@nprofile1q... “old man who has needed to be dragged into public view over the last week honors commitment to attend perhaps the most cognitively dissonant event possible where his greatest enemy (people who are supposed to tell the truth) can be implicated as would-be assassins” does lend itself well to “this was staged,” yeah. Claiming it sounded like a dropped tray is also weird as fuck for someone who should probably be extra concerned about gunfire due to A) the “previous incident” and B) what I will only summarize as “public sentiment.”
(I have not engaged with coverage of the event beyond that because our media apparatus is particularly bad at breaking news coverage and introspection so this is probably not going to get decent coverage until Ronan Farrow’s kid writes a book 20 years from now.)