New York Times politics writer Jonathan Weisman made Sunday’s New York Times with a typically snide take on the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump in “The Attempt to Kill Donald Trump, Caught in Real Time, Stuns the Country.”
After chiding the fast-moving conspiracy theories in the age of social media, Weisman brought up, but quickly denigrated, the idea that the online left was spouting conspiracy theories regarding the shooting, while chiding the right wing..
Within minutes of the first televised images of Mr. Trump grabbing his wounded ear on Saturday, voices on the left were calling it staged, though they were hardly household names.
Not long after, far bigger names on the right, including Senator J.D. Vance of Ohio, a finalist to be Mr. Trump’s running mate, had settled on the argument that Democrats had set the stage for…
