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Offline rangerrebew

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BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassination
« on: July 19, 2024, 12:30:40 pm »
BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassination Attempt
One-third of Democrats believe false conspiracy theory that Trump staged his own assassination attempt
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Andrew Kerr
July 18, 2024

A conspiracy theory has run unabated in Democratic circles following the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump on Saturday. It posits that Trump staged the shooting for a photo op, that the wound on his ear was caused by something other than an assassin's bullet, and that he was never in mortal danger.
 
It's a baseless conspiracy theory disproven by reams of documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts. And it's a belief held by one-third of the Democratic electorate.

One in three registered Democrats believe it is "credible" that the shooting Saturday in Butler, Pa., was staged and not intended to kill Trump, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday. The findings show that large swaths of the Democratic base have fallen prey to the phenomenon known as "BlueAnon," a play on the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that once gripped portions of the Republican base and served as an obsession of the mainstream media throughout the first Trump administration.

https://freebeacon.com/democrats/blueanon-rears-its-head/
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Re: BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassina
« Reply #1 on: July 19, 2024, 12:32:43 pm »
It must be the work of the "vast right-wing conspiracy." :whistle:
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Re: BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassina
« Reply #2 on: July 19, 2024, 12:35:25 pm »
Typical of people who don't understand ballistics, perhaps.

There are enough variables in that shot that pierced his ear that it could easily have been fatal, and no one would play target for it, regardless of who the shooter was.

With that in mind, who would accept the job as shooter in a hoax, knowing they'd very likely get killed for their efforts?
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