At 6:11 pm on Sunday, 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks opened fire from the roof of a manufacturing plant outside of the Butler Farm Show grounds where Trump’s rally was held. He killed one rally attendee and seriously injured two others…
I mentioned in Sunday’s special-edition Five Quick Things column that my novel King of the Jungle, which The American Spectator subscribers got to read in serial form earlier this spring before it was published (you can still do that, if…
The news cycle is dominated by one major story: The near-assassination of former President Donald Trump during a rally in Butler, Penn., on Saturday. (READ Scott’s column here: Five Quick Things: A Most Expected Assassination Attempt) In today’s special episode of The Spectacle podcast,…
When Napoleon was picking his top generals, he is reputed to always ask the person recommending the general to him, “I know he’s a good general, but is he lucky?” Donald Trump is a very lucky man and we should…
The two most iconic and evocative photographs in modern history depict the American flag. One is the picture of the victorious Marines under fire at Iwo Jima planting Old Glory on Mount Suribachi. The second is of Neil Armstrong on…
Shocking, but not surprising. That’s the reaction of most of the people I interacted with Saturday afternoon following a near-miss assassination of Donald Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania. We’ve all seen this coming. We’ve all known that the political temperature in…
That’s my hometown: Butler, Pennsylvania. That’s where former President Donald Trump, consistently leading Joe Biden in the polls since about October, and particularly increasing that lead lately, was shot this Saturday, July 13, 2024. I wasn’t there, but I almost…
Authorities have apprehended a 30-year-old New Hampshire man who allegedly sent text messages in which he threatened to kill GOP presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy — a multi-millionaire entrepreneur who is the youngest-ever candidate to wage a major presidential campaign as…
