Trump assassination attempt was just BLOWN WIDE OPEN

The story about the first assassination attempt of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, is now seeing even mega people suggesting that it was staged and fake. It's a strange turn in a way. It's not coming from the left. It's coming from some of the people in Trump's base and formerly in his base. Increasingly, we are seeing supporters of Donald Trump's saying the whole thing was staged and the shooting in Butler, Pennsylvania, during the twenty twenty four presidential campaign wasn't real. Now, let's rewind for a second. This was the twenty twenty four rally where Donald Trump's ear was reportedly grazed by a bullet and a supporter of Trump's

in the crowd was killed. Now at the time, the reaction from Magga World was immediate. It was predictable. This is proof that leftists are violent. This is proof that Trump was chosen by God and protected by God and divinely spared Even though for some reason God directed the bullet to kill a completely innocent guy standing behind Donald Trump

We of course ultimately learned that the shooter was a Republican Republicans didn't really care about that But now we are seeing cracks in the movement and we're seeing something different happen Which is that there are even mega people suggesting there are questions here. Tucker Carlson is raising questions about that shooting, not in a responsible, evidence-based

way, but in a something feels kind of off way. You've got former supporters, influencers, conspiracy figures openly suggesting the entire thing was staged or covered up or manipulated behind the scenes. You've got Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeting. She doesn't come out and say straight up. It was a hoax. But she says, quote, I'm not calling the Butler assassination a hoax, but there are a lot of questions that deserve public answers. I'm asking, why won't Trump release the information about Matthew Crooks?

Did he actually act alone? If not, who's behind him and who helped him? Why the cover up? Now, I want to connect this to something else. When I talked last week or the week before, um, uh, about the fact that this was a growing sentiment on the right, I got a lot of messages from people in my own audience also expressing skepticism about the Butler assassination attempt. And some

pointed to how quickly Trump's ear appeared to heal. Others said there didn't seem to be the amount of blood that we would expect. Some mentioned, you know, photographers seem to already be in position and they were escorted to get the dramatic images of Trump. And Trump didn't appear particularly shaken up afterwards. And really, he never appeared particularly shaken up.

I want to be really clear. None of that is proof of anything. They are observations.

There are understandable questions, but they aren't evidence that this was staged or faked. Now, conspiracy theorists will sometimes then go back to a position that I've talked about before, which is that the lack of evidence is proof that it was staged and fake because they've covered up the evidence. I am very hesitant to jump in on that sort of belief. And what you're watching right now is a movement that is in a way turning on itself using the same conspiracy logic that it used to defend Trump. It is now being used against Trump.

It's like the boomerang effect of conspiratorial thinking. And as far as the MAGA movement is concerned, when you build a political movement on distrust of institutions and we distrust the media, we distrust that we are even being told what facts are that distrust will spread. And at first it's the FBI is lying. Then it's the election was rigged. Then it's maybe even the assassination attempt wasn't real. And once you open that door, I don't think there's a

mechanism to close it, because when you throw standards of evidence out the window or flush them, everything is suspicion. What does it feel like? What do I trust in the moment and not what can actually be proven? Now, there's one other thing that is happening that I think is worth mentioning, which is that some of the people that are now talking about the Butler assassination in these terms are trying to tie this into broader narratives of shadowy control for an influence. Sometimes it's anti Semitic tropes. It's all the stuff that always happens with conspiracy theorists. That's how

these ecosystems evolve. They escalate to try to keep attention. They got to keep people engaged, keep the outrage machine going. And it creates a situation where even something as serious as an assassination attempt becomes another thing to reinterpret for clicks and loyalty tests. Now, what this is always been about is narrative control, not what facts do we have and how can we connect facts? It's when Trump looked strong. He survived because he's the chosen one. Now he's facing criticism and the story shifts to maybe it was fake. Same event. OK, different interpretation,

depending on what serves the moment. And eventually it just consumes everything. We're seeing this with the White House correspondence dinner shooting. We're still seeing it now with the Butler shooting. And what has been blown wide open at a political level is the instability of the MAGA movement, which doesn't know what to believe anymore. It trained itself. Don't believe anything consistently. Every belief is subject to throwing the evidence out and coming up with a brand new interpretation

absent any evidence. And it is destroying them from the inside. We have a piece we're putting up on my sub stack about how the conspiratorial thinking festers generates and then consumes everything. It's a really good piece about how all of this works and why it happens. You can find it on my sub stack.

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