A Democratic powerbroker who pushed the conspiracy theory that the attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump was "staged" has visited the Biden White House at least 10 times, a Washington Free Beacon review of visitor logs found.

Dmitri Mehlhorn has met frequently with aides to White House chief of staff Jeff Zients and Anita Dunn, one of Biden’s closest advisers, according to the logs. Mehlhorn is best known as the political adviser to Democratic megadonor Reid Hoffman, a staunch Trump critic who serves on the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Board. Hoffman has given $7 million to a Biden-aligned super PAC and $6 million to the anti-Trump Republican Accountability PAC so far this election cycle.

Hours after would-be assassin Thomas Crooks shot Trump in the ear, Mehlhorn sent a memo to journalists pressuring them to portray the shooting as a false flag operation.

He suggested "this ‘shooting’ was encouraged and maybe even staged so Trump could get the photos and benefit from the backlash," according to Semafor. He also wrote that "if any Trump officials encouraged or knew of this attack, that is morally horrific, and Republicans of decency must demand that Trump step down as unfit."