Assassination-Prep Specialist Congressman Dan Goldman: The Person Responsible for Trump's Third Assassination Trump is Trump Himself

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Rep. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) didn't waste any time pointing the finger after Saturday's assassination attempt on President Donald Trump -- and he aimed it squarely at Trump himself.

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Coates played a clip of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who called out what she described as years of escalating demonization of the president. "This political violence stems from a systemic demonization of him and his supporters by commentators, yes, by elected members of the Democrat Party, and even some in the media," she said. "This hateful and constant and violent rhetoric directed at President Trump day after day after day for 11 years has helped to legitimize this violence and bring us to this dark moment."

Goldman, who sits on the House Judiciary and Homeland Security committees and is a former federal prosecutor, of course, doesn't blame his party for the shooting.

When asked about the White House's response, Goldman didn't even pause. "I mean, it's pretty rich given that Donald Trump's rhetoric led to January 6," he said. "And we know what Donald Trump's rhetoric leads to because we know many times over how his followers use violence in -- when they follow him."

Yes, he literally blamed President Trump for the assassination attempt against him.

Meanwhile: Comey will be arrested by federal marshals.

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BREAKING: An arrest warrant has been issued for former FBI Director James Comey for multiple federal grand jury charges in North Carolina related to an Instagram image he posted last summer allegedly threatening the president. US Marshals will execute the arrest. Comey publicly claimed at the time that he did not create the threatening "86 47" image but merely stumbled on it while walking on the beach and photographed it. It's not clear what he told federal agents who interviewed him about it.

I know this will shock you, but it turns out those "studies" claiming that there is more political violence from the right than from the left are lies.

They -- hold on to your seats -- excluded obvious cases of left-wing violence from the tallies but include drug dealers shooting each other if they happen to be white nationalists. The supposedly "libertarian" -- really corporate left-wing liberal -- CATO institute does not include 9/11 victims in the count.

The ADL just flatly defines antisemitism as "right-wing" -- even when left-wing Palestinians kill Jews, they claim that the Palestinians as "ethnonationalism" which is then defined as "right-wing."

Batya-Ungar Sargon's >analysis is here.

One of the major sources is the Prosecution Project, an initiative of the University of Cincinnati, which analyzes felony criminal cases involving political violence and sorts them by ideology. "The project examines criminal complaints, indictments and court records, looking for crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences," per The Economist. "Its data show that extremists on both left and right commit violence, although more incidents appear to come from right-leaning attackers."

Yet if you pull up the data center yourself, you can see immediately that it is deeply flawed.

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The data set doesn't include either of the previous two assassination attempts on President Trump's life, as far as I can tell; a search for the time frame and the names of the would-be assassins turns up zero hits. Nor does it include the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The data set is based on prosecutions, which might explain the absence of Thomas Crooks, who died at Butler. But what explains the absence of Trump's other would-be assassin, Ryan Wesley Routh, or Tyler Robinson, who killed Charlie Kirk? I couldn't find Elias Rodriguez on the list either, who shot and killed two people outside the Jewish Museum in D.C. in May of 2025 to protest the war in Gaza.

It's pretty easy to say that the violence is coming overwhelmingly from the Right if you overwhelmingly edit out any political violence from the Left.

The editing goes deep. During the summer of 2020, the George Floyd riots were in full swing. Political violence claimed the lives of dozens of Americans and caused $2 billion in property damage. Yet the data set from the Prosecution Project lists a grand total of five incidents "left wing" incidents that summer, two of them "eco-animal focused," meaning it counts just three incidents of left-wing violence during that time.

Compare this to a list compiled by Forbes of 19 people who lost their lives during the first 14 days of George Floyd riots. Why don't these people merit a mention in the Prosecution Project? They were killed during a politically motivated explosion of violence and rioting. These were, to cite the Project's own criteria, "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences." Yet they do not appear in the dataset.

Surely we can all agree that their omission massively skews the data.

Maybe you think that people murdered during political riots shouldn't count as victims of political violence. But what about a meth dealer who happens to belong to the Aryan Brotherhood? Should their meth dealing count as political violence?

The Prosecution Project thinks so! Among the Right-wing examples it makes sure to include, you'll find an Aryan Brotherhood meth gang that merited 10 entries for drug-related crimes. I'm no fan of the Aryan Brotherhood, but can you honestly say this is an example of Right-wing political violence? In what world does producing meth constitute "crimes that seek 'a socio-political change or to communicate' to outside audiences"?

You can also find people on the list who did things like vandalize an LGBTQ crosswalk--though not people who vandalized entire neighborhoods in 2020 in the name of racial justice.

Is vandalism political violence? I guess only if you're conservative.

posted by Disinformation Expert Ace at 01:10 PM

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