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

Apathetic. That is the best way to describe the Republican electorate since COVID. Listless, downtrodden, distracted, dejected, and consigned to a dismal fate. Will the attempted assassination of Donald Trump finally be that catalyzing moment that transforms the American right into a devastatingly effective and efficient political movement? Saturday’s shooting is one of many political violent acts perpetrated against the right in America over the past decade. From the Family Research Council and Scalise shootings to the attempted assassination of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and Black Lives Matter assaults on motorists, it’s unmistakably clear that leftists want us dead in the most literal sense. Will we finally match their ideological intensity and work toward their political defeat? Will we finally use the power we have to govern in the way the left accuses us of but that never actually materializes? With Trump almost dying, Biden exposed as unfit for the presidency, and widespread malaise in the country, now is the time to act decisively and without compromise. COVID wasn’t enough to change us. Those who hate us created a virus, blocked effective treatments for it, locked us down and stripped us of our dignity, and then unleashed the vaccines that likely killed and crippled millions of people. Black Lives Matter and Antifa weren’t enough. The entire political system lied to us about a cop who followed his police training, made George Floyd a martyr, and used his death as a pretext to remake our country, culture, economy, and workforce into an unhospitable place for white people. They burned down neighborhoods and attacked innocent people with impunity — all because it served the “right” purposes. But it didn’t galvanize us to act. We re-elected the same incumbents in the 2020 and 2022 elections as if it were 1996. January 6 wasn’t enough, either. The government and the media gaslit us about what did and didn’t happen on that day as a pretext to criminalize our beliefs and revert to pre-Enlightenment government by prosecuting political opponents mere months after letting thousands of violent rioters off the hook for attacking cops, burning buildings, and beating motorists. Nonetheless, we continued to elevate the same feckless GOP without any strategy to govern or get on the playing field with new candidates, new ideas, and new strategies. Apathy won the day again and again. We watched both parties work together to bankrupt our way of life, invade our country with millions of subversive elements, reverse a generation of gains against violent crime, and indoctrinate a generation of youngsters into gender-bending cultural Marxism that makes the radicals of the ’60s seem reserved. What was our answer? We elevated people like Reps. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and Mike Johnson (R-La.) to lead. We had the most pathetic Republican Congress of all time give Democrats practically everything they wanted on every major issue, even as they continued to prosecute Trump. Did we learn our lesson? Were we galvanized by the Trump prosecutions and the persecution of pro-life activists? Nope. We renominated every single one of these clowns in the primaries, and the only incumbent to go down in the primary was the chairman of the House Freedom Caucus — sadly, at the behest of Trump himself. We sleep through the primaries and ignore our influence and dominion over red states while most Republican governors act more like Democrats than like Ron DeSantis. This time must be different: for us, the party, and Trump himself. Most of my colleagues will merely suggest that we just need to vote for Trump harder. But anyone who reads our content or listens to our voices was already going to crawl over glass to vote for him. We need more this time. We need to get on the playing field of self-governance and use our power and influence to create political kill zones for leftist policies that are as effective as the physical kill zones leftists evidently want to create for us. Use our influence in red states The slew of crazy leftists engaging in political violence makes it self-evident that we cannot share a country with them. Blue states are irretrievably leftist, yet red states are not a mirror image on the right side. There is a reason we continue discussing Ron DeSantis and, now, maybe Jeff Landry of Louisiana. But where are the other Republican governors? We still have outstanding primaries, and we need to vote against status quo Republicans who represent apathy and aloofness to the existential threats we face. We need to elect people like Bill Eigel of the Missouri Freedom Caucus as the Show Me State’s governor — a man who promises to deport illegal aliens and make Missouri as inhospitable to the left as California is to the right. We need to get involved in state legislative sessions, demand more from our elected officials, and threaten them with primaries. In other words, merely turning out in a general election to vote for Trump, then returning to our apathy like Punxsutawney Phil every year on Groundhog Day — just 60 miles east of the site of the attempted assassination — will not save us. We need to stick the landing. November 5 is important, but every day between now and Election Day is even more important for making the plays. Demand that House Republicans declare political war We will never have greater tailwinds politically to crush the left than now. With Trump almost dying, Biden exposed as unfit for the presidency, and widespread malaise in the country, now is the time to act decisively and without compromise. Refuse to fund the government unless the border is sealed and the Trump prosecutions are defunded. Republicans control the House right now; we don’t need to wait for the election. So what if the government shuts down? Let the government stay shut down until Trump’s inauguration if that is what it takes. There is no better way to ensure an electoral landslide than by forcing a dramatic inflection point to highlight our strongest issues. And there is no better way to verify that Republicans are willing to undergo a major change than by demanding that change now, before the election, rather than after the election on the first Tuesday in November. No more “I’ll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today.” Trump must become the man his opponents fear The irony of this assassination attempt is that it comes on the heels of Trump reconciling with the political system like never before. He has adopted many liberal policies, watered down the platform, and denounced the policy and personnel plan that would make his administration everything the left claims to fear. It’s time for him to red-pill himself and become that man — embracing all the fantasies about Project 2025 that we wish were true. Let’s govern with the same indefatigable energy and ruthless efficiency with which Trump campaigns. Stop compromising with the left and with those who hate you in both parties. Stop giving Democrats everything they want on policy. Don’t be like Brett Kavanaugh, who was politically assassinated in the most grotesque manner but who responded by siding with the left on key issues, including handing over free congressional seats. If we believe they have crossed the line this time, we must change our outlook and strategy. “Fight, fight, fight” should be more than a symbolic act of defiance or a mere bumper-sticker slogan. It must be a clarion call to act, behave, and govern.

The number of Jan. 6 arrests by the FBI cooled in June, but the totals for the first six months of 2024 are still running far ahead of the same period in 2023 and 2022, according to new figures from the U.S. Department of Justice.According to the DOJ’s 42-month Jan. 6 report, the FBI arrested 15 people on Jan. 6 charges from June 6 through July 6, down from 33 arrests the previous month and 37 arrests from April to May.The FBI has arrested 207 Jan. 6 protesters in the first six months of 2024, 42.5% ahead of the 119 arrests in the same period in 2023 and 37% ahead of the 130 arrests in 2022. The current year started with a marked increase in arrests, and the trend has continued overall since.Arrest totals since early January 2021 stand at 1,472, up from 1,457 in June, 1,424 in May, and 1,387 in April, the DOJ reported.The FBI has made 403 Jan. 6 arrests since July 2023 and 617 arrests since July 2022, according to DOJ data.The most commonly charged misdemeanor count — entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds — has been used in 1,380 cases, or 94% of all Jan. 6 prosecutions.Of those who have pleaded guilty to crimes, 68.5% were for misdemeanor charges.The most common felony charge — corruptly obstructing an official proceeding — was listed in the previous report as affecting 355 cases. However, the DOJ has changed how it reports charged violations of 18 U.S. Code §1512(c)(2), no longer providing a cumulative total.In the July report, the DOJ said 259 people were charged with obstruction of an official proceeding when the U.S. Supreme Court issued its June 28 ruling significantly curtailing possible use of the corporate fraud statute in Jan. 6 cases. Of those charged as of June 28, 133 have been sentenced, the report said.The federal district court in Washington, D.C., has seen a flurry of motions from Jan. 6 defendants seeking re-sentencing, asking for release from custody, or moving to have their convictions vacated and sentences erased. A Metropolitan Police Department officer's bodycam shows the huge crowds gathered on the Lower West Terrace and West Plaza at the U.S. Capitol just before 4 p.m. on Jan. 6, 2021.D.C. Metropolitan Police DepartmentThe high court said the 20-year felony charge could be used only if the defendant “impaired the availability or integrity for use in an official proceeding of records, documents, objects, or … other things used in the proceeding, or attempted to do so.”The DOJ has based its charging of obstruction of an official proceeding on the delay in the joint session of Congress caused by protesters breaching the U.S. Capitol after the House and Senate paused their sessions due to the swelling crowds outside.Jan. 6 defendants, those in prison and others on probation, hailed the ruling as a major victory, but the DOJ appears intent on making the charges stick even under the narrow interpretation of §1512(c)(2) by the Supreme Court.More than 530 people have been charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding certain officers or employees, including 157 individuals charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer, the report said.Jan. 6 is the most sweeping investigation in FBI history.Nearly 875 people have pleaded guilty to Jan. 6 charges, 68.5% for misdemeanors and 31.5% for felonies.Of those who pleaded guilty to felonies, 139 were charged with assaulting law enforcement officers. Another 76 defendants pleaded guilty to obstructing, impeding, or interfering with law enforcement during a civil disorder. Of the combined 215 defendants, 80% were sentenced to prison terms as long as 151 months.Nearly 185 defendants were found guilty at contested trials, and another 37 were convicted following an agreed-upon set of facts.To date, 907 people have had their cases adjudicated and received their sentences, with 62% of defendants sentenced to incarceration, 19% to home detention, and 3.4% to a combination of the two.Eighty-five people were charged with destruction of government property, and 65 defendants have been charged with theft of government property.Jan. 6 is the largest, most sweeping investigation in FBI history — one that DOJ leaders say will continue unabated. The DOJ has until Jan. 6, 2026, to charge individuals before the statute of limitations expires.Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

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