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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.

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.

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. 🤮

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.

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.

Damn! I can't see fucking shit out of this thing

Wasn't it glass that caused the cut?

He was prepared for it, and learned the trick from the McMahons of cutting your ear a little bit in the ring. Palm a safety pin or razor blade and boom, nicked ear

Link to video?

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

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.

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.

He donated money to Biden's campaign. Biden's FBI is the one responsible for keeping quiet about his socials etc during election season.

Wait the truth about JFK is out?

remain Trump supporters

So they think he staged an assassination attempt on himself (which resulted in the death of an innocent bystander, by the way), and they still support him?