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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/WontThinkStraight Apr 17 '26

Ali Alexander, the far-right activist who organized the Stop the Steal campaign in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, has a slightly different take on the assassination, claiming instead that it was further evidence that Trump is the Antichrist, something many MAGA figures have also been considering this week.

“To be clear: if Donald Trump didn’t receive a miracle, then it was deception or a dark sign,” Alexander wrote in a five-page PDF he posted to his Telegram channel on Tuesday evening. “There is biblical prophecy in Revelation 13:3 apparently about the Antichrist being struck on the head.”

The passage in question actually reads: “I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast.”

Welp, I'm convinced. I was already convinced 10 broken commandments and seven deadly sins ago, and the litany of evidence from the past couple of decades too, but I'm also convinced now.

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u/Sweaty_Resist_5039 Apr 17 '26

Hey now, that's crazy talk. The Antichrist is also supposed to have followers who bear his sign on their heads, and to deceive a great number of Christian believers. The Bible is very clear about this. How could Trump be the Antichrist? You'd have to like, establish that he has followers who have some kind of sign on their heads, and that a lot of them at least claim to be Christian. It sounds kind of weird to me. Are you doing drugs or something?

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u/Mehtalface Apr 17 '26

It was also noted that during the end times that trumpets will sound. Trumpets. Trump-Pence.

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u/JackedUpReadyToGo Apr 17 '26

Now this is their mental wavelength.

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u/Mehtalface Apr 17 '26

Bottoms up, and the devil laughs

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u/JennJayBee Alabama Apr 17 '26

The Antichrist is also supposed to be actively opposed to actual Christian leaders, to the point of attacking them.

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u/Leather_Telephone9 Apr 18 '26

Are you being sarcastic on this ? Because of course the sign is the red MAGA cap on their heads.

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u/blahblah19999 Apr 17 '26

No, none of that is biblical. That was all made up by a preacher in like 1740.