Yeah, I’m with you on that (like, if it were a fake attempt, wouldn’t you want the shooter to not be a Republican?), but there are enough weird things around the shooting that it should give anyone pause.
The big one that I haven’t seen a compelling answer for is how someone managed to get on a roof within comfortable plinking distance of a former president running for reelection and then fire multiple shots before getting dusted. “Incompetence” is the only answer we’ve been given, so I’m not surprised that conspiracy theorists are flocking to this.
Not to mention, the skill needed to wing his ear (or hit the glass that winged his ear) at that distance without wanting to kill him in the process, it would probably be beyond the capability of a marksman this young.
I honestly doubt there are more than a handful of marksmen alive who could reliably make that shot consistently enough that Trump would trust his life to them. There’s no fucking way that bloody ear came from a bullet, nevermind the collateral trauma his head would have experienced if it had. The scenario I’ve heard that seems most plausible is that his ear scraped against an SS agent’s holster as they were getting him out of the way.
Doing a shot like that reliably would be beyond the capability of any marksman.
There are, perhaps, some out there who could do it most of the time, but I don’t think there’s a single one ever who could count on it as a 100% thing.
There are millions upon millions of people in America, I have literally been in this position (well I was in my apartment) although I was a resident, it’s not like they conducted a door to door sweep. Maybe if I reached my literal sniper rifle a secret service guy would’ve shot me, I highly doubt it though. Trump is dumb enough to go to random places like a lawn care service thinking it’s a restaurant, and people let him. Tbh I haven’t really looked into the issue because I don’t care, but there’s states where 50%+ people own guns and you don’t think there’s one guy mad enough to shoot him?
I had heard it was due to a communication breakdown between the local authorities and Secret Service. It’s a stunning lapse but not impossible, presidents have been assassinated and attacked before.
Yeah, I’m with you on that (like, if it were a fake attempt, wouldn’t you want the shooter to not be a Republican?), but there are enough weird things around the shooting that it should give anyone pause.
The big one that I haven’t seen a compelling answer for is how someone managed to get on a roof within comfortable plinking distance of a former president running for reelection and then fire multiple shots before getting dusted. “Incompetence” is the only answer we’ve been given, so I’m not surprised that conspiracy theorists are flocking to this.
Not to mention, the skill needed to wing his ear (or hit the glass that winged his ear) at that distance without wanting to kill him in the process, it would probably be beyond the capability of a marksman this young.
I honestly doubt there are more than a handful of marksmen alive who could reliably make that shot consistently enough that Trump would trust his life to them. There’s no fucking way that bloody ear came from a bullet, nevermind the collateral trauma his head would have experienced if it had. The scenario I’ve heard that seems most plausible is that his ear scraped against an SS agent’s holster as they were getting him out of the way.
Doing a shot like that reliably would be beyond the capability of any marksman.
There are, perhaps, some out there who could do it most of the time, but I don’t think there’s a single one ever who could count on it as a 100% thing.
Do we have numbers? Like distance etc. I just want to see if I could make it 90%
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He needed to be close but not too close. That was his failure - damn near took him out on accident.
There are millions upon millions of people in America, I have literally been in this position (well I was in my apartment) although I was a resident, it’s not like they conducted a door to door sweep. Maybe if I reached my literal sniper rifle a secret service guy would’ve shot me, I highly doubt it though. Trump is dumb enough to go to random places like a lawn care service thinking it’s a restaurant, and people let him. Tbh I haven’t really looked into the issue because I don’t care, but there’s states where 50%+ people own guns and you don’t think there’s one guy mad enough to shoot him?
I had heard it was due to a communication breakdown between the local authorities and Secret Service. It’s a stunning lapse but not impossible, presidents have been assassinated and attacked before.