The CIA wants you to know it did not use mind control programming on the 20-year-old shooter who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump.
Guess that’s settled then.
In a rare public statement addressing online conspiracy theories related to the attempted hit on Trump, the CIA insisted it did NOT use MKULTRA-style mind control programming techniques on Thomas Matthew Crooks to shoot the former president.
“These claims are utterly false, absurd, and damaging,” a CIA spokesperson told Wired last week. “The CIA had no relationship whatsoever with Thomas Crooks. Regarding MKULTRA, the CIA’s program was shut down more than 40 years ago, and declassified information about the program is publicly available on CIA.gov.”
After disparaging Trump supporters as “some of the dumbest people on the planet,” Gizmodo’s Matt Novak acknowledged that sometimes conspiracy theories surrounding these kinds of historic incidents “turn out to be true.”
Questions about the incident began swirling online in the days and weeks after the attempted assassination of Trump as the Secret Service’s security lapses and Crooks’ background came more into focus.
For example, how was the 20-year-old loner able to fly a drone to stake out the rally prior to Trump’s speech, sneak a rifle and explosives onto the grounds, climb a roof and position himself for a clear shot at Trump from 130 yards away without the slightest awareness from the Secret Service?
Soon enough, scrutiny turned to the intelligence community given its suspected role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 and coverup, and #ManchurianCandidate and #MKULTRA began trending on social media.
Despite the fact the CIA’s entire brand is lying to and misleading the American people, the intelligence agency can certainly be trusted at its word at face value, right?
CIA: “trust us, we are good guys now” pic.twitter.com/DdYlWGgEKk
— Wall Street Silver (@WallStreetSilv) July 28, 2024
The CIA narrative appears to be “Biden has dementia but good intentions and good advisors. But Trump will steal democracy and there will never be another election, so it’s an easy decision.”
It’s batshit crazy but Democrats are primed to believe it.
— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) July 9, 2024
What an odd thing to say https://t.co/0oFRNFsQiz
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) July 28, 2024
“The Allegation Is False”: CIA Denies Meddling In Hunter Biden IRS, DOJ Investigations https://t.co/pYAl4O14SN
— zerohedge (@zerohedge) April 6, 2024
CIA tried to pay off analysts to bury findings that COVID lab leak was likely: whistleblower https://t.co/0r32B1DTFp pic.twitter.com/Cq1mb8XPlT
— New York Post (@nypost) September 12, 2023
Notably, the CIA itself isn’t immune to conspiracy theories, such as former analyst Gail Helt, who claimed Trump staged his own assassination attempt to “stay out of prison.”
NEW: Former CIA Analyst Gail Helt suggests Donald Trump set up his own assas*ination attempt.
Helt, who worked for the agency for 11 years, suggested Trump set up a failed hit because he is “desperate to stay out of prison.”
“[Trump] was hit with a bullet because he’s desperate… pic.twitter.com/t8pYh9BUZi
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) July 19, 2024
The FBI still has not determined Crooks’ motive for trying to kill Trump.
