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Donald Trump assassination bid: Hours after Thomas Matthew Crooks’ vain attempt to assassinate former US President Donald Trump on Saturday, unconfirmed information linking the incident to the \u2018deep state\u2019 flooded social media. Although false conspiracy theories often emerge in politically volatile environments, experts stated that tempers often run high during elections.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
In 2024, an assassination attempt was made on Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico. Two years back, the former Prime Minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe, was assassinated.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
Manoj Joshi, a former member of India\u2019s National Security Council Advisory Board, told LiveMint <\/i>that these assassination attempts might be mere coincidences. \u00a0\u201cThey are similar events but coincidences. Deep State is a myth,\u201d said Manoj Joshi.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Despite the FBI identifying the shooter as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, conspiracy theories continue to brew. Some left-wing accounts suggested Donald Trump staged the attack on himself, while accounts from the far right called it a hit on a political rival, reported The Washington Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Meanwhile, Indian economist Sanjeev Sanyal hinted it wouldn\u2019t be surprising if past assassinations were connected. \u201cI would not be surprised if there is a link between the assassination of Abe, the attempt on Fico and now Trump. The world is now in a very dangerous place,\u201d wrote Sanyal on his personal account on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIt looks very staged,\u201d posted one user on X, which garnered over a million views. \u201cNobody in that crowd heard an actual gun. I don\u2019t trust it. I don\u2019t trust him,\u201d wrote the user about the Trump rally shooting incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Experts, however, ruled out Deep State theories. \u201cIncidents of political violence spawn conspiracy theories and false narratives when people try to spin the event to suit their various agendas,\u201d Megan Squire, deputy director for data analytics at the Southern Poverty Law Center\u2019s Intelligence Project, told The Washington Post<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Manoj Joshi shared a similar view. He said, \u201cDuring election time, rhetoric and tempers are often high, and self-control is needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The political dynamics continue to excaberate amid such theories, blurring the lines between what is and what is not, reported The Washington Post<\/i>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\nDonald Trump latest news<\/h2>\n