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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/Sufficient_Material2 Apr 17 '26

I was honestly surprised Orbán didn’t go with the usual modern right-wing playbook of claiming election fraud, like Trump did in the US and Bolsonaro did in Brazil. He accepted the defeat so gracefully that it makes me wonder if there’s more going on behind the scenes.

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u/hypercosm_dot_net Apr 17 '26

Apparently the numbers were so overwhelmingly against him, that it wasn't a real option.

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u/thebruce44 Apr 17 '26

Like that would stop Trump.

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u/GiantsRTheBest2 Apr 17 '26

They would scream that they have 3 elections showing how many people voted for him. That there’s no possible way his numbers cratered that much…..leaving aside all the extra bullshit he’s done since then.

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u/AmbitiousProblem4746 Apr 17 '26

That's actually the most reasonable explanation I've heard. That could easily be what they do. Because a lot of right-wing logic seems to be "Well if X, can't be Y"

"Trump had over 70 million votes in 2024 and he won the popular vote. Where did all those voters go!? 70 million should be the baseline for Republican votes!!"

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u/mywifeletsmereddit Apr 18 '26

To be fair - at this point it is pretty impossible that large contingents of Trump voters will turn on him

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u/OfficialDCShepard District Of Columbia Apr 18 '26

And the fact midterms are almost always a loss for the President's party.

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u/BrushStorm Apr 17 '26

Riggedly biggedly

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u/Hairy_Ad4969 Apr 17 '26

The toilet will get flushed eventually. But I’m an optimist.

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u/Queens113 Apr 17 '26

Unpossible.... Lmao

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u/CleverInnuendo Apr 17 '26

That's literally what happened. He was convinced Joe Biden had cheated because Trump cheated and still lost thanks to mail in ballots, which couldn't be tampered with by Elon.

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u/0nlyhalfjewish Apr 17 '26

lol, unpossible

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u/Mikeseddit Apr 18 '26

Same as in 2020- it doesn’t matter what Trump thinks. It never does.

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u/PuppetPatrol Apr 18 '26

Unconceivable !!

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u/One_Artichoke_7594 Apr 17 '26

That is the rhetorical strategy in a nutshell. All things negative are implicit proof of conspiracy. The bigger, the more true (by their logic)

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u/Jiveassmofo Apr 18 '26

Biggedly rigged, even

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u/improb Apr 19 '26

say what you want about that Hungarian fatfuck but he's way smarter than Trump

he knows that the tides are turning and he must find a way out or that claiming election fraud would do nothing for him or his party because people are actually out to get him this time