ARMSTRONG: with the Democrats trying to pull [Trump's] Secret Service protection and denying RFK Jr Secret Service protection, one must face the reality that there is a very dark side to Washington that never sees the light.

Thank you to Martin Armstrong's "Trump Beware--This May Be Only the First," found at Armstrong Economics. 

They tried to get Gorbachev to join NATO, which set off the coup against him in Russia, ending with Yelsin becoming Russia’s leader. When they tried to blackmail Yeltsin to stick in their puppet, Boris Berezovsky, that is when Yeltsin turned to Putin because the Communists were also trying to impeach him. Putin was neither an oligarch nor a communist. That is why Hillary blamed Putin for interfering in the 2016 election, for they had interfered in the Russian 2000 election.  --Martin Armstrong

The country is so polarized by this demonization of Trump that, beginning with Hillary calling half the country “deplorables,” what has set in motion is the decline and fall of our country. It was McCain who handed the fake dossier Hillary paid to have written against Trump all because the two of them were Neocons, and as I have reported before, I was asked to invest $10 billion into Hermitage Capital to take over Russia, which Edmond Safra and Bill Browder owned. This has always been these Neocons and their hatred of Russians. They have been waging endless wars with no victories, and more than 50% of the national debt is all because of them and their abuse of American power. We are still paying interest in the funding for every war, including World War II, because they NEVER pay anything off.

They tried to get Gorbachev to join NATO, which set off the coup against him in Russia, ending with Yelsin becoming Russia’s leader. When they tried to blackmail Yeltsin to stick in their puppet, Boris Berezovsky, that is when Yeltsin turned to Putin because the Communists were also trying to impeach him. Putin was neither an oligarch nor a communist. That is why Hillary blamed Putin for interfering in the 2016 election, for they had interfered in the Russian 2000 election.

Donald Trump MUST be careful. I question how someone could be on that roof in shooting distance without the Secret Service’s awareness. Just because Trump has survived one assassination attempt, with the Democrats trying to pull his Secret Service protection and denying RFK Jr Secret Service protection, one must face the reality that there is a very dark side to Washington that never sees the light.

Most people are not aware, but there have been multiple attempts against other presidents also during periods that have often been disconcerting. The assassin was 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, who Secret Service agents killed at the scene after the shooting. He had donated $15 to a progressive Democrat movement. The FBI identified him as a resident of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania – about 35 miles south of Butler, where Trump was holding his rally.

There were 2 tries against Abraham Lincoln with the second one succeeding.

There were also 2 attempts against William Howard Taft in 1909 and again in 1910.

There were also 2 attempts against Franklin Roosevelt.

There were 2 against Harry Truman as well as against Richard Nixon and George W. Bush.

Gerald Ford had 3 attempts on his life. 

Even Jimmy Carter had 2 attempts.

The record for attempted assassinations is held by Obama, with 8 attempts on his life. Even Bill Clinton had 5 attempts. We must be aware that the Democrats have so polarized this election with hatred that we must be deeply concerned that if Trump is assassinated, this country will be torn apart.  

Armstrong points out that political assassinations of leaders or presidents were a 19th-century idea, called "Propaganda of or by the Deed" that required physical violence to inspire revolution.

The very idea of assassinating leaders such as President Lincoln and President McKinley was part of an international trend that began during the 19th century and was based upon the theory that some dramatic deed was necessary to spark a revolution. It was called the "Propaganda of, or by, the deed,” and it advocated physical violence in a dramatic, provocative public act perpetrated against political enemies to inspire others to act in a popular mass rebellion or revolution. This was a political philosophy that was part of the radical thought process that was emerging with Marxism. Still, it was not precisely advocated by Marx, who was generally a revolutionary.

There have been four Presidents assassinated and three who were wounded, with two misses since 1865. 

1865, Abraham Lincoln, April 14th

1881, James A. Garfield, July 2nd

1901, William McKinley, September 6th

1912, Theodore Roosevelt, October 14th (wounded)

1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt, February 15 (5 shots fired missed)

1963, John F. Kennedy, November 22nd

1975, Gerald Ford, September 5th, and 22nd (missed)

1981, Ronald Reagan, March 30 (wounded)

2005, George W. Bush, May 10 (hand grenade thrown but was dud). 

2024, Donald Trump, July 13th (wounded)