DOJ and FBI inaction has led to conspiracy theories about the Trump assassination attempt

We still haven’t seen the report from his initial medical treatment. Lack of information breeds conspiracy theories

Some on the right think that Democrats tried to assassinate Trump.

Some on the left think the assassination attempt was staged.

I think it was all done by the one guy that was killed after the shot.

.@SenatorHagerty have you seen these wild videos on the internet that prove Trump wasn’t actually shot but rather that he staged the entire thing? I know we have official reports from the FBI and Secret Service but this cool YouTube video narrated by a guy who says he knows…
— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 12, 2024

Remember that test those MAGA bros did on YouTube to prove Trump's 'assassination attempt' wasn't staged that ended up showing Donald Trump was not hit by a bullet? pic.twitter.com/XtWfok9AFU
— TheRealThelmaJohnson (@TheRealThelmaJ1) September 8, 2024

Trump has done a masterful job keeping the lid on his staged assassination attempt. https://t.co/NeDwjc6mqL
— Rich Campbell (@RCampbellmc58) September 7, 2024

Come on moderators – Trump just falsely accused Democrats of orchestrating an assassination attempt against him and they just let it go. What the actual f*ck.
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) September 11, 2024

Trump stokes baseless conspiracy theories about assassination attempt, tying it to government agencies and Democrats. https://t.co/XranX5MK7i
— Paul Farhi (@farhip) September 12, 2024

JD Vance & other republicans are telling their base Democrats tried to kill Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/YqW89Sf832
— TizzyEnt (@TizzyEnt) August 14, 2024

Harris leads Trump by 40% for voters who aren’t religiously affiliated

A survey released last week by Pew Research shows how different religious/non-religious Americans are voting in November. According to the new survey, 68% of religiously unaffiliated Americans plan to vote for Kamala Harris, while 28% plan to vote for Donald Trump. pic.twitter.com/GsuYzQTIrT
— Secular Coalition for America (@seculardotorg) September 12, 2024

Republicans whine about the debate fact check

The moderators said nothing about most of Trump’s lies. They did much better than CNN which had no fact-checking.

CNN Fact Check of the debate: This was a staggeringly dishonest debate performance from former President Trump. Just lie after lie on subject after subject by my preliminary count, he made at least 33 false claims pic.twitter.com/5ZhJVBlqub
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 11, 2024

Here are the fact-checks that Trumpers are mad about today:

— Moms are not murdering their babies
— Migrants aren’t eating your pets
— Biden won the 2020 election
— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) September 11, 2024

possible other fact checks – inflation was never at 20,30, 40 percent. Crime is down. Abdul doesn't run the Taliban. Not everyone wanted to reverse Roe. The world really did laugh at him (outloud at UN). Biden had no role in the indictments. hundreds of billions of illegal…
— Jen "We aren't going back " Rubin 🥥🌴 (@JRubinBlogger) September 11, 2024

You are not damned if you fact-check. If it upsets the liars, that’s fine.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 11, 2024

There are lots of comments to the tweets right above this.

According to Daniel Dale, Trump lied 33 times. Kamala lied 1.

Moderators fact checked
Trump 3 times.
Checked her 1.

Trump spoke 39 times.
She spoke 23.

It wasn't the moderators. He lost this on his own.
— Christopher Moore (@TheAuthorGuy) September 11, 2024

“Republicans are more likely to trust Trump than official election results”

Republicans won’t accept it if Trump loses. He will not admit he lost if he loses now. He said in the debate that he was being sarcastic when he admitted to losing in 2020.

This election will be ugly.

That's funny BC he just admitted he lost the last election.

Republicans are more likely to trust Trump than official election results: AP-NORC/USAFacts poll https://t.co/qwGyX0S4wM
— Tom Williams (@tommyboy0690) September 10, 2024

Today we released a new study with @AP Norc to explore how Americans view facts and data.

Poll data shows government certifications are the most trusted source for accurate 2024 election results, outranking TV news, candidates, newspapers, social media, and AI. pic.twitter.com/LFhyUtNZly
— USAFacts (@USAFacts) September 10, 2024

https://twitter.com/pbump/status/1833708103184875919

More on right-wing lies about Haitians

Trump lied during the debate. He’s an evil lying bigot.

Last month, Aiden Clark was killed after a minivan went left of center, causing his school bus to crash into it and go off the road, flipping over. The minivan was driven by Hermanio Joseph, a Haitian immigrant in the country under temporary protected legal status. Joseph was…
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) September 11, 2024

Spreading bigoted and false claims about Haitian people to stoke fear is hateful and disgusting.

I am standing with our Haitian communities in New York and across the nation.

America's diversity is what makes our country great.https://t.co/vWxKZ6deVA
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) September 10, 2024

NU: Trump, Vance spread outlandish claim that Haitians in this Ohio town to fill open jobs are stealing, eating pets. I visited and wrote about what is really happening recently. Read the piece for free here. https://t.co/6Mo7xYu09q
— Miriam Jordan (@mirjordan) September 9, 2024

Anyway, a gift link debunking the pet-eating junk but also pointing out that it’s a symptom of the right-wing conversational bubble where the weirdest things get oxygen. https://t.co/8Ky4o758a8
— Philip Bump (@pbump) September 10, 2024

Haitians are good people. Hard working people. ⁦@JDVance⁩ ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ and ⁦@elonmusk⁩ ⁦@X⁩ platform have not right to spread false claims, to lie …they don’t love immigrants and they don’t love USA, a country of immigrants.. https://t.co/tKyPeQ36D5
— Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 (@chefjoseandres) September 10, 2024

So the fantasy that Haitians are eating Springfield, Ohio's ducks seems to come from a YouTube comedian pretending to run for mayor of a county that has no mayor https://t.co/tqYPfteBCI who livestreams from the scenes of car accidents he blames on Haitians https://t.co/qcd2OUX50g https://t.co/kG5LGs0f2d
— Robert Mackey (@RobertMackey) September 10, 2024

Is immigration a vulnerable topic for Harris?

I don’t think she’s as vulnerable as it may appear.

1) Border crossings are lower in recent months after being high
2) Trump lies about countries sending criminals here and lies about the volume.
3) Trump got Congressional Republicans to kill a bill on immigration because improving the situation would be bad for him politically.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 11, 2024

Trump lies about tariffs

If tariffs increase the price of an item, the seller will just increase the price for the consumer. The company is not going to absorb the tariff. Trump lied about this in the debate and many times before.

US businesses and consumers paid Trump's tariffs on China.

US importers make the literal tariff payments, and study after study has found that American consumers bore the costs.
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) September 11, 2024

Trump's tariffs are, indeed, effectively a sales tax. pic.twitter.com/DjPzq1GIN5
— Steven Rattner (@SteveRattner) September 11, 2024

Thing is, tariffs aren't just a tax on imports. They also reduce competition, leading American companies to raise their prices. https://t.co/Wy8eaoH9qO pic.twitter.com/HQMvG7TH7f
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) August 28, 2024

I drew you a picture and hope you like it. https://t.co/dKIbA5rcvY pic.twitter.com/vSi5jn4wys
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) September 12, 2024

Senator @JDVance, as you requested I've done a bit more digging into the talking points on tariffs we were provided by industry-funded lobby groups. Unfortunately they do not meet our usual high standards for evidence. pic.twitter.com/yyrA9p7XEs
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) September 12, 2024

The right-wing lies about noncitizen voting

Why don’t you say they lied? Trump lies too but you won’t say that either. The media helps Trump and the MAGA cult when they use wimpy words like misleading.
— Harris Levy (@HarrisL585) September 7, 2024

Spreading lies about noncitizen voting is designed to sow doubt in our election systems. The truth is our elections are fair, free, and accurate.https://t.co/mjLSL0q40P
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) August 31, 2024

The right-wing lies about crime by immigrants

So we’ve had practically all of MAGA going wild over a completely false rumor that legal Haitian refugees have been stealing and eating pets. A useful reminder that the whole narrative of a migrant crime wave is based on nothing; crime has actually been falling pic.twitter.com/illAMY2qnd
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) September 10, 2024

Politicians may claim there is an “immigrant crime wave,” but the data proves that is a myth. https://t.co/ofXCHEEMIf
— Brennan Center (@BrennanCenter) September 7, 2024

https://twitter.com/peterbakernyt/status/1813962732313403647?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

https://twitter.com/huffpost/status/1813354082075390335?s=43&t=rIYxMSgaBTiASp7yrXMpjA

In 2023, 15,300 people apprehended at US borders had a prior criminal conviction.

This number of arrests represents 0.7% of all border apprehensions by Border Patrol in 2023.

A person can be arrested multiple times in a year, so arrests may outnumber people. #Debate2024
— USAFacts (@USAFacts) September 11, 2024