Lien and the other leaders of his Nationalist Party, or KMT, know that it is unbecoming and even absurd to accuse the Taiwan's president of setting up an assassination attempt to win sympathy votes. It sounds like something that should happen "maybe in the Philippines or one of those Third World countries," said Su Chi, a KMT adviser.
But Lien suggested it might well have happened, and Su raised a central fact in the conspiracy theory: Chen was not taken to the closest hospital--the one pre-approved by the secret service for emergency treatment of the president--but to one several miles away that was owned by a friend. There is another thing, Su said. "The local prosecutor demanded instantly to go into the hospital to take a look, but he was refused access." He added that Chen is so adept at playing to the public's emotions that a faked assassination plot seems plausible.
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His supporters have come through the unfolding political drama believing that Taiwan has been robbed of its rightful president by what might be--if proved true--one of the most spectacular conspiracies in the history of modern democracies. "Where is the shooter?" asked John Wang, a 45-year-old banker. "This happened in his own hometown, and they can't catch him?"
"The bullet was not very powerful; it was a control-damage bullet," said Alex Hong, a 53-year-old engineer, who concluded, "There is room for a set-up." Others in the crowd said they thought the graze wound, shown in a close-up photograph on television hours after the shooting, looked more like a knife wound.
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Did Taiwan's president set up an assassination attempt to win sympathy votes?
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