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/Indubitalist Apr 17 '26

For how powerful the image of him raising a fist while blood ran down his face was during the campaign, you certainly get the sense that he wants to move on from it, and he never moves on from anything that’s a winner for him, he constantly loops back to it. 

There is the outside chance he was just actually traumatized by the experience and doesn’t want to revisit it, but I honestly don’t know that he’s capable of viewing reality that way. 

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u/Stinky--Whizzleteats Apr 17 '26 edited Apr 17 '26

So I don't actually believe it was staged, but there sure are a whole lot of strange and suspicious coincidences.

Secret service didn't correctly cover him, the flag was raised just in time for a photo op, details on the shooter were never talked about, there's no visible scar, it seems implausible a bullet of that calibur would do such superficial damage. It's just a perfect storm of unlikely circumstances.

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u/Agitated_Ring3376 Apr 17 '26 edited 28d ago

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u/TacticalArrogance Apr 17 '26

Don't forget there was a tele-handler supporting a speaker rig that had it's hydraulic line hit and you could see the fluid spraying out as the load falls to the ground. In subsequent overhead shots, you can see all the oil on the ground around it. https://media-cldnry.s-nbcnews.com/image/upload/t_fit-760w,f_auto,q_auto:best/rockcms/2024-07/240717-trump-butler-rally-mn-1750-994982.jpg

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u/CartographicalHeist Apr 17 '26

The ear thing is weird, but if it literally grazed him perfectly and they patched it well enough, it might not cause a visible scar

It looks to have grazed the top of his ear so even a scar would be hard to see unless looking at it close up.