The Left Is Trying To Memory-Hole Trump’s Assassination Attempt
By: Brianna Lyman
Google has severely throttled users’ ability to search for the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump less than three weeks after he avoided certain death by less than an inch. In doing so, Google joins what appears to be a trend to suppress information about the attack.
Trump narrowly survived the July 13 assassination attempt during a Butler, Pennsylvania, rally when he cocked his head to the right to look at a graph showing illegal immigration under his administration. A bullet struck his ear. Fifty-year-old Corey Comperatore was fatally shot after shielding his wife and daughter from gunfire, and two additional rallygoers were severely injured.
But Google users might not know that because Google has suppressed autocomplete search attempts.
A cursory search of “assassination attempt on t —” produces two top autocomplete hits: “assassination attempt on Truman” and “assassination attempt on the pope.” A broader search of “assassination attempt on” produces 10 autocomplete hits — none of which relates to Trump’s assassination attempt.
A Google spokesperson told Fox Business that “the autocomplete feature is ‘just a tool to help people save time …’”
“Following this terrible act, people turned to Google to find high quality information — we connected them with helpful results, and will continue to do so,” the spokesperson said, according to Fox Business. Google is reportedly working on improving the system.
But as Federalist CEO and co-founder Sean Davis said in a post on X, the left, which has questioned whether Trump was really shot, is “trying to make sure no one can see the evidence, at which point they’ll go back to claiming it never happened.”
The online outlet Mother Jones questioned whether Trump was “actually hit by a bullet” and said it was “unclear.” Mother Jones’ Mark Follman tacitly admitted the only reason that question was worth posing is because the left is upset that Trump’s survival and strength in the immediate aftermath of the assassination attempt were politically advantageous.