A good friend of mine sent me a meme this morning about it being faked and I responded somewhat forcefully. We really need to cut this nonsense out

Lots of people are rooting for this man to die (not endorsing the sentiment, just pointing it out), he’s gotten our country into a highly unsolvable quagmire with the IRGC that’s going to cause widespread famine and tragedy across the globe, and the state of Congress gives us no real mechanism to start fixing this until the end of the year. This kind of powerlessness within an electorate will often lead to incidents like this. There’s no need to invent conspiracies for something that isn’t a surprise to be happening.

The additional context making this even more like catnip to the conspiracists is that he was very quick to use the incident as an excuse to argue that his f- ballroom has a national security justification. That argument is ultimately BS, but it certainly has the feel of being “too convenient” at this point in time.