The problem for the Trump administration, though, is that all of the below are true simultaneously:
“The President is so loathsome that he would conceivably stage multiple assassination attempts to boost his popularity.”
AND
“The President is so loathsome that multiple people would genuinely attempt to murder him.”
AND
“The president and his administration are so loathsome that they lie about quite literally everything, large and small, significant and insignificant, such that it is impossible to know when to believe them or to give them the benefit of the doubt.”
They’ve boxed themselves into a corner on this one. The only people who are not viewing this whole thing with a discerning side eye, at a bare minimum, are the very people for whom it would help Trump the least – because they are already 100% supportive of him no matter what. If they really want one of these supposed assassination attempts to legitimately boost him politically, they are going to have to learn to not be so cartoonishly weird in the immediate aftermath, every single time. It strains credibility, to say the least.