Could have been a pill behind his ear that he

[MOMFUDSKI]

crushed to look like blood. Then hit the ground. Then SS got him up and he was fist pumping like a dictator. I call bullshit

[uncletio200]

3. Bob Roberts

Seen this movie before.

[FarPoint]

16. He did a similiar stunt without blood few years ago ....

Dayton Ohio....I think it was when he campaigned against Hillary.... I suspect fake drama.

[Scrivener7]

30. Bingo! I forgot about that!

[groundloop]

33. There should be enough video evidence to determine if he was bleeding before he fell.

Trump is such a masterful showman and con artist I wouldn't put this past him for one second. With all the "gunshots" that were heard it's amazing nobody else was hit.

[Farmer-Rick]

44. Yeah, those sounds of shots kept going

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Even after the would be dictator wiped at his face and ducked down. If it were real bullets, why weren't people around him injured too? Either a really bad shot or non-lethal ammo.

He looked angry when he stood up. Maybe the "shooter" was supposed to use less painful ammo. Though he did look confused and pale at first when SS surrounded him.

As many shots that sounded, the shooter should be easy enough to capture.

Yeah, I checked out those staged attacks in Dayton. They looked real too. You just can't trust anything involving the would be dictator or the paid off news media.

[azureblue]

96. The extra shots

didn't add up. And where did the bullet that supposedly clipped his ear, go to? Shouldn't there be spent lead somewhere behind him?
IF his ear was hit by a bullet, then there will be pieces of his ear missing. Let's see proof that he was injured.

[bottomofthehill]

104. A person behind him is dead and another wounded.

We are better than this. I can’t believe how many threads here KOOKY nonsense bullshit rule here.

There were shots, the shooter is dead, others are dead it happened and it is a tragedy.

[InAbLuEsTaTe]

61. Not likely, but, then again, nothing would shock me.

[dflprincess]

2. That's exactly what my cousin said

And I'll bet your both right. His reaction was just too staged.

[kentuck]

12. It happened just as he turned toward the directions of the loud sounds.

And he ducked very quickly.

My money is that it was staged.

But, there is nothing he would crave more than being a martyr.

[orleans]

78. he grabbed or swipped at his right ear before he fell down

Link to tweet

glass from teleprompter

[ImNotGod]

4. wouldn't surprise me if it was staged for sympathy votes. He took the time to pump his fists in the air putting SS lives

at risk which he doesn't care.

[Abstractartist]

47. Exactly

Pimping the fist in defiance. I can hear him now…. “ they tried to kill me, but I can’t be killed”….” Vote for me… they shot at me”… hmmmm very suspicious

[vanlassie]

5. I thought it was a bee.

[ImNotGod]

58. I've had deer flies draw blood biting my ear. nt

[Blue Owl]

6. We all know that he is all about optics, nothing else matters but optics

[Captain Zero]

49. Yep ratings.

Ratings is what he talks about all the times.

[Dear_Prudence]

7. Alex?

Has anyone checked with Alex Jones yet to find out if this was real or staged?

[bucolic_frolic]

8. Skepticism here too at this point. Sympathy ploy?

They didn't have that whole crowd locked down? Not much of a pop either, but so many shots. BB gun? Pellet rifle? I don't even know if they're the same thing.

The USA didn't need this at all. It's another deviation from real platforms, campaign issues, political economy, pollicy.

[CanonRay]

21. I counted at least 10 pops.

Didn't sound like a BB gun. Could have been faked I guess. Seems odd no one else in crowd apparently hit.

[orangecrush]

55. No one behind him hit

With all those shots.

[catchnrelease]

97. This may not be real

But I just read an interview with an ER doc that gave cpr to a man in the crowd who was shot in the head. Said the victim had fallen down between the seats of the bleachers, so wouldn't have been easily seen by news cameras. That was the person that died, plus the shooter.

[orangecrush]

103. Yes

I saw that too, after my post.

[kentuck]

9. I was just getting ready to post this:

On second thought, if it had been a head shot, he would not have gotten up waving his fist in the air. He would have been carried off.

It may very well have been a staged event, to rile up his supporters and to create violence. It is very possible it is a set-up.

Keep an open mind.

[BonnieJW]

38. I agree

I watched it and all I thought was that it was a fake. Totally staged.

[bluestarone]

10. We are living in a time that ANYTHING is possible. We cannot be sure, even after they tell us what happened.

I saw his audience raising fists flipping fingers, wanting a war. I, like you believe it's 199% possible what your saying. Joe will be the target from this day on. God Dam i hate these fuckers.

[Loryn]

11. Catsup

[dwnsouth]

17. Rumors

I’ve read said the multiple shots heard were suppressed SS fire responding immediately. We shall see when they release the initial report

[LisaL]

23. How would SS respond by shooting into the crows and injuring no one?

[SpankMe]

72. NBCNews is confirming that the shooter is dead (5 p.m.-ish Pacific time)

But, no one is saying how (s)he died. Beaten by the crowd? Shot self? Shot by law enforcement?

[jimfields33]

77. He's dead. I can't believe this thread.

[CanonRay]

14. I counted at least 10 pops (gunshots?)

Hard to believe no one else was hit. I haven’t heard anything about anyone else injured.

[LisaL]

20. 10 gunshots in a packed crowed would likely result in more than an ear injury.

NT

[Algernon Moncrieff]

46. A number of shots were the "neutralizing of the shooter"

"Shooter neutralized" is being reported by CBS TV News

[Scrivener7]

34. And yet no one behind him, where any shot would have to have come from,

reacted until he ducked. And no one in the stands seemed to have seen a gun. At least no one reacted to one. If they had seen it, a crowd that would come out in 100 degree weather to listen to him bloviate would have jumped on the person doing it.

[lamp_shade]

15. It crossed my mind.

[uponit7771]

18. People ducked after seeing TFG hit. No sane adult is going to give Benedict Donald and MAGA the benefit of any doubt,

[Orrex]

87. What would a sane adult be doing at a Trump rally?

[mahina]

19. It really looked like that to me too.

[BoRaGard]

22. Will Ronnie "Dr. Pills" Jackson (R) be the Felon's attending sawbones?

Asking for the documentay anals of American Special Society for Falsification & General repubelican Fuckery.

[kskiska]

24. Reminiscent of SNL "Buckwheat Shot!"

[Seeking Serenity]

25. Literally stochastic terrorism

[choie]

26. that's exactly what my sister just said

a la The Sting

[Dave Bowman]

27. That's suspicious, lot of things don't add up.

[Blue Owl]

28. Will there be some independent CSA?

If Dump was rushed to his private car, how will anyone know if that was real blood on his clothing? It’ll be interesting and very telling to see how this is all handled….

[AKwannabe]

29. Told my coworkers it's fake

Anybody that wanted to finish it would have

[Kali]

31. no

but he will use it totally, that you can be sure of. I don't see the orange goon ever intentionally going to the ground. he was yelling about his damn shoes when they were trying to lift him back up. he is way too vain to roll around on the floor on purpose and as soon as he was upright he went immediatly into image mode pumping his tiny fist and and mouthing the word "fight" - he will use this to try to implement more violence as revenge. watch.

[catchnrelease]

98. He needed to get his shoes back on

before anybody would see the lifts inside them!!

[Kali]

101. exactly

the overflowing diaper would have to wait, but the lifts!

[niyad]

32. That was my first thought. Second thought was not very nice!!!

[Grammy23]

35. My husband asked me

If I remembered the fake blood capsules wrasslers use to bring blood into the ring. As he was asking me that, I was thinking the same thing. That f**ker smashed a blood capsule so he could stand up with blood on his face and do his fist pump. Isn’t that what any of us would do if we thought we were being shot at? Stand up to be a bigger target? I call BS on that. He is a coward through and through. This was a stunt.

[C Moon]

70. I'm up in the air that it was staged

Initially, I believed it but when I saw him waving his fist, I began thinking something was up: mainly because he’s not brave and plus they would have held his head down to keep him safe.

[TexasDem69]

110. The dead shooter and dead rally attendee disagree

[suegeo]

37. Staged.

[SurfinBetty]

39. You can see a chunk of his ear is missing in the photos.

All the "it's staged" posts are really embarrassing at this point.

[Abstractartist]

50. Hmmm

We will see if the ear is in tact later

[Warpy]

40. With that guy? Always bullshit. Always.

People in the stands standing up to gawp, nobody getting down and trust me, you don't have to be a city person these days to know enough to get down if shots are fired anywhere in the vicinity. You look for the shooter while you're down.

[whathehell]

64. A whole group behind him got down..

Although I'd never put a "stunt" pull past Trump, it might be best to wait and see.

[Doodley]

41. Seems possible.

[rsdsharp]

42. My thoughts, for what it's worth.

I counted 5-7 reports. The majority occurred after Trump had ducked. Gunshots? I don’t know. All from the assailant, if there was one, or some from security personnel returning fire?

If Trump was struck, it was a grazing wound with no real penetration. A fragment after a ricochet?

Trump’s head was turned to the right. Supposedly the shots came from behind and the right. It would be difficult to graze his right ear from that vantage point.

Trump reacted as if something stung him. His head really only moved down toward his shoulders — it did not appear there was any energy transfer.

He ducked; he was not knocked down, nor did he appear to lose consciousness. He was on his feet within seconds ( but seemed to say to the Secret Service, “Let me get my shoes, “) although he looked very unsteady, and appeared to have to be carried down the stairs.

For all of that, Trump appeared mostly interested in pumping his fist and exhorting the crowd to “fight.”

The oddest thing for me, was that there was no attempt to address the crowd behind him — within feet of him. Secret Service covered him, but never appeared to look into the crowd. Two or three armed men in helmets, vests and with long guns mounted the stage but didn’t look into the crowd behind.

Nobody in the audience seemed to duck. A few people kind of bent down, but nobody hit the ground.

The crowd, all of whom were witnesses, evacuated almost immediately. Did law enforcement segregate them? Are they being interviewed? if not, why not?

[Kali]

105. neither he nor a good portion of his supporters is capable of ducking

or other rapid evasive maneuvers. to be fair neither am I. LOL

[Mc Mike]

43. Agree, 100%. Thanks, nt.

[madibella]

45. And luckily he had the perfect camera angle for the first pump theatrics

The luck I tell ya

[Silver Gaia]

48. I'm suspicious, skeptical. But want to see what shakes out.

I wouldn't put it past him for this to be a publicity stunt. He would have to have paid off doctors and nurses, too... just not sure what to think.

[4139]

51. You should delete this post

[JohnSJ]

52. Nope. Shooter has been killed.

[RandomNumbers]

83. And one attendee killed, and another significantly injured.

If it was staged, it was done very badly.

[JohnSJ]

85. no kidding. It wasn't staged.

[samnsara]

53. he looked like shit when he was dragged off..but by now we all now the shooters down

[Ocelot II]

54. Stop it. This was real, and others were injured as well.

There are reports that the gunman was also killed.

[demmiblue]

57. +1

Not DU’s finest hour!

[Xavier Breath]

59. Yep, shaking my head as I read this nonsense. n/t

[SlimJimmy]

65. From reporting through various sources.

One attendee at the rally was killed, another seriously injured. Shooter was taken down by SS. Trump was not seriously injured, but did suffer a grazing wound from the gunfire.

At this point, I would ask the entirety of DU to stop with the fake incident posts. There was nothing fake about this.

[SCantiGOP]

68. Whoever started this thread

Should be banned.
This is no time for childish bullshit.

[uponit7771]

99. TFG cares of others are hurt?!? Really?!?!

[Sane1]

56. Overhead Flag Rigging was Messing up Earlier Today

Saw video this morning on DU where a ginormous flag was being hoisted on near the stage and dropped onto the crowd.
Could the rigging have failed and caused the popping?

[TexasDem69]

60. Shooter dead, crowd member dead, one other injured

OP should delete this.

[xocetaceans]

62. End this stupid conspiracy theory. Delete the post. n/t

[TexasDem69]

109. Daily Kos' first story is don't spread conspiracy theories

Or you will be banned. Apparently this nonsense isn’t just limited to some here.

[demmiblue]

63. 52 recs (and on the front page of DU)... 🤪

[Kaleva]

67. Crazy isn't it?

[demmiblue]

88. 67

[SCantiGOP]

66. This post is idiotic

It makes everyone on this forum, and Democrats in general, look like fools.

[slightlv]

79. I don't think it makes us look like fools...

I think it shows that there's been enough bullcrap associated with trump you can't know WHAT'S real and what isn't anymore. He's the proverbial boy who cried wolf. I've been out all day helping grandson move furniture, so I haven't done any follow up... just saw this and popped in to see what it was all about. Can't say, after reading the many replies, that I know more now than when I sat down. I will say I'm not going to give the big orange fool even an inch of sympathy or belief at this point.

The only thing that worries me is what maga will attempt to do Biden, because whether true or not, trump will use this to take the stochastic terrorism to the highest level. Maybe we can try to convince people he'd be so much safer in jail -- where he belongs!

Meanwhile, I think people are just fed up with the stage theatrics trump has employed in the past and present and will probably continue to employ into the future. I don't blame them one bit for wondering aloud if THIS was staged, as well. It's too bad if other people did get hurt, but trump wouldn't worry himself about that, either prior to or during any incident. We're not dealing with a JFK here.

Hubby has said for months, tho, he wonders why someone hasn't attempted a shot at trump, given how much of a traitor to the country he's been proven to be so far. The only reason he can come up with is that democrats and left-leaning people don't generally go around shooting their enemies. And I think it's pretty convenient the shooter was shot... so nothing can be learned of motive, etc. Who was he? Was he disgruntled maga? They're the ones supposedly with all the guns. And given the stuff that can't be brought into a rally, per trump, how did a gun get through? These are the types of questions I'd like to see answered.

[Kaleva]

89. It does make some here look like gullible idiots

If folks believe Trump is capable of anything, they tend to be be prone to believe anything even if there is no evidence to support it . These people can be easily tricked, distracted from the truth and led off on wild goose chases

[Goodheart]

106. Yeah, it really does.

This thread is embarrassing.

[Melon]

82. If anything this is a plant to make us all look like idiots

The man is literally shot at live on tv and this post is made. Other groups lurk here as well and repost our words.

[Fla Dem]

69. This entire post with responses should be removed. Totally inappropriate and could cause

repercussions to DU and their owners.

[Shrek]

71. Delete this post immediately n/t

[AZLD4Candidate]

73. Hard to do a conspiracy theory like this when there are two dead bodies. The gunman and someone who went.

[orange jar]

74. Is the dead attendee a crisis actor?

What about the dead shooter? Are they all crisis actors?

You're better than this.

[Starry Messenger]

75. This is dogshit, delete please

[Bonx]

76. Wow. This place.

[Sympthsical]

80. 62 recs

My surprised face.

[Patton French]

81. You do know that someone was killed?

Some people …

[Bluethroughu]

84. Me too.

[Orrex]

86. I live in Lawrence county

And I noted on a local group page that Trump's reaction was uncharacteristically brave, and I was immediately attacked by someone whose family member was apparently killed.

I backed down because I'm not a ghoul, but does anyone think that Trump would hesitate to let a civilian die for the sake of his reelection.

[dajoki]

90. I don't know if it was staged or not...

but with all the conspiracy theories they thrive on nothing would surprise me. You can be sure they'll use it for sympathy, money, and further blame and attack Democrats.

[Hope22]

91. He flinched and the smacked his ear.

I’m not sure there is even that much blood in an ear filled with cartilage. Someone else may have a better idea on that!

[Just_Vote_Dem]

92. I don't think this was a pro wrestling angle n/t

[AbagailRose]

93. Some news are saying exploding teleprompter

And that it was glass that hit him.

[Goodheart]

94. He'd have to be a good actor for that. I can't see it.

[Grammy23]

95. Ok, so maybe this was real. Doesn't mean

they won’t make hay out of this incident. They had no sympathy when Nancy Pelosi’s husband was attacked but the story will be different for trump. This will be an easy diversion from the Epstein details, won’t it?

[Texin]

100. He was a "reality star"

[totodeinhere]

107. Crazy comments like yours are not helpful.

A bystander was killed and the Secret Service shot and killed the gunman. Yet you are saying that it was a pill behind his ear?

[3825-87867]

108. Saw my share of death and don't wish it on anyone.

Just everyone remember the idiots on Fox and Newsmax et.al who called for Biden , Pelosi, Harris to be killed, executed, whatever. The ones at the rallies that suggested Democrats be shot and more. Even some innuendo by republican politicians and newsreaders there..

The sad part of this is if we had even slightly stronger gun laws, it may not have happened. But since almost ALL republicans are against guns, I don't want to hear a peep from them about this.

Ford, Reagan and now Trump... somehow survived. Testament to Luck?

Keven Roberts may need to revamp his protection if people are upset over Pro2025. Can't tell who might cause a problem.

One thing for absolutely sure...Biden/Harris better get monumental SS Protection for the next months!

And...I HOPE the bystander wasn't killed by the Secret Service by mistake!!

[D23MIURG23]

111. It was all a bunch of crisis actors fucking around.

[Bonx]

112. Still rolling with this?