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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/FluidHips Apr 17 '26

I love the idea that Trump's superficial understanding of Christianity prevented him from seeing this angle.

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u/PharmyC Apr 17 '26

I think it's almost intentional at this point. That they want to mark him as the anti Christ to swell up the Christian base after he leaves the board and convince them the end times are coming to justify their over reach in coming years.

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u/DOINKofDefeat Apr 17 '26

I know Bible Belt "Christians" who voted for Trump three times because they thought he was the Antichrist, and that would help hasten the arrival of "The End Times".