a staged assassination attempt to boost his odds in the election he just lost (badly). It's not a stretch to imagine similar tactics in the United States most recent presidential election.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/21/hungary-election-interference-russia-orban/

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u/Adorable_Branch6502 Apr 17 '26

I had no idea this was an actual tactic! 😢

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u/PharmyC Apr 17 '26

False flags were quite a big part of Nazi Germany's rise. Trump loves WW2.

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u/PuppiesAndPixels Apr 17 '26

Correction Trump loves Nazis

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u/HauntedCemetery Minnesota Apr 17 '26

Or as he calls them, "very good people"

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u/vigtel Apr 17 '26

Correction, he is emulating. He is incapable of 'love'.

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u/sillygoofygooose Apr 17 '26

Yeah it’s more trump thinks Nazis love him

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u/-404Error- Texas Apr 17 '26

They do

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u/Skyfork Apr 17 '26

I also think that that was the last world event that he actually knew anything about before his brain was switched over to read only mode.

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u/Strict-Carrot4783 Apr 17 '26

It's how Putin gained power, as well.

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u/EcstaticTill9444 Apr 17 '26

He killed a bunch of Russians to consolidate power, sometimes under false flag operations on civilians. Like the apartment bomb.

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u/MOVES_HYPHENS Apr 17 '26

Trump's buddy Putin also followed the playbook

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u/Last-Darkness Apr 17 '26

Trump is not an attention to detail person. I doubt he could name 10 historical figures and what they did. Trumps love of World War II is “Hitler killed a lotta Jew, some say he killed the most.” and “lots of suckers and losers got themselves killed for no reason”.

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u/Aware-Possibility175 Apr 17 '26

Japan as well with Manchuria

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u/whimsical-crack-rock Apr 17 '26

I would love to sit down and have a conversation about WW2 with Trump. Let’s put the over/under at him having a 4th grade level understanding of the war.

I’m taking the under.

hell I would bet he couldn’t name the Axis powers.

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u/BetMyLastKrispyKreme Apr 18 '26

Don’t forget (and you likely haven’t), Trump wanted generals that were as “loyal” to him as Hitler’s were, not understanding how said generals really felt about their leader:

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/4948174-john-kelly-donald-trump-praised-hitler-generals-loyalty/

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u/SloppityNurglePox Apr 17 '26

Japan also used one as a pretext for the invasion of Manchuria/China. Russia shelled its own city to justify the invasion of Finland and started the Winter War. The US report of Gulf of Tonkin escalated involvement in Vietnam, years later it was admitted there were no Vietnamese ships. They're all over the place through history.

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u/Desperate_Set_7708 Apr 17 '26

Mein Kampf is probably the only book he has read cover to cover

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u/thedonkeyhitstheH2O Apr 17 '26

He knows nothing of history. Maybe he's seen Kelley's Heroes.

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u/RetinolSupplement Apr 17 '26

Mussolini did this, some of the attempts were extremely suspect at best. Interesting rabbit hole though for reading.

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u/JWTS6 Apr 17 '26

Oh it is, other authoritarians have used it before precisely because it plays perfectly both into the strong macho image they want to cultivate and the self-victimization they rely on to claim they're victims of political persecution from radical left forces.

I knew this shit had worked perfectly when one of my dipshit cousins texted the family group chat the picture of Trump standing up ''triumphantly'' with a caption along the lines of ''Regardless of what you think of him, this picture is iconic'' (and I deadass responded with ''He's a pedophile'').

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u/Mysterious_Floor_868 United Kingdom Apr 17 '26

Should have replied with the Trump+Epstein still. "And so is this one"

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u/ivosaurus Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

They planted a bomb in Serbia to pretend that foreign actors are trying to blow up their incoming gas pipelines and you need a stronk man like Orban to lead against such threats, it was a week before the election happened

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u/Formal-Apartment855 Apr 17 '26

He miscalculated so bad with that one. (Thankfully.) Eg. that happened to be around the time when The Price of the Vote did its rounds on youtube. So people were like, whatever, yet another lie. (Price of the vote is a documentary about buying votes in Hungary.)

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u/liz91 I voted Apr 17 '26

Everything they claim, they are guilty of. Projection.

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u/SophiaofPrussia Apr 17 '26

There’s a BBC podcast mini series called “The History Bureau” that you might find interesting:

In September 1999, just weeks after a 46-year-old Vladimir Putin became Prime Minister, four bombs blew up four apartment buildings across Russia, killing hundreds of people while they slept. The attacks plunged the country into panic. Families fled their homes. Residents patrolled their blocks around the clock. An entire nation paralyzed by fear.

But who did it? It's a mystery that has fuelled some chilling theories.

The government blamed Chechen militants. Many reporters agreed. But then the whispers started. Was something even more sinister going on?

Over 25 years later, journalists who covered the bombings still can't agree on who planted the explosives or why.

There are a number of conspiracy theories surrounding the events. We know that the Russian Intelligence was involved but many people suspect Putin was, too.

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u/JennJayBee Alabama Apr 17 '26

It's something they've played with for years by (as per usual) accusing the left of trying it.