They Will Try Again

By Armando Simón

I was going to refrain from writing about the assassination attempt on Trump. I honestly was, but there are too many things that need to be hammered home.

There has been an emphasis in the media on the fact that the shooter was registered as Republican (though he gave donations to far left organizations). It has been forgotten that  months ago, Democrats urged other Democrats to register as Republicans in order to vote against Trump in the primaries. He has been described as the only 20 y/o on Earth supposedly without social media.

Presidents Lincoln and  Kennedy were assassinated by Democrats. FDR was almost assassinated by a liberal.

Something stinks about the attempt itself, to wit, the only building with a clear and obvious line of sight to the rally was not manned by the police or secret service.

Two, the shooter took out a ten-foot ladder from his car along with a rifle and a backpack to the building it in plain sight.

Three, an officer climbed up the ladder, saw the shooter, then climbed down. And apparently didn’t report it to anyone.

Four, dozens of civilians saw the shooter climb up the building to the roof with a rifle and pointed him out to the authorities but were ignored (there are several videos on TikTok to that effect).

Five, he was wearing dark clothing against a white roof so stood out and could be seen from the platforms at the rally.

Six, he fired eight—eight!—shots before any action was taken to take him out.

Seven, a number of Secret Service personnel were pulled from the team to cover an event with Jill Biden (as if there were people who wanted her dead).

Eight, there are rumors that a Secret Service sniper by the name of Jonathan Willis sighted the would-be assassin for three minutes prior to the shooting and asked several times for permission to take him out, but he was denied permission by the head of the Secret Service. He finally disobeyed orders, killing the shooter, thereby saving lives, and was consequently fired. The head of the Secret Service is a diversity hire who often voiced the mantra of DIE (Diversity, Inclusiveness, Equity) and hired short, fat women to guard Trump. She stated that the roof where the shooter comfortably positioned himself was slanted, which is why no personnel was stationed there. And now, Mayorkas and his minions are obstructing a Congressional investigation.

Nine, the shooter had no ID on him but was named by the FBI supposedly through DNA, yet he had no criminal record and therefore no storage of his DNA.

Ten, the agency supposed to be guarding Trump is part of the bureaucracy that refused for years to charge Hunter Biden with the crimes he committed, planted evidence at Mar-al-Lago, went to Mar-al-Lago with loaded weapons ready to shoot anyone. It has also been indirectly involved in lawfare against Trump. And it has taken part in the persecution of Catholics and of parents objecting to indoctrination in the schools (they are labeled “domestic terrorists”).

Eleven, a transmitter for detonating explosives was found by the body, but as experts have pointed out, the punk could not have built the detonator itself and had to be obtained from—where? Home Depot?

Lastly, almost all of this information is coming from citizens. Not the government. Citizens like the one who pointed out that the day before the shooting, a company by the name of Austin Private Wealth shorted  12 million shares of Trump’s Truth Social stock along with Citadel Advisors for 16 thousand shares.

And here is another coincidence: that particular rally was the first and only rally livestreamed by the rabidly anti-Trump CNN. That is very curious.

No one wants to state the obvious, to wit, this was attempted murder by someone in the government which should result in prison time. In the past two years, “conspiracy theories,” which have had a bad reputation, have turned out to have been accurate. No one wants to also say out loud that it was a conspiracy by the progressive totalitarians within government. But they are thinking it.

And we are supposed to believe it was all a mistake.

Riiiight.

Trump became exponentially more appealing by his defiance seconds after being shot, at first refusing to leave, fist pumping and yelling back, “Fight! Fight! Fight!” Even my daughter, who was lukewarm towards him, uttered, “Wow, what a man!” Any other politician would have rolled up like a pill bug and been rolled out to the van where he would have sucked his thumb.

A successful assassination so close to the Republican convention might have resulted (after a torrent of speeches and articles about the need for reconciliation, tone down rhetoric, and sanctimonious calls for civility and forgiveness all issued in an attempt to avoid retaliation) in a Republican candidate willing “to reach across the aisle” (translation: do everything Democrats tell him).

Robert Fico, the Slovak Prime Minister who survived an assassination attempt, blamed the Slovakian media for stirring up hatred. Upon hearing of the attempt on Trump, he stated it was a carbon copy of what happened to him, “And now we will witness speeches about the need for reconciliation, appeasement and forgiveness”.

They will try again. There are two reasons for this, independent of each other. First is psychological. There is a substantial amount of research which has verified that the phenomenon of copycat crimes (and copycat suicides) is linked to the degree of media coverage of the initial event. The assassination attempts involving President Ford is an example.

Second is the nefarious element. The leftists and media will continue demonizing Trump, just like they have done for the last five years; already, we are seeing the propaganda machinery at work as the propaganda peddlers are blaming the victim. This has even been noted overseas, one newspaper calling it “a climate of hate” from liberals. Then, there are the elites who don’t want him to be in office and who will thwart their machinations to destroy America. Compound that with all the individuals—including the latte-sipping, cocaine-snorting celebrities—who have an all-consuming, obsessive hatred of Trump and believe he is the reincarnation of Hitler to the point that they photoshop a picture of Trump to look like the German dictator. So, there may be another attempt.

I strongly believe that the peddlers of hate and progressive totalitarianism have not thought through what the results would be of having their wish fulfilled. Very few persons have. Because it looks like conservatives are not going to take it anymore.

So, in that spirit, and considering the fact that so many leftists are upset that he survived the assassination attempt, I predict they will try again.

Armando Simón is a retired psychologist, a trilingual native of Cuba, and the author of Fables from the Americas and Orlando Stories.