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    4 days ago

    Was he? I’m not saying he definitely wasn’t, but I haven’t seen any reporting saying that, and the images/video that I’ve seen didn’t make me think that.

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      4 days ago

      Conspiracy theories are already saying he had increased security and started wearing bullet proof vests, but I doubt there’s any truth in that

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        4 days ago

        I also saw a video clip of obvious security people in plainclothes doing baseball signs just before the shot, the theories are gonna come fast and furious.

        I mean, maybe he did start wearing a vest, but nothing I’ve seen so far tells me he was wearing a vest yesterday in Utah.

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          I’ve seen the same clip. Charlie Kirk was in the process of answering a follow-up audience question so it could have just as easily been an event coordinator communicating to whomever was running around with a microphone in the audience to get the next audience question ready and potentially even indicating what kind of question they were after given the complexity of the signal