Trump's 2nd Would Be Assassin Nabbed - Dems Victim Blame

Trump’s 2nd Would Be Assassin Nabbed - Dems Victim Blame
Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
September 17, 2024

For the second time in 64 days former President Donald Trump’s life stood in the crosshairs of a would be assassin. Fortunately no harm came to the former president, but the hypocritical Democrats or Hypocrats, have been victim blaming since news broke from Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida on Sunday September 15.

In the ultimate victim blaming, so-called journalists on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” asked if the TRUMP team would finally tone down the rhetoric and violence. The Trump team is not promoting violence - political or otherwise nor are they prompting anti-Trump behavior. Both would be assassins - on July 13, and September 15 voiced anti-Trump sentiments in one form or another, clearly influenced by the Democrats. Apparently it’s more than acceptable to victim blame when it fits the liberal, progressive, Democrat narrative. Otherwise, they are the first to shame the shamers.

“Donald Trump is an existential threat to our democracy and our most fundamental freedoms,” said Democrat nominee for president Kamala Harris on July 24.

“Are they [Trump and JD Vance] a threat to democracy? Yes? Are they going to take our rights away? Yes,” said Governor Tim Walz (D-MN), nominee for vice president, on July 27 in St. Cloud, MN.

“He’s [Trump] a genuine danger to American security,” said Joe Biden. He also said, “It’s time to put Trump in the bullseye,” during a private telephone call with donors, just days before the July 13 assassination attempt on Trump. Of course nothing remains private for long in the world of politics, and such words could be terribly influential to a would-be assassin.

“He [Trump] is destructive to our democracy and has to be eliminated,” said US Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) on “The Inside Interview” on MSNBC in November 2023. That is most certainly an emboldening statement offered by the Congressman.

Donald Trump is not the threat to democracy as so many Democrats claim. They are simply deflecting off of themselves, as it is the Democrat Party that is the true threat to “democracy.” (The United States is a republic.) Consider that the Democrats selected, not elected, their party’s nominee - Kamala Harris - a person who entered not a single Democrat primary, who earned not a single vote during said primaries. Harris received a modern day coronation after participating in the palace coup that removed Biden from his candidacy.

In addition to the incendiary language used against Trump by a number of very high ranked Democrats, there has been a breach in security provided by the Secret Service, which falls into the rather incapable hands of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. The Secret Service handled the first assassination attempt with all the skill and ineptitude of the Keystone Kops. Yet, it turned out to be no laughing matter, as in addition to Trump getting shot, two other rally attendees suffered wounds, and a third, retired firefighter Corey Comperatore suffered fatal wounds while protecting his family at the rally in Pennsylvania. 

Trump’s security detail should have been doubled, tripled, whatever it takes to keep a presidential candidate alive and free to travel the country from coast to coast campaigning before the American people. Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw should have been fired following the potential assassination at Trump International for glibly saying that Trump is not the current president and thus has all the protection he needs. If the events of the last two months are any indication, Trump clearly lacks the security he requires, and as a veteran sheriff, Bradshaw should know  better.

Adding insult to injury, as if the tendentious remarks made by myriad Democrats weren’t enough, many more are suggesting that Trump should be limited in his travels and especially his outdoor activities. Of course they want Trump as incapacitated and inconvenienced as much as possible to keep him off the campaign trail, to prevent him from holding the enormous rallies that are so popular with his supporters. These Democrats want Trump to hunker in the bunker, a la Biden in 2020. The only difference being Biden wanted to hide in the basement and run out the clock. That is not how Trump operates. Witness, following the debate on September 10, while Harris attended a debate party, Trump took to the spin room in a very unprecedented manner, and fielded questions from the media.

Trump requires as much security as any sitting president would command, after all, Trump is a former president, making his circumstances a bit more extraordinary, something Bradshaw should have remembered when suggesting Trump had all the security he needed. And not because it is Trump. All major party candidates for president should have as much security as is necessary to keep them properly protected. This is not about Trump - this is about the sanctity of the American electoral process. We the people, as Americans, don’t go around eliminating political rivals - assassinating political leaders. This is the United States of America. Not Haiti, not Libya, not Guinea-Bissau, not Serbia and Montenegro, not Nepal, not the Democratic Republic of the Congo - all of which have seen their leaders assassinated this century.

This is the United States of America - the supposed leader of the free world - the nation by which all others measure their freedoms, rights, and body politic - a republic with supposedly free and fair elections, not some banana republic floating around the deepest recesses of some enormous body of water. After the first assassination attempt, the Democrats, at their convention in August, at the very least, their nominees Harris and Walz should have expressed thankfulness that Trump is alive and physically well and that political violence has no place in the United States; lead by example in front of the thousands of convention partisans and the millions watching around the country. 

Harris and Walz failed to seize the moment for a conciliatory gesture. Instead they continue to lead by antagonistic, contentious, and truculent language creating a more divisive union - the same brand of divisiveness the Democrats employ via DEI and CRT in the workplace and the schools. And these are just some of the myriad reasons Donald Trump must be returned to the White House. The people have to deliver a strong message that they will not be intimidated, nor will they succumb to the lies, half truths, and misinformation spread by a party and people so desperate to retain their power even at the risk of permanently destroying the union.

Abraham Lincoln, in his 1838 speech before the Young Men’s Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois spoke of a potential downfall of the republic. “At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.”

As a nation, the United States of America is at a crossroads. It is up to we the people, in the quadrennial occasion of our presidential election to determine the direction the nation will traverse - maintaining the republic or a more sinister direction toward our own destruction led by hypocrites who are the true threat to the future of America. Look at the records of the last two administrations - they speak for themselves. The time is now as the Ronald Reagan campaign said in 1980, as it also asked the people if they were better off than they were four years prior. Reagan helped make America great again then, and Trump can help Make America Great Again now.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN.

Trump Survives Assassin's Bullet as RNC Opens

Trump Survives Assassin’s Bullet as RNC Opens
Commentary by Sanford D. Horn
July 14, 2024

Less than 48 hours prior to the Republican Party convening in Milwaukee for its quadrennial convention, President Donald Trump suffered a bullet wound to the right ear at the hands of a would be assassin. Trump is recovering and the RNC will open as scheduled on Monday July 15. 

The would-be assassin has been appropriately dispatched by the Secret Service. Were it not for the Secret Service’s utter failure to secure the area where Trump spoke on Saturday in the first place, in Butler, PA, the attempt on Trump’s life would not have occurred. Those Secret Service agents physically closest to Trump did their jobs in precision fashion, surrounding the former president within seconds of the initial shots ringing out, and extricating him from further harm.

A defiant Trump, with blood streaming down his right cheek, raised a fist and shouted “fight, fight, fight,” as the Secret Service physically escorted Trump from the scene. As he was ushered into the presidential SUV, Trump once again raised his fist and shouted “fight” yet again. It seemed Trump wanted to continue with his speech at the rally, akin to the October 1912 attempt to assassinate President Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee, where he did, in fact, resume his speech with a bullet in his chest.

Ironically, Joe Biden, in his press conference last Thursday evening, said “when you get knocked down, you get back up,” no doubt referring to his miserable debate performance against Trump. And that is exactly what Trump did - after literally getting knocked down, Trump literally rose up, feistily, to the relief of the thousands in attendance that late afternoon. Upon realizing Trump was vertical, and as the Secret Service whisked him away with fist raised, the throng began chanting “USA, USA, USA.”

And while, thank G-d, Trump will live to see more than just another day, the true takeaway from this near-tragedy  must be the abject failure of the Secret Service’s advance team. They had the enormous task of ensuring the, as wide as possible, perimeter would be tighter than any drum on the planet. They failed. The shooter, a 20 year old male from Bethel Park, PA, scaled a building, reaching the rooftop roughly 160 yards from Trump’s speaking position - less than two football fields. Has the Secret Service learned nothing from the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963? An open air, largely attended, presidential visit.

A number of Trump supporters attending the rally spotted the shooter scaling the building. There is even video footage of ordinary rally attendees discussing seeing the assassin and mentioning it to authorities. Why didn’t the Secret Service witness this as well? One feeble excuse claimed the budget didn’t warrant a further blanketing of the area. Did the Secret Service work with local law enforcement in Butler, PA? A Congressional investigation has already been called for, with both the Director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas expected to testify. Biden has also called for the fast-tracking of the attempted assassination investigation. Because of this tremendous failure, and but for the grace of G-d that Trump survived this assassination attempt, both Cheatle and Mayorkas should immediately be relieved of their duties. People, humans, failed in their vital tasks of securing the safety of the President of the United States and heads should roll - firings must take place.

One person not nearly as fortunate as Trump, murdered at the hands of the assassin’s gun while protecting his family, Corey Comperatore, 50, served his community as a former fire chief. Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro (D) said, at a press conference Sunday, that the father of two “died a hero" after diving on top of his family. “He dove protecting his family. Took a bullet for them," Shapiro said. “We lost a fellow Pennsylvanian last night ... I just spoke to Corey's wife and his two daughters. Corey was a girl-dad. Corey was a firefighter. Corey went to church every Sunday. Corey loved his community. Corey loved his family. He was an avid supporter of the former president and so excited to be there last night with him in the community," Shapiro said, as reported on www.newsweek.com. May his memory be for a blessing. Two other rally attendees are recovering from gunshot wounds at the hands of the assassin.

Virginia Governor Glenn Younkin (R) called for flags to be flown at half mast in the Commonwealth of Virginia in memory of the Pennsylvanian, Comperatore.

No one, not Comperatore, not a person attending a Trump rally, a Biden rally, or any other political rally, should have to wonder if they will return home later that night. Americans have attended such rallies for more than two centuries in this country. This should not be a political issue either. No member of the body politic either, should ever be in this amount of danger - literally inches from death - no one.

Biden called for the lowering of the temperature regarding the vitriol that has been free flowing from both sides of the aisle, but most particularly from the Democrats. This must include the hyperbolic rhetoric by elected Democrats and members of the so-called mainstream media calling Trump Hitler and a Nazi. Is Donald Trump responsible for the deaths of more than 11 million people, at least six million of whom were Jewish? Is Donald Trump going to bring the American government and democracy to its knees, as his opponents say? First of all, they should remember this country is a Constitutional Republic. Biden himself, egregiously put forth his own raising of the temperature against Trump, most recently declaring “it’s time to put Trump in a bullseye,” and “he’s a threat to this nation.”

It has been Democrat invective that is the cause of such violence. It is the team currently occupying the White House that is the genuine threat to the stability of the government and the security of the nation. The Democrat Party thwarted all efforts to hold primaries, disenfranchising their own party loyalists from having a say in who their nominee should be. They rigged the system in 2020 to ensure Biden became the nominee. Biden and his Democrats have systematically controlled the so-called legacy media. This is reason number one why there was such shock following Biden’s disastrous debate performance on June 27. Biden and his Democrats on the bench have also turned this government into a banana republic by weaponizing the Justice Department and imprisoning political opponents. The Biden administration continues its open border policy that has already seen more than 10 million illegal aliens enter the United States on his watch - that is damaging this country. Just last week 198 Congressional Democrats voted against a bill that will prevent those very illegals and all non-citizens from voting in American elections. If a member of the elected class in the United States believes non-citizens should possess the franchise, those members should either be impeached or recalled at once.

To borrow from the 1980 Reagan campaign, “the time is now,” for a return to being America first, not America last. The time is now to support policies that will return America to its former prominence. The time is now for America to support jobs for Americans, putting its veterans above illegal aliens. The time is now for America to stand with its allies like Israel and Hong Kong, and send a message to its foes that their shenanigans in the US, such as buying up American farm land abutting military bases will no longer be tolerated. The time is now to make America, American again. Following the undoubtedly humbling, turn to G-d moment Trump experienced on Saturday, he will be the person the nation needs him to be, at a time when he is most needed.

Sanford D. Horn is a writer and educator living in Westfield, IN. He remembers the assassination attempt on President Reagan as a cold, rainy, Monday March 30, 1981 as he left school that afternoon. Until the last minute, the playing of the NCAA basketball championship was in doubt.