6 times conservatives were killed, shot or beaten by radical leftists over their beliefs
6. President Donald Trump
Two attempted assassinations of Trump last summer sent shockwaves throughout the 2024 presidential election.
On July 13, 2024, as the then-presidential candidate delivered a speech at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania, a bullet grazed his ear. Secret Service agents successfully rushed Trump off stage and he survived the attack. However, Corey Comperatore, one of the rally’s many attendees, was killed in the gunfire.
The shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, was killed in the aftermath of the attack. While Crooks was a registered Republican, campaign finance records show that he had donated $15 to the Progressive Turnout Project in January 2021.
On Sept. 15, 2024, Ryan Wesley Routh’s attempt to shoot Trump while he was on his golf course at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, was interrupted when a Secret Service agent spotted the gunman and opened fire.
Authorities later caught up with Routh in nearby Martin County, Florida, where they arrested him. Social media posts from Routh indicate strong support for the Black Lives Matter movement and Ukraine in the ongoing Russia-Ukraine conflict.
In a self-published book he wrote in 2023, Routh apologized to Iran for his previous support of Trump, whom he denounced as a “retarded child.” He told Iran, “you are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal.”
Ryan Foley is a reporter for The Christian Post. He can be reached at: ryan.foley@christianpost.com
