I too have built a scenario where there was a real attempt - but it was allowed to play out in COMPLETE SAFETY for Trump.

Key points: It is not possible to defeat SS security in the ways shown. If Qplan is real (yes) then security was there and Trump was in no danger, so how:

First, there could have been NO bullet injuring Trump, at least, no potentially-lethal projectile. That must have been stage magic, a remote controlled covert injury-maker, like a small charge on the ear from the start (sub micro, invisible)

Next the shooters gun would have been disabled (if this was not done, then the WH would have had to kill him before he shot, and have someone else take the shots from elsewhere)

Allow a compromised temporary security team to believe they have control, while a second team operates covertly.

Man killed in crowd - also an assassin (or faked).

Trump team knew this was a backstop plan of the DS (ed: with a fixed date), so they watched it assemble. Intervened to disable gun, and position second attacker in plausible line of sight of the roof gun.

When the time came and roof shooter shot his blank-firing gun, he also triggered the sequence:

1. WHs begin shooting - man in crowd, who was a follow up assassin, man on roof who believed himself to be the killer, any other hidden shooters. Some additional shots for realism.
2. Injury maker on Trumps ear explodes, cuts his ear
3. Trump ducks, get photos, rise, get more photos, have front SS guy allow the staying on stage
4. You have killed the two assassins, maybe three, even though they were never going to be able to act (roof gun disabled, crowd followup killer the first to get shot before he was due to act)
5. Plotters are real, compromised SS are real or triple agents
6. Dont-shoot orders and not intercepting the roof shooter makes sense - overwatch needed him there, at same time someone corrupted thought they were directing

This also explains the small and open crowd without enclosure - prevents a stampede with deaths.

So - it could be possible to foil the plan AND have it play out in a controlled manner, WITHOUT relying on shooting a potentially deadly bullet close to Trump. I think the injury to Trump was real, but would have needed to be a device of some sort that was only capable of a minor injury.

The above statements are JUST SPECULATION. Could be real, could turn out the guy in the stands who was shot really was (edit: innocent), and that tends to make the whole thing real because I don't think innocent deaths would have been permitted. But if those shot were primary/secondary/tertiary assassins it is reasonable to kill them/shoot them.

I too have built a scenario where there was a real attempt - but it was allowed to play out in COMPLETE SAFETY for Trump.

Key points: It is not possible to defeat SS security in the ways shown. If Qplan is real (yes) then security was there and Trump was in no danger, so how:

First, there could have been NO bullet injuring Trump, at least, no potentially-lethal projectile. That must have been stage magic, a remote controlled covert injury-maker, like a small charge on the ear from the start (sub micro, invisible)

Next the shooters gun would have been disabled (if this was not done, then the WH would have had to kill him before he shot, and have someone else take the shots from elsewhere)

Allow a compromised temporary security team to believe they have control, while a second team operates covertly.

Man killed in crowd - also an assassin (or faked).

Trump team knew this was a backstop plan of the DS, so they watched it assemble. Intervened to disable gun, and position second attacker in plausible line of sight of the roof gun.

When the time came and roof shooter shot his blank-firing gun, he also triggered the sequence:

1. WHs begin shooting - man in crowd, who was a follow up assassin, man on roof who believed himself to be the killer, any other hidden shooters. Some additional shots for realism.
2. Injury maker on Trumps ear explodes, cuts his ear
3. Trump ducks, get photos, rise, get more photos, have front SS guy allow the staying on stage
4. You have killed the two assassins, maybe three, even though they were never going to be able to act (roof gun disabled, crowd followup killer the first to get shot before he was due to act)
5. Plotters are real, compromised SS are real or triple agents
6. Dont-shoot orders and not intercepting the roof shooter makes sense - overwatch needed him there, at same time someone corrupted thought they were directing

This also explains the small and open crowd without enclosure - prevents a stampede with deaths.

So - it could be possible to foil the plan AND have it play out in a controlled manner, WITHOUT relying on shooting a potentially deadly bullet close to Trump. I think the injury to Trump was real, but would have needed to be a device of some sort that was only capable of a minor injury.

The above statements are JUST SPECULATION. Could be real, could turn out the guy in the stands who was shot really was, and that tends to make the whole thing real because I don't think innocent deaths would have been permitted. But if those shot were primary/secondary/tertiary assassins it is reasonable to kill them/shoot them.