REVIEW: ‘Bulletproof’ reveals media’s refusal to investigate Trump assassination attempt is because they wanted it to happen—and hope it happens again

There is so much that is unknown about Butler shooter Thomas Matthew Crooks, and as his assassination attempt falls further into the recent past, so too does the curiosity of American journalists who should see it as their job to figure out the circumstances that led him to climb onto a roof, armed with an AR-15 style rifle, and take shots at the former president and into the crowd. The timeline is made plain in Bulletproof, and that clarity is something that was lacking both on July 13 and in the days after. Trump's activities can be seen next to those of Crooks and those of the Biden campaign, which quickly turned into the Kamala campaign. Those mid-July moments were ones of constant whiplash: Trump was shot, the RNC began, JD Vance came aboard as the veep running mate, Biden dropped out, Kamala took his place, the DNC kicked off, and barely for a second did anyone look back to wonder what had happened.

By the time people were scratching their heads, saying "do you remember? Trump was almost killed," the body of the would-be assassin had already been cremated, his parents had already hired top lawyers to defend them (from what?) and refused to talk to anyone, the director of the Secret Service was already grilled before Congress and had resigned in disgrace, and the presidential election was a drastically different race from the one it had been on that fateful day. For Republicans seeking to win over voters, there was no time to dwell on the assassination attempt. In fact, Trump led the charge forward beginning right after he was shot, getting to his feet and putting out the call "Fight! Fight! Fight!"

But what do we really know about the shooter, his motivation, or the circumstances at play behind the shooting? After reading Bulletproof, we know far more than we did before. That those revelations were revealed in a book months after the first attempt on Trump's life, by authors who enlisted private investigators to help them seek the truth, and not in the days and weeks following the attack by mainstream media, law enforcement, and others, is perhaps equally as shocking.

Given the past decade of media and Democrat vitriol against Trump, it would be easy to see why someone would want to take him out, not just out of his third presidential election, but out of the realm of the living. If one were to believe the lies being persistently and enthusiastically told by a mainstream press salivating for Trump's demise, one could think that the only real way to "save democracy" would be to permanently remove Trump. They call him a Nazi, a fascist, an authoritarian, a wannabe dictator. They compare him to Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin, and over and over again claim that the man who brought four years of no new wars and peace accords in the Middle East is gunning to get the United States into World War 3. Even after his life was almost stolen by a young man's bullet in Butler, PA, the rhetoric continued and even ramped up.

In recent weeks, we have seen the vice president of the current administration, Democrat contender for president, continue to beat the drums of war against Trump, claiming that the existence of the nation depends on his losing the presidential election. Further, the claims are that even if he loses, he will try to wrest power from the rightful winner. Is it any wonder that there was a second attempt on Trump's life? This time much closer to home, by a man who was fueled by Democrat rhetoric and a belief that Ukraine must be funded in their war effort against aggressor Russia at all costs? This second would-be assassin, Ryan Routh, likely believed everything he was told about Trump, every hoax, every intentional misinterpretation, every out-of-context comment whipped up into treason. Repeatedly, pundits called for the removal of Trump and they used every conceivable kind of extremist rhetoric to do it.

On a recent morning show on MSNBC, host Mika Brzezinski actually said that Trump is "killing women" in every state. Her reason? He appointed Supreme Court justices that overturned a long-standing abortion case, allowing states to make their own laws surrounding that practice. Some states have legalized it up to the point of birth while others have capped it at the age of gestational viability and others at the point when the baby's heart begins to beat. For Brzezinski, this means Trump is literally killing women. What would any good man do to a serial woman killer?

Bulletproof posits that the media didn't cover the Butler attempt because they think Trump deserved to be assassinated, and likely they still do. After Trump was shot, many in media, entertainment and on social media let slip that they wished the bullet had not missed, they wished Trump had been killed that day. Is it any wonder that the same people who want Trump dead would decline to investigate an attempt on his life? It was only two weeks before that day in July that Joe Biden told Americans "Donald Trump is a genuine threat to this nation. That is not hyperbole. He's a threat to our freedom. He's a threat to our democracy. He is literally a threat to the America that we stand for." He said it, he believes it, and he wants Americans to believe it too.

We still don't know the full story of what really happened in the days leading up to the rally in Butler, PA. Media has been awfully silent about the September attempt, too. Authors Posobiec and Lisec offer scenarios for what really happened, and where they land, with the help of odds and probability calculators, is not only surprising but shocking. I won't spoil it. You should probably just check it out for yourself.

Disclosure: Libby Emmons and Jack Posobiec are colleagues and co-workers at Human Events.