MILWAUKEE—An influential Democrat who ran against President Joe Biden in the 2024 primary condemned his fellow compatriots on the Left for indulging in conspiracy theories that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was “staged,” and he praised Trump’s bravery in the shooting’s aftermath.
“I’ve seen so many people, whether it’s the mainstream media or on the Left, saying crazy things like it was staged,” Cenk Uygur, founder of “The Young Turks” talk show, told The Daily Signal in a Tuesday interview at the Republican National Convention. “You’re really going to stage shooting you in the ear, and if they miss by a centimeter, they’re dead? Are you insane? Who would stage that? That’s just nuts.”
Uygur also faulted some on the Left for saying, “He has to cool down the rhetoric.”
“Brother, he just got shot,” he…
