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Within minutes after Trump shooting, misinformation started flying. ‘Everyone is just speculating’
Associated Depressed ^ | July 14, 2024 | DAVID KLEPPER and ALI SWENSON

Posted on 07/14/2024 12:30:49 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica

WASHINGTON (AP) — Within minutes of the gunfire, the apparent attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump spawned a vast sea of claims — some outlandish, others contradictory — reflecting the frightening uncertainties of the moment as well as America’s fevered, polarized political climate.

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Claims of an inside job or false flag are unsubstantiated

Many of the more specious claims that surfaced immediately after the shooting sought to blame Trump or his Democratic opponent, President Joe Biden, for the attack.

Some voices on the left quickly proclaimed the shooting to be a false flag concocted by Trump, while some Trump supporters suggested the Secret Service intentionally failed to protect Trump on the White House’s orders.

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News
KEYWORDS: bidensfault; conspiracytheories; conspiracytheorists; falseflag; obamasfault; staged
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It's quite amazing how many leftists I see out there saying this was a false flag operation.


1 posted on 07/14/2024 12:30:49 PM PDT by ProgressingAmerica
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To: ProgressingAmerica

False Flag where the leader has his ear blown off and the shooter gets his head blown off, leftists are total idiots


2 posted on 07/14/2024 12:34:21 PM PDT by Skwor
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Some in the media are still refusing to call it an assassination attempt.

And the idea that it was staged is as ludicrous as it is disgusting.

3 posted on 07/14/2024 12:34:27 PM PDT by LIConFem (Feels like April 19th, 1775...)
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It is rather interesting how demonicRATS and the media (but I repeat myself) have ALREADY congealed on the narrative that Republicans' "rhetoric" is to blame for the shooting.

Hmmmm. Did somebody say something about the shooting being "staged"?

Asking for a friend.

4 posted on 07/14/2024 12:35:12 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate has a propaganda arm.


5 posted on 07/14/2024 12:38:07 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I saw flank protection non existent. Eyewitness warning to police about encroachment of shooter ignored. I saw snipers behind Trump scope shooter but shooter got off 3 to 4 shots before shooter was put down. I saw a SS clown show of a circus in a kill zone where DEI midgets didn’t know wtf to do. One half pint exposed Trump and one couldn’t holster her gun. Three of them acted like it was a clown car show.


6 posted on 07/14/2024 12:38:35 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Complicit bastards!


7 posted on 07/14/2024 12:39:35 PM PDT by right way right (“May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope”)
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To: ProgressingAmerica
Some voices on the left

aka the demonicRAT Party and the left-stream media (but I repeat myself once again)

while some Trump supporters suggested the Secret Service intentionally failed to protect Trump on the White House’s orders.

Oh? Care to name of any prominence?

8 posted on 07/14/2024 12:41:08 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The AP is saying only its own speculation has merit. How stupid do they think we are? /Rhetorical question.


9 posted on 07/14/2024 12:41:25 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Texas Eagle

Trump says that Biden is the worst president in US history and lists reasons. Biden and/or Dems say that there should be a bull’s-eye on Trump, that he is Hitler, that he is a dictator and that he will end our democracy. These things are not equivalent.

Will anyone ever ask Biden if he regrets saying that there should be a bull’s-eye on Trump? I doubt it.


10 posted on 07/14/2024 12:41:49 PM PDT by Freee-dame ( )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

Yes lyied and knowing disinformation from the Asso Press and other members of the hate based media

For example, Fake News starting with CNN published reports that Trump “fell on stage”

So rather then accuse everyone else of what YOU DO DAILY, Assoc Press, clean up your cesspool of misinformation and hate speech,


11 posted on 07/14/2024 12:42:21 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The conspiracy might merely be that the Secret Service decided not to assign their A-team to President Trump, and hope that someone was willing to take a shot.


12 posted on 07/14/2024 12:42:24 PM PDT by thesharkboy (Charter member of the Basket of Deplorables)
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To: ProgressingAmerica

No shortage of conspiracy theorists on FR, either.


13 posted on 07/14/2024 12:42:44 PM PDT by Chad C. Mulligan
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To: ProgressingAmerica

The cover up begins in earnest. 🙄


14 posted on 07/14/2024 12:43:02 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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There is a command hierarchy in The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate.

The lower levels of command are expected to carry out the orders of their superiors.

One of the standing orders in The Democrat Party Organized Crime Syndicate is:

“Always protect and shield your superiors at all times, even in the absence of a specific order to do so.”


15 posted on 07/14/2024 12:44:08 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer” )
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To: ProgressingAmerica

I have it on good authority this was done by a Chinese man.

The man had the Chinese shot right out of him by the .308 rifle bullet.


16 posted on 07/14/2024 12:46:12 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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“Claims of an inside job or false flag are unsubstantiated“

..but any rational thinking person with common sense and a bare understanding of how things work can see that it HAD to be …


17 posted on 07/14/2024 12:46:14 PM PDT by joethedrummer (We can't vote our way out of this, folks..)
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'A fundamental security failure': How did a gunman open fire on a Trump rally? NBC News ^ | July 14, 2024 | Jon Schuppe, Janelle Griffith, Rich Schapiro and Dasha Burns

Just one question, David Klepper and Ali Swenson: How do you know Jon Schuppe, Janelle, Griffith, Rich Schapiro and Dasha Burns are Trump Supporters?

Asking for a friend.

18 posted on 07/14/2024 12:46:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all.)
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Here is real live journalist question you could ask Asso Press instead of engaging in this sort of mindless bloviating and buffoonish pseudo intellectual posturing you provided in this article.

Please explain why a roof top, with ladder access, 150 yards from one top 10 highest value targets in the world, which had clear line of sight to both the stage and the egress route to the exit car, was left unguarded and uncovered? At a very bare minimum you have a uniform standing at the ladder.

No matter what resources they are using, local state federal, their own, the Secret Service owes the site. So all the lying and blame shifting does not address the fundamental fact that the Secret Service, which works for the Biden Regime, operated with criminal level negligence.


19 posted on 07/14/2024 12:47:22 PM PDT by MNJohnnie (Don't blame me, my congressman is MTG!)
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To: Chad C. Mulligan

I know. Everyone knows there are no such things as conspiracies.

That’s what everyone tells us, right?


20 posted on 07/14/2024 12:48:16 PM PDT by Sarcazmo (I live by the Golden Rule. As applied by others; I'm not selfish.)
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