People might disagree with you here, so let me share a quote from the article:
Trump stood up and held his fist in the air with what appeared to be blood dripping down his face.
Several secret service agents surrounded him as he put his hand up and appeared to shout “fight” to his supporters who began cheering.
This is an overwhelming PR win for Donald Trump and likely to be an extremely successful catalyst for inciting more insurrectionist violence. It's too perfect of a scenario to be coincidental, especially considering he's a chickenshit coward that would demand a human shield in front of him if he thought he was in any actual danger.
What? Are you fucking delusional? I understand brown people are not really people for you guys there, but do you realize how many people indirectly and directly "these" people have killed in Syria alone, counting only cases of being simply too lazy?
Killing two people for fucking presidency? You think it's unrealistic?
Anyway, the answer to the question "how Machiavellian" is "fully" for everybody participating in politics, because we are still homo sapiens and our time is just as Machiavellian as Machiavelli's time, there are no naive people there, and if there are no poisonings and assassinations left and right there, that's for the same reason only there are no nukings left and right on the map, not because they are moral.
I understand brown people are not really people for you guys
What the fuck... ?
How am I delusional for not thinking this was staged? The moving parts required for it to be staged are an order of magnitude more complex and voluminous than it just being a lone nut with an AR-15. Unless you have some actual solid verifiable evidence that calls the boring reality of the situation into question, I'd maybe dial down the rhetoric a tad.
Yeah, SS would have stormed him out of the area and into a safe place within moments of that shit. There’s no way they’d have cleared the area. No one would have known if there were a second or third shooter.
Now they’re saying someone is dead and they got the shooter?
Just want to point out that doesn't prove it's not a stunt at all.
Was the shooter alone? What's his history? Did he have a family? Do they end up with money suddenly at some point in the near future?
Collateral damage is definitely something the Trump team wouldn't give a single shit about. An innocent attendee dying wouldn't stop them at all, if anything they'd likely think it adds credibility.
Dictators staging their own fake assassination attempts to garner sympathy isn't anything new. And we know Trump views several of them as role models
It could be a legitimate attempted assassination,but it just as easily could have been staged, especially given it doesn't seem the weapon itself was a real danger, at least not at that range. And it it really was something like a pellet or bb gun, not much of a danger at all unless literally next to Trump. Even a .22 needs to be pretty damned close to be deadly. Anything higher caliber doesn't seem to match up with the witness reports or the audio we've seen.
Not to mention the weird Secret Service reaction immediately following. Why the fuck would they let him stand back up and fist pump the sky immediately after getting shot at? That's literally the opposite of what they should be doing. Unless there wasn't a real threat.
I mean it might have been, but with the modern insanity around politics and guns and violence, and the general unhinged nature of the population generally, it's equally or more likely to be some deranged person with a gun. WHY for the love of god add to the chaos by speculating without any evidence yet? Does it help?
Because speculation is all we have with someone like Trump who seemingly failed upward with his every move. Do you think we’re going to ever know what really happened? This shit was clean. Despite the fact that he was allowed to stand and shake a defiant fist moments later, without knowing if there were more shooters. How did his secret service know the area was secure? In reality, he would have been rushed to safety within a minute of the shooting.
Yeah. Here’s what speculation allows for;
• Gets found guilty 34 times over? Gets more followers.
• Gets found guilty of sexual assault. Gets more followers
• Gets tied to Epstein. Gets more followers
• Gets shot at. Wins an election.
There is no stopping that fat fuck because theres no limit to American ignorance.