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In principle, no.

I get where they're coming from. If I believed Trump was akin to Hitler/Stalin, I would also like to see him literally shot to death. I would do it myself if I had the opportunity and the means. I think assassinating people like Putin or Xi is perfectly legitimate, for instance.

The problem is believing Trump is anywhere near comparable to those people -- that takes a literal psychiatric condition to believe. And then of course, there are those who knowingly put in place, sustained, and keep sustaining to this day the campaign to make the crazies believe that Trump is like Hitler. Those are truly responsible.

He wasn't French, he was Corsican. His name and his family language were Corsican, which is basically the Tuscan language (aka "Italian", but not really). His ancestry was Corsican/Tuscan and Ligurian/Lombard.

Corsica had only been annexed to France the same year Napoleon was born. Up until then it had been independent for a brief period, and before that a Genoese possession for most of the previous centuries.

If you know just a bit of how security details work, shooting, and stuff, you will conclude that the simplest and most likely answer is that, yes, it was a semi-random guy -- who got the assistance of a three letter agency. THAT is.

A random amateur simply does not get to carry a rifle and take a vantage point barely 100 yards away from a presidential target surrounded by secret service without help/assistance/someone looking the other way and making sure that nobody looks either. The probability of that would be ZERO.

Plus, to begin with, the "deranged shooter" myth has been debunked way too many times now. There are deranged people who would like to shoot other people, indeed. Taking the final step of making the decision, making the plan, organizing it... for that, more than one has been known to need a "nudge" by an "interested party", if not outright brainwashed and put up for it by them directly.

Something like that desk would actually be great as a "memory palace" mnemonic device. You can store the words in it -- just in your head in a mental image.

The just couldn't make up something just a tiny bit less ridiculous. No. They had to come out with the "disgruntled Republican voter" bullshit. I bet you when they search his home they'll also "find" lots of pro-gun paraphernalia and a manifesto saying that he shot Trump because he wasn't pro-abortion and he likes the gays too much, and because he didn't build the wall.

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Go on the Bluesky/Mastodon bridge if you want to read the wildest takes. Including the first ones calling for "ban people spreading misinformation" (meaning those who talk about a non-staged shooting) and the ones that say that killing Trump would actually be a good idea, because Hitler.

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I think, ironically, you believe at the same time that Trump is more powerful than the US security apparatus, and yet you can't conceive that the humans at working for that same security apparatus can simply make mistakes.

You lack a realistic notion of how an assassination plot like this would work. The secret service guys in charge of the security detail would probably NOT be involved and the operation would have to be real.

That means placing the shooters in a way that they would avoid detection by the honest/not implicated agents, and conducting the operation with a very high risk of failure.

The FBI has been known to use mentally ill people. You can't do something like this without the involvement of a three letter agency, one way or another -- either direct, or as instigators and enablers.

Do you think they would allow him to stage something like this?

That's why I tend to think it may be the shooter (or the one they will pass for the shooter), not a spectator.

"His ear is intact!"

This is the same sort of people who are often seen in the comments to a shooting complaining that the defender didn't shoot the attacker "in a leg or in the hand". Complete and utter fucking morons who have zero contact with the real world.

It really takes a specially severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome to believe that a guy who has absolutely all the three letter agencies, the government, the media, half the country against him, could ever possibly even dream of staging a fake assassination as a PR stunt to pump his numbers after his best two weeks since he won the 2016 election.

Really severe case of the retards, something clinically irrecoverable.