Three men have now tried to assassinate President Donald Trump. Thomas Crooks opened fire at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Ryan Routh camped out with a rifle at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. And last Saturday, Cole Tomas Allen — a 31-year-old California teacher armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives — rushed a security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.
But sure, the “dangerous rhetoric” is coming from *our* side. Got it.
Here’s what nobody in the corporate press wants you to notice: Routh and Allen aren’t just two random lunatics who snapped. They’re practically the same guy wearing different skin suits. Same obsessions. Same politics. Same radicalization pipeline. And the media would rather talk about literally anything else than connect those dots.
Start with Ukraine. Both men were absolutely consumed by it. Routh — the 58-year-old roofing contractor from North Carolina with a rap sheet longer than a CVS receipt — flew himself to the Ukrainian border in 2022 and announced on social media, “I AM WILLING TO FLY TO KRAKOW AND GO TO THE BORDER OF UKRAINE TO VOLUNTEER AND FIGHT AND DIE.” All caps, naturally. The Ukrainian International Legion took one look at this middle-aged felon with zero military experience and told him to go home. So instead he started “recruiting” volunteers, which actual Ukrainian volunteers say never happened. One called him “delusional” and a “liar.” But the *New York Times* profiled him anyway, because of course they did.
Allen? Same movie, different theater. His Bluesky account — the left-wing Twitter knockoff where all the people who think Elon Musk is “literally destroying democracy” went to post — was packed with Ukrainian military fundraiser links, updates on Russian attacks, and post after post insinuating that Trump is secretly working for Putin. He attacked JD Vance for opposing Ukraine war funding. He shared Ukrainian combat footage like a guy who thought he was contributing to the war effort from his parents’ house in Torrance.
(He lived with his parents and rode a blue moped, by the way. Just painting the picture for you.)
Now let’s talk money. Routh started donating to Democrats in 2019 — about $140 split across candidates including Tulsi Gabbard, Elizabeth Warren, Beto O’Rourke, and Andrew Yang. Basically the progressive sampler platter. Allen donated $25 to a Harris-supporting PAC through ActBlue in October 2024, with the memo “Earmarked for Harris for President.” Twenty-five bucks. That’s what a would-be presidential assassin chips in to the cause before he loads up a shotgun.
Both men marinated in the same online stew. Allen called Trump the “Antichrist” on Bluesky. Called him a “sociopathic mob boss” and a “traitor.” He shared content from MeidasTouch — the Democrat propaganda outlet that makes MSNBC look like the Associated Press — and amplified Kamala Harris’s official posts. He predicted “Kamala wins all swing states.” When that didn’t happen, something apparently broke inside this Caltech-educated, NASA-interning, “Teacher of the Month” award-winning engineer.
Routh’s trajectory was the same descent on a longer timeline. He voted for Trump in 2016, soured on him, and by 2024 was so far down the rabbit hole that he sat in the bushes outside a golf course with an AK-47-style rifle waiting for a clean shot.
Two men. Same Ukraine fixation. Same Democrat donor history. Same diet of hysterical anti-Trump rhetoric that tells its consumers every single day that the president is a fascist dictator who must be stopped “by any means necessary.”
And then someone takes that literally and the media acts *shocked*.
Allen was a member of a group called “The Wide Awakes” — a leftist outfit that does firearms training and takes its name from the anti-slavery activists who got Abraham Lincoln elected. He attended a “No Kings” protest in California. Ten minutes before he rushed that security checkpoint at the Washington Hilton with enough weapons to arm a small militia, he texted his family: “I don’t expect forgiveness. Again, my sincere apologies.” His written manifesto spelled it out: administration officials were “targets, prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.”
This wasn’t a mental health episode. This was a mission statement.
The man who was “probably the most gentle person on the team” according to a former classmate — the soft-spoken Caltech grad who ran a Nerf club and a Christian fellowship — wrote that he experienced “rage thinking about everything this administration has done.” Where did that rage come from? From years of consuming content that told him Trump was the end of democracy, that Republicans were fascists, that the only moral response was resistance.
We keep hearing that conservative speech is “stochastic terrorism.” Funny — we’ve now had three assassination attempts against one president, and two of the three shooters were Democrat donors radicalized by left-wing media. The third one’s social media accounts got scrubbed so fast you’d think the FBI was running a car wash.
But nobody on CNN is asking the obvious question: what is it about mainstream Democrat messaging that keeps producing people who try to murder the President of the United States?
They won’t ask it because they already know the answer. When you spend four years calling a man Hitler, don’t act surprised when someone decides to be the guy who stops Hitler.