Trump as Manchurian Candidate

[UnseenParticipant]

By now you’re aware that over the weekend a seeming assassination attempt was made on Donald Trump’s life.

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

Why? Because it seems very very convenient.

The right will see it as a sincere attempt on the part of The Biden Administration, the Democrats, the Deep State, some nutty leftist lone wolf, or some leftist faction to get rid of The Great White/Right Hope before the election .

More believable, given what transpired, is that Trump has been given a gift that makes him a kind of Manchurian Candidate proffered by the same crew that tried to hijack and overthrow the 2020 presidential election.

Here’s one version: the assassination attempt was botched to the extent that it was to be a bigger failure than it was. Instead of grazing Trump, it was supposed to miss him entirely, and if the shooter took out some supporters (martyrs?) in the crowd behind him, so much the better.

Instead, the shooter an amateur with an AR-15, not a good sniper rifle, miscalculated and almost killed Trump, who was surprised and made the best of the situation by raising his fist and yelling “Fight, fight, fight,” resulting in an extremely dramatic photo which you can be sure will be used in advertising.

Perhaps Trump wasn’t even in on it. (He probably couldn’t have been: I can’t see him approving being put in that much danger. He’s a prototypical chicken.)

The main evidence is that the shooter somehow was allowed to get into a suspiciously obvious shooting position on a nearby roof. A position that any normal person would think would be off limits and watched constantly by Secret Service agents and snipers.

What do you think?

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[_Robert_Participant]

It is so obvious. The kid was vaccinated and following the commands received by his microchip from the communist Jewish cabal. The Secret Service of course was in on it.

[UnseenParticipant]

Either something was intended on assassination day and went (semi-?)right or something is seriously wrong with the Secret Service to allow some bozo to get access to a roof in proximity to the podium.

[_Robert_Participant]

Yeah, the budget for the FAA was cut so much they outsourced their watchdog services to Boeing employees. Now Boeing planes can barely stay in the air. Congress, who cut the budget of course blames Boeing. I bet the secret security services have been getting lean too. Between that and hiring for diversity, well you get what you pay for. And he’s not the current president so he doesn’t get that level of protection.  Where was the security when the Capitol was attacked? Pence is lucky he didn’t get hung. What a brilliant country under god.

[UnseenParticipant]

Master sniper thinks something stinks about this attempted assassination. The shooter, he says, had to have inside help.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

The Secret Service are saying it wasn’t safe to put an agent on that roof.  So that’s why they didn’t.  However, it was safe enough for the shooter.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

From this vantage point (the UK), it seems that it’s normal in the US for people to malign each other’s motives, instead of charitably taking them at face value.  In the UK, we would call this “Trumpian”, a grossly obvious way of wriggling out of accountability and responsibility.  I don’t know who started it, but I’ve noticed it in the past five years.

Maybe the Republicans started it.  Maybe the woke people started it.  Trump is certainly a master of it.  Maybe Republicans use it so much because they think everyone has zero integrity just like them (now that they’re the Trump party).  After all, the only moral principle the Republicans have left is “what about?”.

It could be a function of the intense polarisation and competition that the US politics are unfortunate enough to suffer from.  Certainly, Trump has shifted the dial on all this to MAXIMUM, since the only thing he cares about is power.

[Belle RoseParticipant]

@unseen

Let the conspiracy theories begin.

Why? Because it seems very very convenient.

The main evidence is that the shooter somehow was allowed to get into a suspiciously obvious shooting position on a nearby roof. A position that any normal person would think would be off limits and watched constantly by Secret Service agents and snipers.

What do you think?

I agree with you unseen. i’m not sure that I buy it to be honest because there were news reports of people who were watching this guy climb up on the roof and they were pointing him out to law-enforcement and they were just standing there reacting until later on…

I work with gunshot victims at a hospital and honestly, I just think there’s really no way that was real…. If you look at the angle, it just doesn’t make sense.

[jakelafortParticipant]

The angle.

Yeah that is the ticket.

The angle of the dangle is what one must untangle. How could the bullet glance perchance in a direct line between Great Britain and France?

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Simple incompetence could account for why the Secret Service didn’t put a sniper on that roof.  But how did the shooter know that rooftop was going to be empty?  That seems strange.

[Belle RoseParticipant]

@simon

Simple incompetence could account for why the Secret Service didn’t put a sniper on that roof.

More like willfully ignorant. They are only incompetent if they choose to be. Meaning – they are not incompetent.

But how did the shooter know that rooftop was going to be empty?  That seems strange.

EXACTLY….think about it…..

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Belle Rose wrote:

They are only incompetent if they choose to be. Meaning – they are not incompetent.

I don’t know.  Mistakes happen.  I’ve heard the head of the secret service say it was a health and safety issue, why they didn’t put anyone on that roof.  Instead, they secured the inside of the building.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cd167v5lpq2o

The rooftop was a known vulnerability before the event, according to NBC News, which cited two sources familiar with Secret Service operations.

Mr Russell said it was probable that Secret Service agents identified that building as a threat, and had requested local authorities to station officers nearby to prevent access.

“For whatever reason, that didn’t happen,” he said.

 

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Belle Rose wrote:

EXACTLY….think about it…..

You’re right, it does need explaining.

[Belle RoseParticipant]

I think Trump manufactured the whole thing and planned it for sympathy and votes.

[Simon PayntonParticipant]

Belle Rose wrote:

I think Trump manufactured the whole thing and planned it for sympathy and votes.

I don’t think that’s the case.  He would have had to stand there waiting for a bullet to the ear.  He might have big shiny round balls, but I don’t see anyone doing a William Tell with such confidence.

Also, if Trump had orchestrated it, he would have accompanied it with an elaborate story about a Democrat plot, which he hasn’t done.

He would have ordered blanks to be used.  He wouldn’t rationally have risked his head nearly being blown right off.

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