Originally published at National Catholic Register
COMMENTARY: The U.S. media appear distressingly uninterested in pursuing the details about why two would-be assassins have targeted Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump
Our Lord instructed the Apostles to “be shrewd as serpents and simple as doves” before sending them out to retrieve the lost sheep of Israel in the Gospel of Matthew.
This directive could not be more apt for journalists and news consumers attempting to discern the truth through the smoke and mirrors of the present media landscape. Case in point: the dissembling coverage of the second assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, which was cleverly conflated with the migrant controversy in Springfield, Ohio, to avoid casting Trump in a sympathetic light.
Last weekend, a would-be assassin hid for 12 hours in the shrubbery of a Florida golf course with a scoped rifle. A Secret Service member on Trump’s detail spotted the gun’s barrel poking through the leaves and opened fire, causing the alleged gunman, identified as a pro-Ukraine radical named Ryan Wesley Routh, to flee to his sports utility vehicle. Had it not been for a civilian snapping a photo of Routh’s license plate as he escaped, he might never have been apprehended.
