GOP Rep Claims Deep State Behind Trump Shooting

The New York Times reports:

He says he is skeptical that the F.B.I. will “get to the bottom” of the first attempted assassination against Mr. Trump — and even if they do, he declares, “I don’t believe that they would give us the truth.” He has repeatedly raised the possibility that the shooter who tried to assassinate Mr. Trump in July at an open-air rally in Butler, Pa., did not act alone, and that the gunman who was arrested last month was an “asset” of a foreign adversary who was being “handled.”

Representative Eli Crane, a first-term Republican from Arizona, has been everywhere that will have him, promoting conspiracy theories about the assassination attempts against Mr. Trump, despite all evidence that such theories are false. And far from sidelining or attempting to silence him, Republican leaders have given him a prominent platform to air his outlandish claims at the highest levels, lending credence to the conspiracy theories spread by him and others on the far right.

Read the full article. Before running for Congress, Crane founded a company that makes bottle openers out of “.50 caliber cartridge casings,” which he later pitched on Shark Tank. He first appeared here as part of the House cabal to remove Kevin McCarthy as Speaker. His 2022 bid for the US House was backed by far-right QAnon nutbag Arizona state Sen. Wendy “Proud To Be An Oath Keeper” Rogers.

“I think they’re theories, and if you want to classify them as conspiracy theories I’m OK with that,” says Eli Crane.

As Lawmaker Claims Trump’s Shooting Was Inside Job, G.O.P. Indulges Him – The New York Times https://t.co/W1THtFEkNY

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