Posted on 05/12/2026 6:44:55 AM PDT by Twotone
A new poll revealed that a stunning number of Democrats believe the 2024 assassination attempt on President Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, was staged.
Among respondents who identified as Democrats, 42% said they believed that the Butler attempt by would-be assassin Thomas Crooks was fake, according to a YouGov poll. Thirty-four percent believed the recent attempt by suspect Cole Allen at the White House Correspondents Association (WHCA) dinner was also staged. Twenty-six percent said the same of Ryan Routh’s attempt at Trump International Golf Course in West Palm Beach in September 2024.
Notably, the poll found that nearly a quarter of Democrats believed all three attempts were hoaxes.
These numbers were lower among respondents who identified as independents. Twenty-one percent of independents believe the Butler shooting was staged, while 23% and 14% believe the WHCA dinner and golf attempts were staged, respectively.
Among Republicans, 7% believe the Butler attempt was fake; 13% believe the WHCA was fake; and 7% believe Routh’s was staged, as well.
The survey polled 1,000 Americans and was conducted from April 28 to May 4.
Allen’s attempt at the WHCA dinner in April pushed Trump past a grim milestone: he is now survived more assassination attempts than any other president in U.S. history.
A recently resurfaced survey from 2025 found that people with graduate degrees are nearly twice as likely to believe that “violence is often necessary to create social change” compared to those with basic college degrees or who bypassed higher education altogether. Another 2025 poll found that an increasing number of young Americans believe political violence can be justified. And yet another showed that 55% of self-identified “left of center” Americans believed a Trump assassin would be “somewhat justified.”
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Their minds are broken.
They are dumb, Jim.
42% of Democrats are simple minded morons..........
It was staged alright.
But not in the way they think it was.
42% of Dems are dumber than the other 58%. And that’s quite a feat.
Talk about conspiracy theorists!
Very bitter evil people
That is a pretty good sample size. In all seriousness, I wonder what this means. A man was killed in the assassination attempt. Do the respondents know that? Or do they think that is a lie? Or have they gone completely off the deep end and think that the man being killed is part of the staging? I really think this is more evidence that polls are useless. I suspect that any poll is simply a chance for partisans to vent their hate and deny their enemies any level of humanity. Did someone attempt to kill Donald Trump? Hell no!! Trump is evil!! I bet if the question was something like "Did Donald Trump attempt to kill his political opponents?", 42% of Democrats would have responded yes.
STAGED? Tell that to the family of the man who was killed protecting his wife….
Corey Comperatore would disagree.
Yep dumb and dumber
Maxwell Yearick STILL not available for comment.
I thought it was Obama’s butler who was whacked?
You can’t fix stupid
Guessing 100% wish had been successful. 😠
Exactly.
An accusation is often a subconscious confession.
(Their minds are broken.)
YEP
Of course the Democrats believe in LIES
They cheer Baby-Killing Abortion
They cheer Homosexual Marriage
They cheer “Transgender” “Men Becoming ‘Women’”
His family would; he can't.
I had to scan the thread for your comment before I said it. Democrats care so little about life they don't remember who died in Cooks' attempt on Trump because it isn't important to their objective of wielding power while feathering their nests.
Disgusting.
They should have to allow someone to shoot and nick their ear at over 100 yards.
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