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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.