Former President Trump comes within an inch of losing his life at an election rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. The shooter, a bullied 20-year-old incel, lies dead on the roof of a barn with an AR-15-style rifle at his side. A firefighter is killed while diving heroically to protect his family. And my own cousin from New Jersey tells me it was all a staged incident using fake blood, as in the movies, designed to restore Donald Trump to power. What planet is she on? I try reasoning with her but she is off in a fantasy world of her own, while insisting she is “not a conspiracy theorist”.