Former President Donald Trump emerged unhurt after surviving an assassination attempt at around 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, September 16. A Secret Service agent on Trump’s protection detail at his Trump International West Palm Beach golf course, spotted a “rifle barrel sticking out of the fence” around the golf course and opened fire on a man later identified as 58-year-old Ryan Routh, who was armed with an assault rifle equipped with a telescopic sight.
The latest attempt on Trump’s life took place just two months after Trump more narrowly survived after being shot in the ear on July 13 by Thomas Matthew Crooks, age 18, who fired several shots at Trump from a rifle while lying on the roof of an adjoining warehouse within sight of the stage at an outdoor Trump rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Crooks was killed by Secret Service snipers who returned his fire.
That incident drew a firestorm of criticism and questions, including how Crooks managed to get so close to the president and open fire at him first, despite his Secret Service protection and urgent reports by bystanders at the rally to local law enforcement officers that a suspicious-looking man carrying a rifle had climbed up to the roof of the warehouse.
The outcry in Washington over the unanswered questions eventually forced the director of the Secret Service, Kimberly Cheatle, to tender her resignation on July 23, 10 days after Trump was shot. The Secret Service, which is charged with protecting the current and former presidents and their families, admitted that internal lapses were the reason why it failed to properly protect Trump in July. President Joe Biden also responded to the July assassination attempt by ordering the Secret Service to provide Trump with heightened security as he continues to run for president.
Two months later, as Trump walked the golf course in Florida last Sunday, gunman Routh hid in shrubbery less than 500 yards away with an assault rifle. According to Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw, “With a rifle like that with a scope, that’s not a long distance.”
During Sunday’s press conference, Sheriff Bradshaw described how the suspect managed to get to the fence surrounding the golf course. He said the golf course is “surrounded by shrubbery” with a limited perimeter.
“When somebody gets into the shrubbery, they’re pretty much out of sight,” he said.
When asked whether he thought the Secret Service’s security arrangements for Trump had been appropriate, Sheriff Brashaw replied, “I would imagine the next time he comes to a golf course, there’ll probably be a few more people around the perimeter, but the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should have been, and their agent did a fantastic job.”
ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF AMERICA’S “DERANGED POLITICS”
However, the Wall Street Journal’s editorial board saw the second assassination attempt against Donald Trump in two months as another warning about this country’s “deranged politics.”
It noted that Trump emerged unharmed this time, and the would-be assassin was captured alive only because of a sharp-eyed Secret Service agent, an alert witness, and good police work. “But it’s still alarming that the potential assassin with a rifle could get close enough to get a good shot at the former president. . .
“One question is how Mr. Routh knew Mr. Trump would be golfing on Sunday at that course and how he knew where he could set up to target the former president. All the more so after 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks was allowed to shoot at Mr. Trump from a rooftop about 400 feet from where the former President was on stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, just two months ago…
“The debate was already raging on Sunday about whether the former President deserves the greater protection received by a current President. The simple answer is yes, and the same goes for Kamala Harris.
“The risk level is too high these days to take chances. . .
“We already know that Mr. Trump has been targeted by Iran,” the editorial continues, and it’s easy to imagine a foreign power or a domestic political group plotting to kill him now, while he’s a candidate and his protection is less intense than if he wins the election. . .
“Any harm that comes to either nominee, but especially to Mr. Trump after two failed attempts, would lead to conspiracy theories that could lead to further violence. The country, and President Biden, can’t afford to tempt fate again,” the editorial concludes.
EXPOSING THE DANGERS OF THE TRUMP-HITLER COMPARISON
The editorial board of the independent Issues and Insights (I & I) publication, made up of veterans of the highly respected Investor’s Business Daily, writes that “the near-nonstop comparing of Donald Trump, a former president of the United States, to Adolf Hitler, has almost become a mainstream media cliche. So should anyone really be shocked someone else has again decided that Trump should take a bullet, just nine weeks after he was shot in the ear? The answer, of course, is no …
“For those of a certain age,” the I & I editorial continues, “this is reminiscent of the 1960s and 1970s, when extremist rhetoric and beliefs led to violence against public figures and politicians of varying political stripes [ranging from Alabama’s segregationist Governor George Wallace to Martin Luther King and the Kennedy brothers]. It was a time of runaway rhetoric and routine denunciation of police as ‘pigs’ and all politicians as ‘fascists.’
“But today, the unhinged vitriol and hate is directed almost singly toward one candidate, Donald Trump. It’s no wonder there’ve only been two attempts [against his life.] The question was first raised by American Greatness, in a piece published in July: “Is Left-Wing Trump-as-Hitler Iconography in the Mainstream Media Responsible for the Attempt to Assassinate the 45th President?”
“That question bears repeating today,” the editorial argues.
“The hateful name-calling is promulgated by the Big Media, who have taken a vacation from journalistic notions of fairness and truth to run [garbage] such as [a piece titled] “Donald Trump’s history with Adolf Hitler and his Nazi writings.
“No, it wasn’t a one-off thing. . . It seems to be increasing in frequency.”
The editorial then continues by citing more than a dozen articles openly accusing Trump of being a latter-day Hitler recently published by formerly respectable publications and news outlets, and written by well-known reporters and political commentators, such as ABC’s Jonathan Karl and MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” Scarborough.
“Get the picture?” the editorial asks.
“No serious person can think Trump is Hitler,” the editorial optimistically claims. “But that’s not the point. . . Democrats and their ‘mainstream’ media allies have turned Trump, who was a successful president, into a target of unbridled hate. . .”
“If you vilify someone as Hitler. . .it is not a big moral leap to think that someone killing him would be justified,” wrote libertarian columnist Ron Hart, after July’s attempt on Trump’s life. “It’s louder than a dog whistle; it’s a call to action,” Hart warns.
“Given the amount of loathing directed at Trump, it’s remarkable that he’s survived this long.”
The I & I editorial concludes with a prayer that the aim of the next would-be Trump assassin seeking to turn himself into a left-wing hero “is poor and that the Secret Service protection does its job well.”
Florida Republican Senator Marco Rubio made a similar point in an appearance on Fox News.
He warned that “If you repeatedly say someone is going to be the next Adolph Hitler, the next Mussolini, [an] ‘American dictator’… there are enough lunatics and nut jobs who are going to take the next step and say, ‘Well, this guy is truly evil. . . our system of government is going to be knocked out if this guy wins [so] I need to take this guy out.’”
HILLARY CLINTON’S THINLY VEILED “CALL TO ACTION” AGAINST TRUMP
But the really scary thing about Rubio’s warning is that the day before he said that, Hillary Clinton complained to MSNBC’s liberal anchorperson, Rachel Maddow, “The press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should. They careen from one outrage to the next … I don’t understand why it’s so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.”
After complaining about the rough treatment Biden got in the media after his June 27 debate performance revealed the extent of his cognitive decline, Clinton added, “Americans need to understand that they have to take Trump both seriously and literally. . . He has said what he wants to do …
“We can’t go back and give this very dangerous man another chance to do harm to our country and the world,” she concluded, promoting exactly the thinly veiled “call to [violent] action” that Senator Rubio and libertarian columnist Hart were warning about.
Trump’s golf course had been partially shut down for security purposes as he played through. Secret Service details were with the former president and also stationed a couple of holes ahead of him, according to Sheriff Bradshaw. Even though Trump has been known to frequent the golf course which is conveniently located just a few miles from his Mar-a-Lago estate, it was not clear how the gunman knew that the former president would be there because Trump’s campaign had not made his schedule public after he returned from a West Coast swing that culminated in Las Vegas the night before.
IS TRUMP’S ALREADY BEEFED-UP SECRET SERVICE PROTECTION ENOUGH?
As both a former president and a current presidential candidate, Trump now travels with a beefed-up personal security force supplied by the Secret Service, following the attempt on his life in Butler, Pennsylvania, and a reported plot to kill him orchestrated by the Islamic leaders of Iran.
Authorities later said that Routh did not fire a shot at Trump, in part because he never had a clear line of sight from where he had been positioned at the chain link face. When a sharp-eyed Secret Service agent protecting Trump was walking the perimeter of the golf course he saw a gun poking out of the tree line a few hundred yards from where Trump was golfing. He fired four shots at Routh but did not hit him. The gunman then retreated to a parked car along the road, where, according to Sheriff Bradshaw, a bystander took a picture of Routh and his vehicle, a black Nissan including its license plate, which was registered to a 2012 white Ford truck and that had been reported stolen.
Nevertheless, police were able to trace the car to neighboring Martin County. About 45 minutes after that, Martin County law enforcement officers identified the car and pulled it over as it was traveling north along Interstate 95. When the officers asked Routh if he understood why he was being stopped, he responded that he did.
Martin County Sheriff William Snyder told local station WPEC that when his deputies spotted Routh driving along I-95, “he was smart, he was just driving with the Florida traffic. I think he may have thought he got away with it,” until the deputies apprehended him without incident.
After that point, Routh declined to speak to officers any further, invoking his right to an attorney, and his case was then assigned to a federal public defender.
During his brief initial appearance before a judge Monday at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Routh was charged with two gun-related felonies: possession of a firearm by a felon and possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number. The obliterated serial number makes it harder for authorities to track the weapon and determine how it was obtained.
Routh is a convicted felon because in 2002 he was arrested and tried in North Carolina for two incidents involving possession of a machine gun, which is considered to be a weapon of mass destruction.
Magistrate Judge Ryon M. McCabe then agreed with prosecutors that Routh posed a flight risk and was a danger to the community, and therefore ordered him to remain in custody subject to two further court hearings later this month.
FBI Special Agent in Charge Jeffrey Veltri said at a Monday afternoon news conference that the investigators had not yet found any evidence suggesting that Routh was working with an accomplice to kill Trump.
SIGNS OF THE SECOND SHOOTER’S LIKELY MOTIVE
The U.S. attorney’s office in South Florida is prosecuting the case along with the Justice Department’s National Security Division. Federal law enforcement officials have not identified Routh’s motive, but they have said they are investigating the incident as a possible assassination attempt. Oddly, two months after the Pennsylvania shooting, Thomas Crook’s motivation for trying to kill Trump remains a mystery.
However, Routh’s active social media accounts reportedly indicated that he had supported Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign. But according to a report by the New York Post, since 2019 he had been highly critical of the former president, and in recent months warned that Trump’s return to the White House could imperil the country.
“Democracy is on the ballot and we cannot lose,” Routh tweeted on April 22, calling on Biden, the then-presumptive Democrat presidential candidate, to focus his campaign on a pledge to keep “America democratic and free,” arguing that Trump wants to “make Americans slaves.”
“We cannot afford to fail. The world is counting on us to show the way,” Routh wrote.
In addition, an Associated Press photo of Routh’s home in Kaaawa, Hawaii, reveals that Routh’s pickup truck carries a Biden–Harris campaign sticker.
In addition, on December 7, 2023, Routh tweeted a biblical map of the land of Israel that was Israel divided into Yehuda, Shomron, and the Galil, but that was entitled “Map of Palestine,” which prompted Routh to conclude that “It seems to historically all be Palestinian.”
TRUMP CLAIMS THAT HIS RESOLVE IS STRONGER THAN EVER
Meanwhile, Trump wrote in a fundraising email to his supporters a few hours after the attempted assassination Sunday that, “there were gunshots in my vicinity, but before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first: I am safe and well.”
“My resolve is stronger after another attempt on my life!” Trump wrote later that night in a text to supporters.
In a subsequent interview with Fox News Digital, the former president criticized President Biden and his November opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris for using “highly inflammatory language” that he believes inspired the assassination attempt at his Florida golf club.
The would-be gunman “believed the rhetoric of Biden and Harris, and he acted on it,” Trump said. “Their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at, when I am the one who is going to save the country, and they are the ones that are destroying the country — both from the inside and out.”
Trump specifically blamed Democrats for casting him as a “threat to democracy” and then said that Harris and Biden were “the real threat.”
“They do it with a combination of rhetoric and lawsuits they wrap me up in,” Trump said in the Fox interview. “These are the things that dangerous fools, like the shooter, listen to — that is the rhetoric they listen to, and the same with the first [assassin].”
ANALYZING THE POLITICAL IMPACT OF ATTEMPTS ON TRUMP’S LIFE
After the first attempt on his life in Pennsylvania two months ago, polls showed that Trump’s narrow advantage over President Biden had improved slightly. His defiant and inspirational reaction to that shooting became the emotional centerpiece of Trump’s acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention a week later.
But the long-term political impact of that attempt to kill him is difficult to measure now because it was rapidly overshadowed by equally historic political events, starting with Biden’s catastrophic showing during the June 27 debate with Trump which revealed how far Biden’s mental state had deteriorated. This was followed a few weeks later by a bloodless coup engineered by former President Barack Obama, former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and other senior Democrat Party officials who forced Biden to drop out of the race and endorse Harris as his successor.
Also, the second attempt on Trump’s life was not such a traumatic event, because the shooter never had an opportunity to open fire, so nobody got hurt, whereas Corey Comperatore, an innocent bystander was shot and killed, and two more were seriously injured before a Secret Service sniper killed the shooter in the Pennsylvania incident.
THE TOOLS OF THE ASSASSIN
Meanwhile, at the chain link fence surrounding Trump’s Florida golf course, police recovered two backpacks left there by Routh that contained ceramic tiles of the kind used in military-grade body armor. The bags were hung there by Routh in an apparent attempt to create a somewhat protected firing position.
According to the criminal complaint against Routh and a police photo released at a press conference, a loaded assault rifle identified by a firearms expert as an SKS-style 7.62 x 39 mm caliber rifle with a polymer stock, and fitted with an AK-style magazine for 7.62mm cartridges, was recovered at the scene where Routh was first observed by the Secret Service agent, along with two bags carrying bullet resistant ceramic tiles and a Go-Pro camera.
SKS-type rifles are semiautomatic weapons patterned off a design that originated in the Soviet Union in the 1940s but was soon rendered obsolete by the AK-47. Even with an added scope, the rifle is not considered the best choice for a long-range shot, because its accuracy is limited by its physical characteristics, such as imprecise manufacturing tolerances and its 7.62 mm ammunition.
The criminal complaint against Routh also said that his cellphone appeared to have been near Trump’s golf course for nearly 12 hours before he was spotted by the Secret Service agent who opened fire at him. Investigators had found Routh’s cellphone number in one of his Facebook posts enabling them to quickly track his phone’s position data, which indicated that Routh probably had been hiding in the bushes from around 2 a.m. until about 1:30 p.m. when the Secret Service agent saw him and opened fire.
THE SECRET SERVICE DID ITS JOB THIS TIME
Ronald Rowe Jr., the acting director of the Secret Service, said in a news conference a day after the incident that Routh did not fire a shot and had not been injured. Rowe also said that the agency’s “paradigm shift” ordered by President Biden for agents to be more proactive after the July assassination attempt, was successful Sunday in protecting Trump from the second gunman Sunday.
Rowe commended his “agents’ hypervigilance and the [security] details’ swift action as textbook,” in reacting to the threat to Trump from Routh.
“Early identification of the threat,” Rowe said, “led to a safe evacuation” of the former president.
However, Rowe also admitted that Trump’s Secret Service detail did not search the perimeter of the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, on Sunday before former President Donald Trump began his round of golf.
Rowe explained that Trump, “wasn’t even really supposed to go there,” because he did not have an outing to the golf course on his official schedule.
Rowe also argued that the Secret Service needs more resources. “We have done more with less for decades Rowe said. “We cannot have failures,” he added. “And in order to do that, we’re going to have some hard conversations with Congress.”
On Monday President Biden told reporters that he agrees that the Secret Service “needs more help,” and urged Congress to consider increasing the agency’s funding to enable it to hire more staff.
In that regard, Ro Khanna, a liberal but independent-minded Silicon Valley California Democrat, and a vocal critic of Trump, indicated that Congress was prepared to give the Secret Service any additional resources it needs to protect the former president more effectively.
“Two assassination attempts in 60 days on a former president and the Republican nominee is unacceptable. The Secret Service must come to Congress tomorrow, tell us what resources are needed to expand the protective perimeter, and let us allocate it in a bipartisan vote the same day,” Khanna wrote on X.
CONGRESS’ ANSWER: ANOTHER INVESTIGATION AND CALLS FOR MORE MONEY
The bipartisan congressional task force established to investigate the circumstances surrounding the attempted assassination in Pennsylvania said it would also investigate the Florida incident.
Florida Republican Congressman Michael Waltz, who is a member of that task force, said in an interview on CNN that Trump should receive whatever protection he needs — and if the agency needs more resources, agency leaders should come to Congress. “You need to give [Trump] whatever protection he needs — period — to match the threat,” Waltz said.
Several Democrat members of Congress have also called for increasing Secret Service funding since the July 13 attempt on Trump’s life.
“President Trump needs the most coverage of anyone,” House Republican Speaker Mike Johnson told a Fox News program on Monday. “We are demanding in the House that he have every asset available, and we will make more available, if necessary.”
“I don’t think it’s a funding issue,” Johnson added.
Following the latest attempt on Trump’s life, Secret Service officials acknowledged increased concern over political violence, and indicated a willingness to increase even further the resources it has dedicated to protecting him.
Trump’s vice-presidential running mate, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, said that in a phone conversation with Trump before the news of the assassination attempt was made public, the former president “was, amazingly, in good spirits.”
EMPTY DEMOCRAT CONDEMNATIONS OF POLITICAL VIOLENCE
Harris, the Democratic presidential nominee locked in a tight race with Trump, said in a statement Sunday that she was “deeply disturbed by the possible assassination attempt. . . I am glad he is safe. Violence has no place in America. . .
“As we gather the facts, I will be clear: I condemn political violence. We all must do our part to ensure that this incident does not lead to more violence,” she added.
Harris’ vice-presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, wrote on X that he and his wife are glad Trump is safe.
In a statement Sunday night, President Biden said he “directed my team to continue to ensure that Secret Service has every resource, capability and protective measure necessary to ensure the former president’s continued safety.”
On Monday, during a Philadelphia campaign rally, Biden condemned the latest assassination attempt against Trump, and said there is “no place for political violence in America.”
The White House said that both President Biden and Vice President Harris were briefed about the attempt on Trump’s life shortly after it occurred.
When Trump and Harris shared a stage at the nationally televised debate in Philadelphia last week, before the incident on his golf course, the former president laid the blame on the Democrats for the first failed assassination attempt in July.
“I probably took a bullet to the head because of the things that they say about me. They talk about democracy. I’m a threat to democracy. They’re the threat to democracy,” Trump said, “with the fake Russia-Russia-Russia investigation that went nowhere.”
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson said on social media that he and his wife spent several hours with Trump at his nearby Mar-a-Lago resort shortly after the foiled attack.
NO AMERICAN LEADER HAS ENDURED MORE ATTACKS THAN TRUMP
“No leader in American history has endured more attacks and remained so strong and resilient. He is unstoppable,” Johnson wrote on X.
House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik, in a statement, said Americans “must unite behind him in November to protect our republic and bring peace back to the world.”
“We must ask ourselves how an assassin was allowed to get this close to President Trump again?” Stefanik said. “There continues to be a lack of answers for the horrific assassination attempt in Pennsylvania and we expect there to be a clear explanation of what happened today in Florida.”
While the Secret Service agent who opened fire on the assassin forcing him to flee from the golf course was widely praised for his diligence, the agency itself has remained under harsh scrutiny from federal lawmakers ever since the Pennsylvania shooting, especially after details of a reported Iranian plot on Trump’s life also came to light. In response, senior Secret Service officials have placed several members of the agency’s Pittsburgh Field Office on administrative leave while an in-house investigation of the incident in nearby Butler continues.
WHO WAS THE SECOND WOULD-BE TRUMP ASSASSIN?
Meanwhile, the would-be shooter, Ryan Routh, who is being held in federal custody, was described by law enforcement sources as an impassioned supporter of Ukraine in its fight against a Russian invasion. He also has an extensive history of business troubles and related court filings against him.
State records show that Routh voted most recently this March in the Democrat primary election held in Guilford County, North Carolina.
While authorities did not initially release any more information about Routh, he left behind a long trail of social media posts and media interviews that painted the picture of an impulsive builder and entrepreneur who was willing to risk his life for his ideals and tried to recruit soldiers to fight in foreign wars that he believed in, such as the war being fought by Ukraine against Vladimir Putin’s invading Russian troops.
In a profile of Routh that he posted on Twitter (now known as X) dating back to January 2020, he expressed passionate opinions on such issues as Black Lives Matter, Taiwanese sovereignty, and support for Ukraine in its ongoing low-level war prior to the invasion by Russia.
In spring 2022, Routh said in a series of posts on X that he had traveled to Ukraine and told its president, Volodymyr Zelensky, “I am an American coming to fight with you in Ukraine; I am flying into Krakow and will take any transport to Kyiv to meet you and fight to the death … We must get every civilian in the world to come and join the fight; I will be the example. Attack Moscow now.”
In a videotaped interview with Romanian Newsweek in June 2022, Routh urged others to join him in Ukraine to fight against Russian forces.
“If everybody’s complacent and doesn’t join this fight, guess who’s going to win,” Routh said. “It might take 10 years, but we’re going to lose this battle if everyone around the globe doesn’t stop what they’re doing, get off the couch, and come to Ukraine and defend the human rights of everyone around the globe. This is the most important thing going on today.”
U.S. OFFICIALS HAD BEEN WARNED THAT ROUTH WAS DANGEROUS
The Wall Street Journal reports that according to Sarah Adams, a former CIA officer who helped run a network that shared information and coordinate humanitarian and volunteer efforts in Ukraine, Routh was well known among the volunteer aid groups she worked with there as a “fraudster” and “kind of [crazy].”
The same article also reports that Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with Routh in Kyiv, said that his threats of violence worried her so much that when she returned to the U.S. in June 2022, she told a Customs and Border Protection officer at Washington’s Dulles airport that Routh was among the most dangerous Americans she had met during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine.
A New York Times story published in March 2023 described Routh as a “former construction worker from Greensboro, N.C.” who was trying to recruit dozens of former Afghan soldiers who had fled from the Taliban, encouraging them to fight in Ukraine.
At about the same time, Routh told the news site Semafor, “I’m talking to over 100 soldiers every day. Pretty much everybody … all my contacts in Ukraine … they’re adamant, pretty much yelled at me, each time I suggested we bring in Afghans.”
Even while he was trying to recruit soldiers to fight the Russians in Ukraine, court records show that Routh tried to earn a living as a roofer and contractor, but many of his business dealings ran into trouble.
Court records in North Carolina’s Guilford County where Routh had many previous addresses, list his name in more than 200 cases, ranging from companies trying to recoup money he allegedly owed to them to tax delinquencies.
Around 2017 or 2018, Routh moved to Kaaawa near Honolulu, Hawaii where a man by that name launched an affordable home construction company called Camp Box Engineering, and whose website is signed by “Ryan Routh and Adam Routh.”
Saili Levi, who runs a farm on the North Shore of the Hawaiian island of Oahu, 11 miles from Camp Box, told USA Today that two years ago he gave Routh a hefty deposit to build a structure he could transport around the island to sell his produce, but that Routh never completed it.
When Levi then asked for his money back, Routh refused. Eventually, Levi told USA Today that he decided to cut his losses because Routh’s communications were erratic, and Levi was worried about the safety of his family.
“I decided he maybe wasn’t all there, so I decided to leave it alone, because he knew where I lived,” Levi said.
THE SHOOTER’S DEATH WISH ON SOCIAL MEDIA
In an August 2023 email to Levi, Routh said that he had spent a total of seven months in Ukraine over the previous two years, and that, “Perhaps I would be happier dead on the front lines than dealing with rich people.”
But rather than concentrating on troubled and potentially dangerous individuals like Routh, who are prone to take very literally the overheated warnings from Trump’s political opponents claiming that he does threaten American democracy, long-respected news outlets, such as the New York Times self-righteously complain about the manufactured outrage which has replaced reasoned and respectful political discourse in this country, while continuing to stoke the fear and hatred.
WHAT WILL STOP THIS CYCLE OF HATRED LEADING TO VIOLENCE?
Will only the violent death of a major political figure like Trump, chas v’shalom, provide a shock big enough to halt the destructive cycle which now threatens the fabric of American society? Let all Americans pray that it won’t come to that.
