President Trump will make his historic return to Butler, Pennsylvania, on Saturday, following his near-assassination on July 13 by disgraced would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks.

During Trump's last speech in Butler, Trump was shot in the ear by Thomas Matthew Crooks mid-rally, and he immediately ducked for cover as counter-snipers took the shooter out. Iconically, Trump stood up moments later and began pumping his fist, chanting "Fight, fight, fight." One rallygoer was killed in the shooting, and two were injured. Crooks fired the shot on top of a nearby building, where Secret Service counter snipers had a clear view of the shooter from their position at a higher elevation than the shooter behind Trump, yet they did not act. Crooks accessed the building with a ladder he bought at Home Depot the same day as the shooting.

As The Gateway Pundit later reported, an eyewitness told the BBC that several people witnessed the shooter crawling on the roof of a local building with a rifle before Trump was shot, but they did not act until Trump was shot. According to later reports, a police officer encountered the shooter on the roof but let him go after he pointed the gun at him and before he shot Trump. Investigations into the matter have left more questions than answers. For example, former Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle's excuse for leaving the building unmonitored by agents was that the building "has a sloped roof at its highest point" and it wouldn't be safe.

Then, last month, Trump was targeted in another assassination attempt at his West Palm Beach golf course. Shots were fired at Trump's golf club as he was golfing on the 5th hole with real estate investor Steve Witkoff. Officials later confirmed that the gunman, identified as 58-year-old Ryan Routh, targeted President Trump and may have had knowledge of his schedule. The would-be shooter was discovered to have had multiple encounters with law enforcement and federal agents in the past; over 100 charges, including charges for possessing a weapon of mass destruction in 2002; and affiliations with Ukraine's international legion, where he alleges that he was working to move recruits for the war effort into Ukraine illegally from Pakistan and Iran. He also wrote a book, where he urged Iran to assassinate President Trump in 2023. Routh further made several contacts with mainstream media outlets over the years. Clearly, Routh wasn't just some disgruntled leftist madman enticed by the media's coverage of Trump and his statements or by the Democrats' violence-inciting rhetoric, and with the possibility of this being a conspiracy against Trump, he's clearly not in good hands with Secret Service.