Show me the man who says he doesn’t like to be proven right, and I’ll show you a liar. But please believe me when I say, it brought me no great pleasure to have my predictions come true last Saturday, 13 July, when Thomas Matthew Crooks came within millimetres of killing former president Donald Trump at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.
Back in December, I said that Trump would be subject to an assassination attempt of some kind before the election. I wrote about why I thought that, in an essay for Human Events. I initially called that essay “the Brutus Option,” on account of persistent attempts to portray the former president as America’s Caesar, the man who would finally bring about the end of America’s 250-year experiment in republican self-governance, just as Julius Caesar brought about the end of the Roman Republic.
As I said in that piece, every good schoolboy knows—or, at least, every good schoolboy used to know—what happened to Julius Caesar. “Et tu, Brute”—and all that. The knives hidden in the togas. The blood on the marble floor of the Senate. The crucial difference with America’s Caesar is that we’re looking forward, not back. We know what happens next, which means we have a chance to stop it before it happens—and that’s where the Brutus Option, a pre-emptive intervention on behalf of the republic, comes in.
The Roman Republic fell, but the American republic can still be saved.
It was all wink wink and nudge nudge, with plenty of subtle but mostly not-so-subtle messaging. Nobody, at least nobody in the mainstream, was directly saying “Trump needs to be killed,” but it was pretty clear to me, even in December, that that was the inescapable conclusion of all the words and images.
Nothing else has worked to stop Donald Trump.
Nothing else will work.
I’m not claiming special powers of prediction. I certainly didn’t predict the time, place or manner of Trump’s attempted assassination, or that it would involve a character like Thomas Matthew Crooks; although he looks to me like the perfect kind of MKUltra victim—a frazzled porn-addict high-school loser on SSRIs—you’d choose to assassinate a former president of the United States in as deniable a manner as possible.
I simply put 2+2 together on the basis of what the media had been telling me, and the whole world, since Trump first walked down that escalator back in 2016.
The immediate cause of my prediction was an op-ed in the Washington Post by Robert Kagan entitled “A Trump Dictatorship is Increasingly Inevitable.” Robert Kagan, for those who don’t know, is the husband of the despicable Victoria Nuland, a woman twisted by her evil deeds as part of the Deep State into a hag worthy of the blasted heath of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
As far as I was concerned, Kagan’s piece was a missive direct from the poison pen of the Deep State, and its message was clear. The graphic used to headline the piece was a photomontage of Trump’s head on a statue of Caesar, and Kagan referenced Trump twice in the piece in Caesarian terms: “indicting Trump for trying to overthrow the government will prove akin to indicting Caesar for crossing the Rubicon, and just as effective”, he said, adding that Trump, like Caesar, “wields a clout that transcends the laws and institutions of government.”
The Kagan piece appeared at a time when the mainstream media were widely speculating that at least one of the candidates might die. They didn’t mean Joe Biden, either, whose severe cognitive and physical decline was already on show for the whole world to see and the mainstream media to debunk with fact check after fact check. No, they meant Trump. It was like a re-run of 2020, when Trump got COVID and Vice allowed its wish-fulfilment fantasies to run wild with a piece breathlessly explaining how America could have a Nancy Pelosi presidency if Trump died and then Mike Pence died as well…
“Here’s what happens if Donald Trump dies while running in the 2024 presidential election”—MSN.
“What happens for GOP candidates if Trump dies during the 2024 election?”—Business Insider.
“What happens if a presidential candidate cannot take office due to death or incapacitation before 2025?”—the Brookings Institute.
The health of candidates has never figured in an election like this before. Sure, there were questions about Ronald Reagan’s age and competence in 1984, when he ran for re-election against Walter Mondale, but they were deftly swept aside with an immortal quip from Reagan: “I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent’s youth and inexperience.” At no point did the mainstream media ever suggest that Reagan would drop out—or, worse, that he would give up the ghost before election day.
The truth is, the deep state and its pet media had been preparing us for the events of 13 July, 2024 for eight years. Talk of a Trump dictatorship began before he even took office, and has continued ever since. Of course, Cheeto Hitler has proven thus far to be anything but dictatorial in his behaviour—the transgender concentration camps never materialised, Hillary Clinton has remained a free woman, and Trump flatly refused to cross the Rubicon on January 6th—but instead of changing their minds, Trump’s actions in and out of office have only hardened his opponents’ conviction that he harbors some secret plan to found a Thousand-Year Orange-Man Reich if he returns to power.
The deep state and America’s uniparty establishment, even if they weren’t directly involved in the assassination attempt, are still responsible for what happened in Butler. And the same goes for the mainstream media. We must never forget this. All of these groups created the hysterical conditions under which Trump Derangement Syndrome could flourish and bear the evil fruit it bore last Saturday. Even now, common-garden libtards, celebrities and political movers and shakers across America are prepared to deny that a real assassination attempt actually took place. Trump, master of subterfuge, great subverter that he is, planned and executed a “classic Russian tactic,” a false flag, all for the sake of a photo opportunity—“Fight! Fight! Fight!”
We knew these people had lost their minds years ago, but until last Saturday we didn’t fully appreciate how dangerous that might be. Now we know.
The questions that matter from this point on are not questions of means or motive. We know why Trump’s opponents want him dead. They—and Thomas Matthew Crooks did not work alone—struck at a moment when Trump was uniquely vulnerable, without an heir. The entire populist movement would have been decapitated with Trump. Now Trump, wisely, has an heir in JD Vance and he also has “insurance.” I intend no disrespect to JD Vance by saying this, but it’s true. If Trump had chosen an establishment candidate—Marco Rubio, or perish the thought Nikki Haley—the decapitation tactic would have remained on the table as the obvious solution to all the regime’s problems.
It still remains on the table, and frankly we must assume, with 12 weeks still remaining until the election, that this is not the end of the craziness, but just the start.
The questions Trump and his supporters need to focus on now are all eminently practical ones, not least of all: How do we keep Trump alive until November? After that, it’s: How do we keep Trump alive until his inauguration?
I pray to God they come up with the right answers.
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