‘BlueAnon’ conspiracy theories flood social media after Trump rally shooting...The alarming rise of BlueAnon

"Minutes after Saturday’s shooting at a Trump rally in Butler, Pa., liberals began flooding social media platforms with conspiracy theories."

"They claimed the blood on former president Donald Trump’s ear was from a theatrical gel pack; that the shooting was a “false flag,” perhaps coordinated by the Secret Service in collaboration with the Trump campaign; that the scene of a bloodied Trump raising his fist under an American flag was “#staged.”"
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/blueanon-conspiracy-theories-flood-social-media-after-trump-rally-shooting/ar-BB1pYgOQ

"In an email to left-of-centre journalists on Saturday night, Dmitri Mehlhorn, a political adviser to Reid Hoffman, the billionaire LinkedIn founder and Democratic mega-donor, suggested that it was possible that “this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power. Others who have embraced this tactic of committing raw evil and then benefitting from the backlash include Hamas.”"
https://www.newstatesman.com/international-politics/2024/07/donald-trump-conspiracy-theories-blueanon