The X Files: Trump Assassination Attempt

GREGORY HOOD 

President Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday, taking a grazing bullet wound in the ear. He responded with bravura, pumping his fist at the crowd and telling them to “fight” as the Secret Service tried to hustle him off. Several progressives on X alleged that the shooting may have been fake. This would not explain the death of Trump supporter Corey Comperatore, who died protecting his family at the scene.

Still, that did not stop baseless speculation.

Glenn Greenwald

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And yes, the billionaire DNC mega-donor @reidhoffman is and long has been one of the nation’s most deranged and demented scumbags. https://semafor.com/article/07/14/2024/top-democrat-pushed-reporters-to-consider-staged-shooting

“Trump after staging his own fake assassination” pic.twitter.com/K8CiSmQcah

— I Smoked The Staged Trump Assassination (@BlackKnight10k) July 13, 2024

State Representative Antonio Parkinson

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I certainly hope this is not a staged act. But…

11:39 PM · Jul 13, 2024

So, blood does not coagulate that fast. 

There should be blood spattered all over that white collar. #TrumpAssasinationAttempt pic.twitter.com/AAPU7zlH6Y

— Lakota Man (@LakotaMan1) July 14, 2024

Ok

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If you don’t think that shit was staged? Look at how fast they got trump outta there at just the mention of someone in the crowd having a gun in 2016. Then look at this goofy as shit.

CNN initially did its best to downplay the assassination attempt.

Others simply regretted that the shooter missed:

🔥🚨BREAKING: Actress known for her role in “Insecure” Amanda Seales said that Donald Trump's assassination attempt was staged.

Seales: “That sh*# was more staged than a Tyler Perry production of Madea Runs for President

I lived in Harlem long enough to know gunshots do not… pic.twitter.com/8Omo4xWUAN

— Dom Lucre | Breaker of Narratives (@dom_lucre) July 14, 2024

Libs of TikTok

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Leftwing “comedian” Kristen Toomey is upset that the bullet missed Trump. She also suggests the whole ass*ss*nat*on attempt was fake.

Liberal accounts are celebrating the assassination attempt and saying they’re sad the shooter missed

This is what we’re up against pic.twitter.com/o9lwBjUT8b

— John Hasson (@SonofHas) July 13, 2024

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Here’s a thread of a bunch of leftist/queer/trans/activist accounts wishing the shooter hadn’t missed pic.twitter.com/booDMv2o05

— Ray Alex Williams (@RayAlexWilliams) July 13, 2024

Or that the murder victim may have had it coming, or at least is not worth mourning.