Dinesh D'Souza, critic of multiculturalism, has a new book coming out, Vindicating Trump (Regnery), and a film of the same title. He has given a conception of three methods by which the elites have attempted to "assassinate" Trump. I take it that the following is pretty much a summary of his book, detailing the modes of assassination used against Trump; not a single stone has been left unturned by the globalist elites.
"The first, which President Trump has endured nonstop since he first entered the political arena, is character assassination.
The second is legal assassination, sometimes called "lawfare." The term is appropriate, because it is derived from warfare. This is the attempt to lawlessly, but under the guise of law, bankrupt, ruin, defame and even imprison a dangerous political opponent. In extreme cases, this opponent might even face life imprisonment, which is a legal equivalent of the death penalty. (Murderers are often given the death penalty or life in prison, which some people say is a fate worse than death.)
And finally, when all else fails, there is actual assassination.
These three types of assassination are connected, and typically one leads to another.
In a way, the two assassins were more sincere than the Democrats whose evil slander they had absorbed. Immediately following the two failed assassination attempts, leading Democrats all offered "thoughts and prayers" to Trump. They said they were "glad" he was safe, or hoping for his quick recovery; they disavowed political violence.
But wait a minute! If Trump was truly Hitler — if they genuinely believed Trump was akin to Hitler — then they should be celebrating the assassination attempt, as indeed some on the Left did. Their only regret should have been that the would-be killers missed.
Thus, there is an unavoidable conflict between their premise (Trump is Hitler) and their conclusion (We are praying for Hitler to recover quickly). Either the premise is false or the conclusion is false. My view is that the Democrats never truly believed Trump is Hitler — in fact, they know he isn't — but they use that base slander to demonize and dispatch a dangerous political opponent. The danger Trump poses is not to liberty or to the republic but only to them and to their tyrannical schemes.
We should take note not merely of the diabolical schemes to destroy Trump by locking him up for life, or outright killing him, but also of how Trump has largely foiled these schemes. It seemed impossible for a man facing 91 criminal charges and hundreds of years in prison to have the whole legal barrage deflected, turned back or tossed out, what podcaster Megyn Kelly calls the "inside straight." Who else could not only plow through the barrage undeterred, but even (at least to date) prevail? Any other Republican — any other politician — facing 10 charges would exit the race, implode psychologically, and become a political nonentity and liability, never mentioned by his own side again.
Trump, however, has shown he has the mettle to fight and to win. In a way Trump found a way to turn even his vices into political virtues. Consider, for instance, Trump's ego. Trump said in his early career that all successful people have a big ego. He doesn't regard his ego as a liability but, in a business sense, as a motivating asset. But now, in the political minefield, his ego serves a greater — one might even say nobler — purpose. In a weird way, Trump's ego has been a form of psychological self-protection through the political and legal trauma of the past several years. Trump's ego is his own personal wall, insulating him from the pressures that would surely debilitate, if not destroy, a normal person.
Drawing on inner strength and creativity, Trump used the lawfare against him to put the legal system itself on trial, and he exposed the sham machinations of a whole procession of Democratic prosecutors, judges and juries, all acting at the direction and behest of the Biden-Harris regime. In a way, he vindicated his character through these cases, because he showed the American public that this is all they have on him, and if this is the best they can do, Trump must in fact be one of the cleanest, least corrupt figures on the whole landscape. Who else could withstand such extensive scrutiny and come out almost entirely unscathed? Only Trump! This man has lived his entire adult life in the public eye and, as it turns out, he has had very little to hide.
Finally, even the assassination attempts proved to be to the benefit of Trump. For one, they showed that he was a person important enough to be targeted. Assassination, after all, is the sincerest form of flattery. Consider Biden or Harris, or even Romney or Paul Ryan. Who would want to assassinate them? It would be a waste of effort, and of ammunition. There is a reason no one ever attempted to assassinate Jimmy Carter."