NonilexMay 11

This is what happens when you lie ALL THE TIME

Many Americans think #Trump #assassination attempts were fake

About 1 in 4 adults say the #WHCD shooting was staged, 1 in 3 Democrats said they believed the event was fake, & 1 in 8 Republicans also think it was staged, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2026/05/11/trump-assassinations-staged-conspiracy/

Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds

About 1 in 4 say the correspondents’ dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.

The Washington Post
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The survey found 24% of US adults believe the #WHCD incident was fake, 45% believe it was legitimate, 32% were unsure. The survey of 1,000 #US adults was conducted by YouGov April 28 to May 4.

“It’s very striking,” said Sofia Rubinson, editor at NewsGuard. The results underscore broad skepticism Americans feel toward the #government & the #press, she said. “Increasingly, people on all sides of the political spectrum are distrustful of both this [#Trump] administration & also the media.”
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Joan Donovan, a Boston University professor who researches media manipulation, said the results are an indicator of the role of showmanship in #Trump’s presidency. “It just seems incredibly Hollywood to imagine that this is staged,” Donovan said of the correspondents’ dinner shooting. “The entire apparatus of the government has been turned into a reality TV show.”

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@Nonilex

i vote fake

the ear wound in Butler was CLEARLY faked, AR15 wounds don't look like or heal llike that

i'll also ask this>what's "incredible" about reality TV actors producing their own reality TV show?

i feel it speaks to the limits of the BU prof's imagination to call it "incredibly Hollywood" to "imagine" something is staged when this is their training, Trump was a working actor FFS

to say conspiracies can't happen is to say bad people can't work together to achieve a goal

May 11 at 4:43pmWeb