Blame is being laid left and right for the shooting at Donald Trump’s rally in Butler, Pa., on Saturday that left the former President injured and a supporter dead.

“When we were watching this footage live I shouted ‘why are there so many damn women in this detail? They’re running around like chickens with their heads cut off!’” wrote someone else. “And notice the male agents and their focus. This IS NOT A WOMAN’S JOB”

Ms Cheatle has defended the Secret Service and said she was “proud of those involved” in a memo to staff, the New York Times reported.

“In the coming days, the Secret Service will face praise and criticism,” she wrote. “Do not get distracted by those who were not there and yet still pass judgement.”

In an interview on Real America's Voice right after the shooting, Greene called politics today 'a battle between good and evil.'

But one would think that, at a time when the motive of the gunman who shot at Trump still is unclear, Greene might not want to escalate tensions and be seen as promoting more violence. But that would be out of character for Greene, and out of touch with today's Republican Party.

They were alluding to the QAnon conspiracy theory, which suggests Trump is waging a secret war against a deep state - a shadowy coalition of security and intelligence services, hidden from plain sight, looking to thwart his every move.

Without any evidence to support the idea, they then went on to suggest the “order” for the assassination “likely came from the CIA” and accused Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Mike Pence of being involved. There is no evidence to support any of that - but the post has been seen 4.7 million times.

On X, political activists and supporters quickly hunkered down in their own echo chambers, reading posts that were recommended by the site’s algorithm and confirmed what they already thought. The rest of us scrambled to avoid this deep pit of conspiracy and speculation.

This was a test for Elon Musk’s new Twitter - and it’s hard to say the site passed with flying colours.

We should all be terrified about what comes next.

Two years ago, I asked some of the world's leading experts on democratic breakdown about what comes next: How might the seeming crisis of American democracy end? Many of them warned of rising political violence. The more people hate and fear their political opponents, the more likely they are to go outside the law to try to stop them.

Look, there's no place for this kind of violence in America. It's sick. It's sick. It's one of the reasons we have to unite this country,' Biden said in remarks at the Rehoboth Beach, Del., police department Saturday. 'We cannot be like this.'

Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee to face Trump in November's general election, said he did not have all the details on others in the audience who might have been injured. When asked whether he thought the shooting was an assassination attempt, Biden said, 'I have an opinion, but I don't have all the facts.'

Chris LaCivita, a top adviser to Trump's campaign, posted on social media a sentiment similar to Vance's, blaming the attack on efforts by Trump's political enemies to disrupt his candidacy. '[W]ell of course they tried to keep him off the ballot, they tried to put him in jail and now you see this - LaCivita wrote on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, before later deleting the post.

Trump himself often uses inflammatory language, having taken office in 2021 by describing the state of the nation as 'American carnage.' He has since called his political enemies 'vermin,' described some undocumented migrants as 'animals' and warned of a 'bloodbath' if he fails to win in November.