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Botany

(70,506 posts)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:21 AM Aug 2022

Trump is privately pushing 'false flag' conspiracy theory about Ohio FBI building attacker

Former President Donald Trump is pushing the claim that the man who was shot dead after while trying to breach an FBI building was part of a false flag operation, Rolling Stone reports.

In an attack that appeared to be a direct response to the FBI search of Mar-a-Lago, an armed man tried to storm an FBI office in Cincinnati, Ohio.

The assailant, who was shot dead by police after exchanges of gunfire and an hours-long standoff, reportedly posted on Trump's Truth Social platform that he hoped his actions would serve as a "call to arms."

While Trump hasn't mentioned the conspiracy theory publicly, sources tell Rolling Stone that he's been telling people close to him that the attacker, Ricky Shiffer -- who was on law enforcement's radar due to his connection to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot -- might actually have been someone acting to discredit Trump supporters.

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-false-flag-conspiracy/



Turns out he was from Columbus. And I was blaming him from being from S.W. OH (Klan Country).

An armed man who was fatally shot Thursday by Ohio law enforcement after he attempted to break into the FBI's suburban Cincinnati's office and exchanged gunfire with police said on a social media account that he was an electrician living in Columbus.

The man, identified by law enforcement authorities as 42-year-old Ricky Walter Shiffer, appears to have most recently lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and the St. Petersburg and Tampa areas in Florida, records indicate. However, he has had several Columbus addresses in the past and was a registered voter in Franklin County from at least as far back as 2013 and last voted here in the November 2020 election. Records show he began voting in Florida in the April 2021 primary.

https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/2022/08/12/man-killed-by-police-after-fbi-break-in-had-lawsuit-in-franklin-county/65401082007/

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Trump is privately pushing 'false flag' conspiracy theory about Ohio FBI building attacker (Original Post) Botany Aug 2022 OP
Isn't amazing... Effete Snob Aug 2022 #1
I'm still waiting for my Soros check or its a hard pass for me... Moostache Aug 2022 #5
Post removed Post removed Aug 2022 #11
The false flag BS is already all over RWNJ sites, MarineCombatEngineer Aug 2022 #2
Let's look at what happened to the last people who did what Trump might be charged with: (Espionage) Botany Aug 2022 #6
Should these MAGAt Insurrectionists be considered hero's by the Trump cult? OAITW r.2.0 Aug 2022 #3
Die for Trump, and he'll call you the enemy. dalton99a Aug 2022 #4
Nice job cooling down the country there dweller Aug 2022 #7
Yeah, the pool of potential volunteers willing to die for a false flag operation must be, like, Aristus Aug 2022 #8
Denial EnergizedLib Aug 2022 #9
Of course he is MissMillie Aug 2022 #10
 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
1. Isn't amazing...
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:26 AM
Aug 2022

...how we have a endless supply of volunteers willing to act like Trump supporters, commit violent acts, and suffer the consequences, just to make Trump supporters look bad?

Now, that's dedication right there, amirite?

Moostache

(9,895 posts)
5. I'm still waiting for my Soros check or its a hard pass for me...
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:51 AM
Aug 2022


I am personally amazed at the depth and breadth of George Soros' fortune. To fund everything he is accused of would require TRILLIONS and TRILLIONS of dollars. THAT is some serious financial skill...

Response to Moostache (Reply #5)

MarineCombatEngineer

(12,378 posts)
2. The false flag BS is already all over RWNJ sites,
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:27 AM
Aug 2022

it's really comical to read how desperate they are to try to deny it was one of their own.

You ever notice how much shriller the RWer's get as the evidence gets more and more damning against Benedict Donald?

I sure am seeing the MAGAt's getting much more shriller.

Botany

(70,506 posts)
6. Let's look at what happened to the last people who did what Trump might be charged with: (Espionage)
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:57 AM
Aug 2022

Of the 3 Americans who were tried and convicted for Trump's alleged kind of espionage 2 executions and 15
life terms in the US Super Max in Colorado.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217039112

OAITW r.2.0

(24,504 posts)
3. Should these MAGAt Insurrectionists be considered hero's by the Trump cult?
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 11:31 AM
Aug 2022

Odd how they throw all of their hero's under the bus.

Aristus

(66,371 posts)
8. Yeah, the pool of potential volunteers willing to die for a false flag operation must be, like,
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 01:14 PM
Aug 2022

immense.

I mean, who wouldn't?

EnergizedLib

(1,895 posts)
9. Denial
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 01:16 PM
Aug 2022

Hillary wasn’t wrong in calling half of them deplorable, they all are and even much more than that.

MissMillie

(38,559 posts)
10. Of course he is
Tue Aug 16, 2022, 01:22 PM
Aug 2022

The RWNJs were pushing the same crap the very day that it happened... you know, at the site where they congregate.

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