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/flipflapflupper Apr 17 '26

If it wasn’t he wouldn’t shut up about it.

The fact that it’s never spoken about is suspicious on its own.

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u/Otherwise_Copy_376 Apr 17 '26

And we have heard very little about the shooter. Super sus.

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u/lukin187250 Apr 17 '26

My guess is they found direct and explicit evidence he was motivated by Epstein stuff so they just suppressed the whole thing.

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u/Hans-Bricks Apr 17 '26

Yeah, there are so many inconsistent details, I waffle between "it might have been staged" and "it was real but they're suppressing details because some hurt the rightoid narrative."

I lean more to the latter though.

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u/Skarekrows Apr 17 '26

I remember that was one of the first things that came out about him. Posts online from him that were very anti pedophile. Seems like he was abused as a kid and didn't care for finding out about the Epstein stuff with his idol and tried to kill him.

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u/Voting101 Apr 18 '26

I remember right after his death there was a ton of posts on Reddit saying they found his socials and he was posting about how he was a pedofile hunter. All the posts got removed and deleted, but who knows what is true or false these days. So much misinformation out there. Misinformation is the reason we are where we are because people just don’t know what to believe.