I am not a conspiracy theorist. I know full well that, as soon as you start to speculate on ulterior motives, or to claim that certain events were orchestrated by certain people, you start down a very slippery slope and you soon start spouting inane gibberish which nobody wants to read. I also know that we must be wary of making light of events which were very serious indeed, and could have ended tragically. Yet over the last few days, my curiosity and bemusement concerning the recent assassination attempt on Donald Trump has grown steadily. I’m sure I’m not alone in now thinking that there are things about it which don’t make sense, or that there are details which are just too convenient to have happened by chance.
Just from a semiotic/iconic perspective, it seems too good to be true for Trump. Someone shot at him, yet all he has to show for it is a bandaged ear. That way, he can appear before his supporters bearing the outward signs of his attack, but without having to endure anything worse. Now, I know next to nothing about guns and firearms, but surely the notion of a bullet just flying past a man’s face, hitting his left ear but not doing any further damage, pushes the limits of credibility. If something similar had featured in a film, it’s plausibility would surely have been torn to shreds and viewers would be asking why the guy’s brains weren’t blown out. If the shots came from the range and angle we are told, Trump’s head ought to have been blown off.
Yet apparently it wasn’t, and forty-eight hours after this highly traumatic event in which he was mere millimetres from losing his life, Donald Trump was out in public again, with nothing but a small bandage on his ear to show what had happened. Again, I avoid conspiracy theories – such speculation very quickly descends into idiocy – but there are things about what happened a few days ago which don’t sit right. Trump should be dead; any bullet flying through the air at far above the speed of sound would have torn the man’s head off, not just given him a bloody ear. Yet he seems to be already back on the campaign trail, basking in the glory of his survival. Trump will obviously now use this to his advantage, making the most of having been shot at by his enemies.
Forgive my cynicism, but this is fantastic publicity for him which no doubt he’ll now use to his great advantage in the upcoming American election. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only person to smell a rat here.
The Ill-Informed Ramblings of a Cripple 
I think you are falling into a black hole of conspiracy theory. The gunman did not take a well considered shot. Some spectators noticed him on the roof and called attention to the local police force who tried to contact him. So he took his shots quickly and under pressure. Also two years earlier he he was denied membership in a local gun club because he was a poor shot. The AR-15 he used had been purchased by his father about six months previous to this so he did not have a lot of time to become familiar with how the gun fired. His HS classmates describe him as a loner with politically conservative views. He had just completed a two-year degree from his local community college. That is applicable towards a complete four year BA degree. I find it revealing that not one from his college degree has come forward with information. Other than some gun group chats he had almost no social media profile. I see nothing that might suggest he had joined a MAGA mass conspiracy to only wing Trump and make him a martyr.
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I know what you mean. The truth I was in two minds about posting this entry, for fear of straying too far down the rabbit-hole of conspiracism. It just seemed slightly odd to me, and certain things just didn’t add up which I wanted to get off my chest. Note how Trump was back on the campaign trail just hours after he was nearly killed – who does that?
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trying again
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