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On 2025-04-19 8:14 a.m., Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2025-04-19 7:15 a.m., Janet wrote:
>> In article <vtv3qi$h2ng$1@dont-email.me>,
> 
>>>>> Same facts. Different interpretations.
>>>>>
>>>> Thomas Matthew Crooks attended Bethel Park High School.
>>>> He attempted to join the school's rifle club, participating
>>>> in "preseason", but was such a bad shooter, he was considered
>>>> "dangerous", being rejected from the team and asked not to come back.
>>>
>>> I don't think it was staged. You're not going to shoot your guy in his
>>> ear with a bullet or even with shrapnel. That's way too dangerous.
>>
>>     If I was staging a fake assassination in public/ on TV,
>> it would feature gun shot sound effects, a small
>> squashable fake capsule of red liquid taped behind an
>> ear/hidden in thick hair, a lot of blanks for the sound
>> effects and several professional actors (in the crowd and
>> on the roof).
> 
> 
> Shot in the ear?  Isn't that the question.... whether or not he was 
> shot?  For all we know, the guy with the bad aim only needed to shoot a 
> couple people in the audience near Trump so there were real bullets. 
> That would be the cue for Trump to reach up and crush the red dye pack 
> to make it look like he was bleeding.
> 
> It was interesting to see the video again yesterday and to see a couple 
> guys in tactical gear and automatic weapons come and guard the front and 
> the left side while all the photographers were allowed to stay.  I would 
> have expected them to push those guys back to secure the area. Nope... 
> they wanted lots of photos of the alleged attempt.
> 
> I am not usually into conspiracy theories but this one stinks.  It looks 
> to me like it was staged, and so badly staged that it is pathetic to see 
> how it was used to garner support for that jerk.
> 
> 
> 
> 
I think he was seeking notoriety by trying for a head shot instead of 
the more mundane chest shot.