What really happened in the assassination attempt?
A lone gunman? Some people consider that hopelessly naive.
Maybe Trump wasn't shot. Maybe it was a gel pack of fake blood.
People are suspicious. They notice anomalies. They have a narrative; they want events to fit.
Maybe Biden ordered the assassination attempt. Biden has immunity so he took advantage of the Supreme Court decision. Ordering Seal Team Six to do it would be too public, so his people secretly used a local, bullied, young man, an amateur who botched it. But just wait. Some time before the election Biden will get serious and use a pro.
Maybe Biden starved the Secret Service of assets assigned to protect Trump, knowing something like this would eventually happen.
Maybe Biden did this indirectly by encouraging violence, hoping some anti-Trump person would step up. After all, he used the word "bull's eye" in saying that he is focusing his campaign on Trump's behavior.
Maybe it was planned by Trump-haters inside the Secret Service. Trump made enemies and deep-state moles are everywhere. They didn't adequately secure the building roof and maybe that was an accidentally-on-purpose mistake. Agency incompetence is the cover story.
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Maybe it was all fake. It was planned and carried out by Trump's campaign. Trump's campaign is the chief beneficiary of the attempt. Trump's career was in the staged reality TV business, and this is just another iteration of it. The presumed assassination was too perfect in timing, too perfect in the minor wound, too perfect in Trump's actions after he was swarmed by the Secret Service. It was staged. He heard gunshots which were his cue, he grabbed his ear and set off the gel pack with fake blood, then ducked out of sight. Notice that Trump asked for time to retrieve his shoes rather than immediately exit the area. Strange. He must not have been in fear of his life. The shoe gambit gave Trump time to do the rehearsed raised-fist photograph and emerge the wounded hero. The shooter was a registered Republican, who is now dead and silenced, as planned. Crooks is the patsy making a noisy diversion killing a couple of random people to give drama and credibility to the staged event.
Maybe it was a CIA or FBI operation. They do assassinations. Trump has been highly critical of the FBI. Many believe that rogue agents within the CIA had JFK killed. But this time the FBI botched the assassination because Crooks missed his shots. Notice how clever they were to set up the Secret Service, not themselves, to get the blame.
Maybe it was the Ukrainians or the Poles. An assassination is the kind of thing we would expect Putin to do. Russians fall out of windows. But Putin wants Trump to win, not die. If Trump wins, Ukraine will collapse and Poland will be next, so they are the ones with motive. Maybe Ukraine or Polish agents turned Crooks, but he was an amateur assassin and missed his shot.
Personally, I don't believe any of these conspiracy theories.
I have a simpler explanation. Angry, frustrated young men have easy access to high powered firearms. Sometimes these young men choose to commit suicide by going out in a blaze of rage or a desire for attention. We have school shootings, supermarket shootings, workplace shootings, and political-event shootings. No need to overthink this.
I don't think it was a fake blood gel pack, although the nicked ear that Trump slapped is sure convenient and suspicious once you remember that Trump was a reality TV star whose people set up staged events designed to look spontaneous.[Note: To get daily delivery of this blog to your emai go to: https://petersage.substack.com. Subscribe. Don't pay. The blog is free and always will be.]
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I don't know why anyone would be surprised. It's the American Way. The U.S. has more guns and more gun violence than any other developed nation. Republicans have worked long and hard to ensure that any idiot can easily obtain guns designed specifically to quickly kill as many people as possible. It's called American Exceptionalism.
I'm sure a thorough investigation will produce a lengthy report the conspiracy theorists won't believe, as after the Kennedy assassination. That too is the American Way. Why believe facts when you can make up your own?
It's been quite a while, but I still remember seeing the results of a 5.56 mm bullet shredding human flesh, and I believe that if it was a NATO 5.56 (.223) caliber bullet, it would have removed that ear., not just caused a little blood blood leak, fixed with a drugstore Band-aid.
I think Trump was lucky that cop interrupted the shooter. After the cop retreated, he quickly took his shot. If he hadn't been confronted by the cop, he would have had time to carefully aim. The distance was nothing for a decent shooter. I think he knew he would be killed, but wanted to live in infamy. The Secret Service has to take some blame. They weren't looking at rooftops in the area? Isn't that their job?
All of these conspiracy theories are the result of simple minds refusing to believe that the world is more complicated than what they are capable of understanding.
Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence and stupidity.
"Never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence and stupidity."
The ultimate Republican conspiracy theory, election denial, can only be explained by malice and madness on the part of the perps, and the stupidity and madness of True believers.
Correct, Michael.
Religion is for people who don't understand science.
Religion is also for people who understand that there is more to the world and the universe than what science can capture.
That, and the dead fireman in the crowd. Alex Jones rightfully called out CNN for crisis actors, yet screwed up badly when he further accused family members of being crisis actors. They were two different groups with almost a billion dollars difference between them.
Just like when that guy was successfully sued for defamation recently for mixing up the words "rape" and "sexual assault" because he wanted to use the stronger word. Those who spread conspiracy theories should be careful.
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