{"id":44512,"date":"2026-05-11T11:58:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:58:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44512"},"modified":"2026-05-11T11:58:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:58:25","slug":"is-that-a-good-idea-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/05\/11\/is-that-a-good-idea-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Is That A Good Idea? Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

The alleged assassination attempt<\/a> on President Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner\u00a0<\/strong>seems to be growing legs, and not the good sort of legs:<\/p>\n

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Source: WaPo<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p><\/div>\n

The breakdown:<\/p>\n

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Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans, according to a\u00a0survey<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The analysis:<\/p>\n

Jared Holt, a senior researcher at the online extremism tracking group Open Measures, said the statistics show how conspiratorial thinking is becoming more common in the United States.<\/p>\n

\u201cThose poll numbers don\u2019t terribly shock me. They\u2019re definitely bleak,\u201d Holt said. \u201cConspiracy theorizing has infected our body politic now to the point where it has become a gut reflex for a seemingly growing portion of the population.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"\"<\/a>There’s more, but it all suffers from one omission: context<\/em>. Yep, my favorite word. The missing context?<\/p>\n

President Trump caught in 30,000+ lies in his first term<\/em>.<\/p>\n

You can add in his role in The Apprentice<\/strong><\/em>, his frequent contradictory statements, separated by only a few hours in time, and the quality of his minions, in any order, Bondi, Noem, Patel, Lutnick, Bessent, etc.<\/p>\n

Context serves to make the assessment of hidden events, that is, of potential fraud or hoaxing on one side, or an honest assassination attempt on the other, more or less plausible. While I remain skeptical that this was a hoax, I’ve already acknowledged its similarities to a Hollywood production, and how it serves the purposes of President Trump to distract from his potentially disastrous presence in the Epstein Files<\/strong>, the already-disastrous Trump War<\/em>, and the blundering of his minions, such as them crowing concerning credit card use “going through the roof,” as if that were a good thing.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s all circumstantial, and, as such, I am neutral on the matter.<\/p>\n

But the second facet of the above numbers is the amount of pressure being put on Congress to impeach the President. As I’ve noted in the Senate Campaign posts, all Republican members of Congress, minus Rep Massie (R-KY) perhaps, is going to feel the pressure of the question of whether they continue their loyalty to President Trump, like this guy<\/a>, or if they throw him into the blender as an act of self-preservation as well as loyalty to the country. I do not think the numbers are high enough to force an impeachment, but if Republicans reach the 50% mark on this sort of poll, Republicans may start calling on Speaker Johnson to take action.<\/p>\n

Whether he’s even capable of doing so is doubtful.<\/p>\n

Finally, WaPo<\/strong><\/em> blundering:<\/p>\n

Last week, a\u00a0federal grand jury in D.C. indicted the alleged gunman<\/a>, charging\u00a0Cole Tomas Allen<\/a>\u00a0with four felonies, including the\u00a0attempted assassination of President Donald Trump<\/a>. Soon after the incident that led to his arrest at the Washington Hilton,\u00a0conspiracy theories began to spread online<\/a>\u00a0that falsely<\/strong> claim the Trump administration staged the incident in an effort to manufacture support for the president, the Republican Party and his\u00a0planned White House ballroom<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My bold. It’s my assessment that a single proof of this being a Hollywood-like planned incident, such as a funds transfer to the family of the alleged perpetrator, would falsify the claim; or, in other words, WaPo<\/strong><\/em> is a news organization, but, while it has, or should have, fact checkers, that checking has to stop somewhere, and that ‘where’ is well short of verifying a fraudulent, hidden activity, such as this, has or has not occurred. Given the reasonable desire of the Trump Administration to conceal the truth of the matter if fraud is involved, WaPo<\/strong><\/em> is irresponsible making an absolute claim.<\/p>\n

They should simply state the Trump Administration has denied any such allegation and move on.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The alleged assassination attempt on President Trump’s life at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner\u00a0seems to be growing legs, and not the good sort of legs: The breakdown: Roughly 1 in 3 Democratic respondents said they believed the event was staged, compared with about 1 in 8 Republicans, according to a\u00a0survey \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44512"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44517,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44512\/revisions\/44517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}