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Right-wing lawmakers and petitioners have baselessly warned that the shooting was orchestrated by Democrats or government actors targeting former President Donald J. Trump.
By Annie Karni
Report from Washington
Rep. Eli Crane, R-Ariz. and former Navy SEAL, says he’s not a conspiracy theorist. But in the weeks following the assassination attempt on Donald J. Trump baselessly hinted that the shooting component of a coordinated crusade between Democrats and dark government actors to keep an eye on to prevent the former president from regaining the White House.
“Not only did they try to ruin him, but they also tried to put him in jail,” Mr. Skull told Jeff Oravits, a right-wing radio personality in Arizona. “When that didn’t work, they tried to jail him. ” he has been a criminal for 750 years. And many of us have said that the next step in this escalation is for them to try to kill him because they can’t, they know they can’t beat him in a fair and equitable way.
During an appearance on Glenn Beck’s show, Crane, who went to the collection site in Pennsylvania where Trump shot and killed to conduct his own investigation, said, “I don’t need to be a conspiracy theorist, but at the same time I don’t need to rule anything out because I’m not stopping some members of our government from doing what’s mandatory to retain power.
No evidence has been established that anyone other than a lone gunman, Thomas Crooks, attempted to kill the president in July. Crooks, 20, a registered Republican who killed at the scene and left few clues about his ideals or what motivated him to open fire at a Trump rally on July 13.
But according to comments from Crane and several of his right-wing Republican colleagues in Congress, as well as the Republican Party. For applicants applying for a job this fall, the story is much more complex. Damaging conspiracy theories are circulating that imply that Democrats and government forces played a role in the pursuit of Trump.
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