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Just two months after the failed Trump assassination attempt by one Thomas Matthew Crooks, we witnessed Sunday yet another foiled one, by Ryan Wesley Routh—a would-be assassin and anti-Trump/radical pro-Ukraine War social media addict.Somehow he, too, once again got within relatively easy shooting range of former President Donald Trump.(snip)So, is it all that hard over the next 50 days for Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to extend adequate Secret Service security for ex-president and Republican presidential nominee Trump (which some congressional Democrats, led by Jan. 6 Committee Co-Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., had sought to stop entirely in April...

Gun control Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) reacted to the September 15, 2024, assassination attempt on Donald Trump by claiming Trump himself is the one inspiring “political violence.” He also claimed that Trump endorses “political violence.” Murphy posted to X: On the same day that Murphy placed his post on X, failed presidential candidate Hillary Clinton told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow that Trump is a “danger to our country and the world.” Moreover, Breitbart News noted that Kamala Harris’s senior adviser David Plouffe once called for the extermination of former President Donald Trump and “his kind,” according to a 2016 post on...

Hours after former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided a second assassination attempt, NBC News’ Lester Holt fanned the flames of violence by blaming Trump’s “rhetoric” rather than the suspected would-be assassin, who once praised Holt.

As we mull the shooting of Donald Trump and its aftermath, let’s consider, “What if?” What if the Secret Service had shot Thomas Matthew Crooks as he crawled across the roof, before he opened fire on the once and possibly future president? Crooks would have been a hero (and martyr) of the right wing. Headlines in right-leaning media would have screamed, “Young Trump Supporter Shot Dead by Feds Outside Rally.”

<p>FBI Director Christopher Wray has raised doubts as to whether or not Donald Trump was struck by a bullet during the assassination attempt at a Pennsylvania rally earlier this month.</p><p>Wray testified before the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday about the ongoing investigation into the attempt on the former president’s life and the response of law enforcement agencies that day.</p>