RIDE THE ASSASSINATION RECURSION! Why Are So Many on the Left Convinced the Trump Assassination Attempts Were Staged?
New polling data reveals that a surprisingly large portion of Democrats either believe the assassination attempts against President Donald Trump were staged or aren’t sure they were real. It’s a hard thing for many of us to wrap our heads around, and I think it’s worth asking why so many refuse to acknowledge those assassination attempts for what they were.
Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents in a Newsguard survey said they believed the White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting “event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans.”
So, a third of Democrats are entertaining what amounts to a wildly implausible conspiracy theory. The numbers skew even higher among younger respondents: Americans between 18 and 29 were more likely than older people to believe the incidents were fabricated.
It’s quite a dichotomy — the left believe that Trump faked multiple assassination attempts, even as they cheer on the assassins of health insurance CEO Brian Thompson and Charlie Kirk: ‘I Don’t Give a Flying F— He Died!’ NYC Mayor’s Office Gives Press Badges to Luigi Mangione Fangirls Caught on Tape Celebrating CEO’s Murder.
When I was in college I was kicked out of TPUSA for being a "fascist" because I viewed Teddy Roosevelt as the ideal.
I knew countless kids that got kicked out across the country for questioning black crime rates, for saying it's not just "the culture", for being… https://t.co/kLmlBmWcRX
— bumbadum (@bumbadum14) May 18, 2026