It’s a group of people who believe anything that fits their narrative, and they don’t need actual data. If they soured on Trump, it makes sense they’d start believing stuff like this.
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.
Hire loyal braindead cultist. Tell him he needs to be on roof and kill person behind Trump that is actually an evil liberal lizard creature from hollow flat earth.
Have Trump be scared and squirt blood.
Have secret service kill idiot so idiot can’t be interrogated.
…
Profit
Forget to do any real homework and fuck up hiding that kid is indoctrinated cultist.
And have literally everyone involved in planning and organizing, and everyone who received suspicious orders, keep silent? Or, you know, that other thing I said which doesn’t require tens of people keeping secrets.
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.
I had heard it was due to a communication breakdown between the local authorities and Secret Service. It’s a stunning lapse but not impossible, presidents have been assassinated and attacked before.
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.
Doing a shot like that reliably would be beyond the capability of any marksman.
There are, perhaps, some out there who could do it most of the time, but I don’t think there’s a single one ever who could count on it as a 100% thing.
I honestly doubt there are more than a handful of marksmen alive who could reliably make that shot consistently enough that Trump would trust his life to them. There’s no fucking way that bloody ear came from a bullet, nevermind the collateral trauma his head would have experienced if it had. The scenario I’ve heard that seems most plausible is that his ear scraped against an SS agent’s holster as they were getting him out of the way.
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.
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.
okay, yes. it was. but why would they start thinking this now?
It’s a group of people who believe anything that fits their narrative, and they don’t need actual data. If they soured on Trump, it makes sense they’d start believing stuff like this.
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.
Hire loyal braindead cultist. Tell him he needs to be on roof and kill person behind Trump that is actually an evil liberal lizard creature from hollow flat earth.
Have Trump be scared and squirt blood.
Have secret service kill idiot so idiot can’t be interrogated.
…
Profit
Forget to do any real homework and fuck up hiding that kid is indoctrinated cultist.
Profit anyway.
And have literally everyone involved in planning and organizing, and everyone who received suspicious orders, keep silent? Or, you know, that other thing I said which doesn’t require tens of people keeping secrets.
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.
I had heard it was due to a communication breakdown between the local authorities and Secret Service. It’s a stunning lapse but not impossible, presidents have been assassinated and attacked before.
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.
Doing a shot like that reliably would be beyond the capability of any marksman.
There are, perhaps, some out there who could do it most of the time, but I don’t think there’s a single one ever who could count on it as a 100% thing.
I honestly doubt there are more than a handful of marksmen alive who could reliably make that shot consistently enough that Trump would trust his life to them. There’s no fucking way that bloody ear came from a bullet, nevermind the collateral trauma his head would have experienced if it had. The scenario I’ve heard that seems most plausible is that his ear scraped against an SS agent’s holster as they were getting him out of the way.
He needed to be close but not too close. That was his failure - damn near took him out on accident.
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.
That begs the question, though – why hasn’t the person behind it tried again since then?
Someone with the motivation and the resources to do this once could try it again.
I think the (hilarious) trump Jesus photo did more damage to maga than Iran war did. And Iran war fucked up maga.
All that was left were mostly religious wing nuts.
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.