Why I’m reluctant to discuss the latest assassination attempt
The Daily Article
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🗓️ 4 May 2026
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The FBI and prosecutors have released new footage of the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump during the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. If you’re like me, however, this news is not how you prefer to begin your week. I’m with you. I have chosen in recent days not to focus on the latest assassination attempt, beyond the event itself, for two reasons. One is that the story makes me feel helpless. The other is that avoiding it makes me feel empowered. Now I see that both sentiments, while understandable, are fallacious.
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| 0:00.0 | Greetings on this Monday, May the 4th, 2026, and welcome to Denison Forum's Daily Article Podcast. |
| 0:08.7 | Today's daily article is authored by our chief vision officer, Dr. Jim Denison, |
| 0:13.2 | and narrated by yours truly, Chris Elkins. |
| 0:17.5 | The FBI and prosecutors have released new footage of the man charged with attempting to assassinate President Trump during the White House Correspondents' dinner. |
| 0:27.7 | If you're like me, however, this news is not how you prefer to begin your week. |
| 0:32.2 | It would be more fun to discuss golden tempos come from last place victory in Saturday's Kentucky Derby, |
| 0:38.7 | making Cherie DeVoe, the first female trainer to win the most famous horse race in America. |
| 0:44.1 | If you're a basketball fan, you might want me to write about yesterday's Game 7 wins by the 76ers, |
| 0:50.1 | the Pistons, and the Cavaliers. I'm with you. I have chosen in recent days not to focus on the |
| 0:56.3 | latest assassination attempt beyond the event itself for two reasons. One is that the story |
| 1:02.5 | makes me feel helpless. The other is that avoiding it makes me feel empowered. Now, I see that |
| 1:09.5 | both sentiments, while understandable, are fallacious. Let's begin |
| 1:13.9 | with the understandable part. Three attempts in 21 months to kill the most protected person in America, |
| 1:20.1 | the first of which would have succeeded if Trump had not turned his head at precisely the right |
| 1:25.8 | moment, cause me to despair that anyone is truly |
| 1:29.7 | safe in these bitterly antagonistic times, and that there seems to be nothing I can do about |
| 1:36.1 | it. I doubt that if anyone is planning another assassination attempt, that they're reading my words |
| 1:41.0 | right now. But I can refuse to think about such things. I can try |
| 1:45.2 | to empower myself by focusing on what I would rather think about and what I have some measure of |
| 1:50.5 | control over. I resonate with Caitlin Flanagan, who writes in the free press that when the news |
| 1:56.4 | broke of the shooting, quote, I glanced at my phone, took in the essential facts, and didn't really |
| 2:02.4 | feel anything at all. It just seemed like one more event that hovered on the edge of the real and |
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