I think that maybe it was staged," said podcaster Tim Dillon, previously a Trump devotee, in early April. According to Dillon, the time has come for Trump to come out and say that, "Some people are going to be upset by this, but we staged the assassination attempt in Butler to show people how important it was to vote for me and how far I was willing to go for them." While such claims are growing louder, they aren't new. In November, Tucker Carlson suggested that the FBI was involved in covering up the facts behind the shooting, posting that the "FBI lied" about the shooter's online habits.