Louisiana Voice

Let’s all stand and welcome the newest member of the Over-the-Top Conspiracy Club – not that it’s any surprise that he’d choose to jump on board what sounds like some passé Q-Anon tripe being bandied about that is so last year.

Scott McKay, aka MacAoidh, is advancing the absurd theory that Donald Trump was set up by the Secret Service, FBI, or some other deep state group, to walk into an assassination trap that failed only because of “divine intervention” (McKay’s words, obviously picked up from all those frothing evangelicals who think Trump was sent as our redeemer).

In today’s post on The Hayride, of which McKay is publisher, he eagerly latched onto a conspiracy version that rivals the actual conspiracy that surrounded the assassination of GRIGORI RASPUTIN on Dec. 30, 1916 as a run-up to Russia’s Bolshevik revolution. Now there was a real conspiracy.

In doing so, he advances the idea that rather than sheer incompetence, the Secret Service was somehow complicit in some bizarre plot to lure Trump into some false sense of security in order to “bait the trap.”

It’s not even worth the effort to elaborate on the Secret Service SNAFUs which he lists as “proof” in his effort to convince that the Secret Service “or elements within” were “involved in facilitating that assassination attempt.”

Yes, Scott, Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle was far too vague and elusive in her answers to the House Oversight Committee hastily convened to investigate the agency’s failings.

But with any conspiracy, there needs to be a scapegoat. Do you really believe that shooter Thomas Crooks would willingly sacrifice himself to abet some cockamamie scheme that left far too many holes in it to have been hatched by professionals like the Secret Service.

Crooks had a weapon, all right, but not nearly of the sophistication of those being held by Secret Service sharpshooters. If there was some plot to take down Trump, why not employ one of the sharpshooters if they were part of some intricate plot? They wouldn’t have missed.

It makes just as much sense to speculate that the entire event was staged by an ex-reality show host (read: entertainer) who, upon hearing the cue of gunshots, dropped to the floor and slapped camsules of “theater blood” to his ear to make it all look real to a national television audience. But that scenario would require an agreement by the Secret Service and 20-year-old Crooks – a registered Republican, no less – to make the supreme sacrifice to carry the ruse out to its end goal, as well. The others who were hit, including one fatality – well, they’re just collateral damage. Of course that version is a load of horse hockey, as well.

There are a lot of inconsistencies. That’s true enough and no one is denying that. But to turn a bumbled assignment into some sinister plot when you are not part of any investigative unit is to join the Flat Earth Society and those Mississippi fishermen who claim they were beamed up and anally probed by aliens.

“…[O]ur government was involved. It’s very difficult to see things any other way,” McKay wrote.

Only if your head happens to be conducting that anal probe.