Liberal Lunacy: Conspiracy Theories About Trump’s Assassination Attempt Run Wild

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by Andrew Kerr

A conspiracy theory has run unabated in Democratic circles following the assassination attempt against former president Donald Trump on Saturday. It posits that Trump staged the shooting for a photo op, that the wound on his ear was caused by something other than an assassin’s bullet, and that he was never in mortal danger.

It’s a baseless conspiracy theory disproven by reams of documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts. And it’s a belief held by one-third of the Democratic electorate.

One in three registered Democrats believe it is “credible” that the shooting Saturday in Butler, Pa., was staged and not intended to kill Trump, according to a Morning Consult poll released Monday. The findings show that large swaths of the Democratic base have fallen prey to the phenomenon known as “BlueAnon,” a play on the far-right QAnon conspiracy theory that once gripped portions of the Republican base and served as an obsession of the mainstream media throughout the first Trump administration.

But the Morning Consult poll shows that BlueAnon adherents among the Democratic base far outnumber their QAnon counterparts on the right. The poll showed that 34 percent of Democratic voters found it either definitely or probably credible that Trump staged Saturday’s shooting, with less than half—45 percent—saying the conspiracy theory is not credible. By comparison, a widely cited 2021 poll found that only 23 percent of Republicans were QAnon believers.

The rise of BlueAnon can be attributed to prominent Democratic activists and liberal media commentators egging on the notion that Trump staged Saturday’s shooting.

Democratic powerbroker Dmitri Mehlhorn, an ally of President Joe Biden who has made at least 10 visits to his White House, wasted no time fanning the flames of conspiracy in the immediate aftermath of Saturday’s assassination attempt. Mehlhorn on Saturday evening sent a memo to reporters imploring them to portray the shooting as a false-flag operation straight from Vladimir Putin’s playbook, designed to give Trump a good photo opportunity.

“This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power,” Mehlhorn wrote.

Mehlhorn did not address the numerous photos that captured bullets whizzing just inches away from Trump’s face and blood running from the clearly visible bullet wound across his right ear as Secret Service agents escorted the former president off the stage. Nor did he mention the death of firefighter Corey Comperatore, who was shot while shielding his family from the assassin’s bullets.

Mehlhorn is hardly the only liberal activist pushing the conspiracy to liberal voters. Jeff Tiedrich, a liberal social media influencer with 1.1 million followers who attended an Oct. 2022 White House influencer summit to coordinate midterm election messaging with the Biden administration, on Monday posted a Substack screed “connecting some weird dots” surrounding the shooting.

“Did the extreme right want this to happen?” Tiedrich wrote, speculating the shooting could have been connected to a plot to replace Trump atop the GOP ticket with former national security adviser Michael Flynn.

Tiedrich, who did not return a request for comment, on Thursday mocked the Washington Post for describing the shooting as “Trump’s near-death experience” and said there was no hard evidence that a bullet grazed the former president’s ear.

“What the fuck is going on under that bandage?” Tiedrich asked. “And why is the press so disinterested in finding out?”

Liberal MSNBC commentators have adopted a subtler approach to fanning the conspiratorial flames, suggesting in recent days that Trump could not have been shot in the ear by a high-caliber rifle bullet and that the former president is hiding something by not releasing detailed medical records about his wound.

“If he was shot by a high-caliber bullet, there should probably be very little ear there,” MSNBC host Michael Steele told viewers on Tuesday.

Steele’s fellow MSNBC host Joy Reid on Wednesday joined him in asking questions about Trump’s injuries.

“I have many questions!” Reid wrote on Threads. “Like where are the medical reports? What caused Trump’s injury and what was the injury? Sheapnel? [sic] Glass? A bullet?”

Reid doubled down on her baseless conjecture Thursday morning, posting a video to TikTok in which she said that “we still don’t know for sure whether Donald Trump was hit by a bullet,” glass fragments, or something else. She then suggested something nefarious was behind the Secret Service’s having “allowed” Trump to pump his fist as agents led him off the rally stage.

“We don’t know why, for nine full seconds, Donald Trump was allowed to stand back up during an active shooting, an active shooter situation,” Reid said. “Even though they at that point had said the shooter was down, how would they have known if there were more shooters or not?”

“Yet they allowed him to stand up in the middle of that, you know, crisis and pose for a photo and fist-pump the air so he could get the iconic photo?” Reid added.

MSNBC did not return a request for comment.

Straight news reporters have also joined in on the baseless speculation. Former CNN reporter John Harwood wrote Thursday morning that an AR-15 bullet could not have pierced Trump’s ear without blowing the ear to smithereens.

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Doesn’t every 20 year old “Republican”?

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Did he name a source?

So, let me get this straight; the Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden regime worked in cahoots with the Trump campaign to stage an assassination attempt (complete with two seriously wounded and two dead) designed to make Trump more popular? Do I have that about right?

The governments story is falling apart. A senate briefing only allowed four questions 3 from democrats and one from a republican in a 20 minute briefing. There are too many unanswered questions at this point and the FBI securing the ability to conduct the investigation is not reassuring.
The House should exercise it’s Constitutional oversight over the FBI in the executive branch citing lack of confidence in the agency and convene a J13 select investigative committee.

Isn’t it amazing that Democrats think that bullshit is adequate?

Yes
It is because they do not and have never had the best interests of America. The democrats claimed Trump was a threat. He is. He is a threat to them and their Marxist ideology.

Yup.
John Leguizamo has hundreds of thousands of followers on X.
He hosts the fake news segment on the Daily Show sometimes.
So, he posted a two-year old photo of Trump with the caption, “Not even a scratch! But milk it for all you can! “
Even after X’s Community Notes posted a correction that he was faking a theory, he left the tweet up.
Fake BS seems to be adequate for most dems.
They are collectively dumber than a box of rocks.

Oh there is a new name coined for the lunatics Blue-Anons. Mikey is a Blue-Anon, those that come up with a conspiracy theory with zero basis in facts. Unlike Qs or Anons unable to string together anything that would back up there story.
An Anon has found the shooter worked for a nursing facility that is owned by a guy that used to work for Raytheon. I know the thread so far is weak but adding up he also did a commercial for BlackRock. His Parents were worried called the cops when he was only missing a very short time, he was 20 not 7, lack of online footprint, personal appearance changes the explosives. Dad owned many guns, but must have kept the ammo separate, did not share or only bought ammo when going to the range.
3 cell phones

And 3 encrypted accounts overseas!

The Demon-Rats will come up with the most crazy ides over this all This assassination attempt was carried out by one of those typical leftists school Graduate from the NEA Run Schools

Cheatle knows whos blow was in the WH, she wont be fired.

Hey kids that blue screen of death that shut down stuff today, Crowdstrike, do you remember them? They disappeared the DNC server during the Campaign of 2016. feel all warm and fuzzy with them in charge of so much cyber security? They are dedicated to DEI.