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The actual reason, which no one seems willing to admit, is because it's an easier narrative to weaponise against Trump and MAGA. "Yes we are really trying to kill your hero but keep failing" is kind of hard to use in an internet flame war, but "you guys know he's just using this to distract from the Epstein files, right?" is a hook that can work on some Trump supporters, who are often very conspiratorial themselves and quite obsessed with the release of the Epstein stuff. In addition, there's this sort of cognitive dissonance going on here for many people who believe they are on the side of the moral and just, but also condemn violence (including political violence). They can't accept that people from "their side" might actually be trying to commit murder, so instead they look for explanations that can flip it back to the black and white narrative of "we are the good guys and they are the bad guys".
The same thing happened with the Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk murders. Some people cannot cope with the reality that not everyone on "their side" lines up perfectly with their values, so instead they create and believe in a conspiracy theory that frames them as victims of a right-wing plot to damage their public reputation and imprison their members.
That 3 people in the US, a nation with a long history of extreme gun violence and political assassinations, may have attempted to assassinate the most divisive and dangerous president in the nation's history during a period of extremely toxic and violent political discourse is actually a very rational and logical explanation for the three attempted shootings. Unless your entire identity is bound to this stuff and you simply can't accept the above premise, there is really no reason to go looking for alternative conspiracies to explain what is happening.
Yeah, this seems to be the right explanation. I thought that since so many people seemed to be buying into this that there might be some evidence of something suspicious going on, but so far I’ve read through most of these comments and I’ve they are all pretty underwhelming. There doesn’t seem to be any strong evidence of foul play here.
For example a lot of people are going on about how his press secretary said there would be “shots fired” beforehand. But when you actually look at it in context it’s clear that she was just saying that as a figure of speech, saying that Trump was gonna land some zingers. But most people leave this context out of it.
Then only thing I’ve seen that is mildly suspicious is that some reporter on Fox News said she was told to “be safe” or something then her phone connection was lost. But even that is pretty underwhelming. Like, I tell people to be safe even if they are just going out after dark or something. It’s not that weird of a thing to say. And phone lines do get disconnected while people are on the air, you hear it happen all the time on the radio for example.
Most conspiracy theories have some grain of truth or believable aspect to them, that's part of the reason why people can latch on to them. Trump has a long history of fabricating stories and feeding them to the media to manipulate his public image. However, even if people think it's a credible explanation here, they are overlooking how much more credible the simple explanation is.
America poltics love a good assassination. Its basically a stable of our history at this point.
it is designed to satiate the magat-y voters. everyone else, both outside and inside that are not conservative already see through his bs.