The top advisor to Democrat mega-donor Reid Hoffman sent an email to journalists this weekend encouraging them to consider the fact that the Trump assassination attempt may have been staged.

Hoffman is the LinkedIn founder who recently suggested Trump should become an "actual martyr."

Hoffman's top advisor, Dmitri Mehlhorn, wrote this email to journalists after the assassination attempt on President Trump.

Mehlhorn wrote that one 'possibility - which feels horrific and alien and absurd in America, but is quite common globally - is that this "shooting" was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash. This is a classic Russian tactic, such as when Putin killed 300 civilians in 1999 and blamed it on terrorists to ride the backlash to winning power. Others who have embraced this tactic of committing raw evil and then benefitting from the backlash include Hamas on October 7. If any Trump officials encouraged or knew of this attack, that is morally horrific, and Republicans of decency must demand that Trump step down as unfit.'

Bro, he staged getting shot in the head for votes and now he should step down because he's unfit for the presidency?!?!?

You people really never stop with the Trump nonsense!!

The other possibility, Mehlhorn wrote, 'is that some crazy anti-Trumper in this chaotic moment decided to assassinate the former President.'

Mehlhorn, who co-founded a fund called 'Investing in US' with Hoffman, made clear his impulse was toward the false flag theory. 'I know I am prone to bias on this, but this is a classic Putin play and given the facts seems more plausible. Look at the actual shot. Look at the staging. Look at how ready Trump is to rally; this pampered baby shit his pants when an eagle lunged at his food. Look at how quickly Trump protects himself at the expense of others, but showed few of those lifelong instincts in this moment. And consider how often Putin and his allies run this play.'

He continued: 'I know it feels yucky to discuss such a possibility. But in this case, the odds are so high, and the stakes so consequential, we must as[k] the question.'

Mehlhorn wrote that he was disappointed that journalists were not already raising the possibility of a fake shooting. 'Ask the question, people. If it proves wrong, we should respond appropriately to a non-staged act of political violence, as outlined above. But your credibility and our entire system of truth and justice depends on being certain of the answer.'

Mehlhorn has since apologized for the email, though it is unclear whether he still thinks the shooting was staged or that journalists should report it as such.

Here was Reid Hoffman in the wake of the assassination attempt:

Well, Mr. Hoffman, you almost got your wish. And your top advisor thinks it was staged.

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