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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMarjorie Taylor Greene Stokes Trump Assassination Plot Rumors
Former Georgia congresswoman and one-time Donald Trump ally Marjorie Taylor Greene has joined the disgruntled group of MAGA stalwarts raising questions about the assassination attempt on the president when he was running for office.
President Trump, of all people, should be leading the charge to determine all the facts of what happened that day in Butler, Pennsylvania, during a campaign speech two years ago, she noted on X. Why isnt he? Greene demanded. Thats the question.
Suspected shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, was killed by a Secret Service sniper after a bullet reportedly grazed Trumps ear as he spoke on stage. Instead of ducking or being pushed to the ground by his security team, Trump defiantly raised a fist to the crowd and shouted, Fight! Fight! Fight! as Secret Service agents pressed around him to protect him.
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Questions were raised at the time, largely by the left, about the incident. Now, an increasing number of one-time Trump supporters are arguing that the attempt was staged by the president to win votes in a hard-fought election. They have offered no evidence, and a federal task force report concluded the shooting was as it appeared.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/marjorie-taylor-greene-stokes-trump-023814378.html
Attilatheblond
(9,056 posts)Vultures are not pretty, and are pretty gross, but the DO serve a purpose in nature.
The GOP BOYZ CLUB should have been nicer to her. She won't forgive and forget how they used and then ignored her. Woman scorned and all that. Now, they get to have their time in the ol FAFO penalty box.
hlthe2b
(114,201 posts)A very NEEDED friend function- just sayin
Attilatheblond
(9,056 posts)::Imagine an eyeroll smilie here::
I live in AZ, near a town that has an annual parade to celebrate the return of the Turkey Vultures to our area.
hlthe2b
(114,201 posts)LOL
Attilatheblond
(9,056 posts)well, the feathered variety!
Come winter, many of us get sad as they fly south. Good thing the ravens are with us always.
Skittles
(172,184 posts)at the end of the day MTG is one vile POS
MarineCombatEngineer
(18,132 posts)Vultures are beautiful creatures who serve an important role.
Please don't disregard the role that they play in the environment
SSJVegeta
(2,900 posts)Nasruddin
(1,281 posts)Come to the light, Marjorie....
róisín_dubh
(12,365 posts)She is NOT a Democrat! Shes still as RW as ever, she just happens to be aiming her current barbs at MAGA
SSJVegeta
(2,900 posts)Lovie777
(23,232 posts)PCIntern
(28,460 posts)🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮
WarGamer
(18,748 posts)They only gave the all clear to move him after perp was neutralized.
Wuddles440
(2,101 posts)As the extent of the threat is obviously unknown (i.e. multiple assailants), security personnel should always immediately extract the protectee from the venue and to a secure environment.
WarGamer
(18,748 posts)themaguffin
(5,273 posts)his campaign (somebody) directing press to an area for pictures. WTF.
Then no medical report from the hospital or ever detailing what happened.
appleannie1
(5,461 posts)Wuddles440
(2,101 posts)Scrivener7
(59,807 posts)the photographers into position knew in advance that the Secret Service was going violate their protocols and allow the photo-op pose that they absolutely should never have allowed. AND that guy herding the photographers knew exactly where they were going to allow orange Jesus to strike that pose.
Either that guy is psychic, or it was staged.
JI7
(93,765 posts)We don't have to support or defend any side.
Bluetus
(2,949 posts)Trump intentionally had one or two people killed for his PR event.
(Of course, that assumes the supposedly dead people actually were killed and not just part of a staged play. How would we know?)
It would take a complete sociopath to have 2 people killed just for a good picture. So I have always doubted the staging theory. But since then, we have seen zero remorse when this guy apparently ordered innocent fishermen basted to bits and hundreds of school girls killed by our push-button weapons.
But how could they cover up those deaths in Butler? That's a tough one. The supposed death of the supposed shooter would be easy enough to cover up because hardly anybody saw him. But the guy in the audience was well known in the community. I can see only 2 ways this could have worked under the MTG theory:
1) Somebody had dirt on the victim, and used it to convince him to take his family to a new location under a new identity. Or somebody had some other reason to want the victim dead. I can't see either of those scenarios. That would just take too much coordination.
2) Back to the sociopath thing. Trump just didn't care who died. It would be blamed on Trump's enemies. The shooter could easily have been extracted from the scene.
In a similar vein, we still have heard nothing about the pilot who was supposedly rescued in Iran. The Pentagon claimed he was injured, but survived. It seems completely implausible that the Trump machine would not be parading him around, injured or not, in one of their famous flag-waving exercises.
The bottom line is that NOTHING this administration says can be believed, and that gives rise to this kind of speculation.
JI7
(93,765 posts)the staged part would be it was an actual attempt to shoot Trump. But they would actually not aim for him.
I can easily see Trump being ok with any random innocent being killed if it meant he would benefit in any way.
The reason I don't think it was staged was the shooter was a young white maga loser from a maga family. I can easily see his motive being some bizarre thing of wanting to be connectec to Trump forever. And gun nuts always have an urge to use their gun. realistically this will never come up in terms of crime and defense. But he saw was having a rally and wanted to use it. To me it makes sense that the suspect was who it was. Same with the guy that killed Charlie Kirk. They grew up in Gun worshipping families.
If it was actually staged I think they would get someone that was non white to do it.
The Maga base were in a rage after both the attempt to shoot Trump and the Kirk shooting. On social media's they were
going on about "them" tryng to kill "us". After it was revealed who the suspects were in both cases they calmed down and just wanted to move on from the actual shooting.
Bluetus
(2,949 posts)that part of the story was actually true. It does seem far-fetched that the shooter would be a plant, a hired marksman, or anything other than what they claimed. But do we actually have any evidence who the shooter was and that he was actually killed?
Usually in cases like this, there is at least one scenario that could explain all the data points. But every scenario I can think of, including the official line, has big flaws that make no sense.
The official story has trump grazed by a bullet. But then he pops right up, and there happened to be camera shots lined up perfectly. And a week later, his ear shows no sign of any injury whatsoever. No sign of stitches. No bruising. Nothing.
But the other theories have equally big problems.
vapor2
(4,671 posts)and trump et al don't value human life
dalton99a
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Bluetus
(2,949 posts)Cheezoholic
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Endlessmike56
(206 posts)I dont think thats part of the protocol
struggle4progress
(126,446 posts)Initech
(108,958 posts)Sibelius Fan
(24,841 posts)They dont even try to hide it.