Damus
Ava · 84w
This Trump assasination attempt looks staged. If so, I saw this happen once before before an election in Taiwan. It is known as the 319 "attempted assasination" event that got the then current corrupt...
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I have a few thoughts:

First, you can see people in the crowd duck in the video. Their reaction time isn’t very good, but a big events people can be slow to react due to confusion and a desire to not stand out from the crowd. It’s very clear they got down in the front on video:

Second, while I do believe your theory has some possibly of being true, it would be a weird tactic for someone who is the consensus front runner and whose opponent is a sitting president with dementia. Bidens own team is turning on him, so to pull a risky stunt like that would be a very strange move in my opinion.

Third, Trump is likely not thinking when he fist-pumps. If this were a real situation and not staged, there would likely be a lot of adrenaline which would be making his decisions turn into fight or flight reactions. Since there is no one to really fight, aggressively standing up and celebrating not being dead makes a lot of sense.

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StreetRacer · 84w
Makes sense too
Ava · 84w
All very possible. There are just not enough angles and details at this point. However, I do know from years of executive protection training that we are trained to shield the mark and remove them from the scene as quickly as possible. You do not allow the mark to say, hold on, let me get my shoes, ...