By Harold Pease, Ph. D.
The news is filled with the most recent attempted assassination of President Donald Trump. This time at the White House Correspondents Dinner April 25, 2026, by 31 year old admitted would be assassin, Cole Thomas Allen, a guest in the Washington Hilton, the same hotel where John Hinckley tried to assassinate Ronald Regan in 1981. Allen fired and hit an agent as he ran through several in the lobby but was soon stopped and arrested. The Deep State media framed this attempt as the third on the life of Donald Trump in the last two years, which is true, but it is also the 6th on him in ten years. They are responsible for the constant hate Trump rhetoric that has propagated the news, which is the source of this violence for over a decade. Let’s briefly remind ourselves of five prior attempts to assassinate the president from the most recent back to 2016.
Number 5, Sniper at Trump’s Golf Course, September 15, 2024, Assassination Attempt. Ryan Wesley Routh (58), had made a nest from which to shoot former President Trump with his SKS rifle just outside the fence of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida when Trump reached hole 6. Routh, had to have possessed leaked information that Trump would be golfing that day. After hiding there for nearly 12 hours, and on the former president’s arrival, Routh pointed his weapon through the fence line, approximately 400 yards (370 m) away from Trump. A Secret service agent noticed and fired four rounds towards Routh, who them fled the scene. He was subsequently arrested. On February 4, 2026, he was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Number 4, Butler, Pennsylvania Rally July 13, 2024, Trump Assassination Attempt. The official story has 20 year old Thomas Matthew Crooks, a lone gunman, shooting from an unsecured rooftop—the line of fire unobstructed. Everyone knew the lone gunman, a favorite Deep State narrative, would be all that most would get, despite all the evidence otherwise (“Was Trump’s Assassination Attempt an Organized Deep State Operation?,” July 17 2024, and “Deep State’s Lone Shooter Narrative 100% Debunked by Forensic Data,” July 24, 2024, both by LibertyUnderFire.org). Predictably a lone gunman was the Biden FBI’s final report. We have learned since that Thomas Matthew Crooks was taken out—not by Secret Service snipers as alleged—but by local law enforcement. Where were the Secret Service or Biden FBI? So many questions unanswered and the Trump Administration seemingly has moved on. Still, out of nowhere Trump announced, during the bombing of Iran in March, that he got his Iranian assailant. LibertyUnderFire believes that Iran was involved and that this story is wrapped up in the “Grand Conspiracy” which will tie the assassination attempt to Deep State treason with foreign assistance when the time is right.
Number 3, Trump’s Mar-A-Lago home was raided by the Biden FBI August 8, 2022 with Authorization to Use Deadly Force. Released court documents, forced out of the Department of Justice largely by America First Legal, revealed unacceptable details about the FBI’s raid. Many conservatives believe it was a failed attempt by Deep State leaders, Joe Biden and Merrick Garland, to endanger Donald J. Trump, his family and the U.S.Secret Service (USSS) in a potential line of fire should the raid go awry—with Trump the intended victim. According to the filing, “The DOJ and FBI agents planned to bring standard issue weapons, MO, handcuffs and medium and large sized bolt cutters. They were also instructed to wear unmarked polo or collared shirts and to keep law enforcement equipment concealed.” (Brooke Singman, Fox and Friends, Fox News, May 21, 2024). Why? So Trump might think them thieves and protect himself drawing fire? Thirty agents descended that evening on Trump’s home (“FBI’s Deadly Force Policy on President Trump Smells Really Bad,” LibertyUnderFire.org, June 5, 2024). This was eventually known except for the authorization to use deadly force entrapment ending in Trump’s planned death in a gun fire exchange between USSS and FBI agents dressed in plain clothes in the dark of the night. Casualties in the “accident” would be considered necessary collateral damage. A very sober charge.
Number 2, Attack on Trump in the White House. 60 USSS agents injured, May 30, 2020. Most remember the White House under attack when hundreds of angry BLM and Antifa anarchists violently protested the death of George Floyd and simultaneously threatened President Trump. They burned cars and pillaged businesses in big cities across the nation. They intended the same for the White House and its resident. They burned St Johns Episcopal Church across the street. CNN reported, “More than 60 US Secret Service Uniformed Division officers and special agents were injured starting Friday night through Sunday morning near the White House as protests rocked Washington DC. Rioters breached the fences surrounding the White House and tussled over the last fence barrier.”
The Hill reported, “Barricades have fallen to the west of the White House and the crowd is surging forward, once again coming face-to-face with Secret Service who’ve moved into formation and raised their riot shields” Yahoo! News reported, “The demonstrations led to dramatic clashes involving fists, shields and tear gas against the backdrop of Trump’s official residence.” As Trump’s home, the White House itself, looked next to be breached, “Secret Service agents rushed President Donald Trump to a White House bunker” (“Remembering Trump’s Bout with Deadly Force at his Home 4 Years Ago,” June 12, 2024, LibertyUnderFire.org).
Number 1, Trump’s Assassination Attempt in Las Vegas, Nevada Rally, June 18, 2016. The first assassination attempt on Donald Trump occurred while a candidate for president by a most unlikely foreign assassin, a resident of Dorking, Surrey, United Kingdom overstaying his VISA. Michael Steven Sandford, age 20, spent a year and a half in New Jersey before traveling to California then Las Vegas, where he attended a Trump rally at the Mystery Theater in the Treasure Island Hotel and Casino. He was arrested after trying to grab an officer’s gun from her holster. He had lingered near the officer, telling her he wanted Mr. Trump’s autograph. In an interview after his arrest, Mr. Sandford told the authorities that he “made a conscious effort to come to Las Vegas to kill Trump,” and that he had been “planning to attempt to kill Trump for about a year.” He also said, “He expected to be killed by law enforcement personnel during his attempt on Mr. Trump’s life. (Man Arrested at Rally tells Authorities ‘He’ Wanted to Kill Donald Trump, New York Times, Nick Corasaniti, June 20, 2016). Sandford, charged with being an illegal alien in possession of a firearm, was ultimately sentenced to 12 months and one day in prison, then when served, deported back to the United Kingdom.
As a candidate for, or president, Trump’s life has been threatened six times from June 18, 2016 through April 26, 2026, a span of ten years; five as former or present president of the United States.
Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution and a syndicated columnist. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He taught history and political science from this perspective for over 30 years at Taft College. Newspapers have permission to publish this column. Read more of his weekly columns at www.LibertyUnderFire.org Column #870. Subscribe now for free columns at this address.
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