Leftists are about the narrative. Cute words strung in clever arrangements are their fact, truth, and reality, and conspiracy theories are meat and potatoes fare. Anything to change the narrative you don't like.
As long as you can concoct something that will have legs and carry, that's all you need. It's what the NYT, WaPo, Botox Pelosi, and Schmucky Chucky have been trying to do since the Scalise shooting.