By: Dr Metod Berlec
Former President of the United States and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump survived an assassination attempt on Saturday. During his campaign rally in the US state of Pennsylvania, a 20-year-old shooter tried to kill him from a distance of 130 meters (from the roof of a building near the rally) and hit him in the ear.
Trump had incredible luck in misfortune, as at the moment when the attacker shot at him, he turned his head to the right, causing the attacker’s bullet to merely graze him. Otherwise, he would have been dead. The assassin killed one person and injured two others. Immediately after, he was killed by the United States Secret Service. The FBI identified the attacker as 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks from Pennsylvania. He was allegedly a lone shooter, but questions arise whether that was truly the case, given how easily he reached the roof of the building, positioned himself in a sniping position, and shot at Trump. There is also the question of whether the Secret Service really “overlooked” him or if he might have had connections within the Secret Service or local police, allowing him to get to the roof unimpeded and shoot at the 45th President of the United States. A Secret Service sniper had him in his sights but was not given the green light to shoot for three minutes by the service leader.
Although the United States has a long tradition of political assassinations of American presidents (four have died as a result of assassination attempts; Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, William McKinley in 1901, and John F. Kennedy in 1963), Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump is a logical consequence of the incredible demonisation of Trump, shamelessly slandered for years by American quasi-liberal, progressive, and left-wing media close to the American Democrats. They depict him in an entirely negative light, uninterested in the truth, leading them to even fabricate stories about Trump’s alleged collaboration with the Russians, portraying him as Putin’s Trojan horse. This is detailed in the book Unfreedom of the Press by American author, lawyer, and TV and radio host Mark R. Levin, published in Slovenian by Nova Obzorja last year. The author points out that American media connected to Democrats are not interested in objective and professional journalism. If before and during his (first) presidency, they wrote and reported about him as a demagogue, populist, racist, and dictator who would drag the world into a world war, this changed in recent years. It is now clear that he is no war hawk but a businessman willing to negotiate for world peace even with the most prominent representatives of the “axis of evil”. Despite this, he is portrayed as a “threat to American democracy”. Current American President Joe Biden even stated some time ago that Trump must be “stopped at all costs”. Hence, it is unsurprising that they have initiated two impeachment demands against him (during his presidential term), arrested him four times by abusing American law enforcement and judiciary, and filed 91 criminal charges against him. Now, as many warn, they have tried to get rid of him through assassination, primarily because he is not a representative of the contaminated political establishment, aiming to “drain the political swamp in Washington”. He is neither a “woke” nor a globalist, wanting to “put Americans first”.
In recent years, a pattern has emerged worldwide that reveals the true nature of those who talk about democracy, the rule of law, and human rights but act in complete contradiction to these principles. We witness incredible (electoral, legal, and judicial) abuses in numerous countries worldwide, perpetrated by leftists solely to gain or retain power. Venezuelan political dissident and writer Alejandro Peña Esclusa writes in detail about this in his books. Following the words of the last head of the party and then-President of the Republic of Slovenia, Milan Kučan, in 1994, “all means are allowed to overcome the enemy, not just those known to democracy, arguments and counterarguments, but everything unrelated to democracy: first disqualification and then liquidation, if necessary, also physical”. One such case, a politically motivated process against SDS leader Janez Janša, is detailed on the following pages of this magazine.