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One of the more bizarre aspects of the third attempt to assassinate President Donald Trump is how the left’s propaganda mills, more commonly known as the mainstream media, have treated the would-be assassin, Cole Allen. As his manifesto makes abundantly clear, he is very much one of them, and so we see nothing of what we would be seeing if, say, a would-be assassin of some leftist had turned out to be a MAGA hat-wearing patriot. In that case, the media would be saying, all day every day, how dangerous the ideas that motivated the shooter really were, and calling for legislation and programs to stamp them out once and for all.

With Cole Allen, however, it’s a vastly different story.

By now, the whole world has weighed in on the tense tête-à-tête between Trump and CBS’s Norah O’Donnell, who used Allen’s manifesto to challenge the president on some of the left’s most hysterical and baseless claims that he is a “pedophile” and a “rapist.” The fact that a would-be killer was making these charges did not deter O’Donnell for one second. It was as if she had been challenging Trump on the political theory of Lee Harvey Oswald. And that was by no means all.

O’Donnell also asked Trump: “The other thing in the manifesto that I think is worth looking at in terms of determining his motive is he had been staying at the hotel since Friday. He checked in, he said he had cased the place, and he wrote, ‘What the hell is the Secret Service doing?’ And he wrote this quote, ‘I expected security cameras at every bend, bugged hotel rooms, armed agents every ten feet, metal detectors out the wazoo. What I got is nothing.’ He wrote, ‘Like, this level of incompetence is insane.’ Sir, you have already had two attempted –”

Contrary to O’Donnell’s preamble, this passage had nothing whatsoever to do with Allen’s motive. That motive was obvious: Allen hated Trump because he had imbibed the left’s talking points, and wanted him dead. The competence or lack thereof of the Secret Service had nothing to do with it. O’Donnell was reading Allen’s words and challenging Trump about them as if the assassin were a security expert.

Even that wasn’t all. O’Donnell told Trump that Allen “had social media accounts that had anti-Trump and anti-Christian rhetoric…. Well, he had a lot of anti-Christian rhetoric. He had– he was part of a group called the Wide Awakes. He had attended a No Kings protest in California.” She followed this up with “What did security tell you about what may have been his motives?,” as if his motives weren’t clear from what she had just said. This led to Trump discussing the No Kings protests.

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