Trump told Americans to ‘do their own research’. Now they think the attacks on him are staged

April 29, 2026 — 5:00am

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If you believe the lamestream Fake News media, President Donald Trump was the victim of a third assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner on Saturday night. However, as the true detectives on social media know, the attack by a lone gunman was an insider plot, to distract from Trump’s flagging poll numbers, the Iran War, the Epstein files, or all of the above.

The New York Times reported that in the aftermath of yet another act of American political violence, the term “staged” was used in more than 300,000 posts across platforms such as TikTok, Facebook and X. Heeding the First Commandment of the conspiracy theory group QAnon to “Do your own research”, an army of internet conspiracy theorists, backed up by Russian and Iranian trolls, sprang into action.

Displaying the same forensic brilliance of FBI director Kash Patel after an all-nighter at the Poodle Room, internet sleuths forged connections where none existed and posted thought bubbles such as “Is this another staged event?” (That X post has racked up almost 9 million views.) The fact-free-for-all was further evidence that the conspiracy theory, one of Trump’s most long-standing and potent political weapons, is now squarely trained on the Conspiracist-in-Chief.

Conspiracy theories have been a hallmark of Trump’s political career, from the Birther conspiracy that claimed president........

© The Sydney Morning Herald