I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

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    Probs coz of the weird footage by some people. Guests sitting there still eating, others grabbing bottles, people smiling and chatting afterwards. People also are assuming that each attempt on his life was so bad that it felt staged (the way his ear looked after the first one, how incompetent the shooters were etc, theres lots of things flying around in comments). And then there’s the lack of sympathy for Trump so most people would want any reason to keep hating him.

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      the way his ear looked after the first one, how incompetent the shooters were etc, theres lots of things flying around in comments

      AfaIk, the wound on his ear was caused by a member of Secret Service, not by a glancing shot (although he claimed).

      Edit: According to Wikipedia, the final stance now is that the wound was caused by a stray bullet.

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        Edit: According to Wikipedia, the final stance now is that the wound was caused by a stray bullet

        Okay if we assume thst to be true then why did the kid get killed? Do you think 17 year olds agree to sacrifice themselves for Donald Trump, being reviled among his voterbase for the rest of history and seen as the latest Lee Harvey Oswald ?

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          They set people up all the time.

          “Here’s some money. Buy me drugs bro. You’re under arrest!!”

          “Oh, you’re pissed off at your wife? Well what are the odds? I know a hitman!”

          “So you want to die huh? Why not go out as a hero? The president will be at this location and this door will be lightly guarded. Thanks for saving your country!”

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          Note that Crooks is the name of the attempted assassin, not the secret service. He fired at him so I would not call it a stray bullet.

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        sauce? there is zoomed-in footage of blood soon after the audible batch of shots.

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      So, the guests were in on it being staged, and that’s why they didn’t react?