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    Trump Has Faced Six Assassination Attempts. After Him, They’re Coming For You.


    After Saturday’s attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents’ dinner, we’re now at the point where it’s truly challenging to keep track of all the serious attempts on Donald Trump’s life. You might think that’s an overstatement, or you might think you can name all of these assassination attempts from memory. But I’m willing to bet that’s not true at all. So here’s a test: What happened on September 6, 2017, during Trump’s first term as president? He was in North Dakota to give a speech at a refinery. And while he was in transit, a 42-year-old man from North Dakota stole a forklift, drove it into Trump’s motorcade route, with the intent — according to the state’s attorney — of “flipping the limo” and “killing the president.”

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    The plan — as creative as it was — was foiled when the forklift got stuck on a fence. In the end, it was basically a Temu Killdozer. Ultimately the attacker settled for lighting a few buildings on fire. For all this, he received an extremely light sentence — time served — because, according to his public defenders, he suffered from Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Yes, his excuse was ADHD. And it worked. You see, ADHD is a disorder that can explain literally everything away — from getting bad grades to trying to kill the president. If ADHD had been invented in the 1860, maybe John Wilkes Booth could have saved himself the trouble of running away and getting shot.

    In addition to the forklift attack, by my count, Trump has faced five other serious attempts on his life. There was Michael Sandford in 2016, who tried to grab a police officer’s gun to shoot Trump in Las Vegas; Thomas Crooks on the infamous sloped roof in Butler; Ryan Routh with the sniper’s nest at the golf course; Austin Tucker Martin with the shotgun at Mar-a-Lago; and now the attack at the dinner on Saturday. And that excludes all the people who sent Trump ricin in the mail. These are all cases in which assassins moved well beyond making threats or planning an attack. They went out in the world, ready to throw their lives away, with the goal of murdering Donald Trump.

    No other president in the history of this country has been directly targeted this many times, by serious assailants. That’s a straightforward, uncontested fact. Gerald Ford had two serious assassination attempts. Truman had one. Reagan had one. Andrew Jackson had one. FDR had one. If you go looking up assassination attempts on, say, Barack Obama — who, we were told, was the first black president, and therefore he’d be hunted relentlessly by white supremacists — you’ll find just one incident that’s remotely on the level of the Trump attacks. That incident involved a guy named “Ortega-Hernandez” who fired rounds at the White House from a quarter-mile away when Obama wasn’t there. Beyond that, there’s nothing. If you pull up the Wikipedia page for “Security Incidents Involving Barack Obama,” the very first entry reads, “North Carolina Waffle House threats.” So that should give you some idea of the quantity and severity of the threats Obama was facing.

    And we can generalize this even further. In the past two years, can anyone name a single major act of political violence that was committed by a Trump supporter? The shooter who targeted those Minneapolis lawmakers claimed he was taking orders from Tim Walz, which isn’t exactly a Right-wing motivation. Thomas Crooks — we can conclude from his social media posts, as well as the fact he shot Donald Trump in the head — wasn’t exactly a MAGA guy. (He was a Trump supporter at one point, but was radicalized against the president during the pandemic.) On the other hand, violence committed by the Left has been very hard to miss. Putting aside the Trump assassination attempts, Charlie Kirk was murdered on-camera in front of the entire world, Brian Thompson (the health insurance CEO) was gunned down by a schizophrenic, ICE agents in Dallas were nearly shot to death by a sniper who somehow missed and hit a few illegals instead, two Israeli embassy staffers were executed by a guy screaming “Free Palestine,” a law enforcement officer was shot in a coordinated plan to assault an ICE detention facility in Alvarado Texas, multiple Tesla dealerships were set on fire and dozens of Tesla vehicles were vandalized, the headquarters of the New Mexico GOP was hit with firebombs, Josh Shapiro’s residence was set on fire by another “Free Palestine” freak, and multiple officers were shot in an attack on a Border Patrol facility in McAllen Texas. A gunman opened fire on an ABC station in Sacramento, after the network suspended Jimmy Kimmel for lying about Charlie Kirk’s murder. All of these attacks happened in just the past two years.

    There is simply no comparison here. This is not a “both sides” issue. That’s not to say there’s *never* been violence in this country that was motivated by extremist Right-wing beliefs. But particularly in the past two years, the political violence has only gone one way. If there’s any comparison to be made here, it’s to the epidemic of Left-wing violence in the 1970s, which has largely been memory-holed. Schools certainly don’t talk about it.

    In his book “Days of Rage,” Bryan Burrough quotes a retired police agent as saying: “People have completely forgotten that in 1972 we had over nineteen hundred domestic bombings in the United States. People don’t want to listen to that. They can’t believe it. One bombing now and everyone gets excited. In 1972? It was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was commonplace.” From 1971 to 1972 — just a one-year period — the FBI reported more than 2,500 bombings in the United States. That averages to roughly five bombings every day, mostly committed by leftist organizations like the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army, the “May 19th Communist Organization,” and so on.

    What’s different now is that the average Left-wing attack is far more lethal than it was in the 1970s. And more importantly, unlike the 1970s, the violence reflects the consensus view of most Democrat Party voters and politicians.

    Consider the embarrassingly bad, Reddit-tier manifesto of the man who just tried to kill Trump at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, Cole Allen. This is a guy who donated $25 to Kamala Harris, and believed pretty much every piece of Democrat Party propaganda imaginable, judging by his social media posts. He called Trump a Nazi, abandoned Twitter and fled to the open-air asylum that is BlueSky, and even believed that Kamala Harris would win the state of Iowa, based on that ridiculous poll that dropped shortly before the election.

    Credit: X — @KanekoaTheGreat

    He wrote, “Based on Iowa, predicting that kamala [sic] wins all swing states and at least 3 red states.”

    And when you read his manifesto, it becomes obvious just how deeply-held these beliefs were. The key takeaway is that there’s nothing in the manifesto that’s out-of-step with mainstream Democrat Party talking points. Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto was at least thought-provoking and well-written. He didn’t sound like a generic cable-news talking head. But Cole Allen simply writes a summary of various Democrat hoaxes and propaganda. He calls Trump a “traitor,” alluding to the Russiagate hoax. He also says Trump is a “pedophile,” alluding to non-existent evidence in the Epstein files. He implies that inmates are getting sexually assaulted in detention camps and that innocent “fishermen” are getting blown up by a Nazi president.

    Fundamentally, this is no different from what you hear every day on CNN. Watch:

    Everyone who heard Trump’s remarks understood what he was saying. It was a variation on his argument that third-world countries “aren’t sending their best” to the United States. They’re making us weaker, rather than stronger. That’s what poison does. And rather than debate this self-evident observation, the press would rather pretend that Trump was talking about racial purity — which he never actually did. He was talking about foreigners who came into this country from mental institutions and prisons, drug traffickers, and generally low-quality migrants from “all over the world.” That’s not what Hitler was writing about. He was talking about “race-mixing.”

    But the corporate press exists to ignore all of this context, so that they can convince as many people as possible that Trump is the moral equivalent of Hitler. And in the same breath, leftists will advance explicitly anti-white racial politics of their own. That could be why, in his manifesto, Cole Allen explicitly writes that “Mr. Patel” — as in Kash Patel, the FBI director — isn’t a “target.” He doesn’t elaborate as to why that might be. But it’s not unreasonable to conclude that Cole Allen wanted to prioritize white targets. After all, in this manifesto, Allen goes out of his way to identify as “half black,” as a way of suggesting that white leftists should be the ones shooting at the president. In the part of his manifesto where he addresses hypothetical issues someone might have with the assassination, he writes: “As a half-black, half-white person, you shouldn’t be the one doing this. Rebuttal: I don’t see anyone else picking up the slack.” And then he states: “Administration officials (not including Mr. Patel): they are targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”

    Cole Allen is channelling stock Democrat Party rhetoric when it comes to racial equity and oppression narratives. He doesn’t think he should have to “do the work,” as they say. And when he does feel compelled to act, he’s going to spare the first non-white administration official he can think of — even if that official is widely known as a loyal Trump supporter. So race, as always in Democrat Party politics, is the primary fixation.

    And we all know that Cole Allen, had he been successful, would’ve been widely celebrated on the Left. At this point, there’s a pattern emerging with these assassination attempts. Every time something like this happens, you see one of three responses from the Left. If the assassination is successful, they’ll openly celebrate it all over social media — which we saw with Charlie Kirk and Brian Thompson. On the other hand, if the assassination is unsuccessful, they’ll either lament the fact that the shooter didn’t “finish the job,” or more commonly, they’ll claim that the whole thing was a “hoax” or a “false flag.” In no scenario will Democrat voters, in large numbers, condemn the violence. That never even enters into their minds. This is a party that exists to do two things: replace white American voters with loyal foreign servants, and kill everyone who stands in their way. Therefore, within hours of the shooting, videos like this one were all over social media. Watch:

    It’s a very persuasive piece of commentary. I’m certainly convinced. The attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents’ dinner was indeed a hoax. The Trump Administration recruited a leftist Kamala Harris-voting Trump hater to participate in a staged assassination that would include the shooter getting shot at and then locked in federal prison for the rest of his life. The Kamala Harris voter agreed to this plan, that works against his political and personal interests, because he’s just like a really generous guy. Meanwhile the Trump Administration, despite dastardly planning multiple assassination hoaxes, decided to keep their patsy alive and a permanent liability to them, rather than just killing him like they could have easily done. They did this because they also are really strangely generous in a very odd and specific way. So in summary we have a plot where all parties involved are working against their own interests with no real discernible benefit to any of them. There is no evidence of this plan and it doesn’t even make any intuitive sense and the motives for everyone are unclear if not insane, but still I believe it because I’m a very smart person.

    According to a recent survey, nearly half of Democrat voters believe the assassination attempt in Butler was staged. This theory is perhaps even more ridiculous. We know that real bullets were fired at Trump during this attempt because someone seated behind Trump was hit and killed. So in order for this attempt to be a hoax, Trump would have had to volunteer to have real bullet fired at him. Which means they not only recruited someone to participate in this hoax, knowing that they would die or go to prison forever, but they also placed absolute faith in the marksmanship of their mentally ill patsy. And of course this is to say nothing of the large number of people who would need to be involved or complicit in this hoax — all of whom have somehow kept their mouths shut, even though the Trump Administration through two terms is notorious for leaks and anonymous sources gossiping to the media.

    None of it makes any sense, but just to give you an idea of how widespread this kind of thinking is, on social media, Cole Allen himself endorsed the idea that the Butler assassination attempt was a false flag. Yes, the latest wanna-be Trump assassin sincerely believed that previous assassination attempts on Donald Trump were staged. Here’s what he reposted: “HOW DO YOU GET SHOT WITH NO SCAR???”

    At this rate, before long, we’re going to get a Trump assassin who’s convinced that his own assassination attempt was staged, somehow. These are people who find the idea that everything is fake, or a “simulation,” to be extremely intoxicating.

    It’s tempting to call all of these people morons, which would be accurate. But if you look at the profile of a leftist assassin, it’s hard to ignore the fact that they’re all above-average intelligence — or at least, they think they are. By all accounts, Luigi Mangione wasn’t a dumb guy. Neither was Thomas Crooks. And Cole Allen was educated at Caltech, which is one of the most competitive schools in the country. Their acceptance rate is around 3%.

    Cole Allen — LinkedIn

    Granted, he was almost certainly a DEI candidate who wasn’t remotely qualified to pursue mechanical engineering, which was his major. And I can make that determination for a few reasons. First of all, his career flatlined — he quickly became a teacher for a strip-mall SAT tutoring company, as well as an “indie game developer” who didn’t actually make any games. This isn’t exactly the profile of a competent engineer. Secondly, when the shooter was in school, he appeared in this local news report, which strongly indicates he’s much less impressive than he thinks he is. Watch:

    His grand invention is sticking some PVC pipe onto the bottom of a wheelchair, to function as an emergency brake. And because he’s black — or at least “half black” — we’re all supposed to be impressed by this. It’s reminiscent of that kid named “Ahmed Mohamed” who supposedly designed a clock and brought it to school, only to be accused of carrying a bomb.

    Credit: Wikimedia

    Obama and every media outlet told us that kid was a genius, even though he just took a store-bought digital clock, ripped the casing off, and stuffed it inside a pencil container. But it was supposedly a miraculous invention, because after all, he’s not white. And even though, from a distance, it definitely looks like a bomb, we’re all supposed to ignore that. Otherwise, we’re racists.

    Cole Allen’s life story is similar, in that respect. Instead of telling him to accept his natural limitations, leftists promoted him as a genius at every opportunity. And when that fake reality collapsed, Cole Allen wasn’t intelligent enough to realize he’d been lied to. Instead, in what presumably was his final act as a free man — unless he successfully pleads to having ADHD — Cole Allen attempted to charge into a ballroom on a mission to assassinate Trump administration officials, on behalf of the very same party that had been deceiving him for his entire life.

    By the same token, the assassin who murdered Charlie Kirk had obviously come to believe Democrats’ unscientific and deranged views about gender, to the point that he was dating a “furry” who was taking off-market cross-sex hormones because he believed he was really a woman. Luigi Mangione internalized all of the “Eat the Rich” propaganda from the Left. He cited Michael Moore in his manifesto, which re-used many of the typical talking points from Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders. Ryan Routh fell victim to the Democrats’ obsession with advancing the interests of Ukraine over the interests of the United States. All of the people shooting at ICE officers, of course, are also taking Democrats’ rhetoric about “death camps” and “gestapo” to its logical conclusion. These shooters aren’t going down rabbit holes. They’re simply taking the corporate press, and the Democrat Party, at their word. Put another way, if you stop a random Democrat on the street, there’s a good chance they want to see Donald Trump — and all of his supporters — die a horrible death.

    There are too many examples to go through to make this point, so we’ll settle for a couple. Watch:

     

     

    You get the idea. And you’ll notice it’s entirely women and low-testosterone men in these videos. Several of them are public school teachers. Here’s one more example.

    This is apparently someone who sits on a school board, writing, “Staged! Drump stages more crap than a realtor.”

    We are well past the point where conservatives need to get serious about the extent of this threat. And to do that, we need to be honest about why all of the “hoax” theories are circulating on social media right now, among both conservatives and leftists. For most people, it’s a lot more palatable to believe that these assassinations are staged, than to confront the truth — which is that, indeed, a large percentage of this country’s population has been radicalized. If you’re a conservative, they want you dead. That could very well include your next-door neighbor, or your doctor, or your Uber driver. Take a look at this data point:

    Credit: YouGov

    According to a poll by YouGov and The Economist, 25% of people who describe themselves as “very liberal,” and 17% of people who describe themselves as “liberal,” believe that violence can sometimes be necessary to achieve political goals. So basically, one in five Democrat voters, at a minimum, believe that political violence is acceptable. Less than 9% of conservatives (including people who described themselves as “very conservative”) held the same position, in this poll. In other words, leftists are more than twice as likely to admit — openly, to a pollster — that they support political violence.

    That’s why Jimmy Kimmel is still on the air. The executives at ABC know that he has a reliable audience, albeit a relatively small one. Millions of Americans want to see someone lie about the deaths of conservatives, and encourage more assassinations. That’s what Kimmel did after Charlie Kirk’s murder. And it’s what he did just two days prior to the White House Correspondents’ dinner. Watch:

    Throughout all of American history, until very recently, most people would be repulsed by something like this. It’s crass. It’s not funny. It’s obviously trying to appeal to leftists — and there are many of them — who fantasize about the brutal murder of the president. For comparison, here’s how Johnny Carson opened the 1981 Oscars, shortly after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan: This is how Hollywood reacted to the attempted murder of a Republican, after delaying the ceremony 24 hours out of respect. Watch:

    When you import tens of millions of foreigners and flood everyone’s brain with nonstop social media slop that’s designed to reward their worst impulses, you get a very different country — one that’s a lot more deranged and destructive. And that’s what we have now. That’s why Michelle Obama and Rachel Maddow and all of the other “feminists” won’t say a word about what Jimmy Kimmel said. Neither will the women on “The View” or anyone else.

    And even after Saturday’s attack, predictably enough, the corporate press is doubling down. CNN’s Jake Tapper just launched a very painful, extended defense of Kimmel. It’s one of the more excruciating segments you’ll see on cable news. Watch:

    This is coming from the same network that banned Ryan Girdusky for making a joke about beepers going off. They were outraged about that for weeks. And more to the point, this is the same Jake Tapper who was outraged — genuinely furious — over Aaron Rodgers joking about how Jimmy Kimmel was on the Epstein list. Watch:

    So you don’t get to imply that Kimmel is on the Epstein list, because crazy people might take it seriously. But making a joke about Trump getting murdered is apparently totally fine. Jake Tapper goes on like this, for several more minutes.

    First of all, there was no “joke” here. That’s kind of an important point. Jimmy Kimmel hasn’t been funny in about 15 years, and this particular moment was no exception. As a one-liner, it had all of the “humor” of a trans activist on Reddit, gleefully celebrating Charlie Kirk’s assassination. And on top of that, his whole argument is a strawman. No one is saying that the killer was motivated specifically by Jimmy Kimmel’s joke. The point is that the entire Left-wing media apparatus — which is to say, virtually every media outlet in the country — constantly repeats this kind of rhetoric. And when leftists are exposed to this kind of venom, all the time, it turns many of them into dangerous and unstable people.

    For what it’s worth, Kimmel’s routine went on to repeat the same Nazi tropes that CNN uses every day. They want people to marinate in this stuff. Watch:

    Again, there’s not even an attempt at humor here. It’s the same old standby: Trump is Hitler. His administration is Hitler. And when multiple gunmen decide to take this seriously, and attempt to murder the president, this is the kind of response that follows. This is Chuck Todd, the former Meet the Press host. Watch:

    So now Trump is responsible for the people who are trying to murder him. ‘Victim blaming” does not begin to describe this. I saw someone on X say, “This is like that Chappelle Show sketch ‘Mad Real World’ where they stab the white guy’s father and sleep with his girlfriend and then kick him out because he makes them feel unsafe.” You really can’t parody this kind of pathological way of looking at the world.

    In the span of 20 years, this has gone from sketch comedy, to mainstream Democrat Party orthodoxy. They will shoot at you, multiple times, and then blame you for it. And again, this is coming from the guy who hosted “Meet the Press.” He’s one of the most prominent journalists in the country — or was. He claims to be one of the sane ones. The takeaway is clear: If and when these people finally do kill Trump, or another prominent conservative, they’ll do exactly what they did after Charlie Kirk’s murder. They’ll say he had it coming.

    The more this type of propaganda ramps up, from every angle, the more prepared the Right needs to be. Instead, the opposite seems to be happening. A Fox News comedian who was at the Correspondents’ dinner was caught on a hot mic, before the shooting, remarking about how the front door to the hotel was being propped up by two “random women,” who weren’t affiliated with the Secret Service. He was marveling at how lax the security was. Watch:

    That’s Jimmy Failla in the clip. He’s someone who, unlike Jimmy Kimmel, actually tells jokes from time to time. He doesn’t just make death threats. In fact, he’s often pretty observant. And in this case, he made the same basic observation as the gunman, in his manifesto. Cole Allen repeatedly expressed his surprise that the Secret Service presence in the hotel was so minimal. He wrote, “If I was an Iranian agent instead of an American citizen, I could have brought a Ma Deuce in here and no one would have noticed.” (That’s a reference to a 50 cal machine gun).

    And he raises a good point, actually. If the Secret Service isn’t going to screen anyone, in any way, until they try to enter the actual ballroom, then there’s a big problem. According to the reports we’ve seen, it looks like the Secret Service shot several times, and managed to shoot one of their own agents — not the actual assassin. They only arrested him because he tripped and fell, after running straight through a checkpoint. With that in mind, imagine what 50 highly trained Iranian commandos could have done. They could’ve stormed into that ballroom easily. From the surveillance camera footage we saw, some of the Secret Service agents wouldn’t have seen it coming.

    You can see it there. The Secret Service agent in the suit isn’t even looking in the right direction. And no one at the checkpoint even attempts to tackle the guy. Imagine if the Secret Service was actually dealing with a well-trained group of assassins — which isn’t exactly unthinkable, since we’re at war with a country that has a documented history of organizing terrorist attacks on American soil. And by the way, running through the checkpoint is just one of their available options. They were completely free to roam about the hotel and rent as many rooms as they wanted. They could’ve planted explosives. The possibilities are really endless. And it doesn’t appear that the Secret Service has considered many of them. Instead, by all accounts, they ran the exact same security plan that they’ve run for the last 50 White House Correspondents’ dinners.

    If nothing else, it’s a solid metaphor for how unprepared we are, in general, on the Right. Social media, along with the corporate press, has fried the brains of millions of Americans. We’re talking about a total break from reality — a mass psychosis — that poses a direct threat to every sane person in this country. It certainly poses a threat to everyone serving in public office on the Right. It can’t be overstated that nothing like this has ever happened before in American history. And as tempting as it may be to conclude that there’s some vast international conspiracy here, the truth is actually a lot more disturbing. No matter where you live, if you’re a conservative, you’re almost certainly surrounded by people who want you dead. That is not hyperbole. It’s not paranoia. It’s a factually true statement that, if you take it seriously, could very well save your life





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