“But you still give them enough credit to even allow for an assassination attempt.”
Nobody is that incompetent.
“(Americans love conspiracy theories because it allows them to ignore the incompetence that is staring them in the face.)”
You have your head up your ass. Do you have an intimate relationship with every American to make that statement? Are democrats and the deep state to righteous to conspire, when history reveals that conspiracies happen every day.
“My position is that these people were that incompetent...”
Again, no one is that incompetent, or that incompetent all at the same time.