Meet the Free Speech Warrior of the Trump Administration

Meet the Free Speech Warrior of the Trump Administration

Last Saturday, at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner at the Washington Hilton, Sarah Rogers—under secretary of state for public diplomacy—was sitting next to congressional leader Steve Scalise when she heard “shots fired” through the radios of Scalise’s protection detail.Cole Tomas Allen—a teacher from California—had stormed a security checkpoint and, heavily armed, was headed for the ballroom and President Donald Trump when he was apprehend…

Americans are primed for political violence — and Trump is holding the match

A top economic adviser to former President Bill Clinton warned on Monday that President Donald Trump is inciting violence in America — and his political opponents are helping him do it.After describing how Trump, his top officials and former President Barack Obama denounced the recent White House Correspondents Dinner assassination attempt against Trump, economist Dr. Robert J. Shapiro wrote in Washington Monthly that violence is increasingly ba…

White House Correspondents’ Dinner Aftermath: Many Americans Entertain the Idea of Violence

After the Secret Service apprehended an armed intruder sprinting toward the ballroom at the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner last month, where President Donald Trump, the vice president, cabinet members, senators, and representatives sat, public figures issued familiar refrains of disapproval and regret.   President Barack Obama pronounced, “It’s incumbent upon all of us to reject the idea that violence has any place in our democra…