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A quarter of Americans think that the assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was staged
(www.independent.co.uk)
this post was submitted on 11 May 2026
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There is also the case to be made that they're really incompetent, yes.
I mean, did you already forget about 6th January 2021? That was a failure too.
A failure, yes, but not staged.
Sorry but what? The capitol attack was organised by Trump and his cronies. There was nothing organic about it.
That doesn't mean it was "staged." Those people weren't actors.
He told them to show up and he told them to attack the capitol. It wasn't organic, but planned out in the open. Staging something requires being secretive.
If I may quote you, your original argument was
The point wasn't that it was secret or not. You claimed that the fact that the assassination attempt failed to bring him sympathy points was a point against it.
I provided the insurrection in 2021 as counter point of another thing they planned but didn't get any benefit from.