Today’s notice: Theorizing about conspiracies. What Steve Scalise felt on Saturday night. Hill Democrats ponder Kamala-mentum. The king of England meets the First Pollinators. And: NOTUS talks to candidates self-funding their campaigns.
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Rhetoric and response: The White House insisted yesterday that Democrats and their heated rhetoric about Donald Trump led to Saturday’s shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner.
Democrats brushed it off. “I don’t give a damn about your criticism,” Hakeem Jeffries said yesterday, noting that his “maximum warfare” quote that set Republicans off originally came from the White House.
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This is a familiar back-and-forth by now. But more and more Democratic allies are stepping over the line from antagonism to outright conspiracies. Popular progressive influencers, like the TikTok-famous lawyer and podcaster Michael Foote, posted winking claims that what some people experienced in that hotel ballroom, and others watched live on TV, actually did not happen — at least not as it appeared. (Foote did not respond to a request for comment.)