President Trump held an impromptu press conference immediately after the assassination attempt against him. – Shots have been fired at 5.8 per cent of presidents. It comes with the job, said Trump, who appeared calm and composed. – I am proud of the job and intend to complete it, said Trump.

It became a different evening than anticipated. The Correspondents’ Dinner had been awaited with great anticipation because Trump was to participate for the first time as President after having boycotted the event in his first term. Press spokesperson Caroline Leavitt had promised that Trump would deliver an amusing speech.

But before it came that far, something happened out in the vestibule. Trump heard the commotion and said that he thought it was either a trolley that had overturned or gunshots. But when one listens to the recording, it is clearly gunshots:

Panic spread in the ballroom at the Washington Hilton Hotel. People threw themselves under the tables. Trump was escorted out by the Secret Service.

This time the security measures were massive, and they worked. A Secret Service agent was struck by a shot from Cole Allen. – He had a good protective vest, said Trump, who added that he had spoken with the agent and assured himself that he was all right.

It was the Secret Service in the vestibule. It was they who stopped Cole Allen. Inside the ballroom, Secret Service personnel were seated dispersed at various tables, anonymously. – They may have been sitting at your table, said Trump.

Among the guests were several who have come into contact with political violence: Erika Kirk wept as she was escorted out, Robert Kennedy has experienced that his uncle and his father were killed, and Steve Scalise, who is now Majority Leader in the House of Representatives, was almost killed on a baseball field in Virginia in Trump’s first term.

It is the best who are killed or attempted killed, said Trump.

“Those who have the greatest influence are those [the shooters] go after,” said Trump late Saturday evening during a press conference at the White House. “They do not go after those who do not do very much, because they prefer it that way.”

Trump said that there was a security failure during the assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, 13 July 2024. The Secret Service had failed to secure the roof where Thomas Matthew Crooks had taken up position. A marksman lay ready and took him down almost immediately, but he managed to fire eight shots.

In addition, there were a number of peculiar circumstances before the shots were fired: Members of the public saw Crooks on the roof and attempted to alert the police. Crooks discussed with members of the audience. A number of other unexplained circumstances raise suspicion that Crooks was allowed to operate unhindered.

Nevertheless, the liberal press manages to raise questions as to whether the assassination may have been staged by Trump himself. One of those who does so is Aftenposten’s Kristoffer Rønneberg:

Dissatisfaction is now so great that some of the myths about Trump are also beginning to crack. One of them is the assassination attempt against him in Butler in Pennsylvania in July 2024, just a few days before the Republican National Convention.

Is the assassination attempt against Trump a myth? A journalist introduces a concept that casts suspicion on the event, but without substantiating why. He behaves as though it is a myth that Trump was almost killed.

Aftenposten places Tucker Carlson before itself.

In recent weeks, many in the Maga movement, without presenting evidence or documentation, have spoken openly about the possibility that the attack was not real. Among them are Carlson and the podcaster Tim Dillon.

– I think perhaps it was staged, said the popular podcaster and former Trump supporter in a recent episode.

One person was killed in the attack, yet critics in the Maga wing nevertheless believe that there are many unanswered questions connected to the case, not least in the way the FBI has investigated it.

Here Rønneberg makes at least two different shifts in perspective in two paragraphs, without substantiating them.

Rønneberg admits that Tucker’s claim in the interview with his brother is without evidence. It is pure speculation.

That there are many unanswered questions points in an entirely different direction: namely that “someone” allowed Matthew Crooks to come within shooting range of the President. It has never been suggested that it should be Trump himself who allowed a man with a rifle to fire at his head.

Rønneberg “forgets” to question Tucker’s mental habitus.

Tucker has moved in a direction that appears bizarre. Trump says he has called and called, but that Trump no longer takes the phone: – He has gone coo-coo, says Trump.

In an interview with Israel’s ambassador Mike Huckabee, Tucker asks whether all Jews should be genetically tested to determine whether they belong to the tribe that has the right to the land.

Genetic testing and Jews is a highly uncomfortable combination. That someone can pose such a question in an interview and publish it indicates that one has lost one’s critical sense.

This also applies to the criticism of Trump. In the same interview with his brother, Tucker says that Trump is Anti-Christ. Aftenposten does not print this, because then they would have had to ask themselves whether it is Tucker who has gone coo-coo.

Aftenposten “forgets” to ask whether all the statements from Democrats and journalists that Trump must be “removed” may contribute to the continuation of assassination attempts. It is a logical chain that lies in plain view. What about the responsibility for playing with the idea of killing?

Was the assassination attempt a hoax? Trump now faces opposition from several former supporters.

After the assassination attempt in Butler on 13 July, Trump received a boost in the opinion polls. Americans do not like political assassinations. They have experienced it with the Kennedy brothers. Robert Kennedy Jr. is a thorn in the side of liberals who would like to have seen Trump dead.

It reminds them that they may be on the wrong side of history.

Trump appeared composed and had everything under control. – We shall hold a new gala dinner, said the President.

Security is one of the reasons why we are building a new ballroom at the White House, said Trump. It will be secured in all ways, also against drone attacks.

The new Attorney General Todd Blanche and FBI Director Kash Patel flanked Trump. This time the machinery worked.