Two years ago today, a bullet tore through President Donald Trump’s ear in Butler, Pennsylvania — nearly ending his life in one of the most shocking moments in modern American history.
Firefighter and father Corey Comperatore gave his life shielding his family from the gunfire.
That moment should have shocked the nation into ending political violence once and for all.
Instead, left-wing violence has only escalated.
In the two years since Butler, several more attempts on Trump’s life have followed — and the left’s rhetoric has only grown more dangerous.
Roughly two months after Butler, Ryan Routh was arrested and later sentenced to life in prison for hiding near Trump’s Florida golf course with a rifle, intent on taking him out.
This past February, authorities shot 21-year-old Austin Tucker Martin after he trespassed onto Mar-a-Lago armed with a shotgun and a fuel can, refusing to drop his weapon when ordered.
Weeks later, 31-year-old California resident Cole Allen rushed past a Secret Service checkpoint armed with a shotgun, a handgun, and multiple knives. He was headed toward the ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel, where Trump, Vice President J.D. Vance, and cabinet members were attending the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner in April. Law enforcement subdued him before he reached the ballroom.
The violence hasn’t been limited to the president.
Turning Point USA Founder Charlie Kirk was taken from us by a left-wing radical while speaking to students at a Utah college campus in September.
Then there’s the case of 26-year-old Colin Demarco, who allegedly showed up to the home of Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought wearing a surgical mask and gloves in an alleged attempt to harm him. The man reportedly said he feared a “fascist takeover” from the Trump administration.
The leftist violence has also targeted our institutions.
A 41-year-old man was arrested on bomb charges in late 2025 after he showed up to a Mass that Supreme Court justices traditionally attend to mark the beginning of the term.
This past December, four far-left extremists were arrested for allegedly planning a series of New Year’s Eve bombings and an ambush on ICE officers in Los Angeles.
The left-wing violence against immigration enforcement has continued to escalate this year, with one rioter biting off an ICE agent’s finger in Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge.
In May, a rioter was charged for allegedly kicking and biting ICE officers at a New Jersey illegal immigrant holding center, acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said on X. Another individual was arrested after threatening to end the life of an immigration officer and his family, Blanche said.
Prosecutors allege that it was a left-wing arsonist who started the Palisades fire. The wildfire caused at least 12 confirmed losses — and potentially hundreds of others — while creating billions in damage.
Pennsylvania Democrat Gov. Josh Shapiro’s home was firebombed by a left-wing arsonist who targeted the governor over Palestine, according to police.
Just as troubling is the left’s normalization of rhetoric that explicitly and implicitly encourages political violence.
Democrats in Virginia overwhelmingly elected Jay Jones to serve as the state’s attorney general in November despite messages showing Jones fantasized about harming his Republican colleagues and their children.
Similarly, Democrat Elliot Forhan ran on ending his opponents’ lives, promising to “legally” end Trump’s life if he were elected as Ohio’s attorney general. He was defeated in the May primary.
A tragic moment that should have marked the apex of political violence in the United States two years ago has today proven to be only the tip of the iceberg in the left’s campaign against Trump and conservatives.
Told you. @FBI just arrested the man who threatened to kill ICE officers and their families. FAFO. https://t.co/ai2Y46nmOR
— Acting AG Todd Blanche (@DAGToddBlanche) May 30, 2026
