I'm not sure I have ever commented on - or if I did, only briefly - the "Trump faked his assassination attempt" conspiracy theory which popped up as soon as anti-Trumpers saw the apparently incompetent way the Secret Service left him exposed and posing instead of dragging him away from danger at great speed, as we had seen in other assassination attempts.
To be honest, I would go as far as saying I completely understand why people think it looked faked: it's just that I can't go the next step to believing that such fakery would involve two people being actually killed and others injured. (It's also true that, at most, his ear took a small graze - probably from shrapnel, as it seems from Googling that Mythbusters did test the question of whether the pressure wave from a close bullet can cause much damage, and the answer is "no". But I still don't think the bullet itself touched his ear.)
Anyway - the interesting thing is that with the Iran war and the outbreak of MAGA influencer infighting, the conspiracy has been revived on X with a lot of former Trump supporters now believing it was faked: a conspiracy they formerly would have called a sign of Trump Derangement Syndrome. Figures include that goose Milo, but I see culture warrior and Trump sympathiser Neil Oliver has joined in too.
Of course, the fact that such people formerly endorsed and defended Trump proves that their judgement and opinion on anything is always likely to be bad - so I'm not suggesting it gives the conspiracy any stronger grounding. (Probably, quite the opposite in fact!) Still, it's kind of funny to watch.
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