The mystery surrounding Thomas Matthew Crooks, 20, the slain gunman who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump on Saturday, continues to deepen as law enforcement investigators are no closer to finding a motive behind the shooting.

The FBI has analyzed Crooks’ cell phone and talked to Crooks’ parents, Matthew and Mary Crooks, but have found little insight, other than Crooks’ parents describing him as someone who didn’t appear to have any strong political leanings and had few, if any, friends, The Wall Street Journal reported Monday.”

The government can’t find any motives or explanation for the attempt to kill an American president? THAT’S BECAUSE THE GOVERNMENT IS INVOLVED IN THE ATTEMPTED KILLING. You can’t expect a criminal to reveal any findings about himself. If you put a serial killer in charge of investigating himself, he would not incriminate himself.

Our own government is our biggest enemy. When they finish with Trump, they are coming for any and all dissenters, beyond what they are already doing. America is not America. It’s just another corrupt, authoritarian dictatorship. I base this assertion not on theory or feelings; I base it on 100 percent of their actions. They prove what they are every hour of every day.

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“Nobody wants to hear this because of the implications, but oh well, because it needs to be said: Joe Biden’s security regime deliberately and with malice and forethought created the conditions that led to an attempted assassin shooting Donald Trump in the head. It is by the grace of God that he lived and our nation is not currently in the midst of a violent civil war.

They deliberately starved Trump’s security team of the resources it needed. And they did it repeatedly, over many weeks and months.”

— from The Federalist

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The head of the Secret Service will not resign. Of course she won’t. She’s doing what they’re all paid to do–get Trump, by any means possible. Then get all who support him. If reason and justice are ever to return to America, she will be near the top of the list for a treason conviction, along with appropriate punishment. Anything less, and America will not survive.

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The conventional wisdom now seems to be that Donald Trump is going to win the November election.

I understand the reasons for that conclusion.

However, one overriding fact remains: The Establishment WILL NOT — I repeat WILL NOT — permit this to happen. The Establishment WILL NOT let Donald Trump (nor anyone like him) ever be president again. Not unless or until the Establishment is toppled, imprisoned and defeated to a point where they cannot come back.

By “Establishment” I mean just about everyone — the Uniparty, the bureaucracy, the Biden-Obama regime, the Deep State, the universities, the woke corporations, the out-in-the-open “dark” money (primarily Soros), the careerists in Congress and the executive branch, possibly the entire Supreme Court (minus Alito and Thomas), most (not all) of the federal courts, the high up woke, Commiefascist officials in the military, the weaponized and politicized legal system, the utterly compliant media … EVERYONE.

They WILL NOT permit Donald Trump to be president again.

Does this mean Trump will not be president again? I cannot predict that. He will try like nothing we have ever seen. Does this mean they, the Establishment, will take particular actions to prevent it? Presumably so — additional actions, that is. Inventing legal crimes and convicting him in kangaroo court seems like a preventative tactic; lying daily in the media is a preventative tactic; SHOOTING the former president while he’s campaigning, with the apparent help of a selectively weakened Secret Service operation (that works just fine for the Establishment) seems like a preventative tactic. What in the hell more evidence do you need?

I will say it again, hoping to penetrate your denial. THEY ARE NOT GOING TO LET IT HAPPEN.

This is not speculation. We are talking overwhelming facts … most of them observable in plain daylight.

So be ready. And stay ready.

Michael J. Hurd

Pressed about his shaky debate performance June 27 that threw his reelection hopes into doubt, Biden confronted Holt.

“Where are you on this,” Biden said, leaning forward. “Why doesn’t the press talk about all the lies he told?”

On July 8, Biden, 81, spoke to some of his biggest donors and said they needed to shift the election campaign’s focus from him and his poor debate performance to Trump, the Republican nominee in the Nov. 5 election.

“I have one job and that’s to beat Donald Trump … We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bulls-eye,” he said.

Some Republicans zeroed in on that comment as they blamed Biden for creating a climate that sparked the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Biden has repeatedly decried political violence.

The president has endured more than two weeks of questions about his political future, so far facing down calls to step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the debate sparked a crisis within his party. Trump repeated well-worn falsehoods during the debate, including that he won the last election. Biden beat Trump in 2020.

The president reiterated in the interview that he is not leaving the race, while acknowledging that people’s questions about his age were legitimate.

Pressed about his shaky debate performance June 27 that threw his reelection hopes into doubt, Biden confronted Holt.

“Where are you on this,” Biden said, leaning forward. “Why doesn’t the press talk about all the lies he told?”

On July 8, Biden, 81, spoke to some of his biggest donors and said they needed to shift the election campaign’s focus from him and his poor debate performance to Trump, the Republican nominee in the Nov. 5 election.

“I have one job and that’s to beat Donald Trump … We’re done talking about the debate. It’s time to put Trump in the bulls-eye,” he said.

Some Republicans zeroed in on that comment as they blamed Biden for creating a climate that sparked the assassination attempt on Trump at a rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday. Biden has repeatedly decried political violence.

The president has endured more than two weeks of questions about his political future, so far facing down calls to step aside as the Democratic presidential candidate after the debate sparked a crisis within his party. Trump repeated well-worn falsehoods during the debate, including that he won the last election. Biden beat Trump in 2020.

The president reiterated in the interview that he is not leaving the race, while acknowledging that people’s questions about his age were legitimate.

The president has sought to turn attention to his opponent, highlighting Trump’s falsehoods, his refusal to accept the 2020 election results and his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Biden turned back to those themes repeatedly during the NBC interview.

“I’m not the guy that said I want to be a dictator on day one. I’m not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election,” Biden said.

He cited the former president’s comments about a bloodbath ensuing if he loses the 2024 election and making fun when former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s husband Paul was attacked by an intruder with a hammer at their home.

“How do you talk about the threat to democracy, which is real, when a president says things like he says? Do you just not say anything because it may incite somebody?” Biden said. “I have not engaged in that rhetoric. Now … my opponent’s engaged in that rhetoric.”

The president said he would debate Trump again in September. He said he had not spoken to former President Barack Obama, for whom he served as vice president, in some two weeks. But he batted away the suggestion Obama and his wife, Michelle, could be more supportive of him amid the calls that he step aside.

“They’ve helped me from the beginning. This is my job to get this done,” Biden said.

The president, who is seeking to prove that he is fit to stand for reelection and govern for a second four-year term despite concerns about his age, noted that millions of people had voted for him to be the Democratic Party’s nominee.

“I listen to them,” he said.

Biden also weighed in on Trump’s selection of Sen. J.D. Vance of Ohio as his running mate.

Asked by Holt what Vance’s selection said about Trump’s values, Biden replied: “He’s going to surround himself with people who agree completely with him.”

Chuckling, Biden pointed out Vance made critical comments about Trump previously.

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A majority of Americans (according to leftist polls) want Donald Trump as president again. Some of these polls suggest a landslide, something not seen in the U.S. for 40 years.

Yet the federal government is trying to imprison him, and even murder him. They are imprisoning many of his aides and supporters for things that officials in that government already do.

The message is clear: The majority may not and will not get the candidate they want. Nor any of his policies–not ever.

The precedent has been established. If the government decides it doesn’t like one particular candidate, then it will decide that about others. I know absolute fools — some of them Republicans, “libertarians” or “Objectivists” — who actually claim or imply that, “It’s just with Trump. He’s a special exception. We’ll put up with Biden, with anyone or even anything to get rid of Trump.”

Get rid of Trump. And then the government will behave itself again. Seriously? The world has gone mad; or more accurately, the world has become irretrievably stupid.

Has it occurred to most Americans yet that this government is not their protector–but their enemy?

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How the media coordinated the failed assassination of Donald Trump

Two months ago, I predicted that the media were laying the groundwork for justifying the assassination of Donald Trump after the New Republic published an entire issue depicting the former president as Adolf Hitler. I wish I could claim some supernatural gift of foresight, but it was not the first time I had made this prediction, and I was not alone, as several other pundits, including Tucker Carlson, had also seen the writing on the wall.

The attempted assassination of the leading presidential candidate on Saturday was shocking, but in many ways it felt inevitable. The American media have been steadily intensifying their anti-Trump rhetoric for years, whipping their audience into a murderous frenzy. The disgusting freaks who constitute the regime press are not concerned or outraged at the attempt to murder Trump; they are simply disappointed that the instrument of their vengeance was a bad shot.

The media have always portrayed Republican candidates as dangerous to some degree, but from the moment Trump announced his candidacy in 2015, he inspired a particularly rabid form of vitriol from the press. The real-estate tycoon spoke to a forgotten constituency: working- and middle-class Americans in areas like the Rust Belt. These were old and obsolete Americans, the kind of voters who embarrass even the GOP, and the ruling class had slated them for replacement. These obsolete Americans were supposed to quietly fade away, slowly dying deaths of despair, until Trump gave them a voice.

This was Trump’s unforgivable sin, and from the moment of his improbable victory, the press set out to destroy this rogue president.

The left has been calling conservatives racists, sexists, and homophobes for decades. That kind of relentless slander is corrosive to the public discourse, but at this point it has become so common that it turns into background noise. During the Trump presidency, leftists escalated their vile rhetoric to include first “white supremacist” and eventually “fascist.” People who are used to being constantly villainized by every major institution do not always notice a critical shift in the zeitgeist, but this change in language put the United States on the path to this perilous moment.

In our current moral framework, racists are bad people, guilty of one of the most terrible crimes, but they are still humans. Fascists, on the other hand, are Nazis, descendants of our modern secular version of Satan, Adolf Hitler. Fascists are inhuman agents of evil, and every kind of action, including horrific violence, is justified if it is deployed in the service of stopping a Nazi takeover. This is why the left began using the slogan “punch a Nazi” in 2017 and then steadily extending the term fascist to anyone who opposed the progressive agenda.

Political violence is a fire that quickly burns through the fabric of your society. Once that fire is sparked, it becomes impossible to control, which is why any ruling elites who care about the future of their country know better than to deploy it.

Political street violence and assassination attempts drive power in a state hurtling toward civil war. This is why the Black Lives Matter and Antifa riots of 2020 were a terrible omen. When riots rage across the country for weeks and the police spend most of their time kneeling in front of protesters, it sends a clear message. It appeared that political violence was acceptable, but the protesters during January 6 quickly learned that this new rule only applied to one side. The left expects to deploy political violence at a whim without consequences, but that is a demon no one can control for long.

Cable news media and assorted Democratic politicians had been throwing around the label of fascist for a few years, but the truly alarming escalation came when Joe Biden began to employ the language in 2022. The president first tested the language at a fundraiser in August of that year before using it in his infamous “blood red” speech in front of Independence Hall. During the speech, Biden claimed that Trump and his supporters “represent an extremism that threatens the very foundations of our republic,” while warning that “equality and democracy are under assault.”

Biden’s X account is full of similar language, with one post reading, “Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. He’s a threat to our freedom. He’s a threat to our democracy. He’s literally a threat to everything America stands for.”

Declaring your political opponent a threat to the nation and everything it stands for is already a “will no one rid me of this meddlesome priest?” kind of moment, but things have only escalated from there. At some point leftists started sneaking “existential threat” into their rhetoric. For anyone unfamiliar, existential threat is not a light turn of phrase. It means something that will end your existence if you do not stop it. It is something that one needs to stop with any and every means available — including violence.

The regime has attempted to bankrupt Trump, remove him from the ballot, and throw him in jail. All three strategies have failed, and if Trump is truly an existential threat to freedom, democracy, and the nation itself, then there is only one logical course of action left. The media knew this and broadcasted their unhinged message of hate to every unstable fanatic they could reach until someone finally took them seriously.

The Biden administration has been using the Justice Department, FBI, Department of Homeland Security, and recently even the Pentagon to label Trump supporters as domestic terror threats while teaming up with the media to groom real leftist assassins in waiting.

Corey Comperatore was a volunteer fire chief from Pennsylvania who had recently celebrated his 50th birthday. He had posted enthusiastically on X about hearing Trump speak at his rally. On Facebook, Comperatore’s daughter described the Trump supporter as a devout Christian and dedicated father. According to the post, when the shots rang out, the first responder did not hesitate, forcing his wife and daughter to the ground before shielding them with his own body.

In that moment, Comperatore covered himself in glory, paying the ultimate price to protect those he loved. The hands of the left, however, are covered in his blood.

Donald Trump reacted to the attempted shooting with stunning composure. After being hit with a bullet, the former president did not freeze up or scurry away, but immediately jumped to his feet and pumped his fist yelling “Fight!” to his supporters. The iconic photo of his defiant pose will go down in history. Progressives have quickly realized that a nearly martyred Trump is an optical disaster for them, but instead of backing away from their rhetoric, the media have escalated it.

In saner times, a former president and leading candidate narrowly avoiding death with steely courage would be celebrated by a reunified country, but we do not live in those times. It takes a particular kind of soulless degenerate to get on cable news the day after Trump is shot and treat the billionaire and his supporters as the real threat, but apparently MSNBC and CNN are well stocked with such people. Celebrities like George Takei have immediately returned to using violence-inspiring rhetoric like “existential threat to democracy” without missing a beat. David Frum responded to the assassination attempt by writing a piece in the Atlantic calling Trump a dictator.

The left managed to groom one shooter, and they will not stop until they groom another.

The Blaze, Auron MacIntyre

Former President has been indicted by a federal judge in Pennsylvania for inciting an assassination attempt that nearly killed him.

“Trump is clearly at fault for someone attempting to murder him with a rifle,” said Judge Paul Stephenson. “He brought this on himself, and we will ensure justice is done.”

According to sources, the motion to indict Trump was filed roughly thirty seconds after the failed assassination attempt. “It was obvious by that point that Trump had caused a man to fire several bullets at him,” said District Attorney Jan Marsh. “If Trump were not literally Hitler, no one would have tried to kill him in the first place. It’s time we in the legal system go after Hitler and not the people trying to murder Hitler.”

At publishing time, Trump had been indicted again for Secret Service shooting the would-be assassin.

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Abusers, tyrants and sadists are all the same: They push and they push until they find your limit. If you never push back, they just keep pushing harder. That’s the error of pacifism (and psychological appeasement). The error is the faulty thinking that, “If I don’t push back, they’ll eventually stop.” That NEVER happens — not when you’re dealing with a tyrant or abuser.

The leftists who shot at Trump yesterday pushed a new limit. The more we refuse to push back, the farther they go. Trump is literally the only person pushing back against the leftists and the monsters in our weaponized Establishment, at least in any forthright, decisive way. So they go after him. In a way, you can’t blame them for assuming, “If we can get rid of Trump, we’ll no longer have any opposition.” This may be a miscalculation on their part. If Trump’s movement is all about Trump, and only about Trump, then — once he’s gone (whether through incarceration, death by natural causes or death by a Soros-hired assassin’s bullet), then all opposition will be gone. Because what other opposition is there? And please don’t say Republicans.

At some point, we — the good guys — have to push back. How? Figure that out for yourselves. I can only tell you: By any means you can think of. Passive resistance, active resistance, or even something as simple as telling your leftist friends or relatives now applauding what happened to Trump, “You’re truly a bad person. I can’t have anything more to do with you.” And mean it. Take a stand — somewhere, somehow. Not for Trump, if you don’t want to; but for your liberty, your sovereignty over your life, your very individual soul. Because that’s what this trash — these losers — on the other side are after. They’re probably amused and amazed over how little opposition they get, aside from Trump. Show them otherwise.

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Like the late-stage Leonid Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only. What is next for our increasingly Soviet state?

Leonid Brezhnev led the former Soviet Union as General Secretary of the Communist Party until 1982. But like most Russian apparatchiks who excessively smoked, drank, and gained weight, he aged prematurely. Also like them, his disabilities never led to his abdication.

By Brezhnev’s late sixties and early seventies, he was too ill to travel abroad or make public appearances. Indeed, his debility left the Soviet Union without a real leader for the final six or seven years of his tenure.javascript:window[“$iceContent”]

Brezhnev got away with it because the Soviet state-controlled media doctored photos and videos to attest to his supposedly vigorous health and constant hands-on involvement.

“Journalists” sent out false communiques. They spun narratives that Brezhnev was robust, hale, and working long hours on behalf of the Russian people. Any dissenting journalists who sought to report the true, sad state of affairs were in danger of losing their jobs, freedom—or even their lives.

Instead, the “reporters” of Pravda (“Truth”), the official print megaphone of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, wrote lies about Brezhnev’s busy workdays. Pravda’s handlers spun fables about the respect (and fear) the rest of the world held for such a dynamic leader—even as Brezhnev became an ill virtual recluse.

The cynical Russian people shrugged because they had long been accustomed to their lying media and the falsehoods they peddled. And besides, Brezhnev was a doctrinaire Stalinist communist. So his job was not to rock the boat or upset the Russian communist hierarchy.

Instead, he reigned over the penultimate Soviet “era of stagnation,” while an ossified communism increasingly destroyed all incentives and hope, leaving the Russian people poor, cynical, and helpless.

Something similar has happened to a calcified America under President Joe Biden. Like the late-stage Leonid Brezhnev, Biden is now a president in name only. He has outsourced his administration to a vestigial hard-left apparat from the Obama years.

Now, Biden can no longer even perform his assigned ceremonial tasks of putting a moderate veneer on radical, nihilist agendas that are stagnating the country.

Yet our Pravda journalists have sworn to the American people that, in private, the reclusive, three-day-a-week Biden outpaces the energy and drive of those half his age. Obsequious staffers plant stories in the Soviet-like ears of reporters about Biden’s singular dynamism.

Any dissenters are publicly demonized as peddlers of “cheap fakes.”

When Biden’s reclusiveness prompts too much gossip that he is near senile, he is wheeled out for a staged interview that must be edited before release. Or he answers questions secretly shown to him in advance.

On sporadic occasions where the state media and the Biden nomenklatura cannot control events—such as rare presidential debates or international summits—our Pravda media go into overdrive to convince the public that what they see and hear is not real.

In the end, Brezhnev could not even hobble to the May Day dais to celebrate communism’s national holiday.

He soon reached the point that his debilities were so manifest that even his hirelings and the media could not hide them. He then vanished from public view, leaving the Russian people with no idea as to who was running their communist nation.

Then one day, Soviet propagandists announced suddenly but matter-of-factly that the dynamic Brezhnev had died and that his successor, Yuri Andropov, was now brilliantly running the Soviet Union.

Biden, too, is at that point of stasis. He cannot do press conferences, town halls, debates, or real interviews. To do so would confirm to the public the truth: that Biden is too cognitively challenged to continue his presidency.

And yet the cloistered Biden can no longer hide during a campaign season with his accustomed three-day workweek.

The media has done its best to continue its Orwellian ruse. They claim that Trump interrupted Biden (he did not) in the recent debate and that he lied (if so, not as much as did Biden). Sometimes, the press corps just blurts out that an inert, left-wing Biden is still preferable to a dynamic, conservative Trump.

What is next for our increasingly Soviet state?

We will continue to be lectured on the vigor of Biden—until one day we aren’t, when Biden either steps down—or worse.

Then, our Pravda will likely present the new official narrative. They will convince us that his successor, Vice President Kamala Harris, is an underappreciated genius whose past portfolios led to solving the border crisis and renewing American dominance in space.

One day, the same reporters who swore Biden was a virtual Socrates behind closed doors and then suddenly just confessed he was not when their lies were no longer operative will sing the praises of our new comrade leader—the brilliant, accomplished, eloquent, and articulate Kamala Harris.

Victor Davis Hanson