I’m seeing a bunch of posts insinuating that this most recent assassination attempt was fake. Why do people think this? I’m out of the loop.

  • Schwim Dandy@piefed.zipEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Umm… Everything? How many attempts are you aware of where the secret service keeps the president elect on the stage during an active shooting? How many are you aware of where the SS ushers in photographers to take the heroic photos? How many are there where a crane lowers the flag down behind him for the aforementioned heroic photos, again while the shooter is still active?

    It’s the worst botch of a false flag event I’m aware of.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFQwqv0JnU8

    • Aatube@piefed.socialEnglish
      141·
      2 days ago

      The bullet that grazed Trump’s ear has been analyzed to death as too close to be fatal from the gunman’s distance to reliably stage. There are numerous more plausible explanations than the one the video puts forward.

      1. It is obvious that there might be good-looking photos if you take enough of them at any historical event. We already know that GOP campaigners cunningly used the assassination to their advantage for propaganda; the staffer is simply realizing that photos off the vent should be taken.
      2. At the end it looks more like he’s telling the photographers to keep their distance and pulling them away from Trump. There is absolutely no way he can see the camera viewfinder from such a distance, which is needed to decide on how to adjust the framing as the video purports he’s doing.
      3. The flag is simply being seen from a different angle. Throughout the video, the cameraman is approaching the gates, and then he tilts the camera upwards and then downwards. The former brings the flag into view and the latter is why the flag also looks like it’s being raised right after 0:36. Cross-reference the footage with https://www.youtube.com/live/Rr63RgGN-Yo?t=24263 (in both footage you see an agent go to the outermost. in the long livestream this is immediately followed by an agent waving Trump’s red cap.), a wide view, and the flag seems static.
    • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
      143·
      2 days ago

      This is the sort of information I was looking for, thanks. Hadn’t heard about any of this stuff before. I don’t know enough to make a judgment yet but I wanted to hear where people were coming from

      Edit: wait this video is from a previous assassination attempt, I’m talking about the most recent one at the WH correspondence dinner

      • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
        1·
        1 day ago

        with 3 attempts so far, its more than a coincidence, of course right wing MSM, and fox arnt going to label like this way.

      • halcyoncmdr@piefed.socialEnglish
        211·
        2 days ago

        Their point is that the dinner attempt is just another poorly executed staged attempt for publicity and sympathy from a wannabe dictator that’s losing support extremely quickly.

        He started a war with Iran to distract from the Epstein files. That is so clearly obvious that even MAGA informed have been turning against him.

        This reeks of a blatant attempt to artificially increase support like many two bit dictators have done on the past. It worked last time.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
          1·
          1 day ago

          not only that but the IRAN war is dragging on so long and badly for the US forces in the ME region too, already got soldiers killed early on,.

      • 14th_cylon@lemmy.zip
        34·
        19 hours ago

        This is the sort of information I was looking for, thanks.

        so, you were looking for conspiracy bs…?

        • a_gee_dizzle@lemmy.caOP
          6·
          2 days ago

          My question was why people believe this. He told me why he believes it. So that was the information I was looking for. That doesn’t necessarily mean that I think the conspiracy stuff is convincing

    • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
      5·
      2 days ago

      How many attempts are you aware of where the secret service keeps the president elect on the stage during an active shooting?

      He wasn’t president elect at that time. He would have been “former president, and likely (but as of the day of shooting unconfirmed) 2024 republican presidental nominee”.

      The attack happened in the summer of 2024. Election in November 2024.