Tommy Vietor

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One reaction that was notable, if unfortunately not surprising, was the absolute explosion of conspiracy theories about, quote, what really happened.

Our D.C.

correspondent, the crooked Matt Berg, got a hold of data showing that there were 450,000 Twitter posts containing the words conspiracy hoax staged or false flag in the 24 hours after the shooting, which is almost as many as right after Butler.

Is this just the new normal?

And why do you guys think so many people want to entertain the notion that this may have somehow been staged?

Yeah.

And I was thinking it's like instead of trying to frame it as either I should believe conspiracy theories or I shouldn't or I should trust the government, I shouldn't just take like each one as it is.

It's like I'm just trying to think about staging this fake assassination attempt.

Like, how does it work?

What is the and also like what is the benefit here?

Like he gets a five-point bump in the polls that goes away in a few weeks.

If that, yeah.

And the judge in the ballroom case feels bad and then dismisses the lawsuit.

And that's worth risking his own life and the lives of the people around him.

I'm not sure the juice is worth the squeeze on this one, on the staging attempt.