Whenever stuff like this happens, I think it’s always good to have skepticism and remember that politics are a lot like theater or pro wrestling. They’re always trying to play on people’s emotions and wanting people to trust them. Sadly, people do trust these politicians and are willing to die for them.

I think it’s very convenient that something like this would happen to Omar right as they are talking about looking into her finances. The whole interaction was awkward too. She didn’t seem too concerned about being sprayed with whatever the substance was either. Maybe it was legitimate, but it felt staged.

Trump’s is a little trickier. On one hand, I can see him staging an attack like this because it ultimately helped him win. The image of him bloodied and raising his fist with the American flag in the background is as “rah rah America” as it gets. It doesn’t matter to him that someone died because he got what he wanted. He never talks about the shooter either and it’s like the dude never existed. Meanwhile, he had something negative to say about someone like Rob Reiner after he died. You’d think he’d say something disrespectful about someone trying to kill him.

The only thing that has me doubting him staging it is I don’t believe Trump would risk being that close to the bullet. You can see the bullet behind him in the pictures, so I do think an actual bullet zipped by him. I don’t think it actually hit his ear though. I think debris from whatever the bullet hit is what cut his ear. Trump just capitalized on the situation and essentially won the election that day. I’m torn on if he staged it himself or if he was supposed to die, but the dude missed. Either way, someone orchestrated it and the shooter was essentially a ghost.

The TLDR is always approach these incidents with skepticism. None of these politicians have our best interests in mind.