The past twenty hours (as of this writing) have been surreal, even if I was able to sleep for some of it. Former President Donald Trump narrowly avoided death in an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Leftist ghouls are angry that Trump survived; the mainstream media is doing its best to downplay the crime by deflecting to "retaliatory violence" and trying to blame Trump for his own attempt on his life; and we're left wondering what really happened, which is the first thing that unnerves me the most about this moment in history:
1. We Might Never Know the Full Truth
My colleague Jack Dunphy, a former LAPD officer, just wrote an excellent piece explaining how failures in intelligence and overlooked vulnerabilities will always happen.
That obviously does not excuse the conduct of the Secret Service and Butler law enforcement, and everyone who allowed the events to happen needs to be investigated and preferably fired, as Dunphy noted.
Related: There Will Always Be Vulnerabilities
But that is the thing: "allowed."
My other PJ Media friends have written about how Democratic officials and the mainstream media have been unironically comparing Trump to Adolf Hitler pretty much since he came down that golden escalator in 2015, and thus share blame in inciting this Crooks guy to try and kill him, taking the life of Corey Comperatore and injuring another in the process.
We know how much the establishment hates Donald Trump as well, especially as he has only come out stronger since his phony conviction in New York at the end of May, not even counting all the various other wrongs done to him.
So when you look at how Crooks was able to get decently close to the stage where Trump was speaking, the fact that law enforcement supposedly ignored multiple people trying to warn them of his presence (although RealClearPolitics' Susan Crabtree gave a decent explanation on this here), the repeated requests for better Secret Service protection were ignored, and the same FBI that was authorized to use deadly force raiding Mar-A-Lago in August 2022 and tampered with evidence is now investigating the shooting, what is stopping people from suggesting this was an inside job and Crooks was a patsy?
What is really scary more than saying one or the other is true is that both are equally plausible and are not mutually exclusive.
2. This Might Not Be the Last Attempt
Whether or not there was more to the Trump assassination attempt we saw last night, it marked the culmination of the previously mentioned years of media hysteria comparing him to Hitler and the Devil himself.
Now that someone had gotten the sick idea to actually try and kill him, what is stopping some other deranged leftist from trying to finish the job?
Hopefully better security (especially some that can be adequately trusted, as many are suggesting Trump should hire private security to beef up or replace the Secret Service), but until Trump is hopefully able to return to the White House in January, which is about six and a half months away, another mistake, assuming that is all that happened here in this case, could be even deadlier.
