Poll: 34% of registered Democrats think Trump staged his own assassination attempt (no, this isn’t satire)
July 19, 2024 in News, Video by RBN Staff
Source: NotTheBee.com
The next time anyone accuses conservatives of being inclined toward conspiracy theories like QAnon, feel free to point them in the direction of this little poll:
NEW: 34 percent of registered Dems believe Trump staged his own assassination attempt on Saturday, according shock poll this week.
Democrats have a massive BlueAnon problem on their hands, and it's far greater than QAnon ever was for the right.https://t.co/cU2P4YkVbi
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) July 18, 2024
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.
It’s true: In the polling data the Democratic endorsement of the staged-assassination conspiracy sticks out like a sore thumb:
And if you think I'm joking, here are the crosstabs from the Morning Consult poll.
Poll was released Monday. No mainstream press has covered this. pic.twitter.com/guFMPtQTm7
— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) July 18, 2024
Just look at how quickly the numbers shoot up when you get to a “PID” (party identification) of Democrat:
Trump Derangement Syndrome is a real thing, ladies and gentlemen.
On top of this, much of the left-wing media machine has been openly attempting to spread the staged-shooting conspiracy theory over the last six days 👇
MSNBC's Joy Reid suggests Trump might not have been hit by a bullet at all, hints that the entire attack might be staged: pic.twitter.com/w1IVFlNov6
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) July 18, 2024
Check it out: Top Democrat strategist urged journalists to report that assassination attempt may have been stagedhttps://t.co/v3eTOkUD4A
— Not the Bee (@Not_the_Bee) July 15, 2024
Megyn Kelly Calls Out 'Ear Truthers' Who Think Trump's Attempted Assassination Was Staged | Video: https://t.co/3j16P8DHXE
— TheWrap (@TheWrap) July 19, 2024
In this kind of environment, you can imagine why people who only consume this kind of “news” would be led to believe that this was an inside job.
You don’t hate the media enough.
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