No, MAGA guys don't think this. Retards think this. One quick scroll through the comments here will tell you that the retards who think this are right here on Lemmy.
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No shit, really? You don't fucking say...
gee you think
Hey look at that, we can agree on something.
No shit. Same with Kirk.
I'd love to see a slow mo of where the blood came from.
My money goes to a mcdonalds ketchup packet.
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Well, duh
The party of conspiracy theories is finally catching on to this one. 😮💨
Well, the previous theory they held was that God redirected this bullet away from the great and holy warrior Trump and into an evil and unrepentant volunteer firefighter at his rally.
But even they are finding that harder to believe every day.
More like Devil saved Trump
The devil may be evil but professionals have standards. Perhaps Trump is protected by a god who is also a rapist like Zeus.
They watch out after their own kind.
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God redirected this bullet away from the great and holy warrior Trump
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They think he staged his own fake assassination, while also blaming Jews and remaining staunch Trump supporters. So just the usual incoherent cultish mumblings, not any actual insight or any movement away from him.
Blaming TEH JOOOZ is never too far off when discussing conspiracy theories.
What I hate about some of these people waking the fuck up about Israel with the bullshit America-Israel attack on Iran, is that for some of them, it only validates their feelings on Jews because they are too stupid to separate some Jewish cabal notion from matters of foreign policy for nations like the United States and Israel...sigh.
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okay, yes. it was. but why would they start thinking this now?
Personally, I think the registered republican kid just had the foresight to think "hey, won't this bankrupt moron who was friends with Epstein ruin any chance of small government Republicans ever having control again?" Like, it makes perfect sense to want to kill Trump, it doesn't need to be a conspiracy.
Yeah, I'm with you on that (like, if it were a fake attempt, wouldn't you want the shooter to not be a Republican?), but there are enough weird things around the shooting that it should give anyone pause.
The big one that I haven't seen a compelling answer for is how someone managed to get on a roof within comfortable plinking distance of a former president running for reelection and then fire multiple shots before getting dusted. "Incompetence" is the only answer we've been given, so I'm not surprised that conspiracy theorists are flocking to this.
Not to mention, the skill needed to wing his ear (or hit the glass that winged his ear) at that distance without wanting to kill him in the process, it would probably be beyond the capability of a marksman this young.
Squibs
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Actually, I think it could be something more sinister.
IF his identity was real and he actually existed and he was up there with a gun, I don't think he ever had any intention of doing what the claim says he was trying to do. On the other hand, I wouldn't put it past the reasoning of right-wingers to either stage the whole thing, or for a lone right-wing kid to intentionally go there and aim for the person behind Trump, with the intention of making it look like what it's been sold as.
The kid could have thought "If I just do this, Trump will win, I guarantee it," and he could have been expecting that he (the shooter) wouldn't be making it out, but would have glory in assuring that Trump was elected.
I don't know exactly what happened in this situation, but I do know that ears don't heal in the way Trump's ear looks.
I could completely believe that explanation. MAGA is that unhinged, that they would sacrifice their life and kill others so that their cult leader god would ascend the throne and bring about the end of days.
Personally, I think the kid was blackmailed into it, by someone who loved to see the carnage after the Emperor dies (and takes the reins afterwards). Far fetched? Maybe, but with the Epstein files very little is far fetched, alas.
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It’s hard to conceive they are thinking on their own. Perhaps someone is leading them to parrot someone else’s thinking.
2024: "Trump good. Protected by God. Evil assassin must be Woke Transgender Communist."
2026: "Trump bad. Nefarious and sinister. Assassin must have been evil trick to make us think Trump Good. But we too smart. See through trick."
Some right wing talking heads started saying it.
Their echo chamber is tightly seal but there are those inside of it that can seed discontent. I expect it to increase as the midterms get harder to ignore and go completely off the rails if it's a slaughter.
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Yeah, I wouldn't rule it out immediately given how this chickenshit POS jumped up, and the Secret Service let him, for his very convenient photo-op, and then these dumbasses started selling shirts of it.
His actions in this case seem quite the contrast to the way he reacted to that bald eagle....
I still don't understand the way his ear healed up - does he have any sort of scar there?
In any case, no matter all the details, it served its purpose and probably helped to get this completely unqualified asshole back into office again.
and the Secret Service let him
They were probably getting him out of there after confirmation the shooter was killed.
Great seeing the left and right finding common ground in unrealistic conspiracy theories.
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On Telegram, prominent QAnon promoter MJ Truth asked his 100,000 followers: “How does everyone feel about the narrative surrounding the Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump?”
The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of replies, almost all of whom remain Trump supporters, said they believed the incident had been staged and that the truth may never come out. “The truth will come out 60+ years from now when we're all dead and nobody really cares anymore … just like JFK!!!!,” one follower wrote.
There you go.
Wait the truth about JFK is out?
In 60+ years when everybody’s dead? I guess? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Good. Maybe they can take that Jan 6 rage and head his way. They started this; seems only fair they clean up the mess they made, and I know it would go a long way towards me personally starting to look at them as human again.
They will flail around until they find themselves a new messiah to worship, because this movement won't die when Trump is gone. But they will never clean up their mess. They'll just make it worse.
It wasn't staged, but he definitely wasn't shot, the guy behind him was shot and the blood spray hit his ear.
Well DUH.
Thanks for catching up to the rest of us, MAGA!
Ears don't heal themselves like that.
Well DUH.
I don't think a school shooter trying to clip the President so his sempais at Demolition Ranch will notice him is as crazy a theory as "Trump paid a teenager to wing him in the ear so he could..." I'm not sure what exactly? Beat a punching bag like Kamala Harris by an extra point when he was already favored to win?
Like, the guy standing behind Trump did die. This "fake" assassination was using real ammo.
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