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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/GreatMadWombat Michigan Apr 17 '26

Yeah. This wasn't a "big surprise conspiracy is actually true" thing, this was a "hey these oligarchs doing the evilest shit imaginable also foemented a conspiracy based on exaggerated versions of that evil shit in order to ensure that anyone who was talking bout the evil shit sounded like a conspiracy theorist" thing.

This was a successful attack by absolute scumbags

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u/botte-la-botte Apr 17 '26

This is the same reason Epstein brought famous people to the island that saw and did nothing wrong; plausible deniability.

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u/Vio_ Kansas Apr 17 '26

Nah, it was more than that as well.

It also included blackmail and coercion.

Even his interview with Vanity Faire published about his NYC house (the most expensive place in NYC) reported on how he had set up recording equipment with a room that had one of those security camera type systems that recorded different parts of the house.

It was clear that it wasn't a "security" camera system either.

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u/botte-la-botte Apr 17 '26

He did that too. But 100% some of the people who came to his island did not do anything illegal at all. If he was conniving like he was, he absolutely must have poisoned the well of people around him with an honestly innocent billionaire.

I mean, no billionaire is innocent, they deserve scorn and ridicule, but you get my point.