For years, it was the ‘right-wing’ who were susceptible to conspiracy theories until there was a cataclysmic event that benefited Republicans. Now, “benefit” is a loose term — there’s nothing good about what happened on July 13 in Butler, Pennsylvania. A wannabe assassin nearly killed former President Donald Trump, who was able to fire multiple shots at Trump from an unsecured rooftop less than 200 yards away.

Trump raised his fist, face bloody, telling his supporters to “fight.” It’s an iconic image that’s now being viewed as problematic by the liberal media because it helps the former president. Then, all reason goes out the door for liberals, another example of the rot inherent in this movement. With Joe Biden careening toward being blown out in the Electoral College, Democrats are now the ones donning the tin foil hats, with around one-third of these people thinking this was a staged event (via Free Beacon):

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.

It’s not hard to see the causes. First, ‘Trump derangement syndrome’ still afflicts the Left. Second, the media is peddling conspiracy theories, from Trump wasn’t shot to questioning the bandage on Trump’s ear:

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Source: Matt Vespa, townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2024/07/19/one-third-of-dems-think-trump-staged-assassination-attempt-n2642167