Shocking Number of Democrats Believe Trump Staged His Own Assassination Attempt
“It’s a baseless conspiracy theory disproven by reams of documentary evidence and eyewitness accounts.”
This is absolutely insane. And remember, these are the people who are so quick to accuse others of being conspiracy theorists.
The Washington Free Beacon reports:
BlueAnon Rears Its Head: One-Third of Dems Believe Conspiracy Theory That Trump Staged Assassination Attempt
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.
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So I guess the families of those killed and injured can sue these Dims for billions then?
No, they can’t. There is no comparison at all between this and what Alex Jones did.
I am hereby trademarking the term Assassination Denier™.
But my friends can use it royalty-free.
So I guess that settles it – Democrats are IDIOTS!
I think the headline needs a little fixing: Shocking Number of Democrats Chose to Believe Trump Stages His Own Assassination Attempt. I believe it’s called projection.
You could actually read messages put out by QAnon. This is much easier to believe than a person close to Trump actually shot his ear, not the kid. When he fell on the ground he used movie blood packs to add blood and the killed Corey and injured two others just to make it look real and set the kip up as a patsy. And the FBI who has been trying to take Trump down was in on it. These people are bat ship crazy!
Now tell the left the USSS let the event happen and Trump was the victim and they go crazy!
Actually, it sounds about right that 1/3 of Democrats –their rabid base– lives beyond the fringe.
“By comparison, a widely cited 2021 poll found that only 23 percent of Republicans were QAnon believers.“
That many? I had never heard of QAnon until I heard Dems talking about it. Along with all the “dog whistle” symbols and hand signals about which I was also clueless.
You will be labelled a “QAnon Believer” if you agree with any part of any single assertion made by the group. You don’t have to be all-in, you just have to agree with something, anything, that might possibly be attritributed to them.
And what percentage of Republicans seriously believe the “Arkancide” BS?
Also, believing that something is credible is not the same thing as believing it true.
Milhouse, here is a definition for you:
credible /krĕd′ə-bəl/ adjective:
Capable of being believed; believable or plausible: synonym: plausible.
You are making a distinction without a difference. 1/3 of the people in the poll are saying the lie is credible, that it could or did happen. The response means that in the future these people will hate Trump, Republicans, and anyone but Democrats running the government no matter what is said, or happens.
All the haters had to do is tell people the shooter was a Republican and Trump is (whatever) and a significant number of people will believe it was staged. that is the point of the poll question.
An unlike the .2 or .3% of people who believed in the Mena stuff, these people believe and are willing to do something with the data.
It’s just like the many Germans that lived close to concentration camps, and refused to believe what happened in them, or denied they knew anything about them. It’s why either Eisenhower or a local commander forced the local people to see the camps for themselves, and I think in some cases were forced to help the inmates (sorry I do not remember all the details here).
Denial is not just the name of a river in Egypt Milhouse, this is a big problem.
I know what “credible” means. Apparently the person who wrote this post doesn’t. The post claims that all these Democrats “believe Trump staged his own assassination attempt”. The poll cited simply does not support that claim. One in three “registered Democrats” (and remember that is not the same as actual Democrats) believes it’s credible that the attempt was staged. Not that it was staged, let alone that Trump is the one who staged it.
A lot of things are credible without being true. Before 0bama released his full birth certificate I thought it was not credible that he was born in Kenya, but it was credible that he was born in Canada, and that was what he was hiding. I didn’t believe that was true, but I did believe it was credible, and would explain his refusal to release the certificate.