The manifesto from the gunman who opened fire at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner has been released to the public. And wouldn’t you know it — the guy who attended “No Kings” anti-Trump rallies before trying to assassinate the President of the United States for the *third time* turns out to have been motivated by… anti-Trump ideology.
Shocking. Truly. Someone get Anderson Cooper a fainting couch.
We’ve now read the manifesto. It reads like a greatest hits compilation of every unhinged MSNBC monologue from the past decade. “Democracy is dying.” “Authoritarianism.” “Fascism.” “Resistance.” The guy didn’t have an original thought in his head — he was basically a human DVR that recorded Rachel Maddow for six years straight and then walked into a ballroom with a gun.
Here’s what we know. This lunatic attended at least one “No Kings” rally — the ones where progressives dressed up in colonial costumes and screamed about tyranny while sipping $9 lattes. The branding couldn’t be more on-the-nose if they’d printed “Future Assassin Recruiting Event” on the flyers.
The “No Kings” movement, for those of you blessed enough to have missed it, was the left’s post-inauguration tantrum rebranded as a “pro-democracy” crusade. Celebrities promoted it. Media outlets covered it sympathetically. Politicians attended. And at least one attendee decided that if Trump was really a “king” who needed to be stopped… well, you do the math.
This is the third assassination attempt against President Trump. Third. Let that number sink in for a second. (Actually, don’t “let that sink in” — just be furious about it like a normal person.)
The first one nearly killed him at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Bullet grazed his ear. The second was a guy hiding in the bushes at his golf course in Florida. And now this — a coordinated attack at a formal dinner, inspired by the exact rhetoric that mainstream media personalities and Democrat politicians have been cranking out like a factory assembly line since 2016.
At what point do we connect the dots? Because the dots aren’t exactly far apart. They’re practically touching.
You spend years telling people that the President is “literally Hitler.” You tell them democracy itself will die unless someone stops him. You organize rallies called “No Kings” that frame Trump as a monarch who must be deposed. You run panels on cable news where “experts” compare the current administration to 1930s Germany.
And then — *and then* — when some deranged lunatic takes all of that seriously and picks up a weapon, everyone on the left acts stunned. “How could this happen? Who could have predicted this?”
We predicted this. Conservatives have been warning about this exact scenario for years. We said the rhetoric was dangerous. We said calling a sitting president a fascist dictator every single night on television would eventually produce violence. And we were told we were being dramatic.
Three assassination attempts later, who’s being dramatic now?
The manifesto is public. It’s right there for anyone to read. The shooter spelled out his motivations in black and white. He attended the rallies. He consumed the media. He absorbed the ideology. And he acted on it.
This wasn’t a mystery. This wasn’t a “lone wolf” with no discernible motive. This was the entirely predictable result of years of irresponsible, reckless, eliminationist rhetoric from people who should know better — and probably do know better, but don’t care because rage is good for ratings.
The pipeline runs straight from the MSNBC greenroom to the crime scene. From the “No Kings” rally stage to the WHCA dinner ballroom. The manifesto isn’t a surprise. It’s a receipt.
And every single talking head, politician, and activist who spent years screaming that Trump was an existential threat to human civilization owes this country an explanation. Not an apology — they’re not sorry. But an explanation for why they thought pouring gasoline on a fire for a decade wouldn’t eventually burn something down.
We already know the answer, of course. They don’t care. The machine keeps running. The next “No Kings” rally is probably already being planned.
But the manifesto is out now. The public can read it. And no amount of spin, deflection, or selective amnesia is going to change what it says.
