Last weekend, President Donald Trump suffered his third major assassination attempt. On the first attempt, in Butler, Pennsylvania, in July 2024, a bullet hit his ear. The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed by Secret Service agents. Two months later, Ryan Routh was arrested on a second attempt while lurking at Trump’s golf course in West Palm Beach.
These three major efforts do not include efforts like that of Austin Tucker Martin, who was shot and killed by Secret Service agents two months ago after breaching the security barrier at Mar-a-Lago while Trump was not on the premises. Not even that of Asif Merchant, a Pakistani business owner with ties to Iran, who had tried to hire assassins to kill the president. Those stories disappeared from the news cycle almost immediately.
By a count of at least five, Trump may be one of the most targeted presidents in American history. It’s long past time for his opponents to do something to stop these attacks. What comes after this kind of open violence?
Trump is trying to turn the temperature down, but he continues to take on those on the left who won’t. The media is even worse.
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After the aborted WHCA event, Trump contacted ABC’s Jonathan Karl, who reported that the president called him early Sunday morning to check in with him and also emphasized “the unity that he felt in that moment, that he felt at the dinner before the shooting and certainly afterward, with the people who contacted him.” Trump wanted it to be a unifying moment.
But in his “60 Minutes” interview last weekend with CBS’ Norah O’Donnell, O’Donnell brought up that alleged attempted murderer, Cole Allen, wrote in a manifesto, “I am no longer willing to allow a pedophile, rapist and traitor to cover me with his crimes.”
Where are the adults in the room? Even as Democrats do the right thing and condemn violence, something that should be expected of all elected officials but is not, they are doing everything they can to pretend that Trump is not the target of violence.
O’Donnell called it “stunning” and asked Trump for his reaction to it. Trump, of course, responded negatively, because when else would a crime victim have to answer for nonsense believed by a criminal who wants him dead? If the intended victim had been President Barack Obama or Joe Biden, would O’Donnell have presented both men with the would-be killer’s extensive complaints and asked them to answer for them? Of course not.
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Part of the problem is that so much of the left is wrapped up in conspiracy theories, about things like Trump being a pedophile, but also about whether the assassination attempts are real. They are not discouraged from these disturbing and evil ideas by anyone, least of all by members of the media who should be telling them the truth.
O’Donnell’s decision to recite these disgusting lies only furthers them. She didn’t portray them as the crazy things a potential assassin might say. Instead, she pretended not to understand that the alleged attempted assassin was referring to Trump. It was sickening.
Chuck Todd, once considered a somewhat serious host of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” blamed Trump for the violence against him. “I don’t go to events where Trump is present,” Todd said in a podcast on Monday. “I don’t feel safe.” “Chaos follows him,” podcast host Chris Cillizza agreed. Really disgusting.
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Where are the adults in the room? Even as Democrats do the right thing and condemn violence, something that should be expected of all elected officials but is not, they are doing everything they can to pretend that Trump is not the target of violence.
Former President Barack Obama tweeted vaguely in opposition to the violence following the assassination attempt, without ever mentioning the president’s name: “While we do not yet have the details of the motives behind last night’s shooting at the White House Correspondents Dinner, it is our duty to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democracy,” Obama wrote on X. But by the time he posted, we were fully aware of what Cole Allen would have to do. Obama simply didn’t want to give the president credit for being a victim and instead kept his anti-violence advocacy vague.
There must be accountability.
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A few days before the WHCD, Jimmy Kimmel joked that Melania Trump was “shining like an expectant widow.”
“Kimmel’s hateful and violent rhetoric is designed to divide our country. His monologue about my family is not a comedy – his words are caustic and deepen the political disease in America,” the first lady wrote on X.
She’s absolutely right. Kimmel hasn’t been funny in over a decade, and his jokes are largely just anger and hatred directed at Trump and his family.
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It wasn’t funny before, but as murder attempts increase, the media must recognize their role in normalizing violence. It would be better for all of us if they did that now.
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