No Evidence of Trump Assassination Attempt. People Still Believe They Were

In recent weeks all of them MAGA and the leaders of the left have found what they agree on: President Donald Trump, they say, is stage his attempted murder.

Within minutes of the Secret Service arresting the man he was shooting at Correspondents’ Dinner at the White House on April 25, social media was flooded with false claims of what had happened “HE DID.”

In the same days, these claims have caused some famous experts and producers to reevaluate 2024. attempted assassination of Trump in Butler, Pennsylvaniaand many claims, without proof, that they too were made.

“This was not an actual assassination attempt, and I’m willing to say it wasn’t an actual assassination attempt on Butler during the campaign,” said Leigh McGowan, a digital producer known as PoliticsGirl who collaborated. and the Democratic National Committee in the past, he said in a movie posted to TikTok that has been viewed nearly 900,000 times. “Yes, two real people died, but no one tried to kill Donald Trump.”

Bluesky, Xand TikTok are filled with comments related to Butler and the WHCD, and an endless stream of posts and videos claiming that the Correspondents’ Dinner event is yet another proof that Butler’s murder happened. Author Joyce Carol Oates, who in recent weeks has been sent very much about whether or not Butler was invented, wrote on X last week, “We can see now, putting Butler PA & WH reporters side by side, that the same thing was planned every time.”

The practice of left-wing activists promoting these conspiracy theories comes recently wave of known MAGA figuresangry with Trump war with Iran it’s his anti-Catholicismencouraged conspiracy theories about Butler’s shooting. “With our anger and financial rumors on the Internet it’s no surprise that people are trying to take advantage of it right now to get angry and click,” said Nina Jankowicz, CEO of the American Sunlight Project who was named by the Biden administration as their chief opposition. “The line between ‘analysis’ and disinformation has never been thinner.”

WIRED has taken a look at the main reasons conspiracy theorists point to when they say the Butler and Correspondents’ Dinner shooting happened, and why none of these claims can be reviewed.

Butler’s experiment

The “evidence” cited by both the left and the right wing that Butler’s murder took place includes Trump raising his fist, his injured ear, photographers being brought into the vanguard of the action. photo opportunityand the lack of knowledge of the shooter and his target.

Taken together, these anomalies have been woven into a comprehensive conspiracy theory that seems to have convinced millions of people, on the right and the left, that the assassination attempt on Mr. Butler was a hoax.

One important piece of so-called evidence cited by conspiracy theorists on both sides of the political spectrum is movie which allegedly shows photographers being put in place seconds after Trump is punched so they can get a good picture of his punch.

Conspiracy theorists say the video shows a campaign worker walking to the left of the stage after the first shot, then returning seconds later to bring photographers to the front of the stage to film a shot of Trump after he was shot.

However, a their photo accounts The footage shows that each of them is just doing their job, and the photos taken using Meta’s smart glasses by Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford show that no campaign staff is telling the photographers what to do.