“Another Trump Assassination Attempt,” editorial cartoon by Tom Stiglich for The American Spectator, Sept. 17, 2024.
And then it happened again. The New York Post — and it’s not alone — has nailed the problem exactly. The Post’s headline: How Democrats relentlessly dialed up violent rhetoric against Trump before assassination attempt — comparing him to Hitler Then…
Ryan Wesley Routh tried to play Lee Harvey Oswald and Abraham Zapruder. He succeeded in neither role. The attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Sunday, the second such serious effort to murder the former president in 63 days, at Trump…
“Thinking about the Unthinkable” is the title of a once famous 1962 book by Herman Kahn imagining scenarios for an all-out nuclear war between the U.S. and Russia. Perhaps it helped to prevent a nuclear war from occurring. “Thinking the…
The American Spectator’s own Paul Kengor, our editor as well as a professor of political science at Grove City College, is the author of a number of notable books, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan,…
Despite the best efforts of Google and the mainstream media to “memory hole” the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, each day brings fresh — and inevitably appalling — information about what happened in Butler, PA. Most recently, texts from the…
Within 24 hours, Hezbollah’s most senior military commander and Hamas’ political leader were assassinated in the capitals of Lebanon and Iran, respectively. Israel took responsibility for the first strike but declined to comment on the second attack, despite accusations from…
Department of Homeland Security director Alejandro Mayorkas is assembling a 45-day “independent security review” of the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on July 13. For this task Mayorkas selected: Chief David Mitchell, the former superintendent of Maryland State Police and former…
My hair was still dripping from a rushed shower as I clambered down the steps to ensure I didn’t miss Donald Trump’s entrance to the rally in Butler, Penn. on July 13. My husband, eagerly perched on the ottoman, was…
Several commentators have compared the recent assassination attempt on candidate and former president Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania, to the attempted assassination of candidate and former president Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during the 1912 presidential election campaign. Trump was…
