To control the narrative. And wrest it from the lying media which was starting to run with ‘maga shooter’
To control the narrative in a way that would calm people down instead of the chaos rioting and violence the left was going to go with.
To use the antifa tranny shooter to get to the funders and take out the orgs behind them.
To leave enough that the awakened can see the truth anyway
To shift the Overton window and destroy the Democratic Party mess.
To keep the bad hours from profiting culturally on the assassination.
To pull their teeth.
It’s not lies. It’s a preemptive narrative strike.