Trump Reacts to Assassination Attempt. “It’s a Dangerous Job”

The annual White House Correspondence Dinner was disrupted by a nutcase shooter attempting to get into the main dining room with a shotgun, two handguns and knives. He did not bring the knives to cut a steak. He shot a Secret Service agent who fortunately was wearing a bulletproof vest.

Scores of Secret Service and AR-15 carrying police popped up like crocus in springtime to usher President Trump, First Lady Melania, Vice President Vance and others to a safe location, the 1000+ guests dived under tables and hid behind chairs.

Fortunately, the assailant never got into the main room. Other than a slightly injured Secret Service agent, no one was hurt.

We are still learning more about the shooter, but it seems quite clear that this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States – and anyone else he could take down before being neutralized.

His name is Col Tomas Allen — and his profile gives some indication of his potential motive and the target of his grievances. He is registered Democrat and donor to the Kamala Harris presidential campaign. But he also left behind a grievance manifesto directed at President Trump and his administration. Of course, that in and of itself does not suggest a potential presidential assassin. More relevant is the fact that he is obviously mentally ill. The traits merely inform and direct his mental malignancy. While it is obvious from the manifesto hat he wanted to kill Trump, he may have selected the occasion in the hope of killing off high level cabinet members.

Reports describe Allen as a very intelligent person – a school teacher in Torrance, California. He has even been honored as “teacher of the month.” But the manner in which he attempted to assassinate Trump suggest someone who is not very bright. If he had any plan at all, it was a very foolish one. Did he really think he could simply rush through the line at one of the most protected events in the world? He got stopped that the first line of defense.

What is most concerning is the fact that something motivated his nutcase to actually attempt a presidential assassination. Some thing filled him with such hatred and fear, that he saw killing Trump as something that was necessary. I addressed that issue in a previous commentary. Allen was motivated by the same things that motivated Trump’s previous would be assassins. It is what motivated the killer of Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk.

I addressed the issue in a previous commentary less than one week ago – headlined “Calls to ‘Eliminate’ Trump Getting More Unhinged and Dangerous.”

Democrats, the left-leaning media and the greater political establishment have been demonizing Trump in the most extreme hyperbolic language – declaring him to a threat to American democracy, a dictator in the making who will bring down the Republic. None of that is true. That language is reckless and dangerous. We know that it motivates the nutcases to violence. We have seen this movie before. Trump’s two previous assassins and Kirk’s killer admitted as much.

The most horrible aspect of the demonization is that those who make such mendacious accusations against Trump also know the potential consequences of their words – and they do not care. Their words amount to incitement.

Consider the photo at the top of this commentary that was taken outside the White House Correspondence Dinner after the attempted assassination. One of my more hardcore left-wing friends told me that the real tragedy was that Allen was stopped before killing Trump. Consider nutcase left-wing influencer Hasan Piker – the darling of Democrat politicians and left-wing media — who expresses sympathy for Luigi Mangione, who shot the United Healthcare chief executive officer in the back in cold blood. That is the kind of thinking that radical left-wing Democrats foster. In many ways, they are as unhinged as the shooters they inspire. Of course, those express those hateful lies would never lift a hand in violence. But they have no moral reservation in encouraging other.

They really have to stop the reckless, dangerous and violent rhetoric. I just fear they will not.

So, there ‘tis.