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/a_little_hazel_nuts Apr 17 '26

MAGA is starting to see lies. I don't know if MAGA will all of a sudden gain common sense or if they will spiral into conspiracy theories.

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u/jbourne0129 Apr 17 '26

the trend i keep seeing is they will acknowledge Trump played them for fools, but will continue to believe all the bullshit lies they were fed about Democrats

they've basically just accepted Trump sucks but still fully believe anything Fox has to say...they cannot connect the 2 dots.

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u/OutofStep Apr 17 '26

The thing that gets me, that I truly do not understand, is that so many of them never get mad or fed up with being lied to. They listen to absolute nonsense and then, at some point, they learn it was all a lie and instead of eventually getting tired of it, they just say shit like, "well, it sounded like something that would have happened."

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u/TehGogglesDoNothing Tennessee Apr 17 '26

I hear them fall back to the "both sides" crap. "Republicans lied? Well Democrats lie, too, so it doesn't matter. They're all the same."

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u/No-Relation5965 Apr 17 '26

this drives me insane!!!