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[+] 78 points 2 years ago (28 children)
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    Also if I got shot or grazed, I wouldn't be worried about my shoes.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago

    I really hate the guy but if you've never had a near-death experience you wouldn't understand that your logic is a bit weird in the moment. it takes more than a couple of moments for your brain to catch up with reality. his shoes are special thick lift shoes to make him seem way taller because he's extremely vain. if he fell out of his awkward tall shoes when he ducked, he probably would have been preoccupied in the moment with not appearing short and weak (his true form) until the reality caught up to him. I don't doubt at all that some sycophantic pr stooge was yelling into his earpiece to "look triumphant, look triumphant!!" when he was getting back up though.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 years ago (12 children)

    Very unlikely, it's an easy intuitive thing to think when emotions are high, and there is so much at stake with the election and division so high, that emotions are high as well.

    Having a shooter miss you on purpose is something that is extremely risky, not easy to stage, and the US has enough armed people with emotions boiling over and little to lose. It is very much the overwhelmingly more likely scenario.

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  • [+] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    At this point, we know very little, but with what we do know at the moment - for this, you'd need:

    • someone willing to be taken out as the shooter, willing to or being tricked into shooting blanks, or an extremely elaborate plan to switch in a body (you also have to acquire and prepare somewhere) in front of witnesses and potential cameras
    • someone without blanks firing to explain the other bystanders dead from bullets
    • complete control over the subsequent investigation, to make sure no one looks into it properly, which would make all the people involved in the know

    It is still an extremely, extremely unlikely scenario

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  • [+] -1 points 2 years ago (6 children)
  • [–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    The reports I am hearing say that at least two people besides the shooter are dead, which probably is where (some of) the other bullets went. Dude is a coward, but also a narcissist, I assume he noticed that the Secret Service had already killed the shooter, so immediately switched into "I am invincible" mode.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (4 children)
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    Again, I understand it as an intuitive reaction, but the world is a lot more chaotic than that, and huge conspiracies coordinated well like that are super, super rare. Waiting and being willing to adjust your position is a good thing to do right now. With more stuff coming out, the situation will become more clear.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 years ago (6 children)

    We heard a lot of shots, where did they all go?

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    CNN speculated that lots of those shots were the Secret Service returning fire. They are reporting on TV that you can hear them saying "Shooter down" and that it was then safe to move Trump. I couldn't hear that, but someone on TV said they could hear that in the chatter.

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