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Interesting. Content/proof for this?

Do you think Trump's bodyguards would have left him uncovered while they pretty much posed for a dramatic Renaissance-core photo after he was "shot" 🙄? Look at that photo, they left him wide open for another shot while his ear is supposedly bleeding. Because they knew from rehearsal that the only second shot would be coming from the camera.

I don't think he's "brave" enough, but I do think he is STUPID enough. You are trying to apply normal logic to virtuosically incompetent MAGAs. They never looked at it like they were putting Trump's life in danger, they were going to rally the entire nation behind Trump, after he was almost assassinated, and ride that to a wildly popular win on the election.

Except the overwhelming response was irritation that we didn't get to see his head explode on national TV. Then it became immediately apparent that it was all a clumsy hoax that resulted in a murder, and they quickly buried it.

Except when Trump tried to revive the sympathy vote by screaming at the debate about how he "got shot in the head!" What a fucking pathetic drama queen.

Are you dumb? Do you think he was like yeaa shoot me in the ear but only slightly? There is super mega huge low probability of this thing happening naturally. Add here the fact that he was going to lose and this event boosted his votes so much.

Except there wasn't a bullet. Of course he wouldn't, he didn't. Literally everything he says and does is a lie in some way.

Does it matter if he used blanks?

Yes, I'm implying this was staged and he was just used. Maybe he was even told that he was there to protect trump as a secret backup to USSS. There are a lot of mentally ill people that you could convince of anything.

The rifle is effective at ranges further than the shooter. In every case. That rifle is more than capable of a killing shot from there, and further.

He was 130 m or so away. 5.56 is deadly from further. A lot further.

Not even close. In the Marine Corps, we qualified at 500yds with effectively the same rifle using iron sights

IIRC the consensus was the secret service agent tackle caused it. Not surprising for a frail old man to be scraped pretty easily. The pageantry with the gauze was to leverage the injury into a tough guy image instead of sad bruised geriatric.

I don't really buy the staged conspiracy theories.

• Secret service protection is reduced when you're not the president and would be spread thinnest during peak rally-season
• Trump's polling was really, really bad at the time. The motive makes sense along with the demographics of the shooter (all these assassination attempts are from disillusioned groyper-types)
• He looked confused/in shock during and afterwards and he's not a good enough actor to fake that
• A person died from the shots, no chance live ammo would be allowed
• In the weeks following Trump made very few appearances and rumors were describing ptsd symptoms. If it were staged you can be damn sure that blowhard would be putting on photo shoots every day

It's a super common area to get pierced, or it used to be anyway. Doesn't bleed when you get it pierced, because it's almost all cartilage.

The majority of Congress is 100% loyal to him.

There is a huge conspiracy to protect the people in the Epstein files that's been going on for decades.

There are plenty of people who would set this up.

Heritage foundation is one of them.

The maga people are fanatics. They are 100% loyal. And he is known to surround himself with such people.

If nothing else, such people like heritage foundation see him as a tool to be used. So their complicency is not based on their love of him but their need to keep him around to control.

I agree that lots of things can cause body damage. Still no scar though. After all that blood.
And the flag. The quick death of the shooter.

It's just too many sus things to excuse.

His ratings jumped after this little stunt.