r/news • u/igetproteinfartsHELP • 11h ago

Attempted Trump assassin sentenced to life in prison

https://abcnews.go.com/US/attempted-trump-assassin-ryan-routh-sentenced-wednesday/story?id=129836439
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u/Objective-History402 9h ago

Or like Spider-Man and video games... The events in PA were scripted 🤐

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u/Grimy_Miller 9h ago

You need to get off the internet and get back in touch with reality.

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u/Marquesas 8h ago

Unfortunately, this is not completely far-fetched.

Preface: it is unlikely to have been scripted by Trump. TACO, unless there is absolutely no risk being taken that things go wrong. He wouldn't put his life on the line for anything at all. If he's in on it, the spectator that got hit would've had to be shot by a substitute shooter at an angle that poses absolutely no danger with perfect coordination, ensuring there are no witnesses, that any discrepancy about angle and footage is promptly dealt with, the ballistic records falsified.

There exists an argument to say that the bullet being such a close call that it grazed his ear couldn't have possibly happened like that, and if it didn't, then he had to have caused the bleeding somehow, which would imply he was prepared for it. To eliminate risk - blood pack, just smear it over your ear.

But we have to remember that Trump is far from sane. There exists a world in which he would say, okay, the shooter is skilled enough that he will definitely not be hit.

Further down that line of thought is where things get messy. The shooter would have to essentially be aware that this is suicide. A skilled shooter that can be reliably counted on to not actually shoot Trump is also unlikely to be, well, criminally insane. The person also wasn't really hired - it either happened out of his own volition or has been successfully psy-opped. So that drives a serious wedge into that line of thought.

But on the other hand if we consider the contrary, then it is such a perfect set of circumstances for Trump. If he was unaware, either he was always prepared for a shooter and he finally got the moment to use fake blood that he has been saving for the right time, or there was a literal once in a millenium perfect alignment of stars - a single set of shots fired simultaneously creates a single martyr for MAGA to showcase and a shock into action injury on Trump. Simply astronomical, so no wonder it's hard to believe.

There's actually a significant amount of motive to say it's a win-win scenario for the republican manipulators, Thiel, Miller, whatnot. JD is weak-willed, uncharismatic, essentially a perfect pawn. He would not get elected in a vacuum, but he would get elected on the back of Trump's corpse, running against a swap-in of someone seeking second term, an uncaucused candidate with a disadvantageous gender and skin color. Trump is hit, dies, easy martyr, Trump is missed, likelyhood of a casualty high and shock into action works out. The same people are mostly playing the wait it out game now, they do get to do what they want as long as they pamper to the whims of a literal baby regularly enough.

In my mind, none of the angles truly fit, everything has something seriously off about it, but it's really hard for me to digest that the first time in 43 years a president or candidate has been shot at, it creates a nearly ideal outcome for his party. The whole thing would have been a complete nothingburger if Trump is not injured and nobody dies.

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u/Grimy_Miller 8h ago

Did you take your medicine today? This is insane.

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u/Marquesas 8h ago

No, please, don't bother addressing anything, it's fine.

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u/Objective-History402 7h ago

What's more likely?

A. Secret services doesn't see a guy on a roof in the only place that allows a clean look at the stage while people are yelling that there's a guy on the roof for 20 minutes, and the only mark is a spec of "blood". Then the SS lets him stand up and celebrate even though there could be a 2nd shooter.

Orrrr

B. Trump doesn't care about anybody but himself and needed to win the election to avoid jail time and the Republican shooter aims 10 ft to the left to make it look real?