“And just 38 percent believe that all three attempts on President Trump’s life were real.”
Det er konsekvenserne af fake-news-msm, som f.eks. New York SLIMES og lignende zombie-aviser som med deres evige had til Donald Trump gør det let for uvidende og dumme personer, som tror på deres løgne og derfor ikke evner at tænke selvstændigt eller at undersøge begivenheder selv
Nearly A Third of Americans Believe At Least One Trump Assassination Attempt Was ‘Staged’
By Sofia Rubinson and Samantha Tanner
Nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump’s life over the last two years was staged, according to a new NewsGuard/YouGov poll. For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure — averaging 54 percent across all three.
Only 38 percent of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.
A national survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by YouGov on behalf of NewsGuard asked respondents from April 28 to May 4 whether they believed any of the three attempts on Trump’s life — at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in September 2024, and at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026 — “was staged.” Respondents indicated whether they thought the statement that the assassination attempt was staged was “true,” “false,” or that they were “not sure.”
In fact, there is no evidence that any of the attempted assassinations of Trump were “staged.” Authorities say the alleged perpetrator in every incident acted alone and had no known connection to the Trump administration.
Note: Numbers for the White House Correspondents’ Dinner do not add up to 100 due to rounding.
A DEEP PARTISAN DIVIDE
The contention that the three events may have been staged correlates strongly with party identification. Across all three events, Democrats were far more likely than Republicans to endorse the “staged” framing.
- In total, 21 percent of Democrats responded that they thought all three events were staged, as did 11 percent of Independents and three percent of Republicans.
- Of the 12 percent of Americans who said that all three attempts were staged, 55 percent were Democrats, 38 percent were Independents, and seven percent were Republicans.
- Of the respondents who said that all three incidents were authentic, only 15 percent were Democrats. Thirty-eight percent were Independents and 47 percent were Republicans.
- For the most recent event — at the April 25, 2026, White House Correspondents’ Dinner — 34 percent of Democrats and 13 percent of Republicans said it was staged, a 21-point gap.
The 2024 incidents show an even larger partisan divide. For the Butler, Pennsylvania, shooting — when a bullet grazed Trump’s ear and a local firefighter attending the rally was killed — 42 percent of Democrats called it staged, compared to seven percent of Republicans — a 35-point spread, the largest partisan gap in the survey. For the Trump International Golf Club assassinaton attempt, 26 percent of Democrats and seven percent of Republicans said it was staged.
YOUNG PEOPLE ARE MORE SKEPTICAL
Young respondents (ages 18-29) were more likely than older respondents to say the incidents were staged. The largest gap was for the April 2026 assassination attempt in Washington. Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said it was staged, compared with 15 percent of those 65 and older.
Of respondents who believed that all three incidents were legitimate, only 13 percent were aged 18 to 29.
SAME PLAYBOOK
The left-wing conspiracy theory that staged shootings are part of Trump’s playbook has been persistent since the first attempt on Trump’s life at the Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024.
Minutes after Secret Service escorted a bleeding Trump off the stage, social media lit up with claims that the shooting was staged, arguing, for example, that Trump faked the shooting with a “blood pill” and that photojournalists at the scene had been tipped off. Nearly two years later, that narrative continues to gain traction, with claims by some social media users that an actual Russian plot to stage an assassination in Hungary that never came to fruition is proof that the Pennsylvania rally shooting was also staged.
The pattern repeated itself after Secret Service agents spotted a gunman on the edge of Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach where Trump was golfing on Sept. 15, 2024. Anti-Trump accounts used the incident as further ammunition to support their “staged” conspiracies, claiming Trump orchestrated the attempt to gain support ahead of the November 2024 election.
After the attempt on Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026, NewsGuard found that many of the same viral accounts that pushed the earlier staged-shootings conspiracies were advancing the same claim. Social media users claimed the incident was staged to distract from the Iran war or from Trump’s unfavorable polling numbers.
METHODOLOGY
NewsGuard commissioned a study with YouGov that polled a nationally representative sample of 1,000 Americans aged 18+. YouGov matches the respondent pool to national benchmarks from U.S. Census Data and weights to adjust for any imbalances to ensure representativeness. Results were weighted to be representative of the U.S. adult population by gender, age, race, region, education, and political representativeness by 2024 presidential vote.
The survey was conducted from April 28 to May 4. The survey was carried out online and prompted respondents with three statements about the three high-profile attempts on President Donald Trump’s life. Respondents were asked to reply to each claim with a response of “True,” “False,” or “Not Sure.” The three statements tested were:
- “The assassination attempt against Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026 was staged.”
- “The assassination attempt against Donald Trump at a Trump presidential campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania in July 2024 was staged.”
- “The assassination attempt against Donald Trump at Trump International Golf Club in September 2024 was staged.”
After completing the survey, respondents were presented with accurate information debunking each false claim to ensure that the survey did not inadvertently advance false information.
Editor’s Note: After we received these results from YouGov, we were so surprised by the survey findings that we asked YouGov to go back and recheck the data. They did so and confirmed their findings.
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Commentary: Sometimes the Truth is Not What You Want it to Be
By Steven Brill
In 2024, I published a book, “The Death of Truth,” which described what I believed to be a massive failure of people in our country and around the world to agree on basic facts — truths that should unite us even as we debate issues.
My thesis was that multiple toxic forces — such as social media’s greed in encouraging the most polarizing inflammatory content, general cynicism because our political and economic systems are failing so many people, and huckster politicians eager to take advantage of that — have divided people so much that belief in basic facts related even to non-political issues like a measles vaccine has all but vanished. The experts and referees whom we count on to make our world work — doctors, judges, poll workers, journalists, scientists, office holders, the police, teachers — are depending on the issue doubted by one side and instinctively followed by the other. A healthy dose of skepticism, accompanied by an instinctive inclination to trust in the good faith of these people used to be the rule, but is now the exception.
I was reminded of this the other day when we received this note from one of our Reality Check subscribers after we reported on the massive spread of the conspiracy theory that the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was somehow “staged” to create sympathy for President Trump.
Here’s what a reader, whom we’ll call “B” to preserve her identity, wrote:
You have absolutely no proof that it was not staged. You are telling only one side of the story. MAGA newsletter.
Here’s how NewsGuard Chief Operating Officer Matt Skibinski responded:
Thanks for the note — we report on conspiracy theories and false or unfounded claims from across the political spectrum, including claims promoted by the Trump Administration or its supporters.
In this report, we describe the claim as “baseless.” In our view, that term is appropriate, given that there is no factual basis for the claim and the facts that are known about the shooter seem to support the idea that he was motivated by opposition to the Trump Administration, not colluding with it. We also describe the claim here as a “conspiracy theory” — which it is, since the theorized plot to stage the shooting would involve some kind of conspiracy.
We aim to base all of our reporting on evidence. If credible evidence were to emerge that there was indeed an elaborate plot to stage the shooting, we would of course update our report. That said, we think we’ve fairly and accurately characterized these claims about the shooting based on all available evidence.
Yes, as Matt said, we aim to “base all of our reporting on evidence.” That may mean that B will now cancel her subscription, because we’ve presented facts that she doesn’t like. That has happened a few times before when we published items that seemed to some to be “pro-Trump,” but to us were just pro-truth.
Which is too bad — because NewsGuard was founded not on the idea of constantly calling our supporters of one political party or another, but on the idea that agreeing on the same set of facts and not tuning out facts that don’t advance your cause might just bring us back together.
B complains that we are only telling “one side” of the story. That’s because there is only one side of that story. Just as there is only one side of the story when the president falsely claims that the countries on whom he has levied tariffs are the ones paying the tariffs. And just as, though I hate to admit it, there is only one side of the story about whether my New York Yankees won their game on Sunday. They lost.
The Poll That Should Embarrass the Country: 30% Doubt the Bullets Aimed at Trump
A new NewsGuard/YouGov poll should embarrass the country, or at least the part of it still capable of blushing. It found that 30% of American adults believe that at least one of the three assassination attempts against President Donald Trump was staged.
Unbelievable, only 38% said all three incidents were genuine.
The survey asked 1,000 adults from April 28 through May 4, 2026, about the July 13, 2024, Butler, Pa., rally shooting; the September 15, 2024, West Palm Beach golf club incident; and the April 25 White House Correspondents’ Dinner attack.
Nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump’s life over the last two years was staged, according to a new NewsGuard/YouGov poll. For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure — averaging 54 percent across all three.
Only 38 percent of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.
A national survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by YouGov on behalf of NewsGuard asked respondents from April 28 to May 4 whether they believed any of the three attempts on Trump’s life — at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in September 2024, and at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026 — “was staged.” Respondents indicated whether they thought the statement that the assassination attempt was staged was “true,” “false,” or that they were “not sure.”
The political split makes the whole thing even uglier. Forty-two percent of Democrats said the Butler attempt was staged, compared with 7% of Republicans. Thirty-four percent of Democrats called the Correspondents’ Dinner attack staged, compared with 13% of Republicans. Twenty-one percent of Democrats said all three attempts were staged, while only 3% of Republicans agreed.
As NewsGuard/YouGov shared, younger adults showed the most doubt, with 32% of those ages 18 to 29 saying the April 2026 attack was staged.
Young respondents (ages 18-29) were more likely than older respondents to say the incidents were staged. The largest gap was for the April 2026 assassination attempt in Washington. Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said it was staged, compared with 15 percent of those 65 and older.
Of respondents who believed that all three incidents were legitimate, only 13 percent were aged 18 to 29.
Reality didn’t exactly whisper here.
In Butler, Tomas Matthew Crooks fired from a nearby rooftop, killed Corey Comperatore, wounded President Trump, and injured two other rallygoers before the Secret Service killed him.
In West Palm Beach, Ryan Wesley Routh “allegedly” hid near Trump International Golf Club with a rifle before the Secret Service spotted him. At the Correspondents’ Dinner, Cole Tomas Allen “allegedly” rushed security with weapons and fired a shotgun at a Secret Service agent, who survived because his vest stopped the shotgun blast.
Allen pleaded not guilty to charges that include attempting to assassinate President Trump.
Adults, not registered voters or likely voters, answered the survey. It’s a detail that matters more than it first appears, because adult polling reaches people who may not vote, may not closely follow public affairs, and may absorb politics through social media fragments, late-night punchlines, and half-remembered headlines.
Still, the result lands hard. Millions of Americans can watch blood spill, see agents move, read criminal charges, hear witness accounts, and still decide the whole thing looks staged. It would be curious to see if there’s crossover between these people and those who believe the moon landing was also staged.
The same political culture that had spent years calling Trump a dictator, a fascist, a tyrant, and a threat to democracy now seems shocked when unstable men treat him like one.
Conservatives strongly opposed President Barack Hussein Obama’s policies, ears, worldview, and smug lecture-hall style. They mocked him, voted against him, complained about him, and waited him out. They didn’t climb roofs, hide near golf courses, or rush security checkpoints with weapons.
America has grown too comfortable pretending rhetoric floats harmlessly above the ground.
It doesn’t.
When public figures spend years suggesting one man represents fascism, dictatorship, collapse, and national extinction, some unstable fool eventually hears permission instead of a metaphor. Honest adults can admit words alone didn’t load the gun; honest adults should also admit words can help aim it.
The staged-attack theory also insults the victims. It definitely insults Corey Comperatore’s family, wounded rallygoers, and the Secret Service agent whose vest absorbed a shotgun blast.
The idea of staged assassination attempts insults every agent who had to make life-or-death decisions while the nation’s political class later returned to smirking, spinning, and pretending none of it had consequences.
President Trump survived real attacks from real men with real weapons. Federal charges, court records, eyewitness accounts, and physical evidence carry more weight than online suspicion from people who treat political violence like a comment-section hobby.
A serious country doesn’t have to love every leader. It does have to recognize bullets when they fly.
The collapse of basic judgment doesn’t happen all at once. It arrives slowly, one excuse at a time, until even an assassination attempt becomes another partisan toy for people who confuse cynicism with intelligence. PJ Media VIP members get the sharper, deeper version of stories like this without the fog machine.
Mon ikke en tilsvarende poll i Danmark ville vise samme grad af vanvid takket være dr-fake-news og TV2-fak-news had til Trump ?
Igen vil jeg opfordre folk til at se filmen om American Jesuits. De er – som deres fader, djævelen – mestre i løgn og skuespil. Jeg tror også, at det skud, som jo nærmest flænsede Orange Mands øre, var iscenesat.
Jeg tror især også, at det offentlige ‘mord’ på C kirk var iscenesat! Totalt pløk ide at få, at lade ham myrde for åben skærm, men sådan set også genialt, for folk tror det, som deres øje ser og når at opfatte. Derfor er film og det levende billede så farligt. Man bruger det til masse-suggestion og kan forme menneskers indstilling, så de tyr til voldelige optøjer og mord. Se på de onde gaza demo’er, der var for 1-2 år siden; de skyldtes billeder fra gaza, som var manipulerede og iscenesatte, for en stor dels vedkommende. Dummernikser købte det råt.
😂😂 den med forbindelsen til benægtelse af ‘månelandingen’…! JA! Jeg tror sørme, det var FIS i en hornlygte!! 🤣🤣 De kunne ikke rejse til månen dengang, men de ville besejre russerne i den forestilling om, at amerikansk udstyr var lysår foran russisk. Der er efter sigende gas arter på månen, som intet kan overleve. Og de hoppede rundt på månen? Grinende? 🤣🤣🤣🙄🙄🌙 nope….
Kom tilfældigt til at høre en afsnit af en podcast med de to såkaldte “komikere” Andreas Bo og Lasse Rimmer.
Begge lider ikke overraskende af TDS – hvilket jo er obligatorisk blandt såkaldte “kunstnere” i Danmark.
Men Andreas Bo fremførte ligeledes den debile konspirationsteori om, at alle attentater mod Trump er staged.
Til Lasse Rimmers forsvar gik han ikke med på den.
Som “de” siger henne i kAmerika:
IT TAKES ONE – TO KNOW ONE!
Dems er selv så fulde af l.rt, de tror ALLA ER dét!
I modsætning til “Månelandingen”, 9/11 og Jan.6., er der ingen ligeså klare beviser på, at de 3 attentatforsøg var fup og svindel. Derfor:
Dølg ikke Jeres viden Dems.
Show us the evidence!
Indtil andet er bevist, vil jeg hælde til, at DJT er søgt elimineret hele 3 gange til nu
Hele retorikken og hadet omkring – og mod POTUS gør attentaterne mere sandsynlige, end at alt skulle være all tickety boo and staged.
Mht. TDS er dét ligeså påkrævet for at være noget ved “måsækken” som tatoveinger fra ringmusklen og ind i øregangen , er det for fo’bolspillere 😂