Nearly A Third of Americans Believe At Least One Trump Assassination Attempt Was 'Staged' [View all]

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Nearly A Third of Americans Believe At Least One Trump Assassination Attempt Was ‘Staged’
By Sofia Rubinson and Samantha Tanner

Nearly one third of Americans (30 percent) believe that at least one of the three attempts on President Donald Trump’s life over the last two years was staged, according to a new NewsGuard/YouGov poll. For each attempted assassination, a majority of Americans said either that it was staged or that they were not sure — averaging 54 percent across all three.

Only 38 percent of Americans believe that all three assassination attempts were authentic.

A national survey of 1,000 Americans conducted by YouGov on behalf of NewsGuard asked respondents from April 28 to May 4 whether they believed any of the three attempts on Trump’s life — at a July 2024 campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, at Trump’s West Palm Beach golf course in September 2024, and at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner in April 2026 — “was staged.” Respondents indicated whether they thought the statement that the assassination attempt was staged was “true,” “false,” or that they were “not sure.”

Young respondents (ages 18-29) were more likely than older respondents to say the incidents were staged. The largest gap was for the April 2026 assassination attempt in Washington. Thirty-two percent of 18- to 29-year-olds said it was staged, compared with 15 percent of those 65 and older.










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