The person who accused Rep. Ilhan Omar at a town hall in Minneapolis on Tuesday while spraying an unknown liquid was identified as Anthony Kazmierczak, 55-years-old. Almost immediately, MAGA influencers on social media insisted that Omar himself staged the attack in a bid to garner sympathy from voters. But it’s not just the usual online dipshits like Laura Loomer and Alex Jones. King Dipshit himself, President Donald Trump, floated the conspiracy theory Tuesday night.

Asked by reporters Tuesday if he had seen Omar’s video, Trump replied, “I don’t think about him. I think he’s a fraud.” Trump continued to insist, “He probably sprayed himself, because I know him.”

The funny part, of course, is that countless people believe that Trump somehow made his own assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024. They point to the fact that Trump’s ear barely showed any signs of damage and the fact that he wore a ridiculously large bandage over it during the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee that year. But there is no evidence that Trump carried out the attack. Just as there is no evidence that Omar was responsible for his attack on Tuesday.

But that hasn’t stopped some of the most prominent voices online from claiming the Minnesota congressman was just putting on a show for the cameras. Laura Loomer was early in the game, writing shortly after the news broke about the event: “Idk what’s funnier. The video of Ilhan Omar pretending to be sprayed with a syringe tonight, or the fact that everyone knows it was staged.

“I laughed so hard at how staged and fake it was. Worst acting ever!” Laura Loomer wrote another tweet. “It was so funny. I couldn’t stop laughing at how staged it was.”

It’s easy to dismiss Loomer as a crank conspiracy theorist who doesn’t care. But he is unfortunately a crank conspiracy theorist that matters, given the fact that he has the ear of the president. Loomer traveled with the president, attended a 9/11 memorial event with him, and took credit for firing several top officials at agencies such as National Security Agency.

The social media platform X was also flooded with fake images of Kazmierczak trying to make it look like he knew Omar. In one of the fake pictures, the two were made to look like they were posing for a photo together. Another fake photo shows Kazmierczak holding a sign that reads “Black Lives Matter.”

Both images contain the SynthID watermark, which is invisible to the naked eye, but indicates that the image was created using Google’s AI image generators. Nano Banana Pro is probably used, due to the fact that it looks very photorealistic. Nano Banana Pro, available through Gemini, is simply one of the best AI image creators out there for realism.

When someone expressed doubt that the photo on the left was real, one of the many people who posted it responded that Grok said it was real. (Again, no.)

Many posters have asked the grok and it says it is true.

— No Privacy (@NoPrivacy16) January 28, 2026

Right-wing influencer Nick Sortor took issue with claims that Kazmierczak is a Trump supporter, writing, “The legacy media will try to convince you that this person is the ‘MAGA’ Horsesht (sic). Stay frozen, patriots. This is an op. ” An analysis of Kazmierczak’s social media posts by PBS news showed that she was indeed a supporter of the president, even changing her profile picture to Erika Kirk after Charlie Kirk’s death.

Initial reports of what was in the syringe indicated it was just apple cider vinegar, according to CNN, which means it was likely just a way to scare Omar rather than inflict actual physical harm. But CNN’s source for that claim appears to be law enforcement and the news outlet did not specify whether that came from federal authorities. Needless to say, the feds lied constantly under President Trump. The FBI has reportedly taken over the investigation from local police, according to CNN.

During the town hall, Omar called for the abolition of ICE and the resignation of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. And President Trump called Omar “garbage,” along with all people from Somalia. So it’s easy to see why someone fueled by political anger, and fueled by Trump’s rhetoric, would go after him.

After the incident, Omar said that he was not afraid: “You know, I’m more than saved, and I can definitely survive the intimidation and whatever people think they can throw at me because I was built that way,” he said, according to ABC News.

Trump has fueled conspiracy theories during his time in office but his inability to maintain a consistent message can still cause even his dumbest followers to be confused about what he is saying and why. After federal agents killed ICU nurse Alex Pretti in Minneapolis over the weekend, Trump said he didn’t like how Pretti carried a gun, despite his history of saying he supports the Second Amendment.

“You can’t have guns. You can’t walk around with guns. You can’t do that,” Trump told reporters.

Any good conspiracy theorist would take that as a sign that Trump is instigating a shooting to take away everyone’s guns. Because that’s what this garbage from above will always produce. When you spread conspiracy theories without hesitation, those conspiracy theories will almost always come back to bite you in the ass. Just a moment.