They are thinking there is a non zero chance that one or more may have been.
Again ask me 2 years ago about Pennsylvania and I would have told you no way. Now, when you have right wing influencers coming out with the same talking point less than 24 hrs after the incident happened. It will be interesting to find out what information we can about the alleged shooter.
I think the Trump movement has opened up Pandora's Box of crazy so much that we shouldn't be surprised this is part of the discourse. And they lie and completely fabricate stories at such a rate that it's not out of the realm of possibility.
Having said that, no. No I don't think either was staged.
To be fair everyone is thinking it, or it has at least crossed their mind. No one rational was thinking it a couple if years ago when the first attempt happened. And Im not saying im convinced one way or the other (still haven't been able to confirm if the polymarket rumor is true, but haven't really looked that hard). It's just that the administration has burned any credibility for transparency in major events. And we are looking at the what, 5th attempted or accomplished assassination of a political figure in under 24 months? All of them allegedly by people who to my knowledge aren't criminal masterminds. It just makes you wonder a little.
This is the point I'm trying to make (with you because you have the decency to converse instead of throw insults).
The fact that people really believe any of this is staged, are the same loonies who scream J6 was a setup by Pelosi. It's pure propaganda produced to further push people over the edge of sanity. It all disgusts me.