This is not the the “third assassination attempt” on the life of President Donald Trump as much of the media is reporting. Wikipedia has done a pretty thorough job of documenting all of the assassination threats and attempts on the life of President Donald Trump as follows:
June 18, 2016: Michael Steven Sanford, a 20-year old man and United Kingdom citizen from Dorking, Surrey, attempted to draw an officer’s pistol during a Las Vegas rally to fire at Trump.
September 6, 2017: Gregory Lee Leingang, a 42-year old man from Bismarck, North Dakota, attempted to assassinate President Donald Trump in Mandan, North Dakota.
November 2017: A man affiliated with Islamic State (IS), whose name was not revealed, was arrested by the Philippine National Police in Rizal Park, Manila, for reportedly planning to assassinate Trump during the diplomatic ASEAN Summit.
October 1, 2018: An envelope laced with ricin was sent to Trump before being discovered by mailing facilities. Two days later on October 3, a 39-year-old Logan, Utah resident and Utah Navy veteran named William Clyde Allen III was arrested.
September 2020: Letters containing the poison ricin and addressed to Donald Trump were intercepted by the Secret Service before delivery to the White House. A 56-year old Canadian woman, Pascale Ferrier, had sent the letters from Canada and was subsequently arrested.
July 12, 2024: A 45-year old Pakistani man named Asif Merchant, reported to be an agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, was arrested for a plot to kill Trump at a rally.
On July 13, 2024: President Donald Trump, and the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee in the presidential election, was shot while addressing a campaign rally near Butler, Pennsylvania. Shortly after Trump began addressing the rally, 20-year-old Thomas Crooks fired eight rounds with an AR-15–style rifle. Crooks was neutralized by a Secret Service shortly thereafter.
September 15, 2024: 58-year old Ryan Wesley Routh, a roofer and Russo-Ukrainian war activist from Greensboro, North Carolina, was spotted holding an SKS-style rifle on a private golf course belonging to Trump in West Palm Beach, Florida. A Secret Service agent noticed this and fired four rounds towards Routh who then fled the scene. After a short police chase, he was stopped and detained without resistance. He was indicted on a total of 5 federal counts and 3 state counts, and was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
February 22, 2026: Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year old man from Moore County, North Carolina (either Carthage or Cameron), snuck past security at Mar-a-Lago, a residence of President Trump, armed with a 12-gauge Winchester SXP Defender pump-action shotgun and gasoline. He was shot and killed by Secret Service agents.
April 25, 2026: A shooting took place at the Washington Hilton Hotel during the annual White House Correspondents’ Dinner. The gunman, identified as 31-year old Cole Tomas Allen fired up to eight shots inside the lobby. Trump and those in the banquet hall were immediately evacuated, and Allen taken into custody.
What we have done is listed all of those assassination plans and attempts in progress where arrests were actually made or assassins were killed. We did not list all of the credible death threats Wikipedia lists which ended with arrests. We focused on actions over words.
We highlighted the last 4 assassination attempts, as those are public knowledge that all media should have covered. The fact remains there have been many more threats than three on Donald Trump’s life. These are threats and attempts that have been public, not those that the Secret Service have not made public. Some threats and attempts are never made public for reasons of domestic and national security.
CONCLUSION:
There are a number of people promoting their opinion that these assassination attempts have been faked or staged as false flag operations.
However, logically speaking, two of the four assassins lost their lives in the act of trying to kill President Trump. Two more were captured alive. One was just recently sentenced to life in prison but did try to take his own life before going to prison. There is nothing fake about these assassination attempts.
“Trump Assassination Attempt Suspect Tries to Stab Himself in Neck” – NBC TODAY Show
The online narrative of “fake assassinations” makes me wonder if these people are paid trolls or bots looking to push a false narrative. The FBI and/or Secret Service should be looking into their known/unknown associations.
The 4th would be assassin, Cole Allen, was arrested alive. Taking people like Routh and Allen alive are important for two reasons:
1. It is important to determine if the assassins acted alone or were coerced.
2. It is important to be able to psychoanalyze the mind behind the crime to determine what lead to the assassination attempt and to help us prevent these attempts in the future.
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Thinking Conservative.
