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Source: Washington Post
Many Americans think Trump assassination attempts were fake, survey finds
About 1 in 4 say the correspondents' dinner shooting was staged, the poll found, including roughly a third of Democrats, as conspiracy theories spread widely online.
May 11, 2026 at 6:00 a.m. EDT
President Donald Trump at a news conference after a gunman disrupted the White House correspondents' dinner last month. (Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
By Liam Scott
https://www.washingtonpost.com/people/liam-scott/
About 1 in 4 Americans think the April shooting at the White House correspondents' dinner was staged, with a marked partisan divide, according to a survey published Monday.
Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans, according to a survey published Monday by NewsGuard, a company that rates the reliability of online news outlets. Respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 were also more likely than older people to think the incident was staged, according to the report.
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