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Given how pivotal it was to his campaign, I think it's worth considering how such a thing could be pulled off if it was planned:

People that want to tell stories to drive history need the right characters. Modern information technology makes that easier than ever.

Find a kid with firearm access who's into something embarrassing online. Preferably someone who wouldn't shoot the president, so a supporter. Tell him you know what he does in secret and you'll tell everyone, including police, if they don't co-operate.

Tell them to go to the chosen firing position and to shoot into the crowd behind the candidate. Tell them you'll provide protection and a getaway. Tell them there will be a magazine loaded with blanks for them to use at the firing position (they're live rounds).

When the shots are fired, secret service ties off the loose end without any interaction from the planners, and the kid never even has a name for who put him up to it.

Occams Razor may have nicked his ear also? Wait a second, same thing. But yeah 100% this comment above.

The regime took a situation, spun the bejesus out of it. And umm, that is what was offered up. Poor kid could have received some therapy. Turning him into target practice was way way more cost effective and therefore practical. 🤮

The bullet could have hit the podium, which caused a bunch of bits to blow off, one of which cut his ear.

Edit: I read this theory in the reporting when it happened, and it was never really addressed or officially denied or dismissed later on.

There’s a photo that has the bullet in mid flight? Is that even optically possible? That should be case closed right off the bat.

Edit: OK I take it back, the photo has it all stretched out as I’d expect.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/picture-trump-bullet/

I enjoy the occasional conspiracy theory content for entertainment - it's fascinating psychology to me. If I could get a PhD in it, I could do a 200-page thesis this weekend.

Between this and ol' neck-hole, the T voters started off really just salivating ready to get out their guns and start mowing down anyone left of alt-right Rwanda-style. When the obvious profile of "nut with a gun" pointed the finger back at people like them with mental health issues and guns, it forced a lot of what it normally forces - some sort of delusion of "DeepState-CIA-Massad-FBI-Unilever-SCJohnsonWax-Soros wanted (insert name here) dead because of (insert batshit crazy thing here)."

They have such a level of group-think and us-vs-them bias that it's genuinely incomprehensible that someone "on their team" could do anything bad to anyone. Self-reflection and wondering things like "oh....should we have gun regulation?" is tantamount to self-castration to them. That's not an exaggeration.

As a group, under-educated rural voters that trend towards conspiracy mindsets (for 20-40 years, long before MAGA was a thing) have spent so long gaslighting themselves into thinking that nothing bad can happen IRL with no conspiracy behind it unless it fits into their "when do we get to use the guns?" Turner Diary (which was rope, but that's not important) genocidal moment, nothing else is possible. Only conspiracies and the terrible atrocities of liberals happen. Nothing else. Ever.

So when the Butler, PA guy doesn't fit the "Evil Satan-worshiping Urban Youth DemoRAT with a gun!" model, the default position is "See? ThEy almost succeeded!"

Then fast-forward a year and once the Epstein stuff comes back around, which makes the whole house of cards wobbly, they've dug themselves into such a deep hole mentally, there's no coming back from it. Just throwing one MAGA personality into the pit after the next because they're all connected to Israeli money, so they're burning their own talking heads faster than new ones can rise up the ranks. So at this point, everything to them is a psyop, everything is false flags and mind control and the CIA because the reality that Republicans and wealthy people are huge shitbags doesn't fit their 2 allowed modes of thinking.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

And the fact that Trump, the biggest coward in history, draft dodger extraordinaire, rose back up from a circle of protection while he’s just been shot at?? Please. He’d rather those “ idiot security “ people take the hit and die before he risked being hit. I feel if he were in actual unplanned danger he’d be shidding and pissing all the way to the car without a second thought for a photo op.

The photographers being ushered into perfect position as the flag lowers kind of gives it away

Then the democrats would want more proof and more scrutiny in the whole process. Now they swipe it under the rug.

What are you suggesting? Because that line asserts "without evidence", you're unwilling to accept that the official story isn't honest?

You don't need to be a conspiracy theorist, you don't need to invent new scenarios that need to evidence, just examine the official narrative and ask yourself if the holes are small enough to ignore?

1. The shooter fired from a roof that was outside the Secret Service security perimeter. Reuters reported that Crooks fired from a rooftop that had been left outside the Secret Service perimeter, and former officials described that as a major omission. Reuters also reported that neither Secret Service nor local police had secured that roof.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-gunman-shot-roof-that-wasnt-secured-by-any-agency-2024-07-16

2. Responsibility for the AGR complex was blurred between Secret Service, state police, and local law enforcement. The House task force found that officers were posted along the fence line near the AGR complex to prevent foot traffic, but they were not tasked with watching the AGR complex or roof itself. The same report says the Secret Service was “overly reliant” on state and local representations regarding security at the AGR complex.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

3. There was no true unified command post. The House report says a unified command post would have allowed faster real-time updates among security partners. Instead, key information was relayed indirectly, including by phone, which slowed dissemination in the critical minutes before the shooting.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

4. Different agencies were operating on different radio systems and information was not flowing cleanly. The task force found that multiple law-enforcement entities were operating on different radio frequencies, and that the lack of local law-enforcement representation in the Security Room increased the chance that essential information would be delayed or lost. AP likewise reported communication breakdowns with local law enforcement as a central failure.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/secret-service-report-details-communication-failures-preceding-july-assassination-attempt-on-trump

5. The counter-unmanned aircraft system was down for most of the day. The House report states that the C-UAS system remained nonoperational through most of the day and was only successfully activated at about 4:33 p.m. The report also found that not all relevant advance and supervisory agents were informed it was down.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

6. The shooter flew a drone over the area despite the anti-drone capability gap. The task force concluded the C-UAS failure mattered because Crooks flew a drone near the rally site that afternoon while the system meant to detect or mitigate such activity was not operational. That is one of the clearest documented capability gaps in the record.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

7. Line-of-sight concerns from the AGR area were known in advance. The House report says line-of-sight concerns were discussed repeatedly during the week before the event. It specifically describes proposed mitigations including Penske trucks, equipment, banners, flags, and tractors to block vulnerable sight lines from the AGR area.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

8. Even though line-of-sight concerns were repeatedly discussed, the vulnerable area was not effectively neutralized. The same House report shows there was confusion about who was actually responsible for making sure those mitigation measures were set correctly. That matters because it shifts this from “unknown blind spot” to “known concern with muddled ownership.”

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

9. Law enforcement noticed a suspicious person well before the shooting. AP reported that officers became concerned about Crooks before the shooting, and the House report says that by 5:52 p.m., almost 20 minutes before the first shots, at least nine Secret Service personnel were aware of a suspicious person near the AGR complex.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/secret-service-report-details-communication-failures-preceding-july-assassination-attempt-on-trump

10. The suspicious-person information was not broadly shared inside the Secret Service. The House report says that in four separate instances where Secret Service personnel were alerted to a suspicious person near the AGR complex, each individual failed to share the information broadly. It says the information was only broadly shared by counter-sniper personnel shortly before shots were fired.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

11. The suspect had been seen with a rangefinder before the attack. The House report includes witness testimony describing Crooks using a rangefinder. It also says that by 5:52 p.m. personnel were aware of a suspicious person who had previously been seen with one. AP also reported that people at the rally and law enforcement flagged him before the shooting.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/secret-service-report-details-communication-failures-preceding-july-assassination-attempt-on-trump

12. Warnings from bystanders and local officers did not produce a fast enough protective response. AP’s reconstruction describes a chain of missed chances in which Crooks was seen acting suspiciously, was reported, and still managed to reach the roof and fire. The House report similarly says crucial information did not reliably reach all necessary personnel in time for informed protective decisions.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/secret-service-report-details-communication-failures-preceding-july-assassination-attempt-on-trump

13. Even when updates were being passed, critical details did not reliably reach decision-makers in the Security Room. The House report gives a specific example: one official said he “never heard man on a roof,” even though others believed roof-related information had been relayed. That is a concrete documented disconnect, not a vague criticism.

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

14. The failure pattern was not just one bad call, but a stack of compounding failures. Public reporting and official reviews point to the same cluster: unsecured roof, ambiguous responsibility, fragmented communications, lack of unified command, line-of-sight concerns known in advance, suspicious-person sightings not escalated effectively, and a degraded anti-drone capability. That does not prove conspiracy, but it does establish a dense factual basis for “the system was full of exploitable holes.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-gunman-shot-roof-that-wasnt-secured-by-any-agency-2024-07-16

https://www.ap.org/news-highlights/elections/2024/secret-service-report-details-communication-failures-preceding-july-assassination-attempt-on-trump

https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf

Is it really just a series of incompetent actions and a kid conveniently planning his execution attempt to line up with all the incompetence? It's possible, certainly. Are there other more likely explanations?

They good like that. Sickening & quite unfortunate. But at least we know their strategy & strengths or(weakest points). Tomato tomato.

I’ve thought about it too and have concluded that the shooter they the got to take the fall was more than willingly to eat a lead sandwich for trumpy. He had a reputation for being the weird conservative kid at school. He had experience shooting long range rifles but it was said he wasn’t that good either. Then add to the that not much was ever learned about him and that’s also suspicious. It’s like the had the perfect guy to use.

To be fair, the Antichrist narrative from everything I have read fits him like a glove. So maybe they are just noticing what was already there as they find ways to de/reprogram themselves