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Defiant Trump to hold rally at same place he was shot at in Butler, Pennsylvania

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By Stephen Kokx

The former president and GOP candidate said he wants to have a ‘big and beautiful rally, honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero, Corey (Comperatore) and those brave patriots injured two weeks ago.’

Less than a week after the Secret Service urged Donald Trump to not hold events outside, the former president announced on TRUTH Social that he will be returning to the same location he was shot at in Pennsylvania.

“I will be going back to Butler, Pennsylvania for a big and beautiful rally, honoring the soul of our beloved firefighting hero, Corey (Comperatore) and those brave patriots injured two weeks ago. What a day it will be — fight, fight, fight!”

According to The Washington Post, the Secret Service suggested that Trump should not hold rallies at outdoor venues and to instead campaign indoors. Some pundits have argued that the agency’s request is a form of election interference intended to suppress enthusiasm for Trump, who, according to the New York Post, drew an estimated crowd of 80,000 at a rally in Wildwood, New Jersey this summer.

Trump’s first campaign stop after accepting the Republican Party’s presidential nomination this month was at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the second largest city in the state. The location has a maximum capacity of around 12,000. Thousands of supporters who waited in line to get in but were turned away mulled about outside while Trump and running mate J.D. Vance gave their speeches to a raucous crowd.

The Secret Service has been roundly criticized for its failure to protect Trump on July 13, the day he was shot at by would-be assassin Thomas Matthew Crooks. Crooks was brought to the attention of law enforcement at the rally by several attendees long before he fired multiple rounds at Trump’s head around 6:11p.m. EST. The agency has blamed everything from miscommunication with local police to claiming the building Crooks shot from was not only outside the perimeter but was too dangerous for agents to be stationed on because it had a “sloped” roof.

Former Secret Service Director Kim Cheatle resigned her post after Congressional lawmakers grilled her days after the shooting. Republicans have blamed the attack on Homeland Security Secretary Alexander Mayorkas for having turned down repeated requests from the Trump team to beef up his security over the past two years.

On July 27, a defiant Trump took to TRUTH Social to declare that he will not be scaling back his campaign events.


The Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank based in Washington D.C., has found that mobile devices that “regularly visited” Crooks’ home and place of work also visited a location near Secret Service and FBI headquarters in Washington, raising the specter that there was possible Deep State involvement in coaxing Crooks to take action against Trump.

Republican U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin has already told Fox News that “we cannot trust the FBI to do an open and honest investigation” about the assassination attempt.

Aside from the death of Comperatore, two other men were critically injured at the rally, 74-year-old James “Jim” Copenhaver and 57-year-old David “Jake” Dutch. Both men’s families have released statements expressing thanks for the support they have receive as they recover from “life-altering injuries.”

2025 Federal Election

Corporate Media Isn’t Reporting on Foreign Interference—It’s Covering for It

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A CCP-linked propaganda campaign boosted Mark Carney, but instead of sounding the alarm, the CBC cast him as the victim. The truth? He wasn’t targeted—he was the beneficiary.

So let’s stop pretending. The headlines, the bureaucratic spin, the carefully worded talking points—none of it changes what actually happened. This week the Canadian government just confirmed what they’ve been denying for years: the Chinese Communist Party is interfering in our elections. Not in theory. Not in the abstract. Right now. In real time.

And who’s the beneficiary? It’s not the opposition. It’s not the people calling out foreign interference. It’s not the Conservative candidates getting smeared, doxxed, or targeted by digital hit jobs. No, the beneficiary is the man now leading the Liberal Party. The man who was handpicked to replace Trudeau and keep the globalist machine running smoothly. That man is Mark Carney.

According to the SITE Task Force—the very same group tasked with monitoring foreign interference—a CCP-linked WeChat account ran coordinated messaging in Chinese-language communities across Canada. That messaging didn’t attack Carney. It elevated him. It portrayed him as a strong, capable leader, someone who would stand up to the United States. That’s not an attack. That’s not foreign meddling meant to sow chaos. That’s targeted influence designed to shape an outcome. To tip the scale.

So what did the press do with this information? CBC, CTV, the Globe and Mail—they all ran with the same disingenuous line: “Chinese information operation focused on Carney.” Focused? That’s the best they could do? He wasn’t the focus. He was the favorite. He wasn’t the target. He was the chosen candidate. The state broadcaster, which receives $1.2 billion a year in taxpayer funds, chose to frame a CCP influence operation that benefited Carney as if he were the victim. And they wonder why trust in media is collapsing.

Meanwhile, who was actually targeted? Joe Tay. A Conservative candidate. A Canadian citizen. And someone with the courage to speak out against Beijing’s repression. For that, the Hong Kong government—acting on orders from the CCP—put a bounty on his head. HK$1 million for his arrest. And then, in an absolutely disgraceful moment, Liberal MP Paul Chiang repeated that bounty in public, in Canada, saying someone could take Tay to the Chinese consulate and claim the reward.

What was Carney’s response? He called it a “lapse in judgment.” A “teachable moment.” Chiang remained a candidate until the scandal became too big to ignore and the resignation came—conveniently timed just before midnight. And not once—not once—did Carney publicly condemn the CCP. Not once did he say the name of the regime running operations to influence Canadian politics. Not once did he call out the foreign government targeting his opponents and helping him.

Why would he? He doesn’t want the interference to stop. He and the Liberals have benefited from it before—just ask Han Dong in Don Valley North—and they’re benefiting from it now. This isn’t hesitation. It’s a pattern. A Liberal MP parrots a CCP bounty and they defend him. A CCP media operation boosts their leader and they stay quiet. CSIS warns them about Beijing’s interference and they bury it. Every time, they play dumb. Every time, it’s the same excuse: no impact, no problem, nothing to see here.

But Canadians are not blind. They can see what’s happening. They can see who benefits. And they’re starting to realize that this isn’t about safeguarding democracy. It’s about safeguarding a narrative. Because when your elections are being massaged by foreign powers, and your media is too compromised to call it out, the system doesn’t just have a problem. It has a crisis.

And if we don’t deal with it now—if we let Beijing call the shots and let the CBC clean up the mess—then we’re not a democracy anymore. We’re a client state. And the country we thought we had will be gone. Quietly. Carefully. And permanently.

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2025 Federal Election

Communist China helped boost Mark Carney’s image on social media, election watchdog reports

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By Anthony Murdoch

The goal, according to the Canadian government, appears to be ‘intended to influence Canadian-Chinese communities in Canada and … mold perceptions’ about the prime minister ahead of the April 28 federal election.

Canada’s Security and Intelligence Threats to Elections Task Force (SITE) confirmed that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) government was behind an online “operation” on WeChat to paint Prime Minister Mark Carney in a positive light.

SITE noted that the CCP helped promote via a web bot “operation” a WeChat social media account that posted positive information about Carney, with the goal to help him win the 2025 federal election.

“The SITE Task Force assesses that the foreign, state-backed information operation was intended to influence Canadian Chinese communities and look to mold perceptions” regarding Carney, Privy Council Office assistant secretary for communications Laurie-Anne Kempton said at a press conference on Monday.

SITE said an “information operation on WeChat” took place by the Youli-Youmian WeChat account backed by the CCP.

WeChat is China’s main social media platform, and SITE said that “bot-like WeChat news accounts appear dedicated to amplifying content from the Youli-Youmian account.”

On March 10 and March 25, Youli-Youmian, who has the most popular news account on the WeChat platform, shared posts with followers that put Carney in a positive light to readers.

Both of the March posts quickly gained traction online with millions of views, catching the attention of SITE, which discovered the social media posts were part of an information war campaign by the CCP government.

“This content has been amplified in a coordinated and inauthentic way,” Kempton said.

“This information operation had contrasting positive and negative narratives, first amplifying Mr. Carney’s stance with the United States and then targeting his experience and credentials.”

As for the March 15 post, it was titled “Canada’s road to a ‘seeking survival’ election.”

SITE noted that the social media bot accounts reposting Youli-Youmian’s content “do not post original content” but instead “continue to repost Youli-Youmian content days after it was originally posted, likely to improve discoverability of the article, and boosting Youli-Youmian’s presence in user feeds.”

“Intelligence reporting links the Youli-Youmian account to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), the Chinese Communist Party’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission,” SITE noted.

According to SITE, the information war operation “intended to influence Canadian-Chinese communities in Canada (i.e. speakers of a Chinese language, such as Mandarin, Cantonese, or Hakka) and looked to mold perceptions” about Carney.

Canadians will be heading to the polls on April 28.

As reported by LifeSiteNews, a new exposé by investigative journalist Sam Cooper claims there is compelling evidence that Carney and former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are strongly influenced by an “elite network” of foreign actors, including those with ties to China and the World Economic Forum.

LifeSiteNews recently reported that the Conservative Party sounded the alarm by sharing a 2016 video of Carney saying the Communist Chinese regime’s “perspective” on things is “one of its many strengths.”

LifeSiteNews reported last week that the Liberal Party under Carney has seen three MP candidates drop out of the election race over allegations of foreign interference.

The Foreign Interference Commission concluded that operatives from China may have had a hand in helping to elect a handful of MPs in both the 2019 and 2021 Canadian federal elections. It also determined that China was the primary foreign interference threat to Canada.

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