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Media Once Again Blame Trump For Nearly Being Assassinated

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Here’s an important mental exercise: If the shooter at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday had intended to kill journalists instead of the president, what would the media be talking about nonstop for the next 100 years?

Everyone knows the answer. But 31-year-old Cole Allen, the suspected would-be assassin, explicitly wrote in his widely-reported “manifesto” that he wasn’t targeting guests at the annual event, but instead U.S. “representatives,” specifically “administration officials … prioritized from highest-ranking to lowest.” And when it’s Donald Trump or his supporters being targeted, well, those stories don’t tend to stick around for long.

That will certainly be the case once again. We’re sure to get reports on Allen’s motives, what exactly he did in the lead-up to the shooting, and what his friends and family have to say about........

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