A new row has erupted within conservative circles after former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene publicly questioned an assassination attempt on Donald Trump during the 2024 campaign.Greene was once a staunch ally of Trump, but has now joined a group of his supporters who are raising doubts about the shooting at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. “President Trump, of all people, should lead the charge” to uncover the full truth, she said in a comment on X. “Why not him?” She added. “That’s the question.”The attack occurred on July 13, 2024, when a gunman opened fire during a campaign speech. The suspected shooter was Thomas Matthew Crooks, who was shot and killed by a Secret Service sniper after firing several shots toward the president.
A bullet hit Trump’s ear, while two others were injured. Local volunteer firefighter Corey Comperatore was killed while protecting his family.Pictures from the scene showed Trump raising his fist and shouting: “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Where the agents surrounded him. He later said that God “saved him” to “make America great again.”At the time, questions were raised about the incident by political opponents. However, the questioning of Greene, a senior MAGA figure, marks a different shift, with some Trump supporters now promoting theories that the attack may have been staged to gain a political advantage over Democrats.
No evidence was provided to support these allegations. Greene also called attention to a post by Trisha Hope, a former Republican National Convention delegate from Texas. “A very important post that deserves to be read and studied. The Cory Comperatore family deserves to know the truth about Matthew Crooks and what happened at Butler on July 13, 2024,” Green wrote while sharing the post.Hope said in her post that she found some suspicious things about the incident.
She pointed to Trump’s statement that he would speak about the horrific event only once because it was “very painful.” “When people tell a lie, and it’s certainly a big lie, it’s hard to keep all the details straight… In my opinion, Trump made this statement to stop any further conversation about what happened,” she wrote.Hope also questioned why Trump did not “strongly” criticize the Secret Service. After the incident, he instead praised agent Sean M.
Curran, who was later appointed director of the agency, because he risked “his life to help save mine from an assassin’s bullet.”A Department of Homeland Security (DHS) review later found security failures and confirmed that six agents were suspended after the attack.Hope also claimed that images of Trump from the rally appeared unusually composed, and claimed that the death of a person made the event appear more credible. “If you can’t look at this story, use critical thinking skills and have at least some questions, then you are the problem and we need you to snap out of it,” she wrote.Her claims went viral, with hundreds of responses within hours. Some users compared the response to the 1981 assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley Jr., noting that the agents immediately protected the president.
