by Monty Clouse, Ph.D, The Federalist:
There have been many calls for lowering the temperature between the first assassination attempt against Donald Trump on July 13, 2024, and the second on Sept. 15, 2024. Yet only two hours after last week’s attempt on Trump in Florida, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries lambasted “extreme MAGA Republicans,” saying “We must stop them,” leaving listeners to guess to whom he referred and how “they” should be stopped.
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It’s part of a constant pattern since Trump emerged on the political scene, starting with assassination fantasies with “the resistance,” continuing through the Russian collusion hoax, and aided by protective agencies’ refusal to secure conservative figures.
It’s not just the typically aggressive political rhetoric. Leftists have openly engaged in direct assassination fantasies for years. A conspicuous movement to dehumanize one particular person in America has continuously expanded since early 2016, when “the resistance” formed. Madonna infamously proclaimed, “I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House,” signaling the cultural zeitgeist controllers would wage a no-holds-barred siege against Trump.
Kathy Griffin followed in kind, publicizing an image of herself holding Trump’s dripping severed head. Shortly afterward, nightly showings of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar in New York’s Central Park were capped by the assassination of an unmistakably Trumpian Caesar. Feelers for assassination were going out.
As of 2017, “the resistance” could claim, consequence-free, that Trump deserved anything he got, up to and including murder. The cultural left intended to not only marginalize Trump, but also to fully demonize and dehumanize him. The race was on to define Trump as the most dangerously destructive person in America. The sheer scale of the propaganda no doubt seized the imaginations of many with dreams of fame and glory. The seeds of assassination were thus widely sown.
The Russia collusion hoax, funded by Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee and boosted by the CIA and FBI, consumed years of Americans’ attention, not to mention hundreds of millions of dollars. During its height, legacy media ceaselessly reiterated that Trump was a threat and no better than Adolf Hitler, further inspiring would-be assassins.
In 2022, after concluding Trump’s popularity meant Democrats could only defeat him outside the normal arenas of political debate and elections, President Biden made his famous red wall speech claiming “MAGA Republicans” were undermining democracy. All these elements placed America’s political discourse on simmer, directly encouraging potential assassins of Trump and “MAGA Republicans.” As John Solomon remarked last week, the elements worked together to “boil the water” of American politics into two assassination attempts on Trump in the past two months.
The assassin who attacked congressional Republicans on the baseball field in 2017, the would-be assassin of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and his family in 2022, Thomas Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, and last week Ryan Routh in Palm Beach, Florida, answered Democrat and media calls for the heads of Trump and “MAGA Republicans.” They represent different cohorts of the pipeline of assassins cultivated by our federal government, the Democrat Party, and the legacy media. They represent a ragtag army with variously motivated cohorts who may one day fulfill their aim. They are, after all, determined and many.
Just as revealing and suspicious is the federal government’s inability or unwillingness to protect public officials and candidates. Appropriate enhanced protection for Kavanaugh and other justices’ families still has not received full funding, President Trump’s need for Secret Service protection first contended with Democratic representatives’ efforts to cut it and later with stonewalling from the Department of Homeland Security, and DHS rejected Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s requests for Secret Service protection even after security breaches in 2023 and 2024.
Now it is incumbent upon us to determine whether the federal government, the Democrat Party, and the legacy media have, by many small steps, assembled an assassin pipeline. Not facing this serious situation would be cowardly and could result in a major disaster for the entire nation.
As Dan Bongino noted, Trump finally has an enhanced protection package. Still, it lacks extra provisions that would make it effective against longer-range threats such as the two rifle attempts of the last two months. In addition, a Counter-Surveillance Unit may not be included in the routine protections that could have detected the potential assassin’s location at the golf course fence.
