At least five known assassination teams are currently hunting President Donald Trump. A senior official within the United States Department of Homeland Security has revealed to Rep. Matt Gaetz that three of these assassination groups have links to foreign governments, while the remaining two are domestic. This is after one assassin—supposedly a lone wolf and not part of a team—struck Mr. Trump in the ear in Pennsylvania on July 13, and another, Ryan Routh, got close to the president with a semiautomatic rifle. We know he was trying to kill him in part because the Department of Justice published Routh’s handwritten manifesto offering a $150,000 bounty to anyone who will “finish the job.”

The government often withholds manifestos like Routh’s because of the danger of copycat crimes. Yet with Donald Trump’s life on the line, the Department of Justice is ignoring its own policies and letting the world know that there are indeed organizations out there who are willing to pay handsomely for Trump’s murder.

On September 15, Routh was hiding in thick bushes outside the perimeter fence of President Trump’s golf course near Mar-a-Lago, pointing a rifle toward the sixth hole, where Mr. Trump would have soon been playing. A Secret Service agent spotted the rifle and fired. Routh fled, unwounded, but was later apprehended. His position was only 270 feet from the hole and only 50 feet from the golf cart path.

Routh wants President Trump dead. His letter indicates that he knew his murder attempt would probably fail but hoped it might inspire others to think about how they might succeed. His primary motive may have been publicity, and that is exactly what decision-makers in the Department of Justice have given him.

A recent survey found that 28 percent of Democrat respondents think America would be better off if President Trump were murdered. It only takes one team of killers—or perhaps even one individual killer—to do this. By publishing this letter, the Department of Justice is helping Routh recruit potential assassins.

“The thing that absolutely infuriates me is the fact that the Department of Justice made a decision to publish this letter, which is so incendiary,” Judge Jeanine Pirro said on September 23, after saying that the published letter was apparently one of several that Routh had given to another individual. “I said last week, the left won’t be happy until they put a bounty on Trump’s head. And they just did by publishing that letter.”

After Audrey Hale murdered three adults and three nine-year-old children at a Nashville school on March 27, 2023, there was an 18-month controversy over the release of her manifesto. Top decision-makers at the local police department or perhaps above wanted to not only honor this murderer’s assertion that she was “transgender” but also hide her rage against Christians. Contrast this against Routh’s manifesto claiming that Americans have a moral duty to kill President Trump and the Department of Justice publishing it within days.

The publication of such deadly rhetoric is actually part of an ongoing trend. Soon after the first assassination attempt, Joe Biden called on the nation to “lower the temperature in our politics.” He is the same man who talked about putting Trump “in the bull’s-eye.” U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on September 25 called for Mr. Trump to be “extinguished for good,” while Democrats in Nevada erected a giant effigy of a nude Trump hanging from a crane near a Kamala Harris rally just north of Las Vegas. Pundits like Joe Scarborough accuse Mr. Trump of worse things than Routh’s manifesto on a regular basis. These moves are just as inflammatory, if not more so, than Routh’s letter.

Calling for Trump’s death has become the new normal.

After the Justice Department released the letter, Mark Bradman at the Conservative Treehouse wrote: “Immediately, people noticed how the doj would never normally publish a letter or manifesto that would stimulate the mentally unstable. However, when it comes to Donald Trump, all the doj/fbi customary defensive moves are thrown out. Remember, Donald Trump is their target, never considered a victim. … If the doj did not want someone to follow up on the bounty from Routh, they wouldn’t release it; after all, it’s dangerous.”

This is good insight. The left isn’t seeking justice. It is targeting Trump. Therefore, the left does not see Trump as the victim of an assassination attempt. They see him as a danger that must be “extinguished for good.”

Former Attorney General Bill Barr says he is “dumbfounded” at the Justice Department’s decision to release Routh’s letter, calling the decision “rash” and serving no purpose “other than to risk inciting further violence.” Yet the doj decision was not rash; it was calculated. The left is deliberately trying to inspire would-be assassins, even as it works to undermine Trump’s security detail. The end goal of this strategy is a successful assassination of Donald Trump that looks like an accident.

Yet try as they might, leftists are not going to assassinate Trump before he regains office. God has promised to save America by the hand of an end-time King Jeroboam ii (2 Kings 14:26-28; Amos 7:8), and my father has identified Trump as this Jeroboam antitype. This means he will not be killed before he has finished his job.

More and more Christians are recognizing that God is intervening to save Trump’s life from a barrage of assassins. But it’s not enough to realize that God is intervening in American affairs; we need to understand why He is intervening. Your only hope depends on repenting of sin (Amos 7:8). If you’re ready to face what you need to face and realize the accountability each of us has toward the God who made America great in the first place, request your free copy of America Under Attack, by Trumpet editor in chief Gerald Flurry.