Oddbean new post about login | logout Thinking about the Trump thing. If it would have been some serious actor like the deep state, banks or other such entities, the attempt wouldn’t have failed. He’d be dead. Just saying.
I think I agree with this. Unless it was/is planned to go exactly as we saw.
I don’t think people realize how hard it would be to have a grazing wound vs a clean miss vs headshot. It doesn’t make any sense to have a planned grazing.
Even if it could have been planned exactly as it played out, what would be the benefit for deep state etc.? This is going to give him more votes most likely, isn’t it?
Devil’s advocate: they have to hire some Oswald, expendable gunman who may have somewhat questionable skills and definitely questionable morals/mental stability. I think there’s still possibility it’s deep state. Another point: the sloppy secret service job who should’ve cleared the very few rooftops hours beforehand.
Don’t you think they don’t have other ways to kill him apart from putting an unreliable person on a roof with a rifle?
Putin has better ways to kill people than polonium tea. Sometimes the medium is also the message. Like "guns r bad and cost the Right the Whitehouse."
Yes but history shows that “lone gunman” is a way to do it cleanly
I don’t know. Poison seams more effective.
Effective in the traceability sense or lethality? My point is around avoiding traceability back to the deep state
It WAS a pretty solid attempt. Five rounds from 130m. But GenZ Oswalds can't aim