President Donald Trump was the target of yet another assassination attempt this weekend, this time during the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner. Details are still coming in, but what does seem clear now more than ever is that Trump Derangement Syndrome is no longer just a joke or online meme. It is a very real psychological sickness driven by a left-wing cult of violence that is tearing at the seams of American society.
Video of the terrifying moment during the event at the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., shows the President speaking with someone on stage when muffled shots are heard in the background. Secret Service then quickly rushed Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and other high-profile cabinet members out of the room.
Trump later posted on Truth Social that a “shooter has been apprehended” and applauded Secret Service and law enforcement officers for acting “quickly and bravely.” He also briefly spoke to members of the press from the White House Press Briefing Room podium to update them on the situation.
There have been no reported fatalities or serious injuries from the incident. One law enforcement officer was reportedly hit in his bulletproof vest.
The alleged shooter has been identified as 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen of Torrance, California. Allen, allegedly a substitute teacher who recently won “Teacher of the Month” in Los Angeles County, had a shotgun, handgun, and multiple knives as he unsuccessfully attempted to rush through a Secret Service checkpoint before being apprehended. An unknown number of shots were fired.
Over the next few days and weeks, expect plenty of back-and-forth debate online about Allen’s political leanings and past statements. Liberals are already claiming with zero evidence that the whole thing was a hoax (just as they have with past Trump assassination attempts) while simultaneously claiming that Allen is actually a radical right-winger. Conservatives (with substantially more evidence, including the fact that Allen reportedly donated to Kamala Harris), are pegging him as yet another left-wing terrorist.
But Allen’s personal politics shouldn’t be the main focus here. His actions reveal a deep and sinister undercurrent of violence in our culture directed at President Trump – and all of his supporters – that keeps showing up over and over. On that front, there is no question that the broader liberal establishment, and particularly the corporate media, are responsible.
Americans won’t need to be reminded of the near-miss assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2022. That shooting killed two people in the crowd behind Trump and critically injured two others. Then there was the second major assassination attempt in Florida, when another would-be killer was captured with a rifle at Trump International Golf Club.
But while those incidents dominated the headlines for several weeks, they weren’t the only ones. Back in 2016, a British national attempted to grab a police officer’s firearm at a Trump rally in Las Vegas, later telling authorities that he wanted to shoot him. In 2017, another deranged individual tried to flip Trump’s presidential motorcade with a forklift in North Dakota. In 2020, a French-Canadian citizen mailed Trump a package containing deadly ricin poison. In July 2024, a Pakistani national was arrested for partaking in a murder-for-hire scheme to take out Trump. And just this past February, Secret Service killed an individual who brought a shotgun and a gas canister to Mar-a-Lago.
There’s also the broader context of violence against conservatives – most notably the assassination of Charlie Kirk last year. Many other conservative influencers face death threats almost daily and have had their addresses and personal details posted online. Left-wing influencers like Hasan Piker openly call for death to conservatives.
Liberals can deflect all they want, but the reality is that it seems as if it is primarily right-wing figures who are facing down such violence – strongly suggesting that it is the left that has a violence problem, not the right. Joe Biden was notoriously unpopular, but he never had a bullet graze his ear, and we never heard stories about lunatics storming events he was attending to try to murder him.
There will be plenty to analyze as more details emerge about Allen and what motivated him to commit this seemingly insane act that had virtually no chance of success. But this shocking story has already reinforced the disastrous consequences of the left-wing cult of violence – and that it must stop before more people end up dead.
Shane Harris is the Editor-in-Chief of AMAC Newsline. You can follow him on X @shaneharris513.
Democrats have been killing presidents since 1865, other people they don’t like since at least 1828 and unborn kids for at least 45 years. They’ve been burning cities since at least 1965. They’re the KKK, BLM and Antifa storm troops. They’ve brought in thugs, criminals and terrorists from all over the world. Stop violence? They have been fomenting it from their inception. Near as I can tell, they’ve been at war with the U. S. since the mid 1850s.
Democrats have been killing presidents since 1865, other people they don’t like since at least 1828 and unborn kids for at least 45 years. They’ve been burning cities since at least 1965. They’re the KKK, BLM and Antifa storm troops. They’ve brought in thugs, criminals and terrorists from all over the world. Stop violence? They have been fomenting it from their inception. Near as I can tell, they’ve been at war with the U. S. since the mid 1850s.
They will never acknowledge that as long as Donald Trump is alive! You know they’ve also blocked funding for the secret service. Coincidence I think not. I think back on how many assassination attempts conservatives did on Joe Biden. I don’t even have to take off my shoes to count them, there were none. The Democrat party is so insane they have absolutely no place ruling this country ever again. They are truly the party of Satan, and their eternal judgment is coming
CUT OUT ALL OF THE DEMONCRATS SECURITY UNTIL DHS IS FUNDED
I just read an article about a microbrewery in northern Wisconsin that has been promoting a “free beer” day on the day that there is a successful assassination attempt on the President. That is beyond sick and definitely deserves to be investigated by the FBI/Secret Service. As long as this kind of sh*t is tolerated and nobody is held accountable, it’ll go on & on by the ruthless, demonic left.
Makes one realize the entire education industry, top to bottom, is in need of serious examination, investigation and overhaul to ensure the future young people have a chance to learn about, appreciate, support, defend and extend the republic they will inherit.
Hard to stop a movement where half the country agrees. Like all history traditional Americans will not fight back until it is too late Europe is a good example of those ignoring history.
The Democratic Party and their allies have consistently conspired to destroy America and President Trump anyway they can! They are the biggest threat and enemies we have! We the true patriots and Americans of this country must stand up together and fight for our President and our country, we can no longer stand by and accept the attacks of our domestic enemies!
THE DEMONCRATS ARE TOTALLY RESPONSIBLE
We live in a sick Demonic society edged on by the Markus Democrats
The radical liberals are totally responsible for these attempts on Trump’s life. They have been the “destroy America party” as far back as the Civil War and the resulting “Carpetbaggers” who sold the blacks their lies so they could control them and they are still doing so. They all march to the same drum of lies and empty promises and they have brain-washed 50% of this country into hating President Trump, I am all for free speech but rooting for our president to be killed is going way past free speech, it has reached threatening status and needs to be stopped. This media hate group needs to be reigned-in and Congress should be able to get rid of any of their members who utter this kind of hate-speech. After all, they ALL took an oath to defend this country. Of course oaths and truth-telling no longer have a place among these Dem/Communists.
Try giving the Dems and media some of their own medicine and then listen to the whining for the rest of our lives !
The left becomes more despicable every day! They are nothing but evil and power hungry. They are fanning the flames of chaos and violence constantly. I’m sure they would love to use these events as an excuse take the guns of law abiding citizens. Then they would be free to enslave us all and force us to live in a socialist cesspool! I am 66 years old and love America unlike the demonic left who want nothing more than to destroy America. They are in league with Satan and hopefully they will all get to spend eternity with him! GOD BLESS AMERICA AND PRESIDENT TRUMP!
This is exactly wanted. Trump is killing their kickbacks on the fraud they overlook. The American people have long wondered how a person making $175K a year, becomes a multi-millionaire in a few years. It has been exposed in Minnesota, we are starting to see in California and and I can’t wait to see NJ exposed
The recent revelation about the SPLC giving money to extremist groups like the KKK in an attempt to prop them up just so the Democrats. could keep their cultish, violent threats going against American conservatives was the last straw for me. The Democrats have now entered into a land they can’t come back from. They are now traveling on dark roads filled with evil, encircled about by mists of darkness. They can no longer be trusted in any forum, in any corner where civilized people dwell.
It’s not a cult of violence it’s hatred being spread since Obama became president. Or I should say was installed by the WEF billionaires. Anyway that man hates America with a passion. Biden who was an Autopen president was told what to say and do by Obama and the hatred continued. MSM was bought or paid off to become the propaganda outlet and Biden called conservatives domestic terrorists. Under Trump 45 their hatred for him intensified more under Biden with fake indictments, and continued when in spite of all their manipulation, fraudulent election, Trump was elected with an overwhelming majority. He won in every precinct in America. And still they want to kill him. Reason they want to overtake America. They thought they would get it done on Jan 6 but failed and put the onus on Trump. The democrats hate conservatives and America. They won’t finance Our Homeland Security they want lawlessness. Stealing is encouraged. When Trump cleaned up DC they fought it tooth and nail in Illinois and Minnesota. They think it’s okay that foreigners here steal billions of tax dollars at a cost to the citizens. Nothing to see here Tampon Timmy said. Pritzker the same. Walks in an upscale neighborhood at 6 am and proclaims everything is safe here and under control. The Safe Act they won’t pass because they don’t want legitimate elections. In meantime they are calling the people of color incapable of getting an ID. People wake up. They are brainwashing you and that’s why we get more and more of these shooters because the dems spread radicalization of their base day in and day out. In schools and universities in churches from the pulpit. If they don’t, they raid the churches or pursuit the members. They protest any authority in this country. We are going either to a dictatorship without a constitution. Or we become a country run by a cabal. Where killing their opposition becomes the norm. Like an Iran.
From a Clint Eastwood T-Shirt I have: “In a country so divided, I’m glad to be on the side with the most guns, and knows which bathroom to use.”
The Democrat Party is Criminally Violent. (Right Hillary?)
Bring back to life the anticommunist laws for these traitors now already !!! Gitmo for military tribunals for treason televised televised these traitors !!!
Stop electing Democrats, America.
Stuff like this is going to get the demonratic party in very hot water and I hope it makes it harder for a demonrat to get elected to high office. Block Secret Service funding? May God condemn those demonrats and rinos to the place where the devil lives.
Even if it was an attempt on a duly elected democrat President, I don’t want any harm to come to them. Why?? Because no one would run for the office for crying out loud!! The voters are the ones that need to be educated on the negatives of both parties.
Dementia Joe letting millions of un-vetted “potential” demonrats into the country they could later decree as citizens without learning the language, history or rules of the U.S. That was WHAT they did and were planning to do!! The demonrats are pushing for a one party country!!! Welcome Communism “y’all”. Never voted for a demonrat and never will.
Trump Security issues, solutions:
Vet SS of TDS
Purge SS detail
ID “moles” within
Mobile pexiglass shield for podium
Mobile pexiglass shield for dining table
VP attends via Zoom
Map area for event
Block exits NOT needed
Vet hotel staffers
Regardless of the excuses and denials provided by the democrats, they have always been a party of dissent and violence and lies and hatred.
It has become obvious that due to their actions, they will never change and need to be dissolved as a valid party of America’s electorate.
Their leadership is constantly being exposed as untrustworthy full of corruption and incompetence.
Let’s finally put an end to the madness and find another way to choose election integrity over fraudulent and corrupt politicians who seek to undermine the America that sets us apart from the world.
All attempting assassins should be given speedy trial and mandatory death penalty without parole. (And I don’t mean sitting on death row for decades either.)
What the Democratic Party needs to do is to stop all the hate and hateful rhetoric that is imbedded in every single speech and presser they are a part of, When you closely look at the situation, it is the Democratic Party who desires a one Party system in which they are the Rulers. They do not want to hear from anyone, be it a Political Opponent, or a Constituent if they do not agree completely and unquestioningly with what they are saying. They want complete control over every aspect of our lives and they make no bones about it. Just look at Barack Obama’s speech where he said the “Average American is too Stupid to know what is good for them. That is why we have to make the decisions for them.”
Calling President Trump a Fascist, Hitler, Authoritarian, and all the other names they have used, does nothing less than incite the more fragile minded individual to think they must hunt him down and kill him, or anyone else the Democrats choose to malign. Unfortunately, there are many people among us who are not stable enough to recognize that they cannot listen to the voices of hatred and act upon those words.
God help us, this kind of rhetoric has got to stop, the sooner the better.
All do you remember Democrat Senator Chuck Shumers open, disgraceful and disgusting threat against our President.
Its no wonder there have been several attempts on President Trump’s life. As a result
Some The left feels empowered to continue
their evil attempts.
Please Pray for our President his family and our nation.
Dear ABC, I agree with Melania Trump. It ie time for Jimmy to go permanently. Let him preach from the street corner. His toxicity is not worthy of a National platform. Wake up Disney! What would Walt do?
Satan hates it when great good is being accomplished.
This gives all public school teachers a bad name, rightfully so. Not that they are all psychopaths, but most are Leftist intolerant haters. Public schools are sewers for indoctrination and immoral people pretending to be teaching our kids what they need to know. They don’t need to know how to hate, how to accept or commit violence, how to commit demented, immoral sex practices, or that they are not the proper sex they should be. This creep just confirmed all of this; just like all Libtards.
Am example must be made. Do it.
Violence, chaos, lies and coercion is left’s modus operandi. Clean elections, freedom of speech, movement and thought are the enemy of the party, which is continuing the fairy tale Marx wrote , he might have been an opium addict. In that state of mind anything is possible. They are petrified of Donald Trump and that which he represents. Not even murder will stop them, would not be the first one, only Good Lord knows how many “botched robberies” happened in DC.
Let’s face it– ALL of the political violence comes from the LEFT! They are simply following their “leader” :SATAN! Baby killers, castraters, child molesters, terrorists are ALL [maybe 99%] on the same side politically! This “teacher” is living with Mommy and Daddy at 31–what’s his problem? Do you want to bet he’s a member of the AFT; one of two propaganda purveying unions? Only ONE House DIMM directly called out THIS violence!
This isn’t just about Trump. Go back and look at all political assassinations and attempted assassinations in our country’s history. What do they all have in common? Democrats or anarchists, which is one and the same. That party has been anti-American anti-constitution from its inception in the 1820s. Do some freaking research folks and you’ll see that every single bad thing that’s been done by government has been done by them. It’s not even arguable.
When are the ignorantly arrogant lunatic Democrat voters going to wake the hell up and realize that ALL Democrat politicians (excluding one) are truly America’s enemies within? And to comprehend that they, the Democrat voters, are a MAJOR part of that evil group of America’s enemies within because THEY are the IDIOTS that keep electing and re-electing all these vile, lying, demonic DamnoRATS.
ANSWER – NEVER!! As the article makes perfectly clear, TDS is REAL and a MOST SERIOUS AND DANGEROUS MENTAL DISEASE. And the Democrats AND the mega-CORRUPT Fake News medias ALL suffer from major TDS.
Side note: ALL Democrats spewing threats, violence and dangerous rhetoric against Trump should be indicted, prosecuted, convicted and serve long prison sentences for inciting dangerous riots, threatening and endangering the United States President, Supreme Court justices, and many others who don’t agree with them.
But NO justice will ever catch up with them. True EVIL people seldom get what they deserve, at least in this life.
I wasn’t aware of any fatality in Butler, other than Mr. Comparatore. At least in the audience. I am faulting the media for the brain-rot the left is experiencing. Unless and until they change their evil ways, this will , unfortunately, continue to happen.
The hell with the nutjobs , who cares what they want to acknowledge. Guy walking around armed to the teeth and no one did anything?? Run him over ? engage and contain tell help arrives . Why wasn’t he terminated? Same as the nutjob hiding in the bushes at the gulf course engage and terminate. Set the rules anyone attempts the life of officials are terminated period . That goes for that nutjob that killed Mr . Kirk put the animal out of its misery.
I do not believe the average citizen who gets his news from the MSM, actually realizes how dangerous this rhetoric is, by this so called media.. Where did the term, “rapist”, “pedophile” and other unsavory titles, come from. This time, I think it started with the Biden DOJ. This department seemed to be the only one Biden took a part in its function. His auto-pen people seemed to have done the rest, pardons and etc.
So between litigation, and attempts on his life, this courageous President has done more for all of us, than the last four presidents combined. I was here so I know.
“…Left Must Acknowledge Its Violence Problem”But they WON’T. They aren’t mature enough to admit anything they do might be wrong or harmful.
They are repeatedly proving that they really don’t care about the citizens of this country. Unfortunately they will do whatever it takes to get reelected, whether it’s stealing elections, lying about what the ballot measure really means or yelling their violent rhetoric to stoke violence…now we even have PROOF they are willing to pay fringe groups to get violent to make them look like THEY hold the morally higher ground.
They accuse the Conservatives of being terrorists, Nazis, fascists, yet THEY are exhibiting fascist ideology by their words and actions.
They will not stop because they only care about getting back in power and staying there and getting/having money, evidenced by all the fraud we’ve begun to uncover.
They. Don’t. Care. About. The. American. Citizen. They only want to control the votes and keep their power.
The left doesn’t consider violence a problem. They consider it a feature.
I have found that the leftist media I trying to paint the would be assin as some kind of genius that hates Christian’s.
This suggests part of the homosexual community.Christians didn’t write the Bible or the multiple verses that condemn homosexual behavior.
The Director of the FCC needs to be fired and replaced.
The broadcasters have rules and regulations to obtain a broadcast LICENSE. This also applies to ham operators as well.
There should have been broadcast licenses suspended or at least on probation after Robert Dezero was allowed to walk up to an open and non delayed mic and just spurt out 4 letter words. Also the network that sponsors Stephen Colbert should be pulled off entirely.
I have watched hillary clinton on many occasions and different leftist networks air her commenting that the BIGGEST PROBLEM IN AMERICA IS WHITE CHRISTIAN MEN.
And Hillary is using stolen metaphor’s from rush Limbaugh that would call people like her feminazi’s.
The media broadcasters NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for the encouragement of lower intelligence audience’s.
I believe this all started many years ago with shameless show hosts like phil donahue, jerry springer all the way to the view.
We now need to call for immediate change.
TERM LIMITS , TERM LIMITS, TERM LIMITS
I am of the opinion that the SS should be fired and military Special Forces should security for the President. Too much incompetence to even discuss. And I just heard this was at the same hotel where Reagan was shot. Interesting.
The only reason the progressive/socialist propaganda machine, often referred to as the mainstream media, is even covering this latest attempt by a left-winger to assassinate the president is that it’s just too big to ignore this time. They’ve got a major damage control project ahead of themselves on this one, so just sit back and watch them as they somehow try to re-spin the whole thing to somehow make it be Trumps’s fault just as they always do. Their lack of common sense and exhibitions of insanity continue to make us the laughing stock of the world.
Sadly, the government has ZERO fortitude when it comes to prosecuting ANY PERSON that has committed (political) crimes. I have 100% confidence that ALL RUSSIAGATE CONSPIRATORS will walk! Any and all persons even publicly wishing ill toward Trump, DO YOUR WORST there are apparently no consequences for crimes against conservatives and crimes against the people running the federal government.
They’re not liberals — liberals are tolerant and believe in civil rights for all citizens. There are hardly any of them left, most have passed on, become radicalized as Progressives or socialists, or have become libertarians because they realize that the government can be the greatest threat to civil rights and tolerance as well as being a protector of those values.
These physical and verbal attacks on public officials and “influencers” are being made by radicalized Progressives and socialists. These radicals believe their agenda is the only “fair,” “inclusive,” “just,” and “scientifically sound” path for the nation and all who oppose them must be either criminalized and imprisoned, terrorized into leaving public life, or eliminated. These radicals, like all radicals, believe “the ends justify the means,” and that while there might be room for compromise on the pace of “change,” there can be no compromise on the need for the changes they demand.
Like Communists or NAZIs or Islamists, they must be arrested, tried, punished, and imprisoned [preferably in solitary where they cannot radicalize other inmates] or expelled from the US [if non-citizens].
Why are these activists, especially those in congress state government being called to accountability. I hear about investigation after investigation but with no apparent results.
ACKNOWLEGE it? Those @a$t&rd$ deny it even EXISTS!!!
(rolls eyes while smh)
So many HATERS have Satan inside them – we need to pray that GOD will take ‘him’ (satan) totally DOWN!
The news commentators who were there haven’t seemed to be aware that had he gotten into the room and started spraying buckshot, the some of them would have been wounded or killed. The killer was OK with that possibility/probability.
the us gov has been funding communists since before 1917 Trotsky was caught by Canada Woodrow Wilson told Canada to let him go general Marshall bragged about sinking the ship with arms for gen chang ki sheck moa took over china how did everyone get atomic bombs we must have gave it to them a lot of traitors in our country for decades and not just dems
Leftist democrats have been inciting riots causing deaths, injury, fires, destruction, vandalism and hate.
And as America declined, little to nothing has been done to stop or prevent it!
But you have not seen Republicans/Conservatives engaging in any of that!
Most Republicans/Conservatives are law abiding citizens, who love America, God and fellow Americans.
Meanwhile, America stood by and said nothing, while Pelosi and others got rich with insider trading and while the democrats continually lied, smeared and disrespected America’s President and then created “lawfare” to falsely impeach, bankrupt and even charge him with lies they made up, including the rape of a woman many years ago, in a public department store, that she never reported nor can even remember the date. Because it never happened! But as we saw democrat lawyers even manipulate court outcomes!
America deserves better than what democrats with TDS, have done to destroy it!
Only VOTE Republican, never Democrap for America’s and your better future!