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Those seem like… real stretches. When she “Gestures it’s a code 2” she scratches her nose, and the staff hot mic is extremely indistinct, to the point that even listening for “I really can’t do this again” I can only barely hear it. Even the initial “shart” noise is an incredibly minor sound in a room with a whole lot of extremely minor sounds.

I hate when people leap to support this kind of rumor, because it’s just such a waste of time - there’s never going to be any proof, everyone is just putting string on a corkboard and insisting it makes sense.

There’s so so many exhaustively well documented things to hold against trump, why in this case do we need to literally make shit up to feel superior to him? Isn’t the part where we’re not corrupt genocidal narcissistic homophobic hypocritical monsters enough?

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protist@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Dude, the sound is clearly audible, and the people behind him clearly react to it, and they clearly end the event prematurely right after it happens.

Attention on this doesn’t diminish any of the horrible atrocities committed by the Trump Admin, but it cuts at the very foundation of the “strongman” persona Trump tries so desperately to portray

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- Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  A sound is audible, yeah. I can’t believe I’m using this argument but anyone in that room full of people could have farted, and it feels like the people really championing this have never watched another one of his pressers - he ends them like this all the time, the body language of the people behind him is always weird (they’re big enough freaks that they’re willing to be filmed standing behind trump).
  
  If you want to believe trump shit his pants sure, you can do that - but the willingness of people to latch onto this and insist that it’s true (in the face of so many reasons to be skeptical), even presenting red-string-on-board evidence like in that youtube screenshot, should worry you. If you’re willing to accept this with no evidence, what else are you accepting with a similar degree of scrutiny just because it’s something you want to be true?
  
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  - protist@mander.xyz ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think you’re taking this too seriously
    
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    Warl0k3@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
    I think you’re dismissing my well founded concern over the eager acceptance of misinformation because you don’t want to see it as a problem.
    
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Ilovethebomb@sh.itjust.works ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
Mostly because it’s hilarious.

And you’re right, the real evidence this happened is in the reactions of the other people in the room, which are a lot harder to argue with. If nobody had reacted, I’d also be saying this doesn’t happen.

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