If Trump doesn’t know about it, how do they do the blood on the ear? Not even elite marksmen can reliably hit someone’s ear at that distance without risking actually hitting their head. If it were fake blood, Trump would have to be in on it.
And again, the shooter being right-wing almost entirely negated the propaganda advantage the GOP could gain from it, it doesn’t make sense for it to have been staged.
Let’s leave the conspiracy theories to the far-right lunatics, please. The attempt killed an innocent bystander and the shooter was a right-winger. Even if they were cynical enough to stage the first part on purpose (and honestly, I wouldn’t put it past them), the shooter being one of their own completely undermines the entire point of staging something like that to begin with.
Besides, this administration is way too incompetent to keep a secret. With the way Trump has been blundering his way through the Epstein accusations, do you really think he could keep his mouth shut about staging an assassination attempt?
“Let them fight.”
See the thing about the Epstein thing is that we actually have evidence for it. “Trump staged the shooting” is baseless speculation.