Lessons From Trump's Assassination Attempt
On Saturday, July 13, during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, there was an effort to kill Donald Trump. The 45th president and Republican candidate in the 2024 elections survived the attack. Many things that should never have happened occurred, and other factors that should be inherent in a democracy were dismally absent. Here are some of the seminal lessons that one can take away from this tragic event.
The Left and the Biden-Obama Regime Bear Responsibility
Since June 16, 2015, when Trump announced his candidacy for the presidency in the 2016 election, the Left has targeted him. Initially, the Democrats, corporate media, the oligarchic social media class, the deep state, and elite globalist moguls believed they could use him to alienate and divide Republican voters. Once they realized their strategy failed and Trump won his party’s nomination and challenged Hillary Clinton, the Left conspired with heavier guns.
The Obama administration used state institutions like the FBI, CIA, and Department of Justice (DOJ), with financing from the Democratic National Committee’s election war chest, to construct false narratives that tied Trump with Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin. Obama government officials went so far as to commit fraud on applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to spy on the Trump campaign. When that character assassination attempt against the Republican candidate failed and Trump won in 2016, the war against him heightened.
The Russia hoax, the sham impeachment accusations (the second while out of office), the media Biden corruption coverups, and the Chinese pandemic with its consequential electoral systemic overhaul disrupted Trump’s first term. The pandemic-altered, bizarre 2020 election, plagued with gross irregularities and statistical inconsistencies, handed the presidency to Joe Biden. From then on, Obama’s third term was initiated, and the persecution of Trump and conservatives, pejoratively labeled by left-wing zealots as “MAGA” Republicans, took on new heights.
Marxist dogmatic proposals were fed into the American cultural means of production by the Biden-Obama regime. For this sinister project of making America socialist to succeed, the fascist classification had to be firmly attached to Trump and his vast following. This broad coalition, dubbed “extremist” by the Left, consists of moderate and conservative Americans with one principal binding denominator: a rejection of globalist left-wing political and social objectives. For over three and a half years, the Biden-Obama regime has used the FBI, CIA, DOJ, and other agencies of the federal government to persecute Trump, “MAGA” Republicans, and Christians and Jews with deep religious convictions that put them in conflict with cultural Marxist policies.
The Democratic Party’s 2024 election platform has consisted of making Americans falsely believe that Trump is a “threat” to democracy. That is basically it. For this, they have used, since Biden’s ascension to power, the judicial system to levy charges and convictions against Trump and people close to him. Innocent Americans have been made into political prisoners with ludicrous sedition accusations and charges stemming from the January 6 Capitol Building riot. Parents and traditional Catholics have been investigated as potential domestic terrorists. This has been part of the Left’s fascist, white supremacist/nationalist conspiracy lie that remains their campaign banner.
The grand failure of the Biden-Obama regime’s extreme-left politics is evident in the southern border anarchy, skyrocketing crime in Democratic-run cities, hyperinflation in certain sectors, and the promotion of Marxist dogma (Critical Race Theory, Queer Theory, Gender Ideology, Postcolonial Theory) in key institutions (public and private). The vitriolic hatred against Trump has been built up out of necessity. The Left can only win and maintain a following if they scare people. For years, they have consistently, relentlessly, and irresponsibly compared Trump with Adolf Hitler, a national socialist mass murderer. By making the former president out to be a monster whose mission it is to destroy American democracy, an assassination attempt, whether unintentional or otherwise, was in the brewing.
Serious Failures in the Secret Service Performance
The fact that someone with a rifle was able to climb on top of a roof at 130 yards (0.12 km) distance from the podium where Trump was speaking and take a shot raises serious concerns. Either the Secret Service was grossly negligent and failed epically in basic rudimentary protection, or there was a mole within the department that facilitated the lapse in protocol. There is no way this can be understood. Kimberly Cheatle is the Biden-appointed director of the Secret Service. Despite having PepsiCo as her last previous employer, she worked for 27 years in the Secret Service, including being assigned to protect then-Vice President Biden. In other words, Cheatle knows the intricacies of protecting high-profile political figures.
Witnesses and video recordings make the case that Secret Service personnel and Butler Police had knowledge of the gunman’s presence. Thomas Matthew Crooks, the former president’s would be killer, was cited on the rooftop with the rifle as Trump was delivering the campaign speech. Secret Service snipers were seen pointing to Crooks, yet not neutralizing him preemptively. They fired only after the assassination attempt was executed. Why the delay?
Can Biden’s FBI and DOJ be Trusted with the Coming Investigation?
After over at least five years of the wanton political misuse of the FBI and the DOJ by, both, Obama and Biden, can Republicans trust that a fair and comprehensive investigation into the attempted assassination of Trump? The answer is no. The empirical evidence should convince any skeptic that under the political watch of the Biden White House, the judicial system has only used its legal and law enforcement muscle against conservatives and right-leaning activists. Antifa, Black Lives Matter, pro-Hamas and other Islamist-Marxist groups have fared with generous immunity under the current system of law. Trump and Republicans should invest in private security operatives, in addition to using the available public venues, at least until the 2024 election.
The Assassination Attempt favors Trump and Republicans
The fact that Trump survived the attempt to permanently silence him, and the manner in which he did it, will definitely benefit his candidacy. Just as the levying of unfair criminal charges raised support from many undecided or centrist voters, this horrific intent to kill Trump and the gracious and brave attitude displayed in the literal line of fire, will most certainly add votes in his favor. It appears safe to bet that the assassination attempt will elevate Trump and show Americans, not that he is an “existential threat to democracy”, but rather that murder was a path that his opponents were expected to take at some desperate point. This would be consequentially logical if the Democrats' claim and discourse were to be taken with merit.
Divine Intervention Saved Trump and the Nation
Last, but most important, God’s hand was ever present in saving Trump from death. It is extremely rare that a bullet from an AR-15-style rifle just grazes a piece of skin. The slight movement of the head in the pivotal second before the bullet was about to obliterate Trump’s brain is exceptional. The reflex exhibited by the 45th president, a non-military man, was formidable. God has His reasons for doing things. As Psalms 19:9 tells us, “The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.”
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🖋️Author Julio M. Shiling
Julio M. Shiling is a political scientist, writer, columnist, lecturer, media commentator, and director of Patria de Martí and The CubanAmerican Voice. He holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, Florida. He is a member of The American Political Science Association, The PEN Club (Cuban Writers in Exile Chapter) and the Academy of Cuban History in Exile.
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