Press dinner shooting conspiracy theories spread in era of fractured politics

Neither political party is immune to conspiracies in a time of intense distrust in government and media, experts say

After an armed man attempted to breach the ballroom where Donald Trump was set to speak to White House journalists on Saturday, conspiracies immediately spread about whether the event was staged.

The rhetoric has become a common refrain from both sides of the aisle in an era of deeply fractured politics and intense distrust in political institutions and media, and in the president himself.