Speaking as a former military marksmanship expert, and 7th-award rifle expert in the USMC, this entire "Trump staged the assassination attempt" is definitively complete bullshit. Among others, here's a couple reasons why:

1. if you watch the video of how PDJT turns his head twice to look at the screen to his right, there is no possible way for the shooter to time that up correctly when ballistics, gun handling/technique, and flight time are considered.

Bullets are fast, but not instantaneous. Even from the relatively short range (which I still can't wrap my head around how that part happened), the shots take time to get from point A to point B.

2. hypothetically, if the goal was only to wound PDJT, a headshot would not be the actual sight picture. Too easy to miss big. Center mass or an extremity would be, especially if he wears a vest. If any one of several variables doesn't cooperate and the trajectory shifts even a little, you would have either a complete miss or a man dead that was only supposed to be wounded...

No. That story cannot survive first contact with logic and probabilities.

LSS, it would take the world's best sniper to have the best luck ever at that specific moment in time, with every variable accounted for, and perfect atmospheric conditions, to aim at and hit only PDJT's ear from that range and in between two turns of his head just so.

I doubt this 20 year old outcast was that.