Or maybe not mistakes, but deliberate incompetence.

may be refuted by facts

a member of the Taco team being allowed to cross below the stage as Taco is on the ground, while no one should have been near the stage. That person then ushers a handful of photographers to the spot below the stage, then tells them to move to the right so they are positioned perfectly for the photo op. THEN the crane lowers the flag to be within the photo angle.

From the comments of the crowd, this all happens before the crowd knows whether he is alive or dead.

THEN Taco stands up and they take the perfect photo.

It was a hoax.

Here's a link. https://www.reddit.com/r/misc/comments/1m2aend/new_angle_of_trumps_assassination_attempt_what/

done before anyone in the crowd knew whether he was alive or dead. You can tell by the comments you hear.

And the people organizing it were not much closer to the SS scrum around Taco. So how did they know? It appears to have been carefully planned in advance.

watching him since the 80s when I first became aware of him stiffing my dad's friend for a subcontracting job, causing the guy to go bankrupt. So I've been aware of his scams since then, including the ones that basically destroyed Atlantic City and the endless lawsuits, general lawlessness, and serial bankruptcies.

Given that context, I would be surprised if it wasn't a hoax.

He is running the Trump Family Crime Syndicate.

He is perfectly capable of staging a fake assassination attempt for attention, fame, marketing, PR, etc.

look up a video of it.

They wouldn't let ANY president wander around and do a fist-up to show his "power" right after the attempt.

They had no way of knowing there was another active shooter.

It was unbelievable.

was all to make him look invincible, but sadly 2 people got killed, which the felon does not give a crap about.

As Orrex posts every day, Is He Dead Yet??

The flag was not lowered. The frame of the camera moves up and wind blows the flag. If you look at the crane, it does not move. Yes, it conceivably could have winched it down a bit, but come on, get real. The confirmation bias requires the theorists to keep enlarging the size of the conspiracy.

Now they have they crane operator roped in. Told that when something happens, lower the flag a few feet but not too much. And here's a ton of money to keep quiet.

But they would not have crane operators in the two cranes the whole time. Two cranes. They would have been noticed.

No worries. The theorists invent people who are not there when the theory needs it. Because they can't be shown to be there or not there, it's ideal.

Not only are there all kinds of operatives required for this massive conspiracy but there are also operatives to pay off the operatives and enforcers to enforce silence and operatives to pay off the enforcers and enforcers to silence the operatives paying off the primary enforcers and keep the enforcers silent.

Detect an issue with the theory? No problem! Just expand the conspiracy and voila, you got it covered.

There is not even any evidence anybody was at the controls of the crane, but lack of evidence means theorists can invent stuff.

positioning of the photographers in the exact spot where they need to be, though there was no way anyone should have known where that exact spot should be, the lowering of the flag into the perfect position, and the fact that they kept Cankles on the ground just exactly long enough to get the photo set up.

So I guess we'll have to agree to disagree.

You don't have it.

Thing about confirmation bias is that it doesn't need evidence. Just claim the flags moved without a wider angle to provide evidence. There are wider angles of the scene. Find one, and apply measurements to the point where the flag is attached.

But you won't. And you can't, because measurements will show it didn't move. How do I know? I don't know. But it is not my theory. Ball is in your court. You need evidence. You don't have it.

It would involve too many people that have to be sworn to silence. That never works.
Although the aide does seem to "usher" in the press, it's more likely he was just running across while the photographers did what press photographers do. - run toward the action.

Still, I'd think there would have been a secure perimeter by then, but that could be easily explained as incompetence.
The real clincher is Trump would never trust anyone to shoot a live round as close to his head without hitting him. Then kill an innocent bystander.

The media has people like that so camera operators can operate without having to watch their backs or what they might back into, etc.

But, hey, it's real easy to claim that the person was a conspiracy operative, paid off and enforced along with the fireman's family and the crowd and the crane operators and the FBI and the Secret Service and the local cops and the shooter.

You can't keep a whole group of people from talking about it, completely and forever. It will leak out.

It seems very likely that Trump, et al would do something like faking an assassination attempt. What doesn't seem likely is that all the people who needed to be complicit - including the gunman himself - would go along with it and would afterward never tell a soul.

...but there's always one integral piece that doesn't fit the picture. People usually pound it in with a mallet.

Note the difference between the angle of the top of the trees and the center of the boom at 1 second compared to the angle at 39 seconds. The boom was lowered. Go check.

between the tree and the boom moved. That angle would not move with the lateral camera movement. I checked too.

There are questions I want answered.
There were multiple mistakes and security lapses.
A person died.

I have not ruled a conspiracy out, but they are highly unlikely and the theorists "evidence" does not meet proper standards and a lot of it is just supposition.

if you focus attention to the upper right corner of the video frame on the boom, you may notice there is a slight pulling back and
camera 'up-tilt' that reveals more of the boom and the flag enters the frame. IOW, no actual movement of the boom.

the camera doesn't move for a second or two while the flag comes down.

on this bullshit play makes me lean into CT territory. His ear was pristine a few days later. I've seen more damage with an ear piercing than that silly thing.

My opinion, it would prove, it was staged.

Calling it the “assassination attempt” probably confused the record keepers.

And just to keep it accurate, two people died including the shooter who was a hapless maga who probably never knew he was the fall guy.
https://www.newsweek.com/thomas-matthew-crooks-donald-trump-sign-yard-neighbor-assassination-attempt-1925678

future attempts. Therefore, I would guess they would not release that information to the public. I would also guess since it was a public rally, there would have been many cameras filming from multiple angles.

If not staged, I certainly wouldn't put anything past this lot for exploiting an unexpected situation and twisting it to their advantage.

Is there a cover up regarding incompetency? It would not surprise me.

I find it interesting that there were photos of the Orange Orangutan with a fucking mattress on his ear. That was for sympathy.

As for a CT? I have no opinion.

Yup… they are not releasing anything that would show a totally fake assault or assassination attempt. Totally fake. No way his ear isn’t mush…. 👎🏻

I'm sure they'll claim that release of such confidential information is prevented by HIPAA privacy concerns, but that information would be a clincher, IMO.

So bad, it’s a repeated error?

The reason they won't release the records, is it will show he was hit by shrapnel from the teleprompter.

I saw a lady pay with a credit card that had the fight, fight, fight picture on it within 3 weeks of the incident. So freaking gag-worthy.