{"id":2595767,"date":"2026-04-27T15:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-yet-another-terrorist-attack-cbss-norah-odonnell-immediately-uses-assassins-rhetoric-to-target-trump\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T15:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T19:54:49","slug":"after-yet-another-terrorist-attack-cbss-norah-odonnell-immediately-uses-assassins-rhetoric-to-target-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/after-yet-another-terrorist-attack-cbss-norah-odonnell-immediately-uses-assassins-rhetoric-to-target-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"CBS&#8217;s Norah O&#8217;Donnell Uses Assassin&#8217;s Rhetoric To Target Trump"},"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%2Fafter-yet-another-terrorist-attack-cbss-norah-odonnell-immediately-uses-assassins-rhetoric-to-target-trump%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=2595767&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>Norah O\u2019Donnell, a *60 Minutes* correspondent, is criticized for repeating on TV an alleged assassin\u2019s manifesto that accused President Donald Trump of being a \u201cpedophile, rapist, and traitor,\u201d shortly after another attempt on Trump\u2019s life. The article argues she did so without treating the claims as baseless or inappropriate to amplify.<\/p>\n<p>It describes the suspect, Cole Allen, as having written about wanting to murder Trump and members of his cabinet, and claims O\u2019Donnell\u2019s questioning effectively fed into the same rhetoric Democrats and media outlets have used for years. The piece highlights Trump\u2019s immediate reaction-calling O\u2019Donnell and \u201chorrible people\u201d and saying she should be ashamed-then claims she continued the line of questioning by feigning surprise at Trump\u2019s denials.<\/p>\n<p>the author also argues this approach reflects a broader pattern in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-biden-family-racket-is-everything-leftists-fabricated-about-the-trumps-and-media-are-crickets\/\" title=\"The Biden Family Racket Is Everything Leftists Fabricated About The Trumps, And ... Are Crickets\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-lost-all-credibility-on-social-distancing-after-biden-celebrations\/\" title=\"Dems Lost All Credibility On Social Distancing After Biden Celebrations\">corporate media<\/a> coverage<\/a>,pointing to how Axios framed O\u2019Donnell\u2019s exchange as an \u201cuncomfortable question\u201d that supposedly \u201cprompted\u201d Trump to resume hostility with the press. the article portrays O\u2019Donnell\u2019s conduct not as an error but as part of a media ecosystem that <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >repeats political talking points tied<\/a> to violence.  <\/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>What, if anything, was left of Norah O\u2019Donnell\u2019s credibility went up in flames on Sunday when the <em>60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent repeated an alleged would-be assassin\u2019s baseless accusations against President Donald Trump without hesitation.<\/p>\n<p>Cole Allen, the 31-year-old armed man who allegedly stormed a Secret Service checkpoint at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner, where Trump, members of his administration, and thousands of guests were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/OliLondonTV\/status\/2048261984978907538?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wined and dined<\/a>, was not shy in his manifesto about hoping to murder the president and his cabinet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes,\u201d Allen reportedly <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/26\/us-news\/read-whcd-gunman-cole-allens-full-anti-trump-manifesto\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In her sit-down with Trump just one day after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-says-joe-biden-and-kamala-harris-are-to-blame-for-latest-assassination-attempt-they-are-the-real-threat\/\" title=\"Trump Says Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Are to Blame for Latest Assassination ...: &#039;They Are the Real Threat&#039;\">latest assassination attempt<\/a>, O\u2019Donnell repeated the line with a straight face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s your reaction to that?\u201d O\u2019Donnell said, after remarking that the manifesto was a \u201cstunning thing to read.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump clocked the trick immediately. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was waiting for you to read that because I knew you would, because you\u2019re horrible people. Horrible people,\u201d Trump said. He later added, \u201cYou should be ashamed of yourself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president\u2019s chastising didn\u2019t deter O\u2019Donnell from deploying her <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/03\/trump-on-60-minutes-political-retribution-is-what-democrats-did-to-me-and-my-family\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">old propagandist tricks<\/a>. Instead she feigned surprise when Trump declared, \u201cI\u2019m not a rapist. I didn\u2019t rape anybody. \u2026 I\u2019m not a pedophile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, do you think he was referring to you?\u201d O\u2019Donnell intejected.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/mirandadevine\/status\/2048781883723448747?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">O\u2019Donnell<\/a> is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/norah-odonnell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a lot of things,<\/a> but out of the loop on the \u201crapist, pedophile, and traitor\u201d accusations Democrats and corporate media have lobbed at the president for years is not one of them.<\/p>\n<p>The <em>60 Minutes<\/em> correspondent is undoubtedly familiar with countless headlines, including many from her employer <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/cbs-news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBS<\/a>, catering against all evidence to fake narratives claiming Trump sexually assaulted a woman in a department store dressing room, was in on convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein\u2019s racket, and committed treason against his country by colluding with <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/russian-collusion-hoax\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/15\/new-documents-reveal-democrats-plot-to-frame-trump-with-ukraine-call\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ukraine<\/a>, or any other foreign country. O\u2019Donnell also knows about and <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/08\/16\/in-viral-tweet-cbss-norah-odonnell-parrots-doj-lie-that-fbi-didnt-steal-trumps-passports\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even lied in her coverage<\/a> of the deep state\u2019s attempt to throw Trump in prison ahead of the 2024 election.<\/p>\n<p>If anything, O\u2019Donnell certainly saw that Trump sued ABC News\u2019 George Stephanopoulos over false claims that the now-president raped E. Jean Carroll. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/12\/15\/trump-hating-abc-settles-defamation-case-with-15-million-payment-to-trump-library\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">suit settled<\/a> after the Disney-owned media company decided to pay $15 million to the Trump library instead of subjecting itself to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/george-stephanopoulos-abc-let-off-easy-trump-16-million-defamation-settlement-new-york-post-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">legal discovery<\/a> that could reveal even more slander against the Republican.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s already taboo to treat the rhetoric of an attempted assassin\u2019s manifesto as a legitimate thing to repeat on national television. To pretend that the president doesn\u2019t have to defend himself against such outrageous claims, especially when they\u2019ve been countlessly recycled by media hacks and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/AndrewKolvet\/status\/2048417712439689346?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bluesky users<\/a> and directly inspired leftist violence, is even worse. Yet that\u2019s exactly what O\u2019Donnell did.<\/p>\n<p>The CBS correspondent\u2019s patronizing approach to covering the most recent attempt on Trump\u2019s life is not a bug in the corporate media system, it\u2019s a feature. Exhibit A came in Axios, which repackaged O\u2019Donnell\u2019s repeat of the baseless accusation as an \u201cuncomfortable question\u201d and sold it to Americans as the reason Trump \u201cresume[d] hostilities with the Washington press, less than 24 hours after their shared brush with death.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<p><span><\/p>\n<blockquote data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">One uncomfortable question was all it took for President Trump to resume hostilities with the Washington press, less than 24 hours after their shared brush with death. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2nBcYEuNXU\">https:\/\/t.co\/2nBcYEuNXU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Axios (@axios) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/axios\/status\/2048724771072888970?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 27, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/span> <\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>First the media and Democrats such as President Barack Obama <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BarackObama\/status\/2048511290021237017?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">pretended not to know<\/a> why a seemingly normal <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Telegraph\/status\/2048345151886528640?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cteacher of the month\u201d<\/a> from California would target an event attended by the president and his cabinet. Now, they are pretending to be surprised when Trump reacts to their willing echo of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/04\/27\/four-days-after-nyt-excused-political-murder-another-would-be-assassin-targeted-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">assassination-prep talking points<\/a> they supplied to would-be political killers.<\/p>\n<p>If you thought Bari Weiss\u2019s CBS takeover was a rescue operation, you were wrong. It was a public relations stunt that, as evidenced by O\u2019Donnell\u2019s latest propaganda performance, did not deter so-called journalists\u2019 dereliction of duty<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/07\/15\/there-can-be-no-unity-with-the-violent-democrat-media-industrial-complex\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[RELATED: There Can Be No Unity With The Violent Democrat-Media Industrial Complex]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is an award-winning staff writer at The Federalist and producer of \u201cThe Federalist Radio Hour.\u201d Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norah O\u2019Donnell\u2019s credibility burned Sunday after 60 Minutes echoed a would-be assassin\u2019s baseless claims about Trump<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2595768,"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-10.58.56-AM-scaled-e1777305728952.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[78684,7585,32319,36723,35795],"class_list":["post-2595767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-assassins-rhetoric","tag-cbs","tag-donald-trump","tag-norah-odonnell","tag-political-criticism"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-27-at-10.58.56-AM-scaled-e1777305728952.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595767","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\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2595767"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595767\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2595771,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2595767\/revisions\/2595771"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2595768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2595767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2595767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2595767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}