Iranian sleeper cells tried to assassinate him because they’re prudes and wanted him to stop talking about Hannibal Lectar.
So they’re slowly catching up with reality?
Show video of conservatives showing he wasn’t hit by bullet to other conservatives. They argue the results. Can’t make this shit up.
so they shoot a kid until the body was destroyed just to make it look more real
They good like that.
Both were pronounced toe- may-toe btw. Just in case anyone might be curious if I referenced toe-may-toe & toe-mah-toe. Nope. Straight up Tomater.🍅!
Maga pronounces it 'mater. As in “Ah throws them 'maters at them there libtards to own them.”
You say it’s you say tomato, I say tomahto, I say it’s you say tomato, I say tomato.
I actually don’t really care if the assassination attempt was staged or not…
(For the record, I don’t believe it was, because I don’t believe this group of chucklefucks could successfully execute such an event without totally cocking it up somehow or accidentally texting their plans to the New York Times.)
…because I know for a fact that Trump has done so many horrifying things right out in public where we can see them that if there was any functional justice in the world he’d already be locked up for the rest of his miserable fucking life. Faking an assassination attempt wouldn’t even be in the top hundred worst things that he’s done.
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No shit. Same with Kirk.
I’d love to see a slow mo of where the blood came from.
My money goes to a mcdonalds ketchup packet.
My money goes to a mcdonalds ketchup packet.
I watched a YouTube video where someone tried to recreate the shot that apparently sliced his ear so slightly that all it did was bleed a little…and they failed every time.
Simply due to the pressure wave created by the passing bullet, there was no possible way that bullet just knicked him without also doing noticeable damage to the rest of his head. That side of his face would have been bruised and swollen, and his entire ear would have been pulped.
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
Yes, the sundowning old dipshit is well known for his feats of legerdemain.
Trump is Neo dodging bullets apparently.
Link to video?
Wasn’t it glass that caused the cut?
Has anyone seen the medical records regarding this incident?
I don’t know if the the cause of a superficial nick like that can even be determined.
I think the secret service or something came out and said “it wasn’t the glass”
Could have been when they where manhandling him. Could have been anything really. Old people have very fragile skin.
The word you are looking for is soft. Trump is very soft, almost pillowly. Not just on the outside either, he is very soft on the inside and his brain is very soft to. Soft little hands and soft saggy balls with a little soft dick.
The only part that is hard is his thick skull, but despite this he is still soft in the head.
Because Trump wanted to have been shot, not hit with a shard of glass, in a location likely above the ear.
But, tiny shard of glass doesn’t play well with the base.
The real cut was likely sealed with medical adhesive the second Trump was in the car. That too wouldn’t play well, so he got a medic to slap a bandage on the side of his head, but he took it off because his dumbass followers were wearing ear diapers as well.
Because it was
Some of the president’s biggest supporters are now claiming, without evidence
Something that will surely be ignored here.
“Without evidence” has never stopped them before.
Perhaps they are on to something? Cue up suspenseful vintage radio theater music.
What are you suggesting? Because that line asserts “without evidence”, you’re unwilling to accept that the official story isn’t honest?
You don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist, you don’t need to invent new scenarios that need to evidence, just examine the official narrative and ask yourself if the holes are small enough to ignore?
- The shooter fired from a roof that was outside the Secret Service security perimeter. Reuters reported that Crooks fired from a rooftop that had been left outside the Secret Service perimeter, and former officials described that as a major omission. Reuters also reported that neither Secret Service nor local police had secured that roof.
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-gunman-shot-roof-that-wasnt-secured-by-any-agency-2024-07-16
- Responsibility for the AGR complex was blurred between Secret Service, state police, and local law enforcement. The House task force found that officers were posted along the fence line near the AGR complex to prevent foot traffic, but they were not tasked with watching the AGR complex or roof itself. The same report says the Secret Service was “overly reliant” on state and local representations regarding security at the AGR complex.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- There was no true unified command post. The House report says a unified command post would have allowed faster real-time updates among security partners. Instead, key information was relayed indirectly, including by phone, which slowed dissemination in the critical minutes before the shooting.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Different agencies were operating on different radio systems and information was not flowing cleanly. The task force found that multiple law-enforcement entities were operating on different radio frequencies, and that the lack of local law-enforcement representation in the Security Room increased the chance that essential information would be delayed or lost. AP likewise reported communication breakdowns with local law enforcement as a central failure.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- The counter-unmanned aircraft system was down for most of the day. The House report states that the C-UAS system remained nonoperational through most of the day and was only successfully activated at about 4:33 p.m. The report also found that not all relevant advance and supervisory agents were informed it was down.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- The shooter flew a drone over the area despite the anti-drone capability gap. The task force concluded the C-UAS failure mattered because Crooks flew a drone near the rally site that afternoon while the system meant to detect or mitigate such activity was not operational. That is one of the clearest documented capability gaps in the record.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Line-of-sight concerns from the AGR area were known in advance. The House report says line-of-sight concerns were discussed repeatedly during the week before the event. It specifically describes proposed mitigations including Penske trucks, equipment, banners, flags, and tractors to block vulnerable sight lines from the AGR area.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Even though line-of-sight concerns were repeatedly discussed, the vulnerable area was not effectively neutralized. The same House report shows there was confusion about who was actually responsible for making sure those mitigation measures were set correctly. That matters because it shifts this from “unknown blind spot” to “known concern with muddled ownership.”
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Law enforcement noticed a suspicious person well before the shooting. AP reported that officers became concerned about Crooks before the shooting, and the House report says that by 5:52 p.m., almost 20 minutes before the first shots, at least nine Secret Service personnel were aware of a suspicious person near the AGR complex.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- The suspicious-person information was not broadly shared inside the Secret Service. The House report says that in four separate instances where Secret Service personnel were alerted to a suspicious person near the AGR complex, each individual failed to share the information broadly. It says the information was only broadly shared by counter-sniper personnel shortly before shots were fired.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- The suspect had been seen with a rangefinder before the attack. The House report includes witness testimony describing Crooks using a rangefinder. It also says that by 5:52 p.m. personnel were aware of a suspicious person who had previously been seen with one. AP also reported that people at the rally and law enforcement flagged him before the shooting.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Warnings from bystanders and local officers did not produce a fast enough protective response. AP’s reconstruction describes a chain of missed chances in which Crooks was seen acting suspiciously, was reported, and still managed to reach the roof and fire. The House report similarly says crucial information did not reliably reach all necessary personnel in time for informed protective decisions.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- Even when updates were being passed, critical details did not reliably reach decision-makers in the Security Room. The House report gives a specific example: one official said he “never heard man on a roof,” even though others believed roof-related information had been relayed. That is a concrete documented disconnect, not a vague criticism.
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
- The failure pattern was not just one bad call, but a stack of compounding failures. Public reporting and official reviews point to the same cluster: unsecured roof, ambiguous responsibility, fragmented communications, lack of unified command, line-of-sight concerns known in advance, suspicious-person sightings not escalated effectively, and a degraded anti-drone capability. That does not prove conspiracy, but it does establish a dense factual basis for “the system was full of exploitable holes.”
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-gunman-shot-roof-that-wasnt-secured-by-any-agency-2024-07-16
https://fallon.house.gov/uploadedfiles/tf.finalreport.pdf
Is it really just a series of incompetent actions and a kid conveniently planning his execution attempt to line up with all the incompetence? It’s possible, certainly. Are there other more likely explanations?
#9, along with Trump popping right up for a quick photo-op immediately afterwards told me all I needed to know about the situation.
Either it was all known about before-hand, or trump’s SS is extremely incompetent.
Literally none of that proves any kind of premeditated conspiracy. The fact that the shooter was Republican and that Trump couldn’t use it to his political advantage makes it clear.
You just want to believe that because it’s more interesting than reality.
I didn’t say it proved a conspiracy theory, I’m saying completely disregarding the possibility is unwise.
We have plenty of examples of decades of government narratives being pushed hard and people being ridiculed for pointing out irregularities, only to later learn the government was either involved or completely responsible.
Don’t just jump up defend them because it feels good that they’re super incompetent.
We have plenty of examples of decades of government narratives being pushed hard and people being ridiculed for pointing out irregularities, only to later learn the government was either involved or completely responsible.
MLK Jr comes to mind.
And they’ll still re-elect him.
I think that’s the point of the article - for many in the cult, the spell is broken. Gas prices were enough to end his career, even if being a Naked Fascist wasn’t.
No shit, really? You don’t fucking say…
gee you think
Hey look at that, we can agree on something.
I thought it was obvious from the video that he nicked his ear on the secret service person’s belt buckle on the way down when they were piling onto him? It explains the paltry amount of blood that appears only after he’s down, not to mention the optimal healing time. No bullet did that.
I don’t believe it was staged. Everything that came after, yes, lies upon lies, exploiting the situation to its maximum potential, absolutely. But a real rifle was fired, a real bystander was killed, and Trump’s secret service really was incompetent enough to let it happen. No need to invent anything when the obvious truth is damning enough.
The bullet could have hit the podium, which caused a bunch of bits to blow off, one of which cut his ear.
There’s an awful lot around the event that was never really addressed or officially denied or later dismissed 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. 🤮
People that want to tell stories to drive history need the right characters. Modern information technology makes that easier than ever.
Find a kid 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 location where the weapon will be waiting, and to use that weapon to shoot into the crowd behind the candidate. Tell them you’ll provide protection and a getaway. Tell them the weapon at the location is loaded with blanks and no one will get hurt.
When the shot is 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.
We should learn more about him for those exact reasons.
Agreed. Kid “tries to assassinate” the now president and we still know so little about him.
The reason is because he was rightwing, same as the kid who took out Charlie Kirk. It destroys the narrative that liberals are violent when everyone who takes shots at your leadership are from the home team. If it was true, we’d know everything about these people. But it’s not, so the info gets suppressed instead.
That’s certainly a plausible reason, and at least part of the story.
Sigh. Exhale. Look down. “Yeah, true Dat.”
Indeed patsies real and fake certainly aren’t a new concept. JFK and the Unspeakable, and sepately Point of Impact were well written and entirely plausible.
Is there any evidence to indicate the shooter was blackmailed?
Of course not. Why would their be?
Then why do you believe that’s what happened?
I believe it’s a plausible alternative explanation.
So purely baseless speculation with no ulterior motive, sure. You’re trying to insinuate conspiracy while maintaining plausible deniability.
Your “plausible alternative explanation” isn’t much different then saying the assassination attempt was conducted by space aliens. We can say all kinds of things if we disregard the need for evidence.
Agree with this scenario, with the exception that there’s no need to give him live rounds, you can have someone else do that when there’s a “response”.
For your consideration: It’s somewhat well known the reason Trump eats so much fast food hamburger is because he has a fear of being assassinated by poison (due to a lifetime of screwing people over and socializing with the wrong sort). Do you really think that kind of paranoia would agree to allow a mentally ubstable kid with a rifle anywhere near him? That doesn’t make sense to me.
It makes sense to me if he trusts the people planning. It’s possible the bullet that killed the person in the crowd didn’t come from the kid, that the kid did actually fire blanks for the narrative while the shooter was someone more skilled and trusted by the campaign. Just spit balling.
Keep in mind, it was either winning or jail for Trump, and this really did turn things around for his run, so there were likely risks he was willing to take, especially if the people planning assured him there’d be no real risk to him.
“if he trusts the people planning” LOL nah.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/25/trump-staff-incompetent-sycophants
You are ascribing a level of logistical forethought to his team that just, isn’t possible. What is consistent with his every action, is that a media obsessed opportunist looked at the “man, woman, and camera” and decided to strike a pose from Breakfast Club or whatever thing he last remembered. Biff Tannen, Home Alone, The Apprentice, yadda yadda.
You think he won through incompetence? Interesting take.
The machine that got him elected was not incompetent. Roger Stone, for example, is a helluva schemer and has been in the game a loooooong time.
I’m not much for introspection, but when you put it like that … yes actually.
I will tell you that I grew up a bit conservative and one of the things that “The American media apparatus and conservative think tanks and their unholy amounts of billionaire funding Koch et al.” did was build up the idea of politics as a sleazeball game to disenfranchise people. I still believe it a bit. Biff had by and large built up a cult following based in no small part that he was at one point an outsider and “tells it like it is”, unapologetically petty, stupid, but also affable and a joker, racist and greedy.
He (was?), genuinely bonafide stupid and watches TV all day and enough people thought that that was their best reflection. “Authentic” but also… really bleak.
reminds me of that one Black Mirror episode
Definitely came to mind while thinking about this. Seems entirely plausible to me. Trump’s campaign had the resources, considering his connections to people like Erik Prince and the devil knows who else. An extremely simple and hard to trace operation once they’ve honey-potted the “right person”.
I wish it was s01e01.
I liked when the camera people were rushed into the proper spot and the flag was lowered so it’d be in the frame when he reappeared
Journalists rushing to get shots of a historic moment, so shocking.
I mean, I get this isn’t a popular opinion in this thread, but I can see an aid realizing, “holy shit, this is the political opportunity of a lifetime” and ushering in the photographers to take shots.
Why was the flag guy ready to lower the flag so fast?
Maybe during a shooting you should run for cover and maybe not towards the general area of the target
Journalists embed themselves in military units all the time. There’s a big incentive to take personal risk to get footage of major events.
Are we really pretending that the Trump administration had such a close relationship with certain media outlets that he convinced them to go along with this outlandish conspiracy and not a word of that has ever emerged?
