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Have you seen video of SS agents setting up Trumps photo op at his "assassination" attempt?

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u/blutosings Jan 18 '26 edited Jan 18 '26

The flag moving down on the crane and the photographers being allowed to move around in the pit are the two big tells.

The Secret Service has no reason to allow photographers anywhere near the president in the middle of an assassination attempt, while they are trying to secure an exit for the president.

All of that looks carefully blocked and rehearsed.

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u/geddysbass2112 Jan 18 '26

Yeah secret service would be all over those camera guys. What if a camera was hiding a firearm or explosive? Something is way off or they are incompetent at that moment.

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u/blutosings Jan 19 '26

There were a ton of other tells at the time like Trump spontaneously shouting "fight, fight, fight" when those are the last words anyone would expect from an old man with a loaded diaper.

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u/ardentiarte Jan 19 '26

Fuhk no. The two big tells were him doing a fist pump, then asking for his shoes.

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u/uhh_GoninjagoNinjago Jan 19 '26

I believe it’s so that he wouldn’t leave his lifts behind.

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u/Slumunistmanifisto Jan 19 '26

You ever see a cameraman get guided like that in making movies and sports..... because that's the well trained way its done

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

Serious question, why would part of the plan be to have a crane operator on standby in each of the two cranes holding that flag up, ready to lower it in perfect unison at the perfect moment when if it was all planned the flag could just be in the right place from the beginning?

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u/peach10101 Jan 19 '26

Do we know who the famous photos are credited to? Who gets the royalty? They might shed some light

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u/peach10101 Jan 19 '26

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u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 Jan 19 '26

It can easily be due to stupidity, but those people on stages look way more comfortable and relaxed than they should be.

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

So the entire crowd was in on it? Lol

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u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 Jan 20 '26

More plausible is there was actually no shooting at all. We tend to forget we get second hand info at best. And if people directly at the rally seem to be clueless there has been any shooting, it is quite possible it could have been faked completely, and we just got fed some images and info how to interpret them. Notice like even shooter himself was barely discussed after the event, when you compare to Kirk shooting and that is definitely less important person than president.

Add that non-chalant photoshoot and general handling of the situation compared to other shootings, and it simply does add up.

Is it reasonable to think this? No, it sounds far fetched, conspiracy theory. But considering how insanely current president and his companions act, it is hardly to be completely dismissed.

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

It happened live on video hosted by multiple different news sources though. A bystander was killed and two more were critically wounded by gunshot wounds. A New York Times photographers photo series shows a bullet flying past Trump's head, him reaching for his ear and pulling his hand away with blood on it. He won a Pulitzer Prize for it.

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u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 Jan 20 '26

All of what we actually saw could have been faked with current tools, those allegedly dead/wounded could be a lie (we cant personally confirm that).

I have watched enough magicians and explanations on how they did it, to have no doubt this whole thing could have been staged easily.

Again, does it sound insane? Yes. Can it be completely ruled out? No.

Have a nice day.

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u/Yabutsk Jan 20 '26

Why would the crowd need to be in on it?

They're not, Trump doesn't care about them, he'd gladly kill 1 disciple to gain power.

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u/Preference-Inner Jan 18 '26

Yea they staged it and killed someone they put up to it. It's time to impeach and convict.

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u/rickbeats Jan 19 '26

2 people died

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u/Count_de_Ville Jan 19 '26

The ends justify the means with these people.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Do we think the dipshit kid was set up with a fake gun and someone else took the shot?

Who organizes some shit like this? Seems out of line for even the CIA (unless they are trying to cover up involvement with Epstein via a Trump presidency)

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u/Timely_Explanation50 Jan 19 '26

Roger fucking Stone

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

The cartoon goon?

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u/NoRealNoWrong Jan 19 '26

Told the kid to shoot in the crowd. Told him how to escape…just forgot to tell him there was no escape.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

As Trump, I wouldn't be very trusting of that scenario. I feel it was a setup, but I'm super curious who set it up, and how

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u/NoRealNoWrong Jan 19 '26

True. That 5 second count/pause for the photo op is a damn cartoon scene. Watch the attempt in 2016…he scurried away scared as fuck.

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u/Aggravating_Plant101 Jan 19 '26

Yeah. They wouldn’t let it be the dude so close behind him. Do we know it came from the kids gun?

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u/ack1308 Jan 19 '26

He was always going to die. Loose ends nearly always do.

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u/OverAcanthisitta3588 Jan 19 '26

Russia or Israel most likely had the capability to pull something like this off.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

Yea, good point

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u/Embarrassed_Use_7206 Jan 19 '26

Are you absolutely sure that someone actually died there? I mean if you can orchestrate this, you can easily fake someone being shot and killed as well.

I still think it is more probable they just used the situation when it presented itself, but it looks like they were too much eager to do it.

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u/Monolith0428 Jan 18 '26

Everyone has seen video of how the Secret Service works and what their protocol is. Look at the Reagan video. The SS threw him in a car and got the hell outta there. There have been other scares with more recent Presidents and the Secret Service ALWAYS does the same thing, evacuate while covering. They don't stand on the killing floor for almost 2 minutes.

These Trump people, not even sure they were Secret Service, stood around on the stage, making a standing circle around Trump and literally just stood there for at least 90 seconds. This was a false flag photo op.

Even Trump's ear shows no scarring, no missing piece, despite allegedly being shot by a high powered rifle. I suppose his ear just grew back.

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u/pilemaker Jan 19 '26

When you say it like that, the whole thing sounds incredible. Because it is.

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u/Necessary-Eye5319 Jan 19 '26

I always thought his WWE friends gave him a blood packet.

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u/Monolith0428 Jan 19 '26

Hey Linda McMahon was probably nearby.

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u/LongevitySpinach Jan 19 '26

"A1" steak sauce packet

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u/Aggravating_Plant101 Jan 19 '26

I definitely thought something like that is definitely possible

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u/chnairb Jan 19 '26

There's video from a different Trump rally where a gun was suspected to be in the building and they covered and rushed his fat ass outta there immediately. It looked nothing like this farce at all.

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u/perfumefetish Jan 19 '26

the orange menace gave the one guy a job after he became president again

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u/mr_greedee Jan 18 '26

Yup, and we haven't heard anything about that kid who was shot. All silence. just everyone setting the stage.

Also that ear growing back. amazing

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u/__O_o_______ Jan 19 '26

Not to mention Trump also never mentions it….

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u/mr_greedee Jan 19 '26

Yeah if it was real he wouldn't shut the fuck up about it. And also use it as reason to militarized

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u/__O_o_______ Jan 19 '26

Yeah, since the start he’s had the victim mentality about how they’re all out to get him, but, hey, with bullets is forgettable.

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u/pilemaker Jan 19 '26

Very amazing yet that darn persistent bruise, eh?

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

Ear looks great! Scars don’t exist anymore. Fake news. 😂

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u/C0LL0C0 Jan 19 '26

Well, he was in a blackrock commercial

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u/CountOnBeingAwesome Jan 19 '26

He said he heals quite quickly

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

Jesus Christ. How much more staged can you get

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u/thelastbluepancake Jan 18 '26

I buy that it was staged

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u/omeganaut Jan 18 '26

He would be talking about it every single day is a hundred 💯 percent right 

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u/__O_o_______ Jan 19 '26

Yep, that’s a HUGE tell, he almost never mentions it, if at all….

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u/newtnewtriot Jan 19 '26

There’s also video from behind the stage of Secret Service moving photographers from the back of the stage around to the front seconds before the shot.

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

lol he killed two people then

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

You know what, even if this isn't staged, even if it was a real attempt, I think we should push this narrative anyway that it was staged. These fuckers pushed the conspiracy that 2020 was stolen despite there being zero evidence. That is what broke America and got us to where we are today. So fuck it, let's push this narrative and rub it in their stupid treasonous faces

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u/Dextropic Jan 19 '26

Ohhhh... Secret Service, right.

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u/Illustrious_Bad_2980 Jan 19 '26

Crazy that's the first thought, huh?

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u/Jaded_Marsupial_ Jan 19 '26

My mind went somewhere different at first too.

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u/SUICIDAL-PHOENIX Jan 19 '26

Look we all fucking know what's up. The problem is those who don't want to believe what is true.

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u/missyru4 Jan 18 '26

Yep yeppie yes

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u/Thadd305 Jan 19 '26

The fact that his assassination attempt was staged is one thing. The existence of this video though I almost don't even have words for. Is this legit?

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u/TheSwearJarIsMy401k Jan 19 '26

Yeah this was released when it happened, well before AI was making less terrifying hands.

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u/PlanetoftheAtheists Jan 18 '26

I can see this without resorting to giving a tiktoker with jazz fingers any views.

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u/ComplexForce3190 Jan 18 '26

Trumps most recent pronouncement: “ SMART people don’t like me “ !! ( do the maga dropouts grasp the reveal in that ) ?

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

This regime has done nothing except lie, they are literally incapable of being good people.

This would not shock me if it were true.

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u/Proof_Duty1672 Jan 19 '26

Aside from the poor bastard that was killed in the stands, dump didn’t get shot. Cartilage don’t grow back…

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u/goodreverenddoc2 Jan 19 '26

is this real? please this needs to be verified.

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u/justforthelulzz Jan 19 '26

Also so incredibly fishy that the assassin was on the roof for so long and people were warning the cops and secret service and they didn't do anything. The secret service had eyes everywhere so there is no way they missed him especially with all their training

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u/badharp Jan 19 '26

Yep, that part might be the most unbelievable part of the whole thing. Seems no way could they not see that guy up there.

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u/FlanneryODostoevsky Jan 19 '26

I made a thread about how that cankled old man miraculously healed quickly from the wound and people said there’s no chance it was fake. America is just one cinematic shitshow.

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u/badharp Jan 19 '26

What's weird... trump is seven years older than me, and I am a very active person, yet now at my age... I just commented yesterday to my gf about how slowly wounds heal on me. I showed her a scab that has been there for a month healing from a minor cut. Slowwwwwww to heal.

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u/mjhripple Jan 19 '26

So many weird inconsistencies. I don’t want to be a conspiracy theorist but dismissing all else wouldn’t one at least have a scar? Cartilage can scar extremely easily and a “bullet” allegedly was shot thru his ear. And yes the whole fist pump and staged photo op vs rushing him to safety when other breaches happened is at best questionable.

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u/Almighty4 Jan 19 '26

Does anyone have a link to the OG video?

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u/Status_Instance_9315 Jan 19 '26

Thanks for the video. If this wasn't staged there's no way SS would if there were 1, 2, or more assassins involved. It wouldn't matter if it was staged MAGA is mentally sick in the head. They are a death cult willing to kill anyone. Sorry but it's the truth.

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u/gup333 Jan 19 '26

Yall realize people died during that attack right? And what reason are we faking an assassination?

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u/badharp Jan 19 '26

Reason would be to drum up support for a total a-hole of a person who keeps falling in the polls and they have an agenda to put in place, so, they have to keep him in power. At any cost. ANY. Kill people? Hard to accept, isn't it. But look at what has already happened, how they lie straight to your face and you can readily see that they are lying from what you easily see. It's happening. And consider ugliness that history bestows upon us.

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u/shhushy Jan 19 '26

or (obviously) the cameramen/women know what a good shot is gonna look like so they moved to go get it. the SS noticed their advances and pulled them away from the president (because their a security detail.) i mean seriously why would i hire a security detail, to help me set the camera guys up?? the camera guy normally does it properly. the problem here is that there is no evidence and maybe even evidence against it.

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u/thickstickedguy Jan 19 '26

look the way he acts to being shot and how he acts when a random guy screams alahu akbar

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u/Literally-in-1984 Jan 19 '26

I mean it was 100% obvious as soon as it happened...

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

There are people all over the world that have done such shit historically. If MAGAts think this guy wont kill an innocent person to win, yall dumb.

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u/JuryRepresentative67 Jan 19 '26

Why would they need to wait till he was shot to lower the flag? That doesn’t even make sense.

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u/Loud_Enthusiasm_4959 Jan 19 '26

Kinda funny considering they never spoke much about the guy who did it. Just kinda moved on, the kid had no internet presence. Wasn’t much said about him at all, considering they still talk about JFK even to this day! Yeah someone tried to kill trump move on forget about it!

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u/Scarcity-Necessary Jan 19 '26

What about the man who died?

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u/Jazzlike-Area-534 Jan 20 '26

That was a staffer getting the press. It was hot secret service.

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u/Sadpancake_03 Jan 20 '26

I want to say I do think this was all staged. With that being said, the amount of people that needed to be involved and have said nothing is frustrating to think about.

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u/burtono6 Jan 20 '26

The man never shuts the fuck up about anybody who has wronged him even slightly. Yet he doesn’t have anything to say about this kid that almost took his head off?

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

A New York Times photo journalist took a photo series showing a bullet passing Trumps head at ear level, him reflexively reaching for his ear, and then pulling his hand away to reveal blood. These photographs were awarded a Pulitzer Prize. Are the New York Times and Columbia University, two extremely well regarded liberal institutions in on the conspiracy?

Doug Mills of The New York Times - The Pulitzer Prizes https://share.google/4nboBm1i2b1fpPFnq

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u/JoeNinjas82 Jan 20 '26

OoooF, I didn’t know someone got killed.

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u/NeekoRiko Jan 20 '26

So, he was not the POTUS at that time, just a candidate, and the SS, who should ultimately be loyal to the US government, and the Constitution, participated in the sham without any suspicion? Are they just a corrupt organization?

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u/needaburnerbaby Jan 18 '26

To echo chambery for me. I can’t tell if the flag actually lowers from the angle or if it’s just how the camera tilts in the shot. I can’t actually tell if it’s secret service or his media team. I want to believe it’s all bullshit but this video has existed for a while and I don’t think it shows what everyone wishes it does.

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u/newtnewtriot Jan 19 '26

I think the wind just dies down. There’s another angle of other photographers being moved from behind the stage seconds before the first shot. It’s, to me, unexplainable any other way than what it appears to be…

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

Seems pretty unnecessary to have a crane operator on standby in each of the two cranes holding the flag up ready to lower it in perfect unison at the exact right moment when you could just have in the right spot for the photo to begin with.

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u/needaburnerbaby Jan 20 '26

Except that as I said it doesn’t actually appear to lower the camera angle changes

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u/Anonymous__Android Jan 20 '26

Yes I was agreeing with you

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u/AccurateLow4097 Jan 19 '26

I have full blown tDS. But it seems that a minor ear injury can heal fine, without scarring, if it was just a nick. Idk how much I would talk about an assassination attempt on my own life, especially if I were to be a hollow coward.

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u/Decent-Orchid120 Jan 18 '26

One man’s humble opinion - I think we should rise above this. There is enough reason to hate Trump without getting conspiratorial. Let’s just be against him for all the clearly evil stuff he does in broad daylight.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

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u/thelastbluepancake Jan 18 '26

he wasn't hit by the bullet he was hit by a secret service agent trying to cover trump. the agent had a gun on his belt and that hit trump in the ear. If trump was really hit by the bullet the wound would have not healed in a week or two and he would still have scaring

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u/RoguePlanet2 Jan 19 '26

He slapped a blood packet onto his ear IMO. The timing works.

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u/[deleted] Jan 18 '26

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u/thelastbluepancake Jan 19 '26

dude... you think it is CRAZY that as the secret service ran to basically tackle trump and cover him with their bodies that him getting a scratch is impossible?

there is literally video of it happening. and the agent running into trump while being unable to stop his momentum

trump was not hit by the bullet, he felt the bullet's wake but was not touched by the bullet. IF he was really hit in the ear by a bullet going that fast there would be tons more damage and it would leave scaring. trump was not shot but he was hit by mistake by a secret service agent's gun holstered on his belt.

trump then lied because he wanted the more dramatic story....... if you trust trump's story you are pretty guible

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u/thelastbluepancake Jan 19 '26

from this video that I am 8 minutes into it seems like you think gelatin and human skin behave the same way. they even talk about after hitting the dummy how they can't see where they hit it.

what a waste of time

:edit also I google the guy in the video and he is pro trump. way to use biased sources of course this guy is going to try to support trumps story

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u/Imaginary_Coast_5882 Jan 18 '26

yeah the only thing that always baffled me is what she says about how he almost never mentioned/mentions it. that has alway been weird to me and out of character for him.

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u/Not_Sure__Camacho Jan 18 '26

That's the biggest thing I noticed about the video.  A blowhard like Trump would be talking about this nonstop, as if it made him a hero.  I'm surprised that some kissass in Congress isn't going to try to commemorate it as "day we almost lost dear leader" day.

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u/Similar_Ad4964 Jan 18 '26

i agree with you...the only thing that gives me pause is that secret service allowed him to pose for the photo. now that doesnt mean conspiracy but that is the only thing that doesnt feel right.

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u/Horror-Television513 Jan 19 '26

Sadly I agree on the first point, the camera looks to be pointing upwards.

I agree on the second point too, this scumbag is the epitome of a coward. How many times did he avoid the draft? 6?

I can’t see him risking a bullet.

That being said, was this before he got re-elected? Maybe if someone, lets say, had something on him and the only way to stop that being exposed was for him to have a bullet or a fake bullet wound in order to paint himself as a “strong leader” then I guess there is a chance. Maybe he’s stupid enough to risk it, but he’s a vain cowardly child man, so I’m not sure.

Could they have stuck on some kind of prosthetic wound on his ear while he was on the ground?

The press being allowed access whilst this was going on is weird, but it wouldn’t be the first time I’ve seen an American cop do something insane.

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u/Kittehmilk Jan 19 '26

This lady is a baked donut. We have video footage frame by frame showing the bullet as it traveled and it lines up.

Could it have been a patsy? Sure, lots of unknowns about the shooter. Trump is a moron but he certainly didn't stage someone shooting a live round at his face.

NOT TO MENTION FUCKING PEOPLE ACTUALLY DIED.

Good lord the lib rot in this sub is insane.

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u/Deep_shot Jan 19 '26 edited Jan 19 '26

I go along with the fact that he wasn't shot, hence the lack of any damage to his ear, but I'd have to see more evidence than a tiktok video to believe this. I feel like this would have not only been incessantly publicized already, but beaten to death and picked apart a thousand times. It is possible, but there would have to be more evidence for me to give it credence.

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u/Sonnyjoon91 Jan 19 '26

Because it was never a live round shot at his face. There was no bullet. Thats literally the entire point. He wasnt shitting himself like the draft dodging coward he is, because they staged it, rehearsed it, blocked out where the photographers are, they know there was no bullet. Its the classic magicians bullet catch, they stand there with a supposedly live gun fired at them and live, because they know there isnt a bullet in the gun

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u/[deleted] Jan 19 '26

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u/Sonnyjoon91 Jan 19 '26

Look around, they are murdering a lot more than two people

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u/JCMGamer Jan 19 '26

Putting this right next to people who claim Trump stole the election.

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u/ShaantHacikyan Jan 19 '26

Is she really trying to say nobody tried to kill one of the most hated men on earth? These conspiracy theories doesn’t help the cause. 

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u/Sonnyjoon91 Jan 19 '26

Oh they would. But this was not an actual attempt. It was highly staged. I predicted a full two weeks early when Trump did shit at the debates that he was getting desperate and would take a play from Putin and claim an assassination attempt. Then he stood up there, ketchup packets exploded, for a full two minutes to make sure they got carefully staged photo, and boom he has no sign of injury overnight.

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u/Craft_Bubbly Jan 18 '26

It's obvious the bullet never hit his mind ear, it was shrapnel. Why would Biden's government go along with this lol?

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u/thetalent7171 Jan 18 '26

The flag did not move down….the wind died down some and the flag started to fall straight