Before I start, I will acknowledge that most people on either side of the political divide are rightly outraged and concerned about Saturday’s assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump. Unfortunately, there are plenty of left-leaning members of the chattering class who are doing their very best to spin the incident in a way that advances their agenda.
Shortly after footage of the shooting went viral on social media, leftists on various social media platforms began immediately pretending that the shooting was staged to help Trump’s campaign. In fact, there were so many floating this lie that the term “staged” was trending on X.
In the latest episode, Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political advisor to LinkedIn co-founder and Democrat megadonor, Reid Hoffman, floated this theory in an email obtained by author Max Meyer.
In the email, Mehlhorn made the brilliant claim that…
