The Ear That Didn't Budge ....

Well, I admit that there is a THIN line up there that may be the naughty bullet that allegedly was aimed at former president, Donald Trump. As I - more or less - trust the judgement of SNOPES I can't just reject the photo as fake, but I still find it extremely hard to accept it as solid evidence. To me it looks made up or like a natural bird- or cloud-formation. In my opinion that turns the incident of the shooting into a maybe-event: Maybe it happened the way it has been stated - maybe not! .... That being said one has to look at the event from another angle: It happened at at time when Don the Con was pressed very hard by legal cases, new revelations of former crimes, and maybe also a lot of voters turning away from him. Things were not running as smoothly for him as they - in his opinion - ought to. In that situation an attempt at one's life may be a wonderful way of reviving the public (voter-)interest in a politician.  

 Putin is reputed to have resorted to fake murder attempts for PR-reasons

Others, before him, like e.g. Francois Mitterand (France), did too, for instance in 1959. That being said it's obvious that a presumptive murderer may serve a political purpose, especially if he both failed and died. There is NO ROOM for a live murderer in these cases .... 

 This murder is a good example of "the perfect political assassination": Jack Ruby Shoots Lee Harvey Oswald in1963

I see the tRump-incident as what I call a Kosta Fotopoulos-case: This greedy Greek had married a rich woman, but he loved her money more than her so he got a young, naive follower, 18-year old Bryan Chase, to shoot her for money. At the same moment he shot Bryan, thus getting rid of his wife, and gaining a false reputation of being a hero. WOW, what a plot, but I bet it has been used both before and after, like e.g. in the tRump-shooting. Actually, I need a lot of evidence to start believing that the 20-year-old tRump-follower Thomas Matthew Crooks wasn't set up to fake a murder attempt on him.

Let's look at a possible scenery: The shooter is not very far away from The Orange Menace whom he, for weird reasons, admire. He takes an aim which is what he is there for, either because he feels that's what should be done with someone like tRump, or because he has been hired or persuaded into doing.

I find it strange that there presumably are no photos of the impact itself. Was he hit or just grazed - maybe neither ??? Anyway the former president falls to the ground whether by luck or on a clue that got him to turn his head at the right moment. At the same time he was losing his shoes which oddly enough seem to have been his biggest concern when he gets up again. How come when he was bleeding from the presumed shot? Who in their right mind would think of shoes in that situation? Well, there was blood, but who knows, it may have been fake or not as much as it was made out to be. 

Bleeding from some kind of wound, which we haven't seen yet, he raises his clenched hand in triumph. Something which have made his followers go bananas, some, quoting The Bible, even see it as a God-given signature of his so-called "holiness" which in my opinion turns their praise into blasphemy. 

Talking conspiracies often is seen as paranoia or something like that. OK, I say, but in my opinion this particular shooting has ALL the markings of a set up. Nothing about it makes me believe in it as anything but fake. As to conspiracies as such many which were seen as ludicrous proved to be genuine. That goes for instances like these ones: The Iran-Contra, Nixon and Watergate, as well as various CIA-assassination attempts at Fidel Castro ....

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories

 

https://www.livescience.com/11375-top-ten-conspiracy-theories.html 

 

https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP83-01042R000200090002-0.pdf 

 

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