{"id":2599438,"date":"2026-05-06T11:53:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:53:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-60-percent-of-voters-blame-trump-hating-media-for-latest-assassination-attempt\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T11:54:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:54:34","slug":"poll-60-percent-of-voters-blame-trump-hating-media-for-latest-assassination-attempt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/poll-60-percent-of-voters-blame-trump-hating-media-for-latest-assassination-attempt\/","title":{"rendered":"Voters Blame Trump-Hating Media For Latest Murder Attempt"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fpoll-60-percent-of-voters-blame-trump-hating-media-for-latest-assassination-attempt%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=2599438&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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nadales-i-used-to-be-antifa\/\" title=\"Nadales: I Used To Be Antifa\">left-wing political violence<\/a> against Donald Trump is being fueled by years of opposed, one-sided coverage from major \u201cTrump-hating\u201d media outlets. It cites a Rasmussen Reports poll saying 60% of likely U.S. voters believe negative media coverage contributed to a recent assassination attempt, with particularly high agreement among Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>it then highlights the suspect in the latest attack, Cole Allen, alleging that he absorbed radicalizing rhetoric from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jack-buckby-apple-and-google-could-destroy-musks-twitter-app-neutrality-is-the-answer\/\" title=\"Jack Buckby: Apple And Google Could Destroy Musk\u2019s Twitter. App Neutrality Is The Answer\">left-leaning social media<\/a> and that mainstream outlets minimized or mischaracterized his ideology (describing him as \u201ccentrist\u201d while the author claims his posts were conspiratorial and violently anti-Trump). The piece contends that mainstream institutions have repeatedly portrayed Trump as an existential threat-comparing him to historical tyrants-and that this chronic exaggeration creates an habitat where violence becomes more likely.<\/p>\n<p>it asserts that news organizations continue to deliver overwhelmingly negative coverage of Trump and that they fail to challenge the accusations and inflammatory framing in real time. The author concludes that both the media\u2019s rhetoric and the broader atmosphere it creates bear responsibility for \u201cdarkest days\u201d of political instability.  <\/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>The conscienceless monster that is left-wing political violence has a voracious appetite. And the Trump-hating media are feeding it. <\/p>\n<p>A new Rasmussen Reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration_second_term\/60_suspect_media_influence_in_trump_assassination_attempt?utm_campaign=RR05042026DN&#038;utm_source=criticalimpact&#038;utm_medium=email#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">poll<\/a> finds a majority of likely U.S. voters \u2014 60 percent \u2014 believes that the constant barrage of negative coverage of President Donald Trump likely contributed to the latest assassination attempt. The national telephone and online survey of 1,076 Americans, conducted April 27-29, shows 41 percent of those surveyed think it \u201cvery likely\u201d the media\u2019s one-sided treatment had some influence. A mere 13 percent of respondents said it\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/cnsnews\/craig-bannister\/2026\/05\/04\/voters-blame-media-inspiring-assassination-attempt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">\u201cnot at all likely\u201d<\/a> that the media has some culpability. <\/p>\n<p>As media watchdog Newsbusters <a href=\"https:\/\/newsbusters.org\/blogs\/cnsnews\/craig-bannister\/2026\/05\/04\/voters-blame-media-inspiring-assassination-attempt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported,<\/a> the poll numbers include 45 percent of voters identifying as Democrats believe it\u2019s likely the Trump-loathing media inspired the attack, with nearly 4 out of 5 Republicans saying the same. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor most of us, it was here we go again,\u201d Tim Graham, Executive Editor of Newsbusters, told me on a recent episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iheart.com\/podcast\/53-federalist-radio-hour-93866902\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>The Federalist Radio Hour <\/em>podcast<\/a>. Sadly, he said, the latest assassination attempt did not come as a surprise. Corporate media created an environment leading up to the widely anticipated get-together of the self-important D.C. journalists and members of the Trump administration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn the lead up to this there was such screeching about a permission structure for fascism,\u201d Graham said. \u201cThey have talked about Trump for the last 10 years in such a hyperbolic way.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Centrist\u2019 Radical <\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2026\/05\/04\/leftist-indoctrination-factories-churn-out-would-be-trump-assassins-every-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cole Allen,<\/a> 31, is facing charges of attempting to assassinate the president and cabinet members after bursting into and firing a gun at last month\u2019s White House Correspondents\u2019 Dinner. The California teacher, according to prosecutors, wrote an anti-Trump <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> filled with the watchwords of the radical left \u2014 the Marxist dogma of the \u201coppressor\u201d and the \u201coppressed.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, the liberal twits at NPR (thankfully no longer subsidized by our tax dollars) published a piece obtusely headlined, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2026\/04\/28\/nx-s1-5801467\/cole-allen-suspect-washington-correspondents-dinner-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">With no radical footprint, what drove suspect to try and assassinate Trump?\u201d<\/a> Allen\u2019s sister told the U.S. Secret Service that her brother was known to make \u201cradical\u201d comments, as the NPR piece notes. The <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >fatuous news outlet quoted<\/a> an online threat-tracking \u201cexpert\u201d who insisted Allen\u2019s social media profiles are \u201creally not that radical at all \u2026 Oftentimes it\u2019s like quite centrist, pretty moderate wing, if anything.\u201d\u00a0Apparently NPR\u2019s expert believes Allen\u2019s \u201ccentrist\u201d views include \u201cconspiracy theories related to Trump and sex offender Jeffrey Epstein,\u201d as WION <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wionews.com\/world\/from-video-games-to-trump-criticism-what-whcd-shooter-s-social-media-revealed-1777359464035\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a>. Allen reshared posts comparing Trump to Hitler, a staple talking point of the Trump Derangement Syndrome crowd, and posts calling for the Republican\u2019s 2024 election victory to be nullified, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/04\/27\/us\/correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-social-media-invs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to<\/a> CNN. <\/p>\n<p>Allen appeared to be all over leftist social media, raving about Trump, his policies and his administration. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cPut a traitor BACK in office, get treason like, I don\u2019t understand why people are surprised by the US ripping itself apart,\u201d Allen, apparently posting on Bluesky under the user name \u201ccoldforce,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theweek.in\/news\/world\/2026\/04\/28\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-cole-allen-shared-posts-saying-trump-staged-his-previous-assassination-attempt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m pretty sure that\u2019s the expected outcome of having a traitor at the helm.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It appeared the suspected, would-be assassin was on an escalating trajectory. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Because of the Things They Say About Me\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>Allen didn\u2019t need to go to Marxism summer camp to become radicalized. He, like his fellow Americans, have been steeped in the visceral hatred of Trump that corporate media have been churning out for more than a decade. <\/p>\n<p>In December 2016, after Trump surprised the political establishment to win his first presidential term, and as the Obama administration and the deep state were launching <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/07\/21\/declassified-records-show-obama-lied-to-americans-sabotaged-transition-of-power\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a soft coup<\/a> against the incoming president, The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/12\/16\/opinion\/sunday\/is-donald-trump-a-threat-to-democracy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opined,<\/a> \u201cIs Donald Trump a Threat to Democracy?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than a month before the 2020 presidential election, the same newspaper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2020\/10\/16\/opinion\/donald-trump-worst-president.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">railed<\/a> that Trump, seeking a second term, was \u201cthe greatest threat to American democracy since World War II.\u201d The Times\u2019 editorial board laughably insisted that it did not \u201clightly indict a duly elected president,\u201d after spending nearly four years assisting in the attempt to topple his presidency. <\/p>\n<p>Throughout Trump\u2019s triumphant run for a second nonconsecutive term, a feat matched by only one other U.S. president, The New York Times, the Washington Post, the rabid leftists at the old MSNBC, and the rest of their ilk cranked up the \u201cTrump is worse than Hitler\u201d talking points. There was a high price to pay for the hyperbolic narrative. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI probably took a bullet to the head because of the things they say about me,\u201d Trump said during the <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/09\/13\/us-news\/kamala-harris-did-not-receive-debate-questions-in-advance-abc-claims-absolutely-not\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">media-rigged presidential debate<\/a> in September 2024 featuring the Democrats\u2019 undemocratically installed candidate Kamala Harris. He was talking about the overheated rhetoric coming from Democrats, but the indictment covers the left\u2019s communications division as well. <\/p>\n<p>Trump was right then \u2014 just a couple months after a gunman shot him in the ear, killed another man and seriously injured two more during a campaign stop in Butler, Penn. Peter Baker, The Times\u2019 White House correspondent, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ZQC3Yul-k9c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">blamed<\/a> Trump and his \u201crhetoric\u201d for being the target of an assassins\u2019 bullet. <\/p>\n<p>Things have only deteriorated since that violent day in July 2024. The Rasmussen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rasmussenreports.com\/public_content\/politics\/trump_administration_second_term\/60_suspect_media_influence_in_trump_assassination_attempt?utm_campaign=RR05042026DN&#038;utm_source=criticalimpact&#038;utm_medium=email#google_vignette\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">survey<\/a> finds 71 percent of likely U.S. voters say the problem of political violence in America is getting worse, with just 8 percent seeing the problem getting better. <\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Darkest Days\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>More than a year into Trump 2.0, Newsbusters\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbusters.org\/blogs\/nb\/rich-noyes\/2025\/04\/28\/tv-news-assaults-2nd-trump-admin-92-negative-coverage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">analyses<\/a> show the major broadcast news players continue to slather their newscasts with negative coverage of Trump and his administration \u2014 at a clip of 90 percent or more. <\/p>\n<p>The New York Times and their partners in the corrupt and corrupting media have blood on their hands. They clearly don\u2019t care. The mission isn\u2019t to consider what they\u2019re doing, it\u2019s to get rid of the man they\u2019ve defined as democracy\u2019s biggest threat. These \u201cjournalists\u201d wrote the patently false narratives of the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/11\/20\/the-federalist-wins-dao-grand-prize-for-russia-collusion-hoax-coverage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Russia collusion hoax,<\/a> the Hollywood-like scripts behind the impeachments, the lies behind the indictments, the propaganda for the prosecutions. And yes, they have fueled the fires of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.csis.org\/analysis\/left-wing-terrorism-and-political-violence-united-states-what-data-tells-us\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">epidemic<\/a> of left-wing political violence targeting Trump and those who dare support the idea of restoring America to its promise of greatness. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe problem here is that not only does the media repeat, \u2018You\u2019re a fascist,\u2019 \u2018You\u2019re a pedophile,\u2019 You\u2019re a rapist\u2019, some of these terms that [CBS News senior correspondent] Norah O\u2019Donnell <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/media\/trump-calls-60-minutes-host-disgraceful-reading-whcd-suspects-alleged-manifesto-air\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">threw<\/a> right in Trump\u2019s face \u2026\u201d Newsbusters\u2019 Graham said. But there\u2019s no fact-checking in real time, or any time, to push back on the accomplice media\u2019s spin and lies to remind the American news consumer of the insanity in comparing the president of the United States to a man who oversaw the murder of six million Jews, Graham said. <\/p>\n<p>And Cole Allen seemed to breathe all of that politically toxic air, buying fully into the narrative the left-bending corporate media have sold. <\/p>\n<p>On his trip from his metro Los Angeles home to Washington D.C. just a few days before the attack on the WHCD, Allen <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2026\/04\/29\/cole-allen-photo-trump-assassination-attempt-whcd-detention.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reportedly<\/a> read an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/trumps-plans-for-mic-drop-media-confrontation-at-white-house-correspondents-association-dinner-are-leaked\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">article <\/a>on his phone headlined, \u201cTrump\u2019s Plans for \u2018Mic-Drop\u2019 Media Confrontation Are Leaked: The president is planning a rage-fueled moment at the White House Correspondents\u2019 Association dinner.\u201d The story appeared in the leftist rage-baiting rag, The Daily Beast. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHad the defendant achieved his intended outcome, he would have brought about one of the darkest days in American history,\u201d a prosecutor in the case <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/cole-tomas-allen-dc-correspondents-dinner-shooting-suspect-doj-filing\/3883228\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote.<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Would it be such a \u201cdark day\u201d to the political hate spewers in the accomplice media? <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Matt Kittle is a senior elections correspondent for The Federalist. An award-winning investigative reporter and 30-year veteran of print, broadcast, and online journalism, Kittle previously served as the executive director of Empower Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Left-wing violence thrives, say voters-Trump-hating media may fuel it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":656,"featured_media":2599439,"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\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-06-at-2.54.45-AM-1024x578.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[50403,6571,56439,5894,69322],"class_list":["post-2599438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-crime-2","tag-elections","tag-media-bias-2","tag-politics","tag-public-opinion-2"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-06-at-2.54.45-AM-1024x578.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599438","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\/656"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599438"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2599442,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599438\/revisions\/2599442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2599439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}