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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (AP)
stated on July 13, 2024 in social media posts:
Donald Trump staged the shooting at his rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
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Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (AP)Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (AP)
Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump is surrounded by U.S. Secret Service agents as he is helped off the stage at a campaign rally in Butler, Pa., on July 13, 2024. (AP)
Samantha Putterman
By Samantha Putterman
July 14, 202Claims that the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump was staged are baseless
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Authorities suspect a July 13 shooting at a Butler, Pennsylvania, campaign rally — which killed one person, critically injured two others and left former President Donald Trump injured — was carried out by 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Cooks.
Trump bled from his upper right ear as Secret Service agents ushered him offstage; he pumped his fist to show he was OK. The FBI is investigating the shooting, which thousands of people witnessed, as an assassination attempt.
FBI Special Agent Kevin Rojek said it was surprising that the suspect had been able to fire multiple shots before Secret Service agents killed him. Rojek said a lengthy investigation is needed.
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Conspiracy theories that the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump was staged flooded the internet almost immediately after a shooting suspect opened fire on Trump as he spoke at a July 13 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Some of the claims said Trump staged it himself.
“Donald Trump continues to play in our faces!! This was SO staged!!! If someone REALLY wanted to take him out, they wouldn’t use a BB Gun!!,” one person posted on X a little over an hour after the shooting.
“If you think the ‘shooting’ at the trump rally was an assassination attempt, you are in a cult. This is the most staged thing I’ve seen in a long time. He knows he’s going to lose the election, so he fakes this s**** and shouts to the crowd to ‘fight,’” another X user wrote.
Some social media users even falsely claimed that Trump faked the blood coming from his ear with a “blood pill.”
“Trump staging a fake shooting at his rally is amazing theater,” one X user wrote. “We saw him smash fake blood on the side of his head. Those were not gunshot sounds.”
Some claims appeared on Meta, which was flagged as part of the platform’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram.)
These claims are baseless.
The FBI is investigating the shooting as an assassination attempt. PolitiFact found no credible news reports or official accounts that the shooting was staged. It was witnessed by thousands of rally attendees, including dozens of news photographers and reporters.
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