• Cethin@lemmy.zip
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      If he’s wearing one, it protects against pistols at most. If you want to stop a rifle round, you need plates. This guy is not going to be carrying around that much weight in plates all the time. He can’t even walk on his own as is.

    • Truscape@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      Teddy Roosevelt famously only needed his speech booklet (he continued to give his speech after being shot by a would-be assassin).

      Reagan also was shot by a .22LR rifle (which he initially didn’t notice) without a vest on.

      Usually the Secret Service is enough though. You usually aren’t getting close enough to the president outside of ceremonial/public event circumstances unless you have “Yankee White” clearance anyway (You’d be detained before getting within a few blocks of them).

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        I’m shocked no one has tried the explosive drone technique. Even active war zones have trouble containing those, let alone a couple block perimeter.

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          They have countermeasures in place for drones in “no fly” air space. And that air space is a moving box around him.

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            Well there are fibre-optic drones in mass-production now… Place a remote controlled “mothership” van outside the electronic warfare perimeter, start a dozen drones from there, and tada, countermeasures countermeasured.

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      The first one was literally inches away. Had the wind been different, who knows…

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        9 hours ago

        That one was 1000% setup. Hell his secret service watch the guy and even had him in their scopes for over 40 minutes. They sent that kid to his death. Gun probably was full of blanks.

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          Weird blanks which leave these sort of red marks.

          Or did Trump have a bloodpack hidden in his very thin hair?

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            Show me a bullet wound. Show me a scar. Show me a medical report. No? None of those exist? How odd.

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              I zoomed in a bit to help you.

              Now I tried answering one of your questions. Could you answer me why you don’t believe someone could take a shot at a deranged demented selfish cunt of a president who lost the popular vote, is almost certainly a pedophile, is a convicted criminal, is preceded by four dead presidents on the job and several which were assassinated outside their era and many more who tried being assassinated, in a country literally packed to the brim with firearms?

              And then please tell me what the benefit of arranging it would be for Trump*s government. Then look up the mathematical formula of how many people can be in ona secret so it lasts x years. https://phys.org/news/2016-01-equation-large-scale-conspiracies-quickly-reveal.html

              I’m open-minded and seems the most obvious solution is someone tried offing a cunt. What’s your explanation (that will in no way respect or even recognise Occam’s razor) for all that happened and how?

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            It definitely wasn’t blanks. They killed a person behind him. However, that doesn’t mean it was legit either. Apparently in wrestling, to sell them getting hurt, they sometimes sneak away and cut themselves with razorblades so they bleed. With Trump’s background, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if he got the technique from that.

            He ducks behind the podium and comes up with this scratch. Did he have it before or did he create it? We can’t know, and there’s enough oddities that I question it being real. For example, they had someone that seemed to be perfectly calm, who directed photographers into two set positions, to capture his image with the flag behind him. It all seems very odd.

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              Oh yes. Sleight of hand and doing anything to hurt himself are two strengths of mister Trump. And by gods he loves doing it going by the whole in his ear. Also you can see from the length of the blood spatters he violently turned his head with such speed that the drops left those long marks. Luckily Trump isn’t one of those people who worry about himself. Definitely just cut himself for PR purposes.

              https://youtu.be/_Irvuafg5GM

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              Ofc he didn’t. Because everyone loves him, there’s no public assassination in the US, and it just makes so much more sense that it was a highly organised super secret conspiracy from the current US government, because they’re just so capable.

              Ofc. It’s obvious. I’m with you. 100 000%.