Liberals share their warped conspiracy theories about Trump assassination attempt

Donald Trump dissenters have shared their wild conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on the former president.

The 78-year-old was nearly killed by gunman Thomas Crooks on Saturday afternoon as he was speaking at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania.

The 20-year-old registered Republican was able to slip onto a rooftop location 150 yards from the stage and began firing an AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, purchased by his father, officials said.

A bullet grazed Trump's ear before the gunman was taken out by a Secret Service sniper. Corey Comperatore, 50, was killed trying to protect his family while David Dutch, 57, and James Copenhaver, 74, were wounded in the shooting. 

But some people have claimed the assassination attempt was a 'false-flag' and staged in a set of warped theories.

Donald Trump dissenters have shared their wild conspiracy theories about the assassination attempt on the former president

The 78-year-old was nearly killed by gunman Thomas Crooks on Saturday afternoon as he was speaking at a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania

YouTuber James Klug interviewed the public at Huntington Beach in California to ask them their views on the assassination attempt on Trump.

'It was a false flag,' one man told him. He replied: 'Somebody died and two people were injured, what do you think about that?'

But the man just responded: 'False flag.'

Another beachgoer said: 'I thought it was magnificently staged. It was professionally done. It almost looked real.'

He was asked who it could have been staged by and he responded: 'By Mr Trump of course.'

The man added that the death and injuries were a 'small price'. 'It doesn't matter to Trump,' he added. 'Do you think he cares if people die for him to be elected? 

'Death doesn't mean anything to Trump.

'I think that he walked away alive, perhaps a scratch on his ear. Behind the scenes that was all fabricated. 

YouTuber James Klug interviewed the public at Huntington Beach in California to ask them their views on the assassination attempt on Trump

'It was a false flag,' one man told him. He replied: 'Somebody died and two people were injured, what do you think about that?' But the man just responded: 'False flag.'

'They put a little scratch on his ear, threw a little blood on his face.'

Klug asked: 'So you think they planned from 130 yards away to shoot off the corner of his ear?

The man replied: 'They never shot off the corner of his ear. That was all done by the people hanging around him.'

'I think this whole thing was staged,' a third man claimed. 'It could be [Trump] or the other side trying to make a scene.

'But the fact it only got his ear and he stood up and said America, come on, it doesn't feel normal. 

'To me it looks like it was planned. Bless that soul for dying for this cause. I am so sorry for that person's family. It's just a feeling.' 

The Secret Service, responsible for protecting presidents and former presidents, went on the defensive on Monday against criticism of its failure to detect the gunman.

A bullet grazed Trump's ear before the gunman was taken out by a Secret Service sniper

Thomas Matthew Crooks, the 20-year-old would-be assassin who shot Donald Trump, was once rejected from his high school rifle club and considered a danger

'Secret Service personnel on the ground moved quickly during the incident, with our counter sniper team neutralizing the shooter and our agents implementing protective measures to ensure the safety of former president Donald Trump,' Kimberly Cheatle, the Secret Service director, said in a statement.

Biden ordered an independent investigation into how the gunman, who was shot dead by agents moments after opening fire, could have come so close to killing or severely wounding Trump despite the heavy security provided by the agency.

The president has also ordered the Secret Service to begin a protection detail of independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Trump flew to Milwaukee on Sunday, 24 after the assassination attempt.

Trump pumped his fist in the air several times and appeared to mouth the words 'Fight! Fight! Fight!' as he descended the stairs from his plane.

In an interview during the trip, he said the realization that he came so close to being killed was sobering.

'That reality is just setting in,' Trump was quoted as saying by the Washington Examiner. 'I rarely look away from the crowd. Had I not done that in that moment, well, we would not be talking today, would we?'

'I want to try to unite our country,' the New York Post reported Trump saying during the flight. 'But I don't know if that's possible. People are very divided.