Trump Assassination Attempt Anniversary: Exposing the Media’s Spin
That’s why alternative media must remain vigilant, because truth has too few defenders and far too many editors.
July 13, 2024, should have been a solemn moment of unity. A man who would eventually be elected president was nearly killed. A rallygoer died. Two others were critically wounded. And yet, instead of truth and calm, the media met this national trauma with spin, cynicism, and misdirection.
“As I am writing this after 3 AM, there are already liberal media outlets like Mediaite pushing the narrative that the shooter was a registered Republican.”
With the shooter killed at the scene and no known motive, media voices rushed to shape the political fallout, not investigate facts. This was not reporting—it was preemptive political framing.
“He may have been, but perhaps he registered as one in order to vote against Trump. It’s far too early to know anything, but a narrative is already being built.”
Instead of mourning, the press weaponized the moment, blaming Trump’s rhetoric.
If you were watching the news unfold as it was happening, you saw people on major news networks already trying to make an attempted assassination of Trump, all about his words and language. The media is going to memory-hole all of their parroting of Democrat talking points about Trump being a fascist who will end democracy.
Many will remember how the media tried to shift the blame.
“There will be a stream of claims that the rhetoric is too inflammatory on both sides and that is simply not true.”
As the facts came into view, the shooter was identified as Thomas Matthew Crooks. He was killed by Secret Service snipers.
“This remains an active and ongoing investigation,” the F.B.I. said in a statement early Sunday.
The gunman did not have a criminal history reflected in Pennsylvania’s public court records, and officials said they had not identified a motive. A voter-registration record showed that Mr. Crooks was registered as a Republican, though federal campaign-finance records show he donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project, a liberal voter turnout group, through the Democratic donation platform ActBlue in January 2021.
Yet the mainstream narrative continued leaning on distraction and dereliction of duty. Meanwhile, MSNBC’s Joy Reid locked her account. Others deleted posts.
In contrast, Donald Trump delivered a clear, composed, and deeply patriotic message:
“I want to thank The United States Secret Service, and all of Law Enforcement, for their rapid response on the shooting that just took place in Butler, Pennsylvania. Most importantly, I want to extend my condolences to the family of the person at the Rally who was killed, and also to the family of another person that was badly injured.”
“It is incredible that such an act can take place in our Country. Nothing is known at this time about the shooter, who is now dead. I was shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear. I knew immediately that something was wrong in that I heard a whizzing sound, shots, and immediately felt the bullet ripping through the skin. Much bleeding took place, so I realized then what was happening.”
“GOD BLESS AMERICA!”
And later, he followed up with a broader appeal to unity:
“We will fear not, but instead remain resilient in our faith and defiant in the face of wickedness… In this moment, it is more important than ever that we stand united, and show our true character as Americans, remaining strong and determined, and not allowing evil to win.”
Now, a year out from being what could have been one of the darkest days in the modern political era, Republicans and some Democrats are remembering the day and its significance and impact:
One year ago in Butler, PA, it was a stark reminder of the awfulness of political violence that plagued our country—and still does.
I’m incredibly thankful the president wasn’t assassinated and I cannot imagine the collective national trauma.
We must condemn political violence… pic.twitter.com/gazHY7AKUX
— U.S. Senator John Fetterman (@SenFettermanPA) July 13, 2025
I was sitting just 15 feet from the stage at the Butler rally when the shots rang out. Moments before the attempted assassination, President Trump asked me to come on stage to give my remarks. As I was headed onstage, he prompted me to wait until after he spoke to the crowd about…
— Senator Dave McCormick (@SenMcCormickPA) July 13, 2025
2/ One year ago, President Trump was nearly assassinated in Butler, PA.
I served as the top Democrat on the bipartisan task force to investigate the shooting & will continue to condemn political violence in the strongest possible term, regardless of party.https://t.co/sbacOEtFmy
— Rep. Jason Crow (@RepJasonCrow) July 13, 2025
One year ago today, an assassin opened fire on President Donald J. Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
The bullet hit—but by the grace of God, he stood up. Bloodied. Unbowed. And he fought harder.
July 13th is a reminder: we fight, we win, AND WE NEVER SURRENDER. 🇺🇸 pic.twitter.com/0BMUYpGltE
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 13, 2025
One year ago, the world witnessed the attempted assassination of President Trump. By the grace of God, his life was spared.
Today, please join me in prayer for our nation as we remember that dark day and honor Corey Comperatore—a true American hero who courageously died… https://t.co/UjH7ztPs3X
— Senator Katie Boyd Britt (@SenKatieBritt) July 13, 2025
One year ago today, thanks to the grace of God, President Trump survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. On this somber anniversary, I’m praying for peace in our nation and around the world and for the loved ones of Corey Comperatore, who suffered an incredible…
— Leader John Thune (@LeaderJohnThune) July 13, 2025
But we also must remember the shame of the media and its divisiveness both then
This was an actual headline from CNN one year ago today 👇 pic.twitter.com/LNpTv6cJNw
— Vince Langman (@LangmanVince) July 13, 2025
And it wasn’t just CNN who covered the Trump assassination attempt this way. https://t.co/TFISvEJV0B pic.twitter.com/0bL8VCBEyA
— Drew Holden (@DrewHolden360) July 13, 2025
And even today, as seen in the Washington Post:
The first Trump assassination attempt was one year ago today, and this is angle the The Washington Post decides to go with… pic.twitter.com/LpBhZoR4pj
— Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) July 13, 2025
This anniversary is not only a moment to remember the violence—it’s a moment to remember how shamelessly our media tried to frame it and are actively trying to. That’s why alternative media must remain vigilant, because truth has too few defenders and far too many editors.
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leftists wearing their keffiyehs at half mast
They should be wearing them around their necks. Tightly, with zip ties.
What I find most disturbing about this whole event is how little we still know about the shooter, who he associated with, how he managed to come so close to actually killing the President, and what his motivations were.
There was credible cell phone tracking evidence put forward that showed a cell phone travelling between FBI HQ in Washington DC and the shooter’s residence multiple times before the shooting.
I put those two things together and conclude that the FBI, or at least individuals associated with the FBI, were working with the shooter to make sure he assassinated Trump. What else to conclude unless and until the FBI comes forward and proves otherwise?
People complain about the lack of transparency over Epstein (and rightly so). But in my estimation, the complete lack of transparency about this event has to be ten times worse, and ten times as significant.
A year later, we still know f-all about this kid.
Guess Mr. Universe was wrong — you CAN stop the signal.
The Government Accountability Office GAO report commissioned by Senator Chuck Grassley concluded senior officials “received classified intelligence regarding a threat to President Trump’s life ten days before the rally in Butler, but failed to relay the information to federal and local law enforcement personnel responsible for securing and staffing the event.”
After 9/11, millions of dollars were spent to prevent the kind of stove piping of intelligence that happened here.
Full Report
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gao_usss_report_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf
Whenever there is a successful attempt on the President’s/Presidential Nominee’s life (and in this case, I would describe the attempt as successful because at least one bullet found its target), there should be a statutory obligation that there needs to be an absolute disclosure of all investigative materials to the public within a time-period specific. Government has learned no lessons from the fallout surrounding the needless secrecy on the JFK/RFK murders.
There’s a very simple reason for that…
Something stinks.
No, there wasn’t. The evidence was that a particular cell phone that was taken to Crooks’s work place at least once, was also once taken, a year earlier, to Gallery Place, a busy shopping mall in Washington where the FBI happens to have an office. The owner may have been visiting the FBI office above the mall; or he may have been shopping or dining or watching a movie or any of the normal things people do at malls, or even just catching a train at the station underneath.
and even with all the typical leftist spin
the fear that comes out as soon as even more msm spin control perverts the airwaves that maga is over,,maga looks bad,,, the dems that voted for trump thissss time
now have to show how loyal they are to the dems,,no matter the continued destruction that they are causing to america b/c the group that bends to
anyway the wind blows..gets swept back left…but only if we allow lefty to control the narrative,,as this article points out how well the left does this
for days/weeks on end ..the left spouted…was he even really shot ….blah blah blah
come on america!!!
This is a good story on the anniversary of the assassination attempt. We find ourselves back where it took place one year ago.
How did that happen? The media spun the story so hard it did a 360.
You can’t hate the Leftist media enough.
Yep. Their contemporary coverage of the event as it unfolded in real-time was obviously abysmal. But, it’s the incuriousness that they’ve had about the events, the failure of the Secret Service and other federal law enforcement agencies AND THE SHOOTER in the year since the attempt I think is exponentially worse.
The Left is consistent, in any such effort, any Right association is proof the criminal is a Rightist, any Left association is an attempt at deception. Thus a die hard Bernie supporter trying to kill a Republican is a Republican if he can’t be shown to be 110% Democrat. And since the Democrat-Media Complex control what people see, hear, or read, their spin is what primarily shapes public perception.
Why would the media tell the truth? They’ve been right there with Democrats pushing for more and more political violence. This is what they want.
I said this elsewhere on this site but absent a clear and full explanation of how a snotnosed kid managed to breach what is supposed to be an impregnable ring of security and come within an inch of blowing DJT’s head off – from a position on top of security headquarters, for goodness sake – I can only conclude that it was an inside job. As Chuck Schumer put it, the intelligence community has many ways of getting to you.
This scenario is something that Tom Clancy would have laughed off as being too absurd to put to paper.
At the very least, I honestly don’t think it’s illogical to conclude that leaders of the Secret Service purposefully set the conditions for something like this to happen by surrounding Trump with a plainly and obviously incompetent protection detail and advance team. That’s the best case scenario that I think is clearly supported by the facts as known today. The worst case scenario if far more sinister…but not impossible.
Dan Bongino suggested much the same on a few of his podcasts.
GAO report commissioned by Senator Chuck Grassley concluded senior officials “received classified intelligence regarding a threat to President Trump’s life ten days before the rally in Butler, but failed to relay the information to federal and local law enforcement personnel responsible for securing and staffing the event.”
After 9/11, millions of dollars were spent to prevent the kind of stove piping of intelligence that happened here.
Full Report
https://www.grassley.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/gao_usss_report_released_by_chairman_grassley.pdf