• Jay
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    352 months ago

    In my opinion as some random person on the internet, I don’t think the first one was staged… the GOP are not good enough actors to pull that off, and a guy actually died in the attempt.

    The second attempt though does smell a little funny.

    • @[email protected]
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      152 months ago

      Fully agree on the first one.

      For the second one, I’m really struggling to see how it wasn’t staged. According to Secret Service reports, the guy was waiting for 12+ hours in the bushes to have a shot on Trump. But apparently, this was supposed to be an unplanned stop to play golf. So, how did the suspect know to wait there? IMO, either someone on Trump’s security detail tipped him off (less likely), or it was a setup.

      • @BeMoreCareful
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        52 months ago

        He may have just been hiding in a bush being crazy

        • clif
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          42 months ago

          I do that some times too. Hell, maybe I’ll go hide in a bush and be crazy this afternoon… It’s been awhile.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          It’s possible, but it seems like an awful coincidence, him hiding in a bush with a rifle and body armor at the same golf course at the time Trump “spontaneously” decides to play a round at.

          • @Bosht
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            32 months ago

            Eh. If you know the guy golfs, and know the guy frequents the course. We don’t have info on if he had been waiting there around the same time for several days and leaving in the evenings or anything like that. A little scouting work goes a long way. He could have cased the place for a month, known the dude usually golfs there on say Wednesdays, and just planned from there. Just because you’re crazy doesn’t mean you’re completely nonfunctioning. That aside, Trump golfs a LOT.

          • @BeMoreCareful
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            22 months ago

            The Trump part is a pretty big coincidence, but he could have been out there for other reasons

    • @hOrni
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      82 months ago

      Only Donald Trump would be stupid enough to do a fake assassination twice.

    • @Thrillhouse
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      82 months ago

      I wonder if in the first one he wasn’t actually hit or something? How did the ear heal so fast?

      • Jay
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        172 months ago

        I think it was just shrapnel from the teleprompter and he was playing it up to milk it… as he does.

      • @SirSamuel
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        72 months ago

        The best explanation I’ve heard is the shockwave from the bullet split the skin on his ear. Think of a papercut that bleeds enthusiastically. The cute itself is fine enough, and the area has generous blood flow, so it heals rather quickly. But it looks worse than it is when it happens

      • Nougat
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        22 months ago

        He got nicked by something, probably a piece of debris, maybe from a shattering teleprompter?

        Lots of blood vessels there, a little nick is going to bleed a lot, and still heal relatively quickly.

    • @[email protected]
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      32 months ago

      The death in the first one could have been an unplanned accident, they aren’t exactly competent people we are talking about.

      • Jay
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        32 months ago

        True, but it’s pretty risky to be shooting live rounds so close to Trump that they got cheeto dust on them, even if someone was a crack shot.