{"id":291462,"date":"2024-07-18T06:20:23","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T06:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291462"},"modified":"2024-07-20T05:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-20T05:47:26","slug":"kit-knightly-trump-assassination-attempt-the-stories-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=291462","title":{"rendered":"Kit Knightly: Trump Assassination Attempt \u2013 The stories so far"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 Off-Guardian July 17, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

It\u2019s three days since the alleged attempt on Donald Trump\u2019s life, and while we\u2019re not really any closer to knowing the truth of the situation, the claims and counterclaims from all sides are coming thick and fast.<\/p>\n

The shooter was a Republican\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

no he was a Democrat\u2026.<\/em><\/p>\n

Trump was hit by a bullet\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

no it was shattered glass from his teleprompter\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n

no he wasn\u2019t hit by anything the injury was fake.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u2026it goes on like this.<\/p>\n

The usual routine for such a situation would be for the \u201cofficial story\u201d to resolve itself within 24 hours. Any deviance from that story would then be censored, shouted down and\/or mocked.<\/p>\n

Any evidence contradicting it would be purged from the official collective memory banks.<\/p>\n

The media would unite with one voice.<\/p>\n

There are countless historical examples of this, from \u201cthe Gunpowder Plot\u201d to 9\/11 . We don\u2019t need to develop them here.<\/p>\n

But this event appears to be a little different. Essentially, rather than a single \u201cofficial\u201d narrative, we have three separate stories \u00a0rolling out in parallel:<\/p>\n

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  1. The Republican story: <\/strong>The shooting was either planned or \u201callowed to happen\u201d by a Democrat\/Deep State alliance that sees Trump as a threat.<\/li>\n
  2. The Democrat story: <\/strong>The shooting was somehow staged by the Trump campaign to make him look cool.<\/li>\n
  3. The \u201crational middle ground\u201d: \u00a0<\/strong>A lone lunatic did something crazy. There is talk of incompetence and \u201cviolent rhetoric\u201d creating a \u201cclimate of hate\u201d, but not much else.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    1 & 2 \u00a0also both have \u00a0their \u00a0own set of \u201calternative facts\u201d supporting their position. Neither seems to be getting censored very much if at all (yet).<\/p>\n

    On the \u201cRight\u201d side<\/strong> there is the \u2018fact\u2019 the secret service apparently left an elevated position with a clear view of the podium unguarded (for a frankly insane reason<\/a>) and then did nothing when they were told by multiple witnesses that a man with a gun was climbing up on that roof.<\/p>\n

    Along with this there are claims that the Secret Service replaced Trump\u2019s team with a temporary one for the Butler event.<\/p>\n

    And claims the shooter appeared in a BlackRock video and donated to leftist thinktanks.<\/p>\n

    On the \u201cLeft\u201d side <\/strong>they are laughing about karma and gun laws and ranting about \u201cdiversity hire\u201d of female Secret Service agents<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    They also point to the apparently \u2018stage-managed\u2019 drama and \u00a0\u2018too-good-to-be-true\u2019 photographs emerging from the fracas. \u00a0\u2013 The incredible \u00a0luck of having Trump superficially wounded just enough to look like a bad-ass without actually hurting him or missing him altogether. The fact his security detail allowed him \u2018pose for photos\u2019 instead of rushing him off stage. And the fact the alleged shooter was a registered Republican.<\/p>\n

    It seems that what we may have here is a very post-covid \u00a0narrative \u00a0for the new age of the fake binary<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Each side is seemingly supplied enough evidence to confirm their assumptions and drip-fed enough rage-bait \u2013 a lot of it entirely invented \u2013 to keep their echo chambers \u00a0echoing and their attack dogs frothing at the mouth.<\/p>\n

    Essential to this of course is that neither \u2018side\u2019 and no \u00a0theory is ever \u00a0finally proven to be right or wrong.<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile, most of the MSM is currently happy to dismiss both sides as \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    It really is a fascinating phenomenon to watch unfold. Are we witnessing a new meta for propaganda narratives? Instead of uniting with fake \u201cconsensus\u201d, distracting with an eternal battle between two approved \u00a0partial or \u00a0total falsehoods.<\/p>\n

    As usual, the truth is likely in neither camp but buried beneath the unwarranted assumptions and unproven \u201cfacts\u201d neither<\/em> side questions.<\/p>\n

    But look at the benefits already accruing to the narrative-managers.<\/p>\n

    For instance, now that the \u201cleft\u201d are calling the event staged the traditionally pro-free speech \u201cright\u201d are suddenly the ones who want to silence \u201cconspiracy theorists\u201d or who are looking to cancel people<\/a> for joking about how they wish Trump had been killed.<\/p>\n

    So , rather effortlessly, many hardcore libertarians are being lured away from some of their most deeply held beliefs (in personal liberty and firm limits on state power), and now both<\/em> \u201csides\u201d are pro-cancellation and anti-free speech!<\/p>\n

    Gee, that was kinda easy wasn\u2019t it!<\/p>\n

    Meanwhile the \u00a0\u201cleft\u201d, fresh from four years of demonizing \u201canti-vaxxers\u201d and \u201celection deniers\u201d \u00a0can suddenly be hoist by their own petard and called \u201cassassination deniers\u201d by the right.<\/p>\n

    It can be argued that supplying the \u201cLeft\u201d with their own \u201cconspiracy theories\u201d is a potential stroke of genius, because now any social media crackdown on \u201cextreme language\u201d or \u201cdenial\u201d (or whatever they choose to call it) can hit both \u201csides\u201d equally and be spared accusations of bias, and will always be supported by one side of this fake divide.<\/p>\n

    Both \u201cLeft\u201d \u00a0and \u201cRight\u201d are also pretty clear \u00a0right now on whose stock has risen most as a result of this \u2013<\/p>\n

    Trump.<\/p>\n

    Obviously.<\/p>\n

    It makes him look tough and brave, paralleling the shooting of Ronald Reagan in 1981<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    It\u2019s given him an iconic image that speaks wordlessly to the deep heart of America \u2013 bloody but unbowed, fist-raised in defiance.<\/p>\n

    And, if you believe the Deep State pulled the trigger, it also furthers Trump\u2019s (unearned & increasingly ridiculous) reputation as some kind of threat to the establishment.<\/p>\n

    Combine this with Biden\u2019s disastrous debate performance, the (mysteriously halted<\/a>) talk of taking him off the ticket, and anonymous Democrat insiders reportedly \u201cresigned\u201d to defeat<\/a> and it\u2019s not hard to see this might be part of the \u00a0groundwork being laid for a second Trump term.<\/p>\n

    Barring future developments of course.<\/p>\n

    Oh, and it\u2019s also helping to heat up divisive \u201ccivil war\u201d rhetoric<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    \u2026which might be the entire point.<\/p>\n

    How better to finally take down the old empire & instate the new \u201cimproved\u201d version a little further east?<\/p>\n

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    Combine this with Biden\u2019s disastrous debate performance, the (mysteriously halted) talk of taking him off the ticket, and anonymous Democrat insiders reportedly \u201cresigned\u201d to defeat and it\u2019s not hard to see this might be part of the groundwork being laid for a second Trump term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":291464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[143],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291462","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-trump-attepted-assassination"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=291462"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291495,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291462\/revisions\/291495"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/291464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=291462"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=291462"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=291462"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}