A day later, conservative pundit Emerald Robinson went further, posting on Twitter that the FBI “did it.” (In the same post, Robinson claimed that the agency was responsible for everything from the January 6 attack on the Capitol to “Jeffrey Epstein's blackmail tapes” and the “Gov. Whitmer fake kidnap plot.”)

But the claims that Trump had staged the entire thing really picked up steam when former US National Counterterrorism Center director Joe Kent appeared on Carlson’s podcast last month, one day after he resigned from his position over the Iran war.

During the interview, Carlson and Kent discussed the failure of the Trump administration to provide more details about the Pennsylvania shooter. Kent claimed, without providing any evidence, that investigations into the shooting had been shut down before they finished.

Kent also claimed that this vacuum of information about the incident would lead to more conspiracy theories. “If you don't want to address that question, then you just go silent and say you can't ask that question,” he said. “Which then creates people who come out of nowhere and they start drawing their own conclusions.” (This is in fact, experts say, one basic dynamic behind conspiracy theorizing.)

“If you cannot look at this story and use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it,” Trisha Hope, a GOP national delegate from Texas and former Trump supporter, posted on Twitter about Butler this week.

On Telegram, prominent QAnon promoter MJ Truth asked his 100,000 followers: “How does everyone feel about the narrative surrounding the Butler Assassination Attempt on Trump?”

The overwhelming majority of the hundreds of replies, almost all of whom remain Trump supporters, said they believed the incident had been staged and that the truth may never come out. “The truth will come out 60+ years from now when we're all dead and nobody really cares anymore … just like JFK!!!!,” one follower wrote.

Many claims about the Butler conspiracy theory have also involved discussion of the Israeli government's purported control over the US government that strongly echo classical antisemitism. In a monologue posted on his channel last week, Carlson questioned why Israel had “so much control over our government” and claimed that “one of the clues is the Butler shooting” and that the Trump’s administration’s failure to investigate the incident indicated the level of Israel’s control.

This allegation was then echoed by Candace Owens, another prominent MAGA figure, who claimed in a recent podcast that Israeli-American political donor Miriam Adelson was actually behind the attempted assassination. Owens claimed that Trump had taken $100 million from her in donations, but had not followed through on his promise to then support Israel’s annexation of the West Bank, and that this was the reason for the attempted assassination. Owens further suggested that this was also the reason Trump never really investigated the assassination properly when he became president.

Ali Alexander, the far-right activist who organized the Stop the Steal campaign in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, has a slightly different take on the assassination, claiming instead that it was further evidence that Trump is the Antichrist, something many MAGA figures have also been considering this week.

“To be clear: if Donald Trump didn’t receive a miracle, then it was deception or a dark sign,” Alexander wrote in a five-page PDF he posted to his Telegram channel on Tuesday evening. “There is biblical prophecy in Revelation 13:3 apparently about the Antichrist being struck on the head.”

The passage in question actually reads: “I saw that one of its heads seemed to have been mortally wounded, but this mortal wound was healed. Fascinated, the whole world followed after the beast.”

If you slow it down Trump grabs his ear before the shot can be heard

>>1506929
Kinda inevitable. They proclaimed god saved him but then he did a blasphemy, so now suddenly the pieces don't fit.

>>1506936
Not to mention zero scarring and it instantly healed too.

It wouldn't be surprising at all if the FBI "did it" considering how often they're caught grooming high profile criminals and materially supplying and even planning their crimes for them. Of course, no agent has ever been charged for their actions, even when they do all of the above. Sometimes it's "informants" who made a deal to stay out of prison if they "infiltrate" terrorists, so they start up their own terrorist cell, sometimes its agents goading people along and using a government budget to buy guns and bombs for them.

Didn't someone else get killed by the bullet?
Corey Comperatore of Sarver, Pennsylvania, was killed by gunfire.[3] Comperatore, aged 50, worked as a project and tooling engineer and was the former chief of the Buffalo Township Volunteer Fire Company.[121][122][123] According to Comperatore's family and Pennsylvania governor Josh Shapiro, he died while shielding his wife and two daughters from gunfire.[123][124] A number of other people were injured.[125] Two male audience members, aged 57 and 74, were shot and critically injured

>>1506958
I think the shooting was real but his ear injury wasn't. The retard missed.

>>1506958
How many shots were there?

>>1506971
8, I checked

>>1506943
Small cuts can bleed a lot. I don't think it was staged, nor do I think they are capable of pulling off such an elaborate hoax, though I do enjoy seeing MAGAts turn on him. Guess that's what happens when your base is full of conspiracy theorists.

>>1506929
>wired
sure they are. leftists really are mentally ill conspiracy theorists huh, they nitpick one or two cloutchasers and pretend they align with everyone else.

>>1506981
it's so sad that you work sundays too

>>1506981
What leftists?

>>1506983
Some Russian forced meme.

>>1506983
>>1506982
its sad pajeets like you still exist and that retards believe your conspiracies

>>1506993
trust me shill, alex jones isn't interested in your shit job

here are your options:
1) it was legit and he miraculously healed completely in three days.
2) it was staged.
3) it was legit and he healed in three days because he is the anti-Christ and it was foretold in Revelations.

Butler SWAT Operator that took out Thomas crook needs to be scrutinized under a microscope

Shot Sequence: The shooter fired eight bullets before this officer's shot was fired (the 9th shot in the sequence).
Impact: The officer's shot reportedly hit the gunman’s rifle, causing it to malfunction and allowing a federal sniper to kill the gunman shortly after.
Also the federal sniper needs to be scrutinized


The sniper fired eight shots, and Nicked Trump's ear.
I'm going to guess at this Patsy was told that he had to drop a little of Trump's blood, and become famous as long as he kept quiet

>>1507008
Also
Assassin got close enough to the former president with very little effort to shoot at him? Then he gets killed, almost nothing about him is released to the public despite being the most successful would-be presidential assassin in decades, and then Trump’s ear heals completely practically overnight

And then the video of someone going and telling the press they can move in and take photos right after an “attempted” assassination

Then the timely flag drop for the photo opportunity.

The secret service let him stand up for a photo shoot despite a known (and possible further threat) threat?
The people standing in a circle holding him still for 10 fucking seconds is what seals it for me. Plus the crowd screaming minutes before about a man on top of the building.


the biggest giveaway was Trump not pissing his pants in fear. He's a known chicken-shit coward... yet he extends his arm and starts the "fight" chant. Fight against what??????

And the merch in the shops the next day
WWE levels of showmanship

>>1507007
4) It took longer than 3 days to heal, and he still has some damage today

>>1507007
It was his ear not his brain.

>>1507018
>>1507014
Ear cartilage doesn't heal fully from a bullet wound. He should have at least a little mark on his ear, but it's literally untouched.

>>1506962
As much as I'd love to believe that this was some kind of stunt - you'd have to know that there was an assassin and know he wouldn't kill your man, have the President in on it (without blabbing - fat chance), supply said President with a fake blood pack, then kill the assassin who would have been in on it but not kill the snipers who also would have had to be in on it - or you would have had to have known they weren't in on it but also weren't looking for a sniper.

Not to mention all of the Secret Service people, all the local LEO, all the campaign crew that'd have to know where to be and be in on it.

>>1507019
When you say it is literally untouched, what are you basing that judgement on? I haven't seen Donald Trump's personally (and I doubt you have either), so where are you getting that from? Some pic or video you want to share?

>>1507026
Look at any photo of his ear from after the attempt. There isn't so much as a fucking divot in it to show he got grazed.

>>1507031
Plus you know MAGA would be getting and showing off tattoos and other ritual scarring trying to emulate Trumps assassin wound
Instead his ears unmarked and no one talks about who that guy was or why police didn't care he had a gun on a roof overlooking the president.

Way too many people would have to have been involved in this conspiracy for it to have been staged. Someone would have leaked the truth by now if that were the case. On the other hand how Trump perfectly capitalized on it with the photo and supposedly got grazed in the ear was absurd. Trump rarely brings it up too, which is out of character for a narcissist like him. Like you'd think he'd frequently talk about how THEY tried to kill him.
I have no idea what to believe, but it is definitely a strange situation.

>>1507031
I looked up Trump ear after assassination and this is what I got
https://www.wenigerplasticsurgery.com/plastic-surgeon-walks-us-through-trumps-ear-injury-one-year-after-assassination-attempt/
Looking at photos of the divisive politician today, Dr. Frederick Weniger, a board-certified plastic surgeon, exclusively confirmed to Nicki Swift that his wound seems to have healed fully. “The skin looks smooth and there’s no obvious sign of active redness or swelling to suggest healing problems,” he pointed out. “There is some bumpiness at the back edge of the top of the ear (where the majority of the injury was), and there is also a slight depression in the front where the rim of the ear attaches to the side of the face.”

Zooming in on the site more, the South Carolina-based surgeon noticed a slight distortion along the outer
edge of Trump’s ear, where he was shot. The area doesn’t quite match the other side, likely due to tissue
“being lost, repaired, or repositioned” during the healing process. The expert also observed a slight
difference in the president’s skin color and its texture on his wounded ear, suggesting the possibility of
skin grafting or flap closure.

However, he doesn’t believe any reconstructive surgery was performed. Instead, the doctor reckons there’s
a good chance the president let his scar heal on its own. Some light makeup may have also been used to
conceal or reduce the appearance of any scarring.

>>1507046
Trump conspired with the Russians and we still don't know the depths of that because he successfully destroyed or hid enough of the evidence.
So the 'too many people' excuse doesn't fly

>>1506929
I don't necessarily think it was staged, but I know for a fact that he was never struck by a bullet. His ear is completely intact with no visible scarring or evidence of reconstruction. No bullet would merely scratch him like that. More likely it was a piece of plastic shrapnel from a close impact.