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I was inclined to believe the shooting at the WH correspondents’ dinner was real at first but the more I hear about it the less confident I feel about that
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Anonymous 28w

“Real” as in not staged

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Anonymous 28w

Agree, the more and more we learn about it the more obvious it becomes that this was likely staged.

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Anonymous 28w

Of course it’s real.

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Anonymous 28w

I accidentally posted a reply intended for 5 as a separate comment thread, so I deleted the original and retyped it, but there were no replies (that I could see at least) on it when I deleted it

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Anonymous 28w

What about it don’t you believe? Trump is one of the most hated, but best protected people on Earth, so it’s not hard to imagine that someone would try to kill him but fail.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 28w

For one, three “assassination attempts” in two years feels like it’s becoming a boy who cried wolf situation. Not saying that he isn’t controversial enough to be targeted but a judge blocking his plan to make the wh ballroom “unless it’s for real security reasons” then trump creating a situation to justify it for that it is just too coincidental

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 28w

*or rather it’s too much of a funny coincidence that that’s why it was blocked then not too long after said reason for security measures happens

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 28w

It’s also very suspicious that MAGA keeps on portraying the shooters as democrats and actively covers up any contradictory evidence. The political identity of the shooter shouldn’t be nearly as important as republicans make it out to be, and the fact that they flip out when evidence is presented and even try to suppress conversation when the shooter is found to be right-leaning is not a great look. That alone isn’t enough to explain staging, but it is good for thought.

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Anonymous 28w

That’s a fair point, but none of those were as highly publicized as the ones I’m referring to

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Anonymous replying to -> OP 28w

Barack Obama also survived multiple assassination attempts, including a shooting outside the White House in 2011, but we don’t think about those much anymore because they happened a decade ago and the security breaches were not as severe, but all presidents have people that try to kill them

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 28w

In any case, the alleged gunman at the corresponds dinner is in custody, so we will be able to hear his side of the story in the coming weeks

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 28w

it’s staged in the sense that they likely intentionally let him get close. not that he’s like a paid operative or something.

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Anonymous replying to -> #5 28w

He didn’t get *that* close though. He only ran through the very first checkpoint and was stopped before even getting to the correct floor. Also, I don’t know what you personally believe, but I have read posts claiming that the gunman was a paid operative, so at least some people do believe that.

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Anonymous replying to -> #2 28w

This was supposed to be a reply to 6

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