Early Sunday morning, Austin Tucker Martin illegally entered the north gate of Mar-a-Lago, President Donald Trump’s home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was carrying a shotgun and a can of gasoline.
After he broke through the residence’s security perimeter, law enforcement officials ordered Martin to drop the items. While he dropped the fuel can, Martin “raised the shotgun to a shooting position.” Thereupon, he was shot dead by law enforcement officials.
While Martin’s motivation for the attack is unknown, he traveled a great distance to bring dangerous items onto the residence of President Trump, so he was certainly not making a social visit. On Saturday, his Cameron, North Carolina family had reported him missing.
Fortunately, the President and First Lady were in Washington D.C. at the time of the incident, and no law enforcement officials were injured.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt praised the Secret Service for acting “quickly and decisively to neutralize a crazy person, armed with a gun and a gas canister, who intruded President Trump’s home.”
This latest incident follows two attempts to assassinate President Trump in 2024. On the Fox News show, Sunday Morning Futures, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent placed the blame squarely on the Democratic Party. He said, “Two would-be assassins (died), one in jail for life, and this venom coming from the other side.” According to Bessent, Democrats are “normalizing this violence. It’s got to stop.”
The break-in at Mar-a-Lago comes just a few days after an Illinois Senate candidate, Democratic Lt. Governor Juliana Stratton, started airing television commercials featuring people yelling “F—Trump, Vote Juliana.” Stratton believes it is a good strategy to broadcast “profane” commercials with disrespectful language directed at Trump.
In the wake of another potential Trump assassination attempt, Bessent demanded that Stratton’s commercials be removed from the airwaves. Incredibly, a media guest on Sunday’s Inside Politics program on CNN laughed at Stratton’s commercial and said it was effective, highlighting the “Trump Derangement Syndrome” that has infected both the mainstream media and the Democratic Party.
For example, in January, a Democrat running for Attorney General of Ohio, Elliot Forhan, posted a video on social media bragging that he was “going to kill Donald Trump.” Forhan ludicrously claimed he was going to execute the President after a trial using “capital punishment.”
Instead of being elected by the voters of Ohio, Forhan should be arrested. Unfortunately, he is following in the footsteps of Democrat Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones, who was elected by voters after texts advocating political violence were revealed.
Jones sent texts to a Republican Delegate calling for the Virginia Speaker of the House of Delegates to be murdered and his children to be shot and “die in their mother’s arms.”
In January, a Jackson County West Virginia librarian, Morgan Morrow, was arrested and charged with “terroristic threats” for allegedly seeking to recruit individuals “to pursue and assassinate” President Trump.
Two weeks ago, a Georgia man, Jauan Rashun Porter, was sentenced to over three years in prison for threatening the life of President Trump. In a July 26, 2025, TikTok livestream broadcast, Porter vowed that “there’s only one way to make America great and that is putting a bullet in between Trump’s eyes.”
Regularly, Democrats display a disgusting attitude toward Trump. While he usually stays at Mar-a-Lago on weekends, on Saturday night, Trump was hosting the Governors’ Dinner at the White House. Not surprisingly, Democratic Governors boycotted the event.
On Tuesday night, President Trump will deliver the State of the Union address to the nation. However, at least 20 Democratic members will be boycotting the event and attending “The People’s State of the Union” rally on the National Mall that will be sponsored by far-left organizations such as MoveOn.
The boycott was criticized by Democrat sports commentator Stephen A. Smith, who has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate. He asked, “Why do they…get away with that? Why do they get to circumvent those rules and regulations? Why do they get to circumvent the need and the insistence of mere decorum? This is the kind of stuff that ticks me off.”
He is right, but too many Democrats are acting this way to placate their far-left base, which is driving their party. The party’s enthusiasm is being generated by the leftwing activists who are protesting Trump and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. Thus, a growing number of Democratic Party leaders, instead of showing statesmanship and maturity, display solidarity with the leftwing radicals, who are often choosing violence instead of civility.
Along with the Trump assassination attempts in 2024, last September, the nation’s foremost young conservative leader, Charlie Kirk, was murdered at Utah Valley University in front of a crowd of over 3,000 students. The person arrested was reportedly motivated by leftwing ideology and was radicalized online.
The disturbing record shows that Democratic Party leaders are inciting violence by using language that triggers unhinged radicals. For instance, the newly elected Mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, has repeatedly called President Trump a “fascist.” Former Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore likened the Trump administration to Nazis and Hillary Clinton compared the President to Adolph Hitler.
In fact, almost every day, a Democrat refers to Trump as “Hitler” or a “Nazi.” Of course, Democrats know these charges are baseless lies, but they serve to provoke the party’s radical followers, who frequently commit acts of violence.
The “Trump is a Nazi” lie has a long history in the Democratic Party. In 2017, the President condemned white supremacists and Nazis who participated in the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, VA. However, he remarked that there were “very fine people on both sides,” referring to leftist counter protesters and monument preservationists who were protesting the removal of Confederate statues.
This lie about Trump has been repeated endlessly and is still being used to incite disturbed leftists today. The President’s life is in constant jeopardy because Democrats will not act responsibly and tell the truth.
Jeff Crouere is a native New Orleanian and his award-winning program, “Ringside Politics,” airs Saturdays from 1-2 p.m. CT nationally on Real America’s Voice TV Network & AmericasVoice.News and weekdays from 7-9 a.m. & 6-7 p.m. CT on WGSO 990-AM & Wgso.com. He is the President and General Manager of WGSO Radio, a political columnist, the author of America’s Last Chance, and provides regular commentaries on the Jeff Crouere YouTube channel and at Crouere.net. For more information, email him at jcrouere@gmail.com.
