This… I don’t even know what to say…
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.”
Full article, HERE from Newsguard Tech by Sofia Rubinson and Samantha Tanner.
I’m amazed that anyone, regardless of party affiliation would believe the Butler, PA or any other assassination attempt was faked! Two people died there! But for 42% of Dems think the Butler attempt was fake??? What the hell?
Are these people really that delusional? Or is this a reflection of the media’s ‘messaging’ these days???
I’ll be damned if I know… Sigh…
One in three “Americans” are foreigners.
The burning stupid is the result of a large number of residents here being programmed by single voice media telling them what to think and what to believe.
A lack of critical thinking skills and an unwillingness to accept facts that do not correspond to their existing beliefs makes their situation worse.
Pretty sure the correct phrasing should be “want to believe” that the attempts were staged.
Do they actually believe it? Or do they just dislike Trump enough to want to believe it?
Heck, even amongst his supporters there’s a large number (count me among them) who don’t like Trump personally, but support (most of) his positions and actions.
I think he’s a blowhard. An egotistic, bombastic a$$. At least that’s how he comes off to me in public.
But I can’t argue with his success and the vast majority of his platform aligns well with mine, so I’m with him all the way.
And I don’t believe the attempts were staged, so there’s that.
I could agree with your assessment of Trump’s “personality” except for the many times I’ve seen him give credit to others and act self-effacing, even poking fun at himself.
Hard to find “stooges” to play assassins when one was killed, one got life in prison and one is facing a likely life sentence. Also the guy a Mar-a-Lago with a gas can and gun case also assumed room temperature.
Martyrs. 🙂
The answer to your questions: Yes and yes.
This is projection on the Democrats part. They would do anything to be ruling (I chose that word on purpose) this country that they would do such acts to gain power.
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I think more critical thinking skills and less propaganda teaching in schools is called for in my book.
I think the thing we need to remember is that there is a very vocal and influential wing of the Democratic party which feels that any tactic or action is justifiable if it serves to advance their power. Sometimes this is political malfeasance, as in Virginia. Sometimes it is stacking the courts. But sometimes, and increasingly, it is violence. I don’t think this true of all people who are affiliated with the Democratic party, any more than some of the more radical types on the far right are typical of the Republicans, but the difference is that this wing has gained control of the party. Mr. Trump, though he can be difficult at times, works through — and respects — the norms of a truly democratic system, and respects the limits of the Constitution — when he can find out what they are. This is not true of the radical wing of the Democratic party.
Fake and staged are two different things.
Think of the survey as an overall interim progress report on several overlapping and to some extent coordinated ongoing long term psychological warfare operations. The goal is to destroy the USA as a sovereign constitutional republic.
There are foreign state actors, transnational criminal organizations, NGO (US and transnational,) corporate (US and transnational), organized labor, academic, and US federal, state and local government officials–appointed, elected, and especially civil service–in all 3 (or 4) branches of government active in these operations.
I hear Fauci is working on a vaccine that fixes Stupid.
Take it, die, Problum Solved
He should test it on himself first.
Mr Sinclair speaks with veracity. His views nearly parallel my opinions and viewpoints. I find it disheartening that so many people are against Trumps clear and obvious goals to place the USA first.
3? At least 4. The February 2026 Mar-a-Lago shooter/firebug thought that Trump was in residence, but Trump wasn’t. Secret Service made the shooter a good shooter (as in making him achieve room temperature.)
Notice how everyone seems to have forgotten that one. A very credible attempt even though Trump wasn’t home.
As to the stupidity of our fellow countrymen, how many of the unbelievers get their news only from the eneMedia? Which has been floating conspiracy theories about all 9 of the attempts on President Trump’s life over his two terms, 9 so far.
He already financed that vaccine. It just didn’t work as fast as the Covid virus he helped create, and people became better informed.
So polls are inherently going from a sample to an estimation of a population parameter.
I shouldn’t have to say this, but every single poll of ‘x numbers of Americans believe y’ variety has several inherent problems. From 2016 it has been clear that there is some sort of methodology problem in political surveys. People pay for the surveys, and it is more likely that the reason is info war than it is a true attempt to understand and to share understanding. There is no chance that we understand what the true population distributions in the US are. (Last is criminal aliens, and corrupted reporting thereof.)
Staged is an ambiguous word. Consider Luigi Mangione. He wrote a script, and imagined himself performing, but only some of the audience reaction is to his expectations. The communists these days have a very theatrical mindset, it is downstream of them believing that verbal consensus can influence or cause reality. The communist murderers are rather like spree killers in that the internal dreaming is doing a lot of the decisionmaking. They are unlike spree killers in that they have been told that this is the theater of saving the world, and they are not doing it for pure love of malice. (Okay, they would not self select themselves into murder if they were not psychopathically malicious, but the evil is not only internally driven.) These people are literally writing spells on their cartridge cases, and think that so writing will make a lick of a difference to American perception of the act.
The riots of 2020 were stage managed by a criminal conspiracy of Democrats. Who were, despite what they have written in the textbooks, effectively white supremacist terrorists. The arsons were real, the other crimes were real, but the exercise was theater, a show that they were performing, and carefully recording and presenting to the public eye.
Consider South Korea. The RoK army, the legislature, and the testimony of the senior army officers. Staged, but by whom, and to what end? My view is PRC/CCP/MOSS. The official view is otherwise, but Rice-Davies.
Fundamentally, the institutions have broken the institutions. The tribal polarization that has resulted, I of course think that my own subset is more correct. But, a lot of people are broken now, and have foudn that their tools for sorting reality are not good enough, and haven’t written off caring about some of the specific results.
I have doubts that the average man knows what image generation AI of whatever date can and cannot do.
Crooks, Routhe, and Allen were 20 (?), 60, and 30. Their skills and thinking were mostly an indictment of how fringe the anti-Trump position is. Routhe had his scope /taped/ on.
The folks who thought Kirk had it coming, were folks who actually thought that the university instructors had a lock on the minds of the students. They feared the ‘loss’ of that ‘monopoly’. Hence, they were maybe incredibly deluded. They also thought of murder as a theatrical act that would change the ‘state space’ of American society in the directions that they desire.
IOW, they are blind enough to not realize that murders annoy Americans, and raise doubts about the cause of people who endorse murders. This is fundamental to the ‘one smart guy leader’ model, and their gambling on political theater.
If I have correctly described their thinking, then if they made a mirror projection model, that would predict that faking an assassination as theater would work. ‘epicycles of conspiracy theory’ predicts that if results that you do not desire occur, somebody did that somehow with better theater.
Their descriptions of Trump are of a better theater man, not of a salesman who had realized that the left/academic sales pitch had major weaknesses.
Trump uses theater, yes.
But, for people who live inside movies, or inside video games, it can be hard to realize that other people have experiences that are not plot beats, or are not character beats. History is also reduced order, and so it is a difficult basis for teaching that current events are not pure theater, and are not a just so story.
All- Y’all raise some interesting points, and yes, polls can be ‘skewed’ any way the pollster the desires
A similar number believe in astrology, think the sun orbits the earth, think the moon has an actual dark side and think their dog knows his name.
I want to push those people off the edge of the world…
Dog knows his name and certain breeds like the Border Collie up to 800 other words.
CT- Yeah… sigh
Ed- LOL
Steve- Oh they do! And if they get bored, they will also rewire your house!
I’m going to talk about polls as well. Back in my college days I worked off and on for a small polling company. You really need to know how the questions are formulated. Even with having worked in polling I cannot be convinced that the answers from 1500-2000 people can show how 300,000,000 people think. Remember in 2016 the polls were 90% certain Clinton was going to win.
Roughly one third of America routine votes Demonrat. So one third are stupid enr to think all manner of insane things. Proof that universal suffrage is a BAD idea.