Matt Walsh

Most people at this point say it's three attempts.

Actually, it's six.

There was Michael Sanford in 2016 who tried to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Trump in Las Vegas.

Thomas Crooks on the infamous sloped roof in Butler.

Ryan Ruth with the sniper's nest at the golf course.

Austin Tucker Martin with the shotgun at Mar-a-Lago.

And now the attack at the dinner on Saturday.

And that excludes all the people who sent Trump ricin in the mail.

These are all cases in which assassins moved well beyond making threats or planning an attack, even.

They went out in the world ready to throw their lives away with the goal of murdering Donald Trump.

This has happened six times, at least.

Those are the ones we know about.

No other president in the history of this country has been directly targeted this many times by serious assailants.

That is a straightforward, uncontested fact.

Gerald Ford had two serious assassination attempts.

Truman had one.

Reagan had one.

Andrew Jackson had one.

FDR had one.

If you go looking up assassination attempts on, say, Barack Obama, who we were told was the first black president, and therefore he was being hunted relentlessly by white supremacists, you'll find just one incident that's remotely on the level of the Trump attacks.