the staged part would be it was an actual attempt to shoot Trump. But they would actually not aim for him.
I can easily see Trump being ok with any random innocent being killed if it meant he would benefit in any way.
The reason I don't think it was staged was the shooter was a young white maga loser from a maga family. I can easily see his motive being some bizarre thing of wanting to be connectec to Trump forever. And gun nuts always have an urge to use their gun. realistically this will never come up in terms of crime and defense. But he saw was having a rally and wanted to use it. To me it makes sense that the suspect was who it was. Same with the guy that killed Charlie Kirk. They grew up in Gun worshipping families.
If it was actually staged I think they would get someone that was non white to do it.
The Maga base were in a rage after both the attempt to shoot Trump and the Kirk shooting. On social media's they were
going on about "them" tryng to kill "us". After it was revealed who the suspects were in both cases they calmed down and just wanted to move on from the actual shooting.