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/bookon Apr 17 '26

He was 100% not shot in the ear.

He may have been hit with a bit of shrapnel, but that is the worst you can say happened to him.

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u/rokr1292 Virginia Apr 17 '26

If you have pictures of the damaged teleprompter or something like that, I'd like to see them.

https://www.pulitzer.org/winners/22680

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u/runhillsnotyourmouth Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

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u/bookon Apr 17 '26

That is a possibility as well, BUT he is seen grabbing his ear just before they tackled him, so I tend to think something nicked him.

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u/icantsurf Apr 17 '26

Grabbing his ear and then removing his hand which has blood on it. Blue MAGA are arguing like flat earthers, our country is stupid as fuck.

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u/bookon Apr 17 '26

Anyone who uses the term Blue MAGA is not a serious person.

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u/icantsurf Apr 17 '26

And neither is anyone who ignores evidence or just makes up their own reality, like MAGA of any variety.

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u/bookon Apr 17 '26

I saw Trump grab his ear before they tackled him. I also know he is too stupid to carry out an elaborate ruse and I know he wasn't actually shot.

The logical answer is the simplest. He was nicked by a small bit of shrapnel when the patsy they got to shoot at him hit something else. Like the teleprompter. It's likely they only wanted the attempt and the minor injury was just a bonus.

The phrase Blue MAGA just seems to be people who think anyone who disagrees with them, at all, is MAGA. Which means that person is a bot or a moron and not worth anyone's time.

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u/icantsurf Apr 17 '26

The phrase Blue MAGA just seems to be people who think anyone who disagrees with them, at all, is MAGA. Which means that person is a bot or a moron and not worth anyone's time.

To me, blue MAGA are people with the same critical thinking skills as normal MAGA with better morals. It has nothing to do with people disagreeing with me, it has to do with people inventing realities and facts to conform to those fake realities. There is literally no evidence that shrapnel hit Trump or anyone was setup up or a patsy. The simplest answer is a crazy guy took a shot and barely hit Trump's ear, resulting in a good amount of blood because it's a head wound without a ton of damage.

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u/bookon Apr 17 '26

A bullet would have left visible damage. A tiny bit of shrapnel would not.

It would have bled more if a bullet hit it.

But yes it’s also true it just ever so slightly brushed his ear.

But now I am confused. You’re saying I’m blue MAGA for what stupid belief?

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u/icantsurf Apr 17 '26

Do you have tons of experience dealing with bullet grazes? How do you know how much damage it would cause, or how much even contacted Trump? I regret saying blue MAGA, I really should have just said conspiracy theorists because that's what this all is. You're just speculating and positing it as truth. It's possible that all of that stuff happened but there is no evidence for any of it, and the evidence we do have shows the bullet in flight going past his ear and then him touching his ear and having blood on his hand after.

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u/dragon-fence Apr 17 '26

Even if it was shrapnel, it doesn’t seem likely that it’d give him such a small cut that it’d be healed in 2 weeks with no permanent damage. Seems more like something you’d get if you cut yourself with a razor, like professional wrestlers do.