Trump Assassination Attempt Conspiracy Theories

Actually, I have a new favorite, who benefits most if Trump dies, well almost everyone but the old guard GOP leadership, the Bushes etc.
 
I heard both of the predictable ones:

- It was orchestrated by the Democrats or some variation to kill Trump
- It was orchestrated by Trump or some variation to make him more popular
 
Well, since the best known assassination attempt of Hitler came 80 years ago, almost to the day, in which Hitler's ear was injured, obviously the whole point of this attempt was to further demonstrate that Trump *is* Hitler, I warned y'all! :o
 
Puppycow said:
Interesting. I assume that's another word for a teleprompter. Is any of this visible in the video? Trump's kind of famous for ad-libbing, for better or worse, more than reading from a teleprompter.

This article has a photo that appears to show the bullet passing his head at ear height. It's circled.

https://www.livemint.com/news/donal...us-presidential-candidate-11720930683535.html
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That's not the bullet. I don't believe it's plausible or even possible to capture a bullet in a shot like that give shutter speeds, fill speed and the velocity of the shot.

I think that is the vaporized blood from Trump's ear, which immediately spread into a tiny vapor cloud and dispersed. I've looked at the video of the shooting with sounds and you can faintly see that little blood vapor cloud.
 
Gulliver Foyle said:
My four best guesses:
1) The shooter was a MAGA nut whi got dissillusioned with his Führer, Ernst Röhm style.
2) The shooter hit his target. T****y was collateral
3) It was a false flag job.
4) The shooter was a republican come to his senses about T****y.

What is really outlandish is that the shooter was anybody who held political views to the left of Mussolini. All his assocations and identifications as currently revealed will make that highly unlikely.
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Here's my guess which is a combo of 1 and 4:

Shooter, who we know was gun enthusiast, was sympathetic with Republican causes and issues. May or may not have been a Trump supporter, but was so outraged by Jan. 6 that he turned against Trump, but not the party or its ideals. He donated to ActBlue soon after Biden's inauguration, but went on to register as a republican.
 
CarbShark said:
Here's my guess which is a combo of 1 and 4:

Shooter, who we know was gun enthusiast, was sympathetic with Republican causes and issues. May or may not have been a Trump supporter, but was so outraged by Jan. 6 that he turned against Trump, but not the party or its ideals. He donated to ActBlue soon after Biden's inauguration, but went on to register as a republican.
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That sounds reasonably plausible, but with the usual caveat that this is the action of a person almost certainly crazy, so beyond a general sense of what might have been going on, any attempt to define his motives with clarity is almost certain to fall short.

I think the end result is likely a lagniappe for Trump, but from the conspiracy point of view, just dumb luck.
 
I presume that the shooters was killed is going to play a big role in the conspruacy theories>
I am sure the Trump staged it theories all aready over the place.
I don't buy into that because Trump is not quite clever enough to pull something like htat off.
 
dudalb said:
I presume that the shooters was killed is going to play a big role in the conspruacy theories>
I am sure the Trump staged it theories all aready over the place.
I don't buy into that because Trump is not quite clever enough to pull something like htat off.
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If you were a lefty trying to kill Trump it's far too likely you'd fail and just make a mess, and the conspiracy nuts would be all over it. If you were a Trumpy trying to stage a scene it's far too likely you'd fail and kill him, and different conspiracy nuts would be all over it. Either way it seems way unlikely and much more likely just a crazy person doing a crazy thing.
 
LiteBright said:
Has anyone seen autumn1971 recently?
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I was thinking the same thing.

But autumn1971 was probably a lot older than 20.

Eta: and I just did a search and they've posted since the assassination attempt.
 
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What I think is, there's plenty of conservatives who hate Trump. They'd rather Biden win, and take their shot next time, than see Trump accede.

So when Biden **** the bed in that debate, one of them panicked.
 
My theory is that come election time, the USA goes nuts in general, and someone with severe mental illness, illogical political views, access to a semiautomatic weapon, and a grudge against the world took advantage of a rally nearby to get his name in the history books.
 
Unlike most of this thread, the following suggestion actually sounds plausible, so I quoted it in the non-CT thread.

Mike! said:
He had tried to join the high school shooting team but was deemed 'not good enough', so he was determined to show them that he was in fact good enough in the most public way possible, and once again proved he still wasn't good enough after all.
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ETA: Just to clarify, I think Orphia Nay's "someone with...access to a semiautomatic weapon, and a grudge against the world took advantage of a rally nearby to get his name in the history books" is not only plausible but is also consistent with Mike!'s suggestion.
 
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It's a shame that the young man decided to do this right when things were looking up for him:
I heard he was dating a hot MILF called Melania for the last couple of weeks.
 
Possible, not unlikely, but still weird for a conservative to try to shoot the guy that conservatives worship. On the other hand, Chapman was a fan of John Lennon ...
As long as there doesn't seem to be a manifesto, it's easy to come up with probable motives. He could be trying to impress that liberal girl, Hinckley-style, who had turned him down using the excuse that he was too conservative for her tastes ... (Yes, I made her up!)
Or maybe the lack of a manifesto indicates that it was a spur-of-the-moment thing. The rally wasn't far from his home, he imagined what it might be like to be a sniper, and might never have gone through with actually shooting if people hadn't started shouting and pointing at him, which got him confused and anxious.
Suicide by cop?
What was the point of the explosive devices found in his car? What was the impact of growing up with a father who owned an AR 15 rifle - apart from giving him access to the weapon?*

We need more facts. Maybe they're out there, somewhere. Maybe they were only in his head, and we'll never know what motivated him.
At this point: Motive still unknown.


*ETA I just saw this one:
William Parcher said:
The shooter's father has 20 guns. It's a gun family.
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bruto said:
If you were a lefty trying to kill Trump it's far too likely you'd fail and just make a mess, and the conspiracy nuts would be all over it. If you were a Trumpy trying to stage a scene it's far too likely you'd fail and kill him, and different conspiracy nuts would be all over it. Either way it seems way unlikely and much more likely just a crazy person doing a crazy thing.
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The crazy-person explanation explains nothing. Specific crazies have specific motives. There is never "just (!) a crazy person doing a crazy thing."
 
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