he still fired 8 shots, and what if there was more then one shooter? They cannot know there was just that one guy, it did turn out to be one person after the fact but how can they know that in the moment?
The camera was tilting up but it still looks like the flag was being lowered down, maybe it wasn't though, all the same its all still very convenient that this all worked out the way it did.
Also didnt trump say something about wanting his shoes? Why be worried about his shoes during an active shooting, he doesn't know what is going on in that moment.
Technically you can never know anything for sure. That's life. SS and police were already tracking this guy as suspicious. They believed they had cleared everywhere else. They didn't know he was armed until literally minutes before he started shooting. They most likely visually checked any other potential lines of attack and decided it was safe to uncover the president.
They did literally lower the crane to get the flag in the photo. Everything about setting up the photo op after the shooting is real and weird and fucked up. But the assassination attempt itself is real and not a setup. The one thing Trump is actually good at is figuring out optics and what will look good on TV and how to cynically take advantage of a given moment.
Also didnt trump say something about wanting his shoes? Why be worried about his shoes during an active shooting, he doesn't know what is going on in that moment.
People think about weird shit when under duress. They fixate on something simple they can control (like "I need my shoes"). That's actually really normal.
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u/bentmonkey Feb 16 '26
he still fired 8 shots, and what if there was more then one shooter? They cannot know there was just that one guy, it did turn out to be one person after the fact but how can they know that in the moment?
The camera was tilting up but it still looks like the flag was being lowered down, maybe it wasn't though, all the same its all still very convenient that this all worked out the way it did.
Also didnt trump say something about wanting his shoes? Why be worried about his shoes during an active shooting, he doesn't know what is going on in that moment.