There have been at least five assassination attempts on the life of President Trump since his 2016 campaign. Media framing him as a Nazi and a threat to democracy has emboldened the left to call for and engage in political violence. Photo courtesy of James Skoufis. The April 25, 2026 attack at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner was the fifth documented attempt against President Donald Trump in less than a decade. The first, largely forgotten by the media, came in 2016, when Michael Steven Sandford attempted to seize an officer’s weapon at a Trump rally in Las Vegas. The most widely remembered was Thomas Matthew Crooks opening fire at the Butler, Pennsylvania rally on July 13, 2024, killing one rallygoer and grazing Trump’s ear, producing…
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