I am not addressing the question of whether or not Trump DID stage a fake assassination.
I have read the conspiracy theories of how his ear healed miraculously fast, and how he stood up with his famous fist-shake even as the assassin was still possibly shooting. However, for me, the deciding factor of the authenticity of the act was that real bullets were fired and at least one real person was killed. Surely, I thought, Trump would never include real human death as a stage prop for a faked assassination.
Great composition, with the flag perfectly placed. Staged?
Since then, I have seen evidence that maybe even that human death could have been planned as part of the act.
I have seen mostly innocent Venezuelan fishermen blown out of the water just as a prop in Trump’s anti-Maduro theater. That includes the two unarmed survivors clinging to their wrecked boat, who were killed in cold blood as part of Trump’s theater.
More recently, I have seen ICE agents shooting and murdering innocent American citizens, all with Trump’s blessing. Thirty-odd people have died in ICE custody, and Trump only encourages more of the same. Human life means nothing to him. Innocent lives are expendable as part of the political game, aimed at instilling fear in the population.
Within minutes of Reneé Good’s murder, Trump coldly came out with some lies about her running over the ICE agent, and falsely branding her a ‘domestic terrorist’. He showed no compassion for the murder of the mother who had just spoken calmly to the ICE agent. When video after video showed that her car had not touched the agent and that he shot her from the SIDE, fake AI videos started appearing on the internet, showing a speeding car ramming into someone. That didn’t convince many people, so the latest ploy is to claim that the agent suffered ‘internal bleeding’. Trump has been flooding the internet with that one. It appears on my Facebook every few minutes. No one believes that one, either, especially as it now emerges that he was taken — a week after the shooting — to an administration building, not a hospital. All these machinations show just how far Trump will go to cover up a murder, with no compassion for the victim.
The kidnapping of Maduro in Caracas was labeled just a police action to arrest a criminal. Buildings were bombed and over 100 people – civilians, soldiers, and even Cubans – were killed. But according to Trump, that’s not an act of war. Those deaths were just collateral damage in going after Maduro.
Most gruesome is the Snopes fact check as ‘true’ of the following:
In December 2025, the U.S. Department of Justice released an FBI tip in which a complainant alleged President Donald Trump witnessed her uncle kill her newborn child and dispose of the body in Lake Michigan when she was 13 and being trafficked for sex by Jeffrey Epstein.
That may not actually have happened, but it corroborates his pattern of horrible acts done with no apparent feeling.
So now, having observed Trump’s callous willingness to kill people as part of his theater games, I think that he could easily have arranged his own fake assassination to include the killing of an innocent bystander, to make the plot more believable. Again, I’m not saying that actually happened that way, but I now think that Trump has the psychopathic coldness to murder as many people as he wants in cold blood, in order to further his political games.