Donald trump did not experience an assassination attempt. It was a publicity stunt.

[Norbert]

The Kotex on the ear for a week. The ear almost unmarked once the pad was taken off. I think it is plausible.

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[mr715]

1. Funniest attempted assassination ever

I was dying.

He was not.

[Kid Berwyn]

2. Certainly got the national discussion off couchhumping.

And it is very plausible theory. The New York Times photographer set up a special rig from the front row.

[no_hypocrisy]

3. And they killed that young guy for show?

[choie]

5. Notice we haven't heard anything much

about the shooter's story. Nor the subsequent alleged potential shooter.

[Alice B.]

23. It's mind-blowing to me, how this just fell right off the news cycle (even as crazy as things are)...

with nary a mention since...

[SCantiGOP]

38. So, MSNBC AND DailyKos

were in on the cover-up?
Baseless conspiracy musings.

[Alice B.]

83. That's not what I meant.

I live in Western PA. Even if there will never be a clear answer for why this kid did it, after the initial non-stop, repetitive coverage, I feel like we know less about him and what led up to what happened than say, the guy accused of killing those students in Idaho. And that could be because I just, simply missed it.

Which is my point.

I'm just taken by how rapidly we're hurtling through major current events. Aside from, in this instance, the merchandising bonanza that came from the imagery (I regularly pass a house with a flag out front featuring TSF pumping his fist *eyeroll*).

[superpatriotman]

32. We have heard exactly zero

About motivation, manifestos, prior planning, etc.

[Alice B.]

84. That was more my point :) That end of things didn't seem to get the media colonoscopy other stuff does.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

8. Life is cheap for these guys.People are expendable unless you're a billionaire and support Republicans.

[yourout]

9. While I find it unlikely they would do that I'm not completely...

Writing it off either.

[Lonestarblue]

21. If this was a stunt, it's entirely possible that the kid was nervous and was not supposed to kill anyone.

The Secret Service certainly killed him quickly with no questions asked.

[msongs]

17. sacrifice one person's life for world domination. no brainer for fascists nt

[Codifer]

27. Two people;

one useful idiot (tool) to shoot near tsf (NOT at)

and one random mook as an innocent bystander.

Yes, a very small price.

[rampartd]

18. loose end

[Katcat]

19. Odd

We never heard anything about an autopsy or a funeral

[BlueTsunami2018]

29. You think they wouldn't?

You think they wouldn’t sacrifice one of their own cultists for show?

You do realize who we’re talking about, right?

These people are ruthless fascists. Literal fascists.

[uponit7771]

46. ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾THIS !!!☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾 The literally took people to camps without due process !!! They're **OPENLY** doing Nazi shit

... out in the open and the Nazis at least boiled the frog slow MAGA doesn't give a damn

[Woodwizard]

60. Right?

Let's leave the conspiracy stuff for the fringe maga and Qanon nuts.

[travelingthrulife]

86. For silence.

[Aristus]

94. The Trumpanzees will do anything to show their devotion to their monkey god.

n/t

[Irish_Dem]

4. And the SS screwing up so badly.

Had been warned about the shooter pacing back and forth in front of the event.
And then when he was on a near by roof.
It was so odd.

[Maj. Dude]

34. Yes they did.

And they him stand up to make a few fist pumps too.

[Irish_Dem]

44. I forgot that part. Yes was totally against standard protocol.

And then the hospital would not release any information whatsoever and then
right afterward his ear looked fine.

All weird.

[BoRaGard]

79. The hospital cover up is TELLING

GOP occultism at work:
Keep your mouth shut OR ELSE.

[Irish_Dem]

81. Oh yes Trump had to have threatened the hospital staff to keep quiet.

[Ms. Toad]

48. No odder than inviting a journalist to an attack planning chat.

These are arrogant bumbling fools, not master planners of an elaborate staged fake assassination attempt.

[Irish_Dem]

54. There was something off about that situation.

I am not saying it was fake.
But it was odd.

More than screw ups.

[Initech]

6. The sick fucks had t-shirts made in 24 hours.

[Prairie Gates]

7. This is not a good take

He definitely got shot at in Pennsylvania

The Florida incident was way overblown for campaign reasons, but the PA thing was real. A man died, for goodness sake.

[GenThePerservering]

15. It was fake

The man who died was collateral damage as far as they're concerned. Any spotlight on the deceased takes it off Trump's little photo-op, and why hasn't he gone after the shooter?

Fake.

[SCantiGOP]

39. That is as believable

as the various Qanon theories.

[tritsofme]

55. Madness. It seems Trump has rotted out the minds of more than just his own supporters.

How can folks so easily embrace ridiculous conspiracy theories like this? Trump’s destructive force is incredible.

[Celerity]

74. agree

[Katcat]

20. When?

When and where was the shooter’s funeral?

[Prairie Gates]

67. A man other than the shooter was killed as well

Sorry that you're out of the loop on that. His name was Corey Comperatore. He was shot and killed by the shooter.

[travelingthrulife]

88. I think the kid just aimed badly. I am guessing he was promised pay to shoot over the

crowd.

What happened at the podium was completely faked.

[tritsofme]

93. The Q-Anon folks were barely this creative....

[dchill]

52. Two died (by my count.)

[Prairie Gates]

69. True...I was not counting the shooter

Thank you for the more humane accounting.

[dchill]

72. He did die. And I've yet to hear from anyone who knows why.

[EdmondDantes_]

62. The take would have to improve to be "not good"

It's an embarrassing take. It seems like a lot of people have let their hatred of Trump overwhelm logic.

The same gang of idiots who couldn't remember to not include a reporter in their secret chat and are so inept that in their efforts to erase the "gay agenda" deleted the Enola Gaysomehow got all of the secret service, the local cops, the dead attempted assassin and the medical staff to all go along with this plan and nobody screwed up the operational security? That's just not a realistic scenario.

[._.]

10. Captain Obvious

Yes, quite a few of us figured that out a while ago.

[dalton99a]

11. Where is the medical report / hospital record?

[FalloutShelter]

37. This above all.

[Pinback]

42. Buried at Trump National Golf Club Bedminster.

Totally normal.

[Ms. Toad]

50. HIPAA.

You don't lose your medical privacy rights just because you are a public figure.

Would a decent human being have released them - absolutely. But it is his right not to.

[Traildogbob]

12. So Eric lied when he said half his ear was blown off?

I try to never look at him, but some of the still photos with the ear in plain view, not a damn sign of a scratch.
But I will spare y'all my theories. Everything he does is a staged photo op event. Maybe they had Q Terrontino do the scene. The billionaires funding his needed victory could afford the best director and actors. Seems to be the stench of fish around it all.
I DO wish all the Dems would have worn Kotex’s at the Capital Jamboree Speech. He would have e lost it, and so would the Smirking Johnson and Vance.
The rage from MTG would have been priceless.

[malaise]

13. That would be no surprise to

doubting malaise

[Dave says]

14. A man was killed - this was not planned

It’s true that Trash made maximal use of the assassination attempt, but the attempt IMO was real.

[unblock]

16. They really overplayed it to milk its campaign value, but

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I find it very hard to believe it wasn't a real attempt.

First and foremost, had it been staged, they would have made it far more dramatic.

Either the teddy roosevelt route (he was shot in the chest during speech, and calming finished it before announcing he had been shot) OR they would have made it unclear if he was alive ir dead for hours.

No, this was an attempt that barely scraped him or just gave him a near-miss burn and they played it up to cash in on its campaign value.

[Pinback]

43. I would pay to see

“Trump shit in the chest during a speech.”

[unblock]

45. lol!

Oops.

[rsdsharp]

22. Bullets were flying. A man was killed. I wouldn't put it past Trump to fake an assassination attempt --

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the “attempt” at his golf course where no shots were fired, for example.

But Trump is a physical coward. There is no way he would knowingly stand in front of a rifle being fired toward his position. Ever.

And it is beyond dispute a rifle was being fired toward that stage.

[Butterflylady]

33. The first one was real, however, the second one was a set-up.....

[Figarosmom]

24. Thats what ive always believed.

It was a set up and that kid was dead as soon as he made the deal.

The kid was known as yhe worst shot around. His classmates said straight out that he was such a bad shot he was kicked out of the rifle club at the school. So they hire a kid that could t hit the boardside of a barn and he ends up killing g a guy in the crowd. Trump didn't even care that would happen.

[swong19104]

25. So how did they get

some chump willing to be shot and killed to be there? Or was he killed long before the stunt?

[travelingthrulife]

91. Aimed poorly

[WhiteTara]

26. blood splatter from the man killed behind him.

[RedWhiteBlueIsRacist]

28. The man who called his political rivals crooks, got shot by a man named Crooks! LOL

PSA: violence is not the answer, yadda, yadda yadda...

[dchill]

30. Many people know what really happened...

...and that's what I find the most disgusting. An actual criminal conspiracy.

[SammyWinstonJack]

31. Duh. His red hat cult fell for it.

[Ilsa]

35. It was both. They turned the attempt into a publicity stunt. nt

[Escape]

36. I have weighed in on this before...

Trump's fist pumping "bravery act" was 180 degrees from how he would actually have behaved under a real assassination attempt. He would have stayed on the floor, whimpering, covered up by his Secret Service squad, until the area was evacuated.

It was fake.

The spectator in the stands was likely killed by accident from a stray bullet.

We will never know what the kid on the roof thought he was being paid to do.

[dflprincess]

51. The way the Secret Service left him exposed is all we need to know

and there was never an interview with the doctors who treated him or even a medical report released.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

40. Easy to say "a stunt" when forgetting about the man who died and others injured. . . . nt

[HipChick]

41. Collateral damage..

But still a stunt..

[calimary]

47. He lies.

He just LIES.

All the time!

Around the clock.

For many reasons and NO reasons.

Cuz that’s who he is and what he does, especially because he knows lies work. Because people just want to believe.

[Meowmee]

49. It was a failed attempt

A real one I believe which injured and killed others. One moment of difference and history would have changed, much for the better imo. The shooter was mentally ill and had gripes against both parties. He had planned to attack D too I think. Him being shot and killed by the FBI/Secret Service is no surprise, that is what usually happens unless they escape, which he had no chance to do.

I think his injury was minor and way overblown imo, to milk it for publicity etc.

[NoMoreRepugs]

53. I find it hard to believe that a fat old man being shot at would have

the presence of mind to raise his fist with all that adrenaline pumping through his already adderall saturated body without it being rehearsed.

[JohnSJ]

56. Explain that to the people killed in the audience with that attempt.

[Polybius]

57. Bullshit

[Celerity]

75. +1

[Aviation Pro]

58. The natural instinct of a crowd in that scenario

Is to panic. This brainwashed cult stayed bolted to their seats.

Funny.

[Blue Ozarks]

59. The Secret Service said....

His ear was nicked by a piece of flying broken glass, in other words, it was NOT a bullet injury.

[hadEnuf]

68. And I believe the SS quickly back tracked on that statement after the MAGAs cried about it.

The whole thing was quickly forgotten about after the t-shirts were made and Trump got his sympathy lap.

[Joinfortmill]

61. Always thought that.

[JDAcme]

63. I was under the impression

it was a botched ear piercing.

[AmericaUnderSiege]

64. It does stretch credulity. Both timing and details.

Fucker might as well have had a Hugo Boss logo on his ear bandage.

[Jack Valentino]

65. I DON'T believe that it was a "publicity stunt".

I DO believe that Thomas Crooks was a prophet,
but without honor in his own country.

[WarGamer]

66. here we go again...

[More_Cowbell]

70. Stunt. And I *know* someone died .

That doesn't make it less a stunt.

This is a man who hasn't shut up all week about a PAINTING. There's no way he suffers an assassination attempt in silence.

[Cherokee100]

71. Lets see

Oswald acted alone? Give me a break. Just saying.

[BidenRocks]

73. Movie Magic

The shooter fires a blank.
Bang! Chump pops a bit of fake blood when he grabs his ear. He is tackled by the SS, yet he is worried about his elevator shoes. He pops up for a couple seconds. Active shooter?
A squib went off and a man behind chump appears shot. We are told he was killed.
The cop fires a blank at the shooter who is apparently dead.
Chump's ear bandage disappeared after being made a punch line. It's a miracle.
No sign of ANY skin damage to his ear. We were suckered again

I want to see bodies. Are they all in witness protection?

[Celerity]

76. The teleprompters were not shattered, and the pic shows exposed cartilage, not glass, plus a pic of one of the bullets

[BamaRefugee]

77. Don't forget about him calling out FOR HIS SHOES. Normal response to just having "half your ear blown off"?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/donald-trump-explains-strange-reason-he-asked-for-his-shoes-after-being-tackled-by-secret-service/ar-BB1q0K4Z

Just pondering...

[BoRaGard]

78. Still NO REPORT from the ER

Very suspicious.

Why is GOP keeping the report Top Secret? When they blab their war plans all over the stinking internet?

[raccoon]

80. I totally agree. If that was real, there ain't a cow in Texas.

[PittBlue]

82. My husband and I have said this since it happened.

Everything is theatrics with trump. Total setup.

[travelingthrulife]

85. I think they hired the kid to fire over the crowd. Kid misjudged shot and killed someone

They eliminated kid.

[Sky Jewels]

87. Not a scab, nick or scar on Dickhead's ear, either.

[Tommy Carcetti]

89. I'll go as far as much to buy the attempt itself. However, the "injury" I don't buy.

In as much as he claims he was actually struck by a bullet.

I think he was grazed by a small piece of debris caused by the bullet striking something else.

I think an actual bullet would have caused a significant lot more damage to the ear.

[GulfofMexico]

90. I absolutely agree

Don't we get it yet: There is NOTHING these people won't do if they think it will advance them and their agenda. And just look at how Trump is hoisted on the shoulders of the SS and carried out like Rudy at the end of the football game. That's nuts! The SS is taught to jump on top of the target and use their own bodies to shield them, not carry them out like a football hero. The Orange One was hoisted up for a photo op. Period. Had it been real, carrying him like that just sets him up as the easiest target ever. It . . . makes . . . no . . . sense. Unless, of course, it was staged. Which the evidence clearly suggests it was. The injury to the ear, carrying him out on their shoulders . . . It was just another immigrants are eating the pets, just another take over of Arlington National Cemetery.

Look at how the Reagan and Ford assassination attempts were handled and look at what happened in Butler, PA, and tell me that was real. These pieces of human scum are the lowest of the low. They have no conscience. They have no morality. They have no ethics. They have no empathy. The evidence is everywhere, including in Butler.

[ScratchCat]

95. This here

The SS is taught to jump on top of the target and use their own bodies to shield them, not carry them out like a football hero. The Orange One was hoisted up for a photo op. Period. Had it been real, carrying him like that just sets him up as the easiest target ever. It . . . makes . . . no . . . sense. Unless, of course, it was staged.

The SS could have had no way - no possible way - to know the threat was over at that time - unless they knew there was no real shooter. If it were real, nobody could have known the kid was the only shooter or what was going on.

[ScratchCat]

92. It was a "stunt" one way or another

I don't believe for a second the kid did this on his own accord. Whether or not he was supposed to fire or not is debatable. But I believe he was "set up" to do that.

The fact that I get stuck with is the visit he had at Mara-la-go just a week or so before hand by his dictator buddy. I believe it is possible he was being told about this "stunt" at the time. And here is the kicker: I've said since it happened that the look on his face when he got up appears to say: "They didn't say anyone was going to be firing at me!! WTF?" It all looked staged from that point forward. He had to know there was no real threat.