Answer Guy on Nostr: Regarding the shots taken at Trump, resulting in one audience member behind him dead, ...

Regarding the shots taken at Trump, resulting in one audience member behind him dead, two wounded, and the shooter, a sniper on a roof apparently less than 100 meters away, shot by counter snipers.


I've now given a bit of thought to the "false flag" … "if was all staged" scenario.

It's not plausible.

But it will be almost impossible to allay such concerns. This helps support a false equivalence between supposed left wing conspiracy theories and Qanon.

If I were writing an action thriller around these events, I would do it like so:

Master mind (some like Gen. Mike Flynn or a Putin operative who has successfully maintained the secret of his, or her, identity) recruiting four co-conspirators.

Only one of those is in on the whole plot.

One other is a patsy, the others get duped into it thinking that it was just going to be a campaign publicity stunt.

Patsy is a unknown, random, Trump supporter and espionage wannabe. Convinced to snipe from a rooftop and deliberately miss, intentionally hitting (wound or kill, doesn't matter) a random person behind Trump.

They're convinced they're going to get away. Our master mind shows them the getaway plan and sells it (perhaps with the true co-conspirator — the shooter's shooter — posing as getaway accomplice).

The true co-conspirator is either a secret service agent who shoots the patsy, or a second sniper using the efforts of the actual anti-sniper, counter-sniper unit to cover his, or her, shots supplied with the exact same ammo as the anti-snipers).

One of the duped accessories must be close in with Trump's security detail, supplied with a trick ring or other device with a tiny, short, razor blade. He bloodies Trump's ear during the scuffle (after shots fired).

This avoids the risk of the (patsy) sniper having to graze Trump with a real bullet. Trump could be depicted, in my hypothetical story, as the one to cause the superficial but photogenic injury. He was around pro-wrestling kayfabe enough to understand that.

The last accessory is the attending physician — to ignore the discrepancies between intentionally inflicted razor bloodying and grazing from a real bullet.

Might actually be instructed to alter the injury to it would pass third party (cursory) review.

Only the mastermind and the shooter's shooter need to be in on the whole plot up front.

Everyone else is a patsy (dead afterwards) or duped into participating in "just a stunt" and then locked in as accessory to murder among other charges after the member of the crowd is shot by the patsy.



This is all far more plausible than most popular fiction, and perhaps more plausible than a shooter really only barely grazing Trump's ear from only 100 meters or so away, on a clear day, with clear line of sight to target. (I shoot better than that without any formal training!)