Smears Pushed By Media Directly Cited In 3rd Assassination Attempt on President Trump
This weekend’s assassination attempt at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner wasn’t random. The suspect, Cole Tomas Allen, made his motive crystal clear in his manifesto sent to his family members minutes before he attempted to carry out the assassination. He wanted to stop a “pedophile, rapist, and traitor” — the false narrative mainstream media has aggressively pushed against President Donald Trump for years.
Allen’s exact words, “And I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.”
The shooter echoed the media and Democrats’ smear campaign: Trump as a pedophile, obsessively tied to the Epstein files. Yet those files and related releases have not substantiated such claims against the President. Trump, though an acquaintance of Epstein’s, had long distanced himself from Epstein and removed him as a member at Mar-a-Lago.
Then there’s the “rapist” charge, amplified by ABC News and George Stephanopoulos. A jury never found Trump liable for rape under New York law. Stephanopoulos repeated the falsehood anyway, leading Trump to win a major defamation settlement: ABC agreed to pay $15 million (directed toward Trump’s presidential library) plus legal fees, along with an apology. Even that didn’t stop the echo chamber.
The “traitor” slur? It appears rooted in criticism of President Trump’s decisive action against Iranian terrorists and proxies. No recent president has shown the willingness to confront the regime head-on as Trump has. Facing down terrorists who have targeted Americans for decades takes courage and decisive leadership. The real question is why media and activists treat strength against America’s enemies as betrayal.
When corporate media and partisan voices spend years laundering inflammatory lies as settled truth, some unstable individuals will treat them as a call to action. Couple this with the conspiracy theories and toxic content on social platforms that affirm existing biases, and you have a recipe for disaster. Political violence has no place in America, and the lies that prime it must be called out. The Epstein obsession, the distorted charges against President Trump, and the casual “traitor” talk didn’t happen in a vacuum — they built a toxic narrative that nearly ended in tragedy at a black-tie dinner.
