Finally, MAGA figured out who the real Donald Trump is |
Finally, MAGA figured out who the real Donald Trump is
Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) may be on the outs with President Trump and the MAGA movement she once championed, but that hasn’t dimmed her passion for wild conspiracy theories.
Greene has spent the past few weeks amplifying the baseless conspiracy theory that Trump faked his own assassination attempt back in July 2024. Of course, Greene won’t say that’s what he’s doing. In her mind — and the minds of a growing number of MAGA influencers — she’s just asking questions.
“I’m not calling the Butler assassination a hoax,” Greene posted to X on Sunday. “But there are a lot of questions that deserve public answers. I’m asking why won’t Trump release the information about Matthew Crooks … why the cover up??”
Greene isn’t alone in raising “questions” about the attempt on Trump’s life. Disgraced Fox News host Tucker Carlson claimed the “FBI lied” about crucial details of Crooks’s life. On Tuesday, Carlson went even further, when he formally apologized for ever aligning himself with Trump’s movement.
“We’re implicated in this, for sure … we’ll be tormented by it for a long time, I will be,” Carlson said during an interview with his brother, Buckley Carlson, who also renounced his support for Trump. “I want to say I’m sorry for misleading people.”
That was enough to kick the MAGA ecosystem’s conspiracy-minded influencers into overdrive. Prominent right-wing influencer accounts like Red Pill USA and ThePatrioticBlonde rushed to provide........