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Both Sides Push Donald Trump Assassination Conspiracies: ‘Deep State,’ ‘Crisis Actor’

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The bid to murder Donald Trump became a Rorschach test of conspiracy theories on social media within minutes of Thomas Crooks firing at the former president.

On one side, Trump supporters claimed he was the victim of a “deep state” assassination plot. And on the other side, fanatics claimed that the shooting which left a man dead and two others critically injured was “staged” and a “false flag.”

The far-right’s premier conspiracy theorist, Alex Jones, posted “Emergency! America Is Now Under Globalist Attack! More Assassination Attempts Imminent,” on X, formerly known at Twitter, two hours after the shots rang.

Read more at The Daily Beast.