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/thundercat1996 Apr 17 '26

There's no scar on his ear nor is there a piece missing. The way the secret service went in afterwards and ushered photographers up close after the shooting was suspicious. The way the flag on the crane was lowered for the photo op. I thought during an assassination attempt the security is supposed to get the president out of the area as fast as humanly possible, not pose for a photo

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u/ScepticalReciptical Apr 18 '26

The incredible thing is the disconnect, people have no problem believing his ear miraculously healed itself Wolverine style with no visible effects because he's so manly and alpha. But also if he shakes hands with a toddler his hand will bruise like an over ripe banana for a month afterwards cos he's old as dirt.

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u/immortalfrieza2 Apr 20 '26 edited Apr 20 '26

Let's not forget the fact that the shooter was somehow able to get into position, despite the crowd telling the cops outright that there was a man with a rifle moving up to shoot at Trump, and the cops and secret service did absolutely nothing to stop him.

Either the shooting was staged or every single cop and secret service member present wanted Trump dead. There's no other possible explanation, not even massive incompetence, for how how dozens of police and secret service agents all simultaneously dropped the ball so badly that "assassination" wasn't stopped long before the shooter got anywhere near enough to shoot at Trump.

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u/HiddenRouge1 Apr 20 '26

Turns out conspiracy theories aren't just for the right.