President Donald Trump was the victim of a third assassination attempt Sunday when an armed intruder entered his Mar-a-Lago residence. The left-wing media’s rapid dismissal of the story exposes a desire to prevent any narrative that might humanize Trump or Republicans.
When Trump survived the assassination attempt on his life during the 2024 election season in Butler, Pennsylvania, many knew that it was the end of the Democratic campaign for president. Democrats and their cronies in the media were forced to humanize the man they had spent years demonizing as a threat to democracy, fascist, or an enabler of extremism. And while their pause in attacks on Trump was brief, it showed regular Americans that their violent rhetoric served a clear purpose: to fuel Democratic Party voter turnout. The left doesn’t care about democracy as much as they care about suppressing Republican momentum. (Sign up for Mary Rooke’s weekly newsletter here!)
Austin Tucker Martin, a 21-year-old from Cameron, North Carolina, armed with a shotgun and a gas canister, breached the secure perimeter of Trump’s Palm Beach estate Sunday. Confronted by vigilant U.S. Secret Service agents and Palm Beach County Sheriff’s deputies, Martin raised his weapon, forcing law enforcement to neutralize the threat. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Trump, thankfully, was in Washington, D.C., but this incident should have sent shockwaves through the nation.
A man armed with a shotgun was shot and killed early Sunday morning after making an "unauthorized entry" into the secure perimeter at President Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate, the U.S. Secret Service said. https://t.co/VgHendKR82
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 22, 2026
Yet, by Monday morning, the story had all but vanished from the headlines. The liberal media apparatus moved on with indecent haste. It’s as if no one cares anymore, a chilling sign of how desensitized our nation has become to violence, especially violence incited by the left’s relentless anti-Trump hysteria.
The left-wing media, long weaponized as the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party, only amplifies threats when they fit their narrative of so-called right-wing extremism. If this had been an attempt on a Democratic official like former President Joe Biden or former Vice President Kamala Harris, we’d be subjected to weeks of wall-to-wall coverage, congressional hearings, and tearful op-eds decrying the right’s toxic rhetoric. But when the target is Trump or any other right-leaning figure, the story fizzles out.
Democrats Have Gone Full Blue-Anon Crazy
— Breitbart News (@BreitbartNews) November 4, 2025
Jeffries says Trump admin is "running a p*dophile protection program" pic.twitter.com/NjSOQ7GBEk
Yet, headlines scream about Trump’s supposed ties to Epstein while glossing over former President Bill Clinton’s dozens of flights on Epstein’s private plane, the Lolita Express, and other Democratic donors’ connections to Epstein parties. The selective outrage radicalizes vulnerable individuals like Martin, who, as an alleged Trump supporter, may have felt betrayed by what he perceived as a failure to fully expose the elite cabal.
Now, with Martin, a potential pro-Trump figure possibly driven mad by leftist propaganda, the story is inconvenient and therefore needs to be pushed out of mainstream American conversations. It highlights how the media’s endless Trump-bashing creates a climate of hate that backfires in predictably violent ways.
Martin’s story is heartbreaking. A young man, by all early accounts patriotic and faith-driven, spirals into desperation over Epstein because the media and Democrats have hyped the Epstein-Trump connection as a smoking gun, ignoring context. His radicalization is a direct byproduct of the left’s hatred of Trump.
Previous attempts on Trump’s life — like the Butler rally shooting or the September 2024 sniper plot at his West Palm Beach golf course by Ryan Wesley Routh, who was recently sentenced to life in prison — initially dominated headlines. But it didn’t take long for coverage to veer into skepticism. Outlets and so-called journalists questioned whether the Butler event was staged. They downplayed the severity of the situations, avoiding any scrutiny of inflammatory Democratic rhetoric that could have caused them.
It’s not hard to understand why this blackout occurs. The left can’t afford to show Trump being a victim of their outlandish rhetoric. It humanizes him in a way nothing else can. In turn, this would neutralize their attacks on Republicans, who are often the target of the same political violence the left likes to claim is exclusively or mostly a right-wing problem. Covering another assassination attempt on Trump at Mar-a-Lago in an in-depth way might force acknowledgment of this imbalance, and they can’t afford that.
Translation: the principal agrees with hatefully celebrating murder.
— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) October 22, 2025
Tragically, the Left continues to embrace political violence. https://t.co/FblrAirRNN
Democrats rely on fearmongering to activate their base. If they can’t successfully charge Trump as a threat to democracy or Republicans as enablers of extremism, they’ll have to be honest about the policies their party supports, which Americans are largely against.
Desensitization to violence allows it to escalate, while biased coverage serves to polarize the nation further. Charlie Kirk was murdered in front of millions of Americans, and the media apparatus was complicit in excusing the violence by demonizing his speech. (RELATED: Is First Domino In Child Abuse Fight Falling?)
Because they haven’t been held accountable, Democrats are not going to turn down the rhetoric as the midterms rapidly approach. They are going to use the 2026 media cycle to continue to push anti-Republican smears, building ground operations for Democratic voter turnout.
Sadly, Americans are likely to see a lot more violence before the end of this year.
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