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Trump adds a new piece of art to the Oval Office - a statue of himself moments after the assassination attempt in Butler (www.independent.co.uk)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Looks like he's about to get suplexed.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 week ago (6 children)

This makes me more suspicious that the whole fucking thing was staged

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago

I doubt it as many people hate Trump and want him to die. He definitely leaned into the whole victim thing but I'm sure the attempt was real.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

symbolizes the divine intervention as well as the man and his message of unity and resilience for which America stands

So, Jesus "giving his own life" (for 3 days) is a huge deal, and a huge sacrifice, but then God kinda "volunteers" Corey Comperatore to die for Trump, without asking?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (3 children)

The world will be a better place when he's dead.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

https://www.benjaminlcorey.com/could-american-evangelicals-spot-the-antichrist-heres-the-biblical-predictions/

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[+] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I will continue to voice my opposition to this take.

People in the crowd got hit and one died, there's a picture of Crooks' head split open by sniper fire. There is no proof it was a setup beyond how Trump and his campaign leveraged it, which isn't really proof.

Clinging onto this theory feels like the same kind of smarmy double speak Holocaust deniers use. "It didn't happen, but I wish it did."

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

Fair, and I don't believe it was staged. BUT, somebody dying doesn't mean it wasn't staged. It just means they're willing to sacrifice some lives to secure power.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I wouldn't bet on a fucking Navy SEAL winging a moving target on the ear at 400-500'. Anyone thinking it was staged has two issues: They watched too many action movies and have never shot a rifle.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They definitely didn't stage it by actually shooting him. If it was staged, he used a blood pack and was not hit. That would track with his ear recovering so quickly.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The way the tissue regenerated was miraculous, wasn't it? No ragged gaps, no scar tissue...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

So then what, an SS sniper shot crowd members dead just to make it convincing?

Trump is a vain motherfucker, he would have used makeup to touch up his wound once he was tired of parading around his bandaged ear.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

They gave everyone hope that the shooter just missed, but he was never going to hit, since he shot nothing. That ear scrape was so fake leaving zero scar or scab after just a week.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The people behind Trump who were wounded or killed would like a word. If it was staged, and the wound was fake, it would have been done with blanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fair point. I havent heard much or anything, really, about them.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Unity?

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I hope Obama wins the presidency back via the traditional leadership challenge of Hell In A Cell and then puts this statuette up his bum on live TV.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

I hope we don't have to deal with anyone that wants to serve three terms.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

🤮

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Jesus, Reba still got it going on at 70

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Holy fuck she's 70!? She looks incredible!

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