{"id":2595716,"date":"2026-04-27T14:36:02","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-shouldnt-attend-a-party-for-the-journalists-who-incited-assassination-attempts\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T14:38:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T18:38:38","slug":"trump-shouldnt-attend-a-party-for-the-journalists-who-incited-assassination-attempts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-shouldnt-attend-a-party-for-the-journalists-who-incited-assassination-attempts\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Shouldn\u2019t Attend Party For Journos Who Incited Violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-shouldnt-attend-a-party-for-the-journalists-who-incited-assassination-attempts%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2595716&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article argues that political and media \u201cincitement\u201d rhetoric has contributed to repeated assassination attempts involving Donald Trump and othre prominent Republicans. It points to Trump being mocked during a 2024 debate for saying he \u201cprobably took a bullet\u201d due to Democratic words about him, then claims a similar pattern was confirmed when an alleged attacker at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner reportedly used familiar left-wing talking points, including calling Trump a \u201cpedophile, rapist, and traitor\u201d and alleging he should not \u201cyield\u201d to officials or judges.<\/p>\n<p>it further cites other alleged would-be attackers-such as Ryan Routh, Ryan Michael English (who targeted Scott Bessent), and even James Hodgkinson (2017, who tried to kill Rep.Steve Scalise)-as using language the author says mirrors mainstream Democratic or media narratives (e.g., labeling Trump a dictator\/traitor, dehumanizing rhetoric about Republicans, or claims about Trump\u2019s illegitimacy). The piece also challenges or criticizes mainstream coverage and opinion writing it says has amplified comparisons of trump to dictators or Nazis and claims Trump is a \u201cthreat to democracy,\u201d describing this overall messaging as \u201cassassination prep.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>the author concludes that as this kind of rhetoric may help justify extreme violence, Trump should not reward institutions that promote or normalize it by attending events like the WHCD, which the article says may have a do-over after the incident.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>On the debate stage in 2024, President Donald Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/09\/16\/debate-flashback-trump-said-democrat-rhetoric-led-directly-to-assassination-attempts-against-him\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">correctly pointed<\/a> out that he \u201cprobably took a bullet to the head [in Butler, Pennsylvania,] because of the things that [Democrats] say about me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comments were dismissed as <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/campaign\/4888743-trump-dangerous-rhetoric\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hyperbolic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet over the weekend, Trump was proven right yet again. <\/p>\n<p>On Saturday night 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen allegedly rushed Secret Service agents armed with multiple weapons at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. The dinner ended early, despite insistence from Trump that he would still take the stage and give his speech. Trump later said the WHCD would have a do-over within the next 30 days.<\/p>\n<p>If the WHCD does have a do-over, Trump shouldn\u2019t go, because at some point, the president has to stop rewarding the very institutions that have spent years spreading propaganda that has justified and implicitly encouraged assassination attempts against him and his fellow Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Allen reportedly left a <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/26\/us-news\/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">manifesto<\/a> falsely accusing Trump of being a \u201cpedophile, rapist, and traitor.\u201d He allegedly wrote, \u201cAnd I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,\u201d adding that he was not obligated to \u201cyield [elected officials and judges] anything so unlawfully ordered.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The rhetoric Allen reportedly used to justify his actions should sound familiar, because he utilized the same <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elon-musk-airs-twitters-woke-dirty-laundry-literally-and-exposes-fake-ferguson-narrative\/\" title=\"Elon Musk Airs Twitter\u2019s Woke Dirty Laundry \u2013 Literally \u2013 And Exposes Fake Ferguson Narrative\">talking points spread<\/a> by Democrats and elevated by the propaganda press to vilify and dehumanize Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan Routh, who attempted to assassinate the president in September of 2024 and was found hiding in the bushes with a rifle, one hole ahead of where Trump was golfing, also echoed media talking points. Routh called Trump a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/11\/26\/us-news\/would-be-trump-assassin-ryan-routh-rages-name-drops-thomas-crooks-in-ranting-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dictator<\/a>\u201d in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2024\/11\/26\/ryan-routh-trump-alleged-assassin-letter-column-00190211\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">handwritten letter<\/a>,  and he asserted in a self-published book that Trump \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2024\/09\/16\/nx-s1-5113801\/trump-shooting-assassination-attempt-suspect-ryan-wesley-routh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">perpetrated<\/a>\u201d the Jan. 6 unrest.<\/p>\n<p>Another would-be assassin employed media rhetoric to justify an attempt to assassinate Scott Bessent in 2025. Ryan Michael English showed up to Washington, D.C., with a knife and Molotov cocktails. He was apprehended by authorities and admitted to wanting to \u201ckill Scott Bessent.\u201d A handwritten note from English <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/2026\/03\/28\/massachusetts-man-wanted-to-assassinate-treasury-sec-bessent-with-molotov-cocktails\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">stated<\/a>: \u201cThis is terrible but I cant do nothing while nazis kill my sisters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Americans can go back nearly a decade and find examples of would-be <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >killers imbibing leftist media talking points<\/a>. In 2017, a violent left-wing attack nearly killed Rep. Steve Scalise at the congressional baseball practice. While shooter James Hodgkinson left no formal manifesto, several statements on his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-orders-detention-for-alleged-proud-boy-whose-lawyer-blames-trump-for-capitol-incident\/\" title=\"Judge Orders Detention for Alleged Proud Boy Whose Lawyer Blames ... for Capitol Incident\">social media show<\/a> an intense loathing of Republicans and Trump using the same language parroted by the propaganda press. A March 22, 2017, post by Hodgkinson said: \u201cTrump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It\u2019s Time To Destroy Trump &#038; Co.\u201d A separate post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2017\/06\/14\/homepage2\/james-hodgkinson-profile\">said<\/a>, \u201cRepublicans are the Taliban of the USA.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In each case, the excuses, justification, and language sound awfully familiar because they are the same as those deployed by prominent voices on the left \u2014 whether Democrat officials or members of the propaganda press.<\/p>\n<p>In parallel with the Allen manifesto\u2019s claims about Trump being a racist, ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos said during an interview with Rep. Nancy Mace, R-S.C., that Trump had been \u201cfound liable for rape\u201d and \u201cdefaming the victim of that rape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNeither verdict involved a finding of rape as defined under New York law,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/politics\/abc-agrees-to-pay-15-million-to-trumps-presidential-library-to-settle-defamation-lawsuit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">PBS News clarified<\/a>. ABC News later agreed to shell out $15 million to Trump\u2019s presidential library in a defamation suit.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201ctraitor\u201d language in the manifesto is also a media talking point. A NYT op-ed from 2018 declared: \u201cTrump, Treasonous Traitor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimply put, Trump is a traitor and may well be treasonous,\u201d Charles Blow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/07\/15\/opinion\/trump-russia-investigation-putin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic\u2019s Marc Novicoff <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/2026\/01\/america-trump-authoritarianism-kleptocracy\/685697\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">published<\/a> a piece this past January entitled \u201cHow to Tell If Your President Is a Dictator.\u201d The piece claims Trump\u2019s second term is \u201cliterally dictatorial.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 Washington Post op-ed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/11\/30\/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Robert Kagan<\/a> said, \u201cA Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.\u201d Trump\u2019s dictatorial reign was possible, likely even, Kagan said, \u201cunless something radical and unforeseen happens.\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2023\/11\/30\/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan\/?utm_source=twitter&#038;utm_campaign=wp_opinions&#038;utm_medium=social\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Kagan<\/a> also said a second Trump administration would be akin to Hitler\u2019s regime. <\/p>\n<p>Numerous other propaganda press outlets have also maligned Trump as a Nazi (along with his supporters and cabinet members).<\/p>\n<p>A 2015 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/posteverything\/wp\/2015\/12\/14\/sure-call-trump-a-nazi-just-make-sure-you-know-what-youre-talking-about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">op-ed<\/a> in the Washington Post said, \u201cSure, call Trump a Nazi. Just make sure you know what you\u2019re talking about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>MS NOW <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ms.now\/top-stories\/latest\/trump-smithsonian-institute-museum-library-services-rcna199331\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">claimed<\/a> in 2025 that \u201cTrump\u2019s attacks on museums and libraries echo the Nazi playbook.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A 2023 article in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/12\/19\/biden-trump-hitler-00132367\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Politico<\/a>, written by Holly Otterbein, Elena Schneider, and Jonathan Lemire, gave cover to then-President Joe Biden and his team for comparing Trump to Hitler, arguing \u201chistorians\u201d also agree that Trump is akin to a dictator like Hitler.<\/p>\n<p>The media have also painted Trump as a \u201cthreat to democracy.\u201d Such claims have been so numerous that cataloging all the examples would take up too much space, but a few examples can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/politics\/360516\/trump-assasination-attempt-democracy-threat-rhetoric-critics-violence-politics-biden\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/policy\/381636\/trump-2024-democracy-threat-orban-second-term\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/ideas\/archive\/2023\/08\/donald-trump-indictment-gop-jan-6\/674895\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/10\/opinion\/trumps-how-democracies-die.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>All of this rhetoric can best be <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/14\/the-left-spent-years-running-an-assassination-prep-campaign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">described<\/a> as \u201cassassination prep\u201d language, as The Federalist co-founder and CEO <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/seanmdav\/status\/1732931279421579321\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Sean Davis<\/a> explained. The language is \u201cmeant to justify and even incite the most extreme measures, up to and including unconscionable violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pattern is clear: Would-be assassins are using the same language and rhetoric that has become commonplace in the propaganda press. There is no legitimate reason why Trump should have rewarded the corporate media with his presence in the first place. A press corps that peddles the kind of false and inflammatory rhetoric that has clearly driven and legitimized would-be assassins is not an institution that deserves legitimacy, credibility, or even attendance.<\/p>\n<p>And Saturday\u2019s assassination attempt just reaffirms it once again. <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2024, Trump said he was targeted because of Democrats\u2019 claims; after Saturday\u2019s attack, his point sounded less \u201chyperbolic.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2595717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-27-at-12.39.22-PM-scaled-e1777308075294-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[8049,5157,35049,44205,3634],"class_list":["post-2595716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-accountability","tag-journalism","tag-political-violence","tag-press-freedom","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-27-at-12.39.22-PM-scaled-e1777308075294-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595720,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595716\/revisions\/2595720"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}