Taking out Donald Trump: A Tale of Two Conspiracy Theories

After years of false flag events, a dissident, sophisticated hoi polloi is now adept at…

VT Foreign Policy

By Kevin Barrett

By Cat McGuire (subscribe to her Substack)

After years of false flag events, a dissident, sophisticated hoi polloi is now adept at deconstructing Deep State manipulation. Without missing a beat, following the July 13 attempted assassination of Donald Trump at a rally at the Butler, Pennsylvania fairgrounds, a flurry of counternarratives immediately mushroomed across the social media landscape.

Pundits and citizen journalists far and wide—mostly pro-Trump—are proclaiming with various degrees of evidence that this was a straight-up, orchestrated psyop, NOT the act of some deranged, “lone wolf” reacting to years of hyper goading by Democrats that Trump should be taken out.

The conspiracy theory of these mostly conservative analysts is that the attempted assassination of Trump would do what lawfare has spectacularly failed to do: eliminate a Trump 2.0 presidency. Cui bono? In the opinion of the mostly pro-Trump analysts, the beneficiaries are the reprehensible Democrat forces controlling the DNC—be they the party hacks, the billionaire donors, and/or the uber bosses at the Soros level.

Percolating elsewhere, however, are non-partisan analysts who likewise see a psychological operation, but attribute the choreography not to the Biden camp, but rather to Team Trump. Cui bono? Obviously a surviving, muscularized Trump himself in spades. Gimlet-eyed cynics wonder whether so many picture-perfect images were simply a photo shoot for Trump 2024. Campaign-ready visuals appeared faster than 2015’s We Are Charlie Hebdo posters.

Powerful images of a defiant Trump breaking out from the Secret Service cordon with a clenched fist screaming “Fight! Fight! Fight!” will surely edge out in history the heroic image of Ronald Reason striding away cowboy-style from the attempted assassination on him…