Do you notice you never hear anything in the media about the guy who tried to assassinate Trump?

How very true

No one likes a bad shot.

Luigi is a straight-shooter, so to speak...

Staged! The whole thing was fake. They didn’t care if innocent supporters might get killed.

He doesn't seem to have a scar on his ear, either. I don't know how they would have staged such a thing, but the whole thing seemed theatrical.

After they paid him off for the stunt, he relocated to Kou Samui. He is frequently seen hanging out at The White Lotus Thailand.

The shooting was real, but Donald wasn't hit.

R3 Yeah, I don't want to replicate the insane conspiracy noise of QAnon and the febrile MAGA cult members.... but I think the whole thing might possibly have been staged. One difference from other assassination attempts is that Mathew Crooks was killed. Helpful to stop too much speculation or investigation about him.

I do think the powers behind the MAGA movement (billionaires, Christo-fascists, Russia) could well have the capacity to pull such a staged event off.

Again, I do not take red pills nor think that the world is flat or that Hillary drinks infant blood.

I tried to get AI to make a saint photo out of him like the have for Luigi, but it refused to do it. I like to think he was from the future, but he failed on his mission.

R8 You can get a candle instead!

Probably because it was all staged. Both "attempts" were an elaborate production authorized by the orange pile of fetid dogshit himself.

I think it was staged but didn’t go exactly according to plan. Still they worked with what they had.

The fact that supporter’s lives were expendable is the creepiest part.

R9 I want a Thomas Matthew Crooks saint picture.

I believe it was staged.

The interactions between Trump and the “security guards” directly after the shooting show you everything you need to know.

Weren't there TWO guys who supposedly tried to assassinate Trump, on two separate occasions?

Trump— one of the most chickenshit weasels to ever live— suddenly became all fearless and macho after getting shot in the head?

Yeah, sure.

Also, the way he held his had cupped over the ear, it was almost as if he was holding something. Later, the Guardian published a close-up of his ear that showed a glass shard in it.

More than person surmised that he crushed a vial of blood on the top of his ear and dropped to the floor.

I question if he was a real person!

Both attempts were obviously staged.

Because - DEAD

Both attempts were RIGGED! These assassinations were STOLEN from us!

But seriously, they were clearly not what they appeared to be. Cheeto's ear certainly healed up miraculously. Also that motherfucker Dump, still holds grudges from 70 years ago as though they happened yesterday and loves to play the victim and whine in public about all the wrongs done to his fat ass.

Hard to believe he'd have the discipline to remain silent over two attempts on his life

The trolls crawled out from under their rocks that weekend last summer, desperately disparaging anything or anyone suggesting that travesty in Butler, Pennsylvania was staged.

Putin must have had to pay double time and a half in vodka rations to the troll farms to lend some sense of gravitas to that farce.

[quote]I don't know how they would have staged such a thing

Oh, for Christ's sake, think about it for a minute.

Trump has been involved in "professional wrestling" since forever. Remember when he went in-ring and the famous announcer ("Get ready to rrrruuuummmmble!") made such a big deal about it? Remember when he was supposedly involved in a brou-ha-ha with a bunch of the mental midgets working in and running the "league"?

One of the most common tricks professional wrestlers use is to cut their ear lobe with a razor blade hidden in the palm of their hand. It is not painful and bleeds profusely, particularly when sweaty.

Meanwhile, a local disaffected kid is allowed to mill about the venue, even using a drone to look at the roof and sight lines between a nearby barn and the event stage. In all previous rallies held at this location (and they were frequent), that barn was protected by the Secret Service. But not this time. And when the audience began to get suspicious and nervous about a kid climbing the side of that barn with what looked like a gun, pointed, and tried to get the Secret Service's attention? Ignored.

Then a local sheriff gets suspicious and tried to report it? Ordered to stand down. I read reports that he had the kid, gun in hand, in his sites when he was told to back off and leave it to the SS.

So the kid opens fire — 8 bullets fired — and takes out an idiot MAGA there with his children. The man so was so far down the cult-hole that his wife wouldn't even take a call from the sitting President of the United States. Fuck her.

The theory that the gunman shattered a teleprompter screen was disproven: glass shards would have flown, hitting people sitting in the front rows both on the stage and on the ground in front; few injuries reported, and there was no pandemonium like what would have broken out if glass shards had been flying. And there were few reported injuries by LE and SS agents, all standing nearby. Meanwhile, they let Mango Mussolini linger on stage and position him directly in front of a pool photographer to take an iconic image, fist raised in the air, blood dripping down his face...

Conveniently, only then did the SS take action, immediately killing the suspect rather than simply incapacitating him. As they say, dead men tell no tales.

And since, silence. We don't know much about the alleged gunman Crooks. Where was his social media profile? Surely, as someone who came from the generation of most prolific sharers of personal information in history, there would have been innumerable posts, comments, memes and pictures... but nada. Why did they only report that he'd made a donation to the Progressive Turnout Project [italic]on the day Joe Biden was inaugurated[/italic] and nothing else? Did he fall into a cone of silence and remain there for nearly 4 years? There have been rumors that he didn't work alone, but not a single arrest. Where are the reports of people interviewed? Where are the reports of anything resembling an actual investigation?

Why did Trump's doctor never issue a statement? Why were no pictures released, no report written, no press scrum screaming questions?

We knew more about Luigi within 24 hours of his arrest than we know of Crooks in the months since his death.

I'm not a conspiracy theorist; I just want to know exactly what happened, what the SS did and is doing to prevent it in the future, and why there has been little attempt to explain the entire situation.

Otherwise, Occam's razor.

We don't question a MIRACULOUS ACT OF GOD ! That spared the PRECIOUS LIFE of OUR BELOVED PRESIDENT!

Because it didn’t happen?

The media spent 60 fucking years rummaging thur the well picked bones of JFK. Yet this obvious shady stunt gets a media collective MEH. Oy vey.

It was not a stunt.

This is not a movie. It came very close to blowing his head off. No one would agree to that, especially a person with Trump's ego.

You also have to think the FBI, DOJ, etc. UNDER BIDEN would let a stunt that killed a bystander and the shooter just happen without a word. Nope, not happening.

I hate him.

r26, if Donald had actually been harmed, Republicans would have turned into paranoid berserkers. The fact that they didn't when he was "shot" is further proof they know perfectly well he wasn't.

R27 is completely full of shit.

It was a staged incident. A bullet from an AR-15 that even just grazed an ear would have resulted in significant damage, not a scratch. They likely used a special effects squib that is used in movies to leave a little blood.

We live in eerie times.

The fact that healthcare workers all over the world said they'd never seen anything like his Stayfree Plus maxi bandage...

R33 What all can (or should) agree to is that, whether the shooting was real or not, the big white patch over the ear was completely theatrical bullshit.

And the thumbs up sign he made while the Secret Service was trying to cover him? 🙄😒🙄😒🙄😒

It wasn't staged. It is what it is. Someone tried to kill Trump and I think the people guarding him wanted him dead. But I don't think he knew anything about it. It's not like his ear was blown off. The tiniest cut on your ear will bleed like you've been gut stabbed. I detest the man but he didn't need to do that to win the election. He is too chickenshit to be anywhere real bullets are flying. It doesn't make sense that it was staged. Especially when someone was actually killed. Especially when two people were killed. Murder has never been a part of trumps playbook. At least publicly.

It’s like shit they’d do in Eastern Europe or Africa. They really expect Americans to be stupid enough that this shit happened.

R27 are you BLIND as well as stupid Frau for brains?

r36 Bless your heart

It wasn’t staged. There is enough horrible, factual things going on without having to invent any. Donald Trump is so mistrustful of humanity in general. Everyone is out to get him. Do you REALLY think he’s going to put himself in the midst of real live ammo? Or trust a plan people put together where it looks like he’s almost killed? I don’t think so.

I DO think it was a plan to kill him from much higher up. Probably the same pentagon moles trying to ruin his admin now. I hope they succeed.

R27/R40 The same lumpen frau with her CAPS and her STINKY PUSSY for brains. We know you CHERYL. Don't you have some macrame burning in the oven because you are one TIRESOME DUMB BITCH.

r41, you are fucked in the head if you think r27 and r40 are the same person. I can say this with assurance because I am r27, not "cheryL' and did not write the post at r40 (nor do I agree with all of it). I'm also not a woman and I'm not a Trump supporter.

I'm a loud, openly gay man with my own opinion on this topic. The stunt conspiracy theory makes no sense to me. None.

It does not surprise me that someone with a conspiracy theorist's mind would think that way, tho. Go fuck yourself, dumbass.

It was staged. Stage deniers are trolls. Ignore them. There would have been a rabid manhunt otherwise . But see, everyone forgets. Teflon Don. Tragic there were deaths and all 45 got was a botched ear piercing .

Because we don’t like quitters in this country. That’s why we love Luigi-he pumped that pig full of lead AND he’s hot.

R42 Fail hun. Only a DUMBASS would believe Dump's pristine ear was REALLY shot or a triggrered LOUD Karen like you is REALLY A GAY MAN.😂

Um, yeah...

R43 a rabid Manhunt for what?

R45 Trump’s ear wasn’t shot. It still wasn’t staged.

The NY Post had an article on him about six weeks ago.

Consider the source, R48.

He’s not that interesting a story. He wanted to assassinate Trump simply because that was a big thing to do. He tried. He missed. Security killed him.

There’s not much more worth digging into, not with all the current falling apart of America as we’ve known it.

Yeah nosey people, look the other way. Nothing to see here.

r31, The squib would have to be on the podium, or on another person's clothing- on the shoulder, as it's hard to hide on bare skin- it's literallly a blood filled condom, with a tiny bit of explosive powder and wiring for radio control, taped down on the skin, then covered with clothes or major prosthetics. Even if was on the podium, the spatter would not project up, in a clean way, like a "slice". On another person, the spatter would be projected from the person towards #4547, so it would appear the bullet would be coming from his right side, rather than the front of him.

Don’t think there was any squib. I think he actually cut his own ear with something in his hand

OP and R26 are spot on. Regardless of whether you believe it was staged or real, or following up on the story doesn’t matter as the shooter is dead, the radio silence from the media on an assassination attempt is pretty astounding. Compare with the wall-to-wall media coverage and level of detail (especially from his doctors and, yes, endless stories about Hinkley) after Reagan was shot.

Trumptards gotta be tards.

[quote]I just want to know exactly what happened, what the SS did and is doing to prevent it in the future

Nobody wants to know what they're doing to prevent it in the future.

Posters who think Donald Trump is "too moral to stoop to murder" are too stupid to live.

The idea that Trump would have a razor blade ready to slice his ear as bullets fly around him is absurd. This was not staged. He was definitely not behind the planning of it. He is way too chicken shit. And r57, he might stoop to death, but not publicly and not while he is standing in the possible line of fire.

People keep pointing to his ear and how quickly it healed. He was NOT shot in the ear. A bullet did not graze his ear. His ear was nicked by something that was it by a bullet, the podium or something. A slight nick on your ear would bleed out like crazy, if you've ever had one.

And people who INSIST that it was staged are just like MAGATs in their thinking that if you are not 100% behind everything they believe you are 100% against them. It's the same mentality. Insisting this was staged makes you look like a crazy conspiracy theorist giving anything else you have to say zero credibility.

Still questions on why shooter in Butler, Pennsylvania was cremated soon after the incident. What was being hidden?

Soon after the event r59? The shooting happened on July 14th. The boys body was released to his family July 23rd, almost 10 days later. He was cremated. Everyone saw how he died, there would be no autopsy. Most people are in the ground way before 10 days even IF there is an autopsy.

R58/R42/R40/R27

Since I put it in CAPs it must be TRUE.

"He is way too chicken shit."

True, but he's craven enough to do anything and everything for publicity, good, bad or indifferent, up to and including staging an assassination attempt, if, in his warped mind, it will make him more popular with his base.

Remember, this is a guy who paid thousands and thousands of dollars to someone to get the word out that his future wife Marla Maples said Trump was the best sex she ever had.

Eventually, all the shit this clown did and perpetrated while he was in office will come leaking out and it will make our collective hair stand on end.

R58 Yes and no. In MAGA Cult there is ONE view and all embrace it and never deviate. In the Anti-Trump World ideas and thoughts are put out (including things that could be called conspiracies) and some considerate them... some reject them as irrational, some accept them as proof of The Darkness, some think "maybe, but unlikely", other want more info, others ignore. In short many humans, many reactions.

This is also our weakness. In these times irrational belief accessing power may be what is needed.

R58 insisting you're a "proud gay man" makes you look

I believe it was staged. I also believe it may have been a test. I think the Putin crowd is going to decide at some point that Donnie has served his purpose. Maybe this was staged to see how people would react to an assassination.

I indeed DO think Trump would cut his own ear to bleed for a media sensation. And I also think he would shrug off any possible fatalities of a few of his supporters for a stunt. I think he’d do A LOT more.

With ease.

R58/R63 Gawd now it's talking to THEMSELVES.🤣

R67 I am R58, but not R63. I don't like the man. It just doesn't match his character that he would stand in the presence of bullets flying all around him. There are way too many ways in which it could go wrong. According to you people THREE people were suppose to end up dead in this stunt. But only one did. Think about that, they planned on killing three people.

At least SHE wasn't a BORE

I have never put someone on ignore, but I finally did the nutjob who keeps thinking everyone is the same person. It has reached a point where more than one of us has had to say we are post number this and not that because the guy attacks everyone as the same person. I am r27 and r42. I have made no other posts in this thread. I seriously hope that dude gets some help. Leaving the thread. Enjoy.

R70 you forgot your CAP's SYBIL

R67 You are 1) unstable or 2) pulling off an old internet trick. Either way, you are tiresome.

I am R63. I am not R58. You, perhaps, should drink some chamomile tea and rest.

He's dead, so no one cares.

R71, I’m the CAPS guy. I enjoy them. I am not R70.

That’s because it wasn’t real

R22, right. I recall that and it made my blood run cold. It looked so thoroughly theatrical, like a scene from an opera. And NO, NO! It CAN’T be fake, came out of the DL at the time.

Well, fuck all of you

Unlikely you could get the Secret Service and FBI to agree to such a staged event.

So if the event was staged? Who would have staged it? That means someone working under cover to radicalize this kid for months. And what was the casualty allowance? We know at least four people were planned for being killed. Do you think it was more?

That’s a lot of blood & work for someone who was never behind in the polls.

I think it’s the reverse. I think it was planned and not by Trump. And the kid was John Wilkes Booth / Lee Harvey Oswald dispatched. It’s an old playbook. Radicalize the assassin - kill the assassin.

The more I think about it the more I question, how in the world would you even stage something like that?

1. Thomas, in his mind, was there to kill the president. He was not acting his part. He was there to give his own life.

2. He had real bullets in his gun and a very clear shot of the president.

3. He killed one person, almost killing three.

So people are saying Donald Trump would put himself in the middle of a plan where there is someone with a real gun who for real wants to kill him - trusting that the bullets would miss him - but had a razor ready to cut his ear when the bullets started flying - yet was able to remain calm and confident like business as usual before this all goes down? All JUST for a bump in the poles? Not even a guaranteed win?

You can casually say “yeah it was staged.” But then you really think about it, that all falls apart. Again, how would you stage that?

[quote]You can casually say “yeah it was staged.” But then you really think about it, that all falls apart. Again, how would you stage that?

Let me see if I can explain this to you. We have a saying in Russia :" Not all actors know they are in a play" in other words, sometimes peoples walks by open windows and suddenly falls out, no?

Also sometimes peoples needs to be reminds who is running this show and a near miss of bullet can make point

R77 The Secret Service deleted their texts around the date of January 6, 2021 when the congressional investigations hearings requested them. You seriously believe it would be below them to be involved in a fabricated staged shooting at a rally, and apply a squib to simulate blood on Trump's ear?

[quote]Let me see if I can explain this to you. We have a saying in Russia :" Not all actors know they are in a play" in other words, sometimes peoples walks by open windows and suddenly falls out, no?

Ok R80 given that, was Trump aware of his part? He willingly stood in the line of fire of someone who wanted to kill him? He would have to be in on it to cut himself,,, no?

R81 the secret service, fbi, pentagon hates trump. I don’t they would be working that hard to get him re-elected. I think they would just as soon stand down, kinda like they did.

R82, I happen to have read a *great deal* about the shooting. I fully believe it was staged. I don’t believe they cared how much “collateral damage” occurred. Read up on the actual timeline and sequencing of the event. Multiple officers were in communication about the shooter for a very long time, as in *hours*. And Secret Service refused to respond to the point that a local officer climbed the roof and was going to take a shot, and the Feds made him come down.

Go watch the entire event, not just the shooting. You need to see the unedited footage that shows in real-time how long it took Secret Service to get him up and off the stage. Also, the most basic function they provide is that they act as body shields. So I would love to hear your explanation as to why his entire torso and head were left exposed as they carried his ass off that stage. Absolutely not ONE THING makes sense in terms of security protocol and Secret Service training/logistics.

In addition, the woman filming the event directly behind Trump never ducked or even flinched, she just kept filming. Guess who she is? She runs a field office for the FBI in NJ. Her name is out there.

The shooter had some advanced tactical gear that regular citizens don’t normally have access to. There is no info from journalists on the case, nor our government. Last but not least….that shooter actually met a professional mercenary who worked for Blackwater while he was a junior in high school. He easily could have been recruited, look up how Erik Prince makes his money.

If you actually believe that there aren’t people ruthless enough to stage a shooting, then you don’t understand our government or the CIA. It’s what they do.

I was talking to my friend about this earlier today. You don't hear shit about whoever it was. She believes that it was a fake attempt. Maybe, I have to say.

I think the shooter had been taken out before the “shooting” even began.

I think the actually shots that took out bystanders were likely from a hired sharpshooter with the intention to take out a couple of people in the background to make it appear legit.

I would imagine if he one, actually killed the president or two, hadn't been killed himself, you would hear a lot more about him.

R83 you miss my point entirely. I never said it wasn’t planned. There is a difference between STAGED and PLANNED. Staged is something that is fake.

I actually believe it was planned by the FBI / CIA to assassinate Donald Trump. That would explain everything you mentioned R83. Nobody in any area of intelligence or military wanted Trump to be president again - especially after what he said about them the first time around - and now we see how he’s gutting it now.

I firmly believe Trump had no idea. I believe the shooter was left to get in place and given more opportunities after the first shots rang. Big the kid missed. They wanted Trump dead. It didn’t happen. It was definitely NOT something that was planned to get him re-elected.

^BUT the kid missed.

People would say mine is a crazy conspiracy. But American history is riddled with this exact story played out over and over again. More often than the idea of Trump turning to murder or a stunt man. The idea that Trump staged it just doesn’t make sense.

Wow, this thread is almost as crazy as a Heartstopper thread.

If it was a conspiracy, and they knew they were going to take the shooter out before he could get off the roof (because it was a conspiracy therefore they all knew where he was), why would they use a stupid kid instead of someone who was a great shot?

It wouldn't have to be some famous underworld assassin type, just someone who knew his way around a gun well enough to get a second accurate shot off after Trump turned his head at the critical moment. It wasn't as if the Secret Service closed in fast enough to prevent that. People like that must be a dime a dozen in the US.

^ mistakes do happen. Maybe times have changed since Lee Harvey. The last two presidential assassinations failed at their jobs.

Because he was a white Republican teenager. It didn’t suit the GOP narrative. Which is also why I believe it wasn’t staged.

I was in Rome, Georgia (Trump Central and responsible for Maggot Pipebomb Greene) the night it happened and went to a couple of bars, a restaurant and an ice cream parlor as well as a standing in line at a haunted house attraction and I was eavesdropping on everyone because I was curious about the reactions up there. I heard not one fucking word about it. From anyone. Nobody gave a shit. And it literally happened a couple hours before.

That is very weird, R94, because I would have thought all those people would have been talking about the assassination attempt whether it was real OR staged.

It's like they were waiting on talking points or just didn't give a fuck. Once I told the people I was with my findings they all started eavesdropping too and not one person said a word about it

Here in the UK I checked my phone in the night and saw this story. My first reaction: Oh OK, it's happened at last, not surprised, he's always at the centre of lurid chaos. Next day a Tory broadsheet headlined the news in inverted commas, hardly dispelling the aura of inauthenticity about everything Trump. And then England concentrated on a big football game.

If the CIA wanted to assassinate Trump they wouldn't miss.

Oh man, imagine doing that and then having Aileen Loose Cannon as your judge.

I know OP. It is almost like that cunt never existed. I hope that powers that be aren’t that powerful and pulled a charade on us.

NYTimes June 9 2025

.........

So…..turns out that the kid met people who work for Blackrock, and he was actually in a Blackrock commercial. But I’m sure that’s just an odd coinky-dunk, yes?

Every assassin I’ve ever met who is not of legal drinking age develops friendships with Blackrock operatives (sarcasm). And no one here has had a single response to the multiple security protocols that were violated. I am an “affiliate” of LEO, not an expert, but I have learned enough to know that the sequence of the event is indeed startling, go see the timeline yourself.

Staged/planned, it’s all the same thing to me, there are several scenarios I can see. Regardless of which one, he was a fucking television producer. TELEVISION. He understands drama, the man was born for television. If you were plotting something big to affect an election, what would you do? I can absolutely see “assassination attempt” because you will for sure rile up your base’s sympathy.

Do you think a shooting attempt could hurt him? There was almost no downside if they did this. He wasn’t doing well, remember how empty his rallies were? I’m just saying, if you were to come up with a list of stunts, someone trying to hurt him can mostly only garner sympathy. Remember how it forced the Dems to speak out and offer condolences to him — even though he made fun of Paul Pelosi after his attempted murder. It put him at an advantage with his base, and it kept their attention because he won.

R101, what is it? He is hideous. Shrek-face, no disrespect to Shrek.

He came pretty fucking close to getting the job done. But as Trump's luck (why him?) would have it, he turned his head just in time.

I don't know, R105. I'm with the DL wag who said at the time, "His head? Why didn't they shoot at one of his vital organs?"

Very audacious if it was theatre since the theatre piece killed bystanders.

Seems like some people here are too stupid to understand that the "assassination attempt" may have been real in the sense that OBVIOUSLY real shots were fired (which is proven by the dead person), BUT it was fake in terms of actually trying to assassinate Trump, which is proven by his reaction to the "shooting" and even more clearly by photos of his unscathed ear just a few days later.

[quote]If it was a conspiracy, and they knew they were going to take the shooter out before he could get off the roof (because it was a conspiracy therefore they all knew where he was), why would they use a stupid kid instead of someone who was a great shot? It wouldn't have to be some famous underworld assassin type, just someone who knew his way around a gun well enough to get a second accurate shot off after Trump turned his head at the critical moment.

Umm, it wasn't a conspiracy to actually shoot Trump, it was a conspiracy to make it look like someone had tried to assassinate him in order to gain him sympathy and votes. And, tragically, it worked.

So the conspiracists were OK to kill Corey Comperatore for this theatre?