Former President Barack Obama completely ignored the alleged White House Correspondents' Dinner gunman's manifesto and failed to mention that President Donald Trump was his top target, claiming that "we don’t yet have the details about the motives" behind the Saturday night shooting in Washington, DC.

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Senior National Security and Legal Analyst Mehek Cooke warned that political rhetoric from the Left is contributing to a dangerous climate of violence surrounding President Donald Trump during an appearance on “Mornings With Maria” on Fox Business Network.

Cooke sharply criticized former President Barack Obama for publicly suggesting there was “no motive” behind recent attacks and threats targeting Trump and those around him at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner. According to Cooke, the evidence points clearly in the opposite direction.

Cooke argued that Obama’s statement was not an expression of uncertainty but a deliberate political calculation. She said Democrats are concerned that continued attacks against Trump could generate sympathy among voters and drive turnout for Republicans in the midterm elections.

“This is all politics,” Cooke said. “The sympathetic voters, the people who did not know what they would do this midterm. The Left is aggressive—they have spent the last 10 years calling Trump Hitler, a fascist, everything under the sun.”

Cooke described the moment as a political turning point, saying millions of Americans—including undecided voters—are beginning to see through what she called years of inflammatory rhetoric from the Left. She accused Democrat leaders of spending a decade portraying Trump as a fascist and a dictator, only to now feign surprise when violence follows.

“The leaders of the Left are showing who they are,” Cooke said. “They’re not for us.”

Drawing a historical comparison, Cooke referenced the attempted assassination of President Ronald Reagan, noting that political activity paused while the nation confronted the seriousness of the threat. She contrasted that response with today’s environment, where she said partisan politics continue unabated despite repeated threats against Trump.

Cooke stressed that Trump is not former President Joe Biden and requires constant, enhanced protection. She called for a comprehensive overhaul of security protocols, including the Secret Service, to address what she described as repeated failures and unresolved questions following recent incidents.

“We have to have a massive overhaul of our security,” Cooke said. “We have to start thinking differently about threats in this country.”

The vehicle kill switch may be getting another chance to be killed in Congress this week as a member of the House Rules Committee wants to repeal legislation that directs automakers to install surveillance technology on all new vehicles starting in 2027.

Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, a committee member and influential congressman on the conservative House Freedom Caucus, says the Biden-era mandate poses “a direct threat to our Fourth Amendment rights.”

“Republicans should not be continuing a blatantly invasive Biden-era policy that enables round-the-clock monitoring of Americans in their own cars,” Roy told The Daily Signal while the possibility of the amendment was still being discussed by the Rules Committee.

“That’s why I introduced an amendment to FISA to eliminate the ‘kill switch’ and stop this Big Brother technology from being built into new vehicles.”

This is Roy’s second attempt at killing the kill switch this year.

The need for an amendment already has large support from House conservatives, including Reps. Thomas Massie, R-Ky.; Scott Perry, R-Pa.; and Keith Self, R-Texas.

“The government should never have the ability to remotely kill your car or anything else you own,” Self told The Daily Signal. “When a group of us conservatives in the House tried to repeal this Joe Biden-era mandate set to take effect next year, 57 Republicans teamed up with 211 Democrats to stop us. That’s unacceptable.”

The kill switch mandate comes from the HALT Drunk Driving Act (Sec. 24220 of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act), which Democrats passed with support from 19 Republican senators and 13 Republican representatives.

The text of the bill requires installing technology to monitor drivers’ performance, passively detect blood alcohol, or detect impairment.

Mothers Against Drunk Driving supported this 2021 bipartisan bill. The organization claims that once the technology is in place, it will save 10,000 people a year from drunk driving incidents. According to the group, the technology is not a government tool and will be “passive,” operating without the driver needing to do anything.

The HALT Act required the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to publish a draft of the mandate for the technology by 2024. In 2023, the agency reported that technology didn’t exist yet to comply with the federal mandate. As of January 2026, the agency has not completed the required draft, which was originally due in 2024.

Conservatives are already facing a fight over the FISA reauthorization bill, as many Republicans, including congressional leadership, do not want to reform the bill to require warrants to investigate American citizens.

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The Department of Justice is investigating allegations of ties between left-wing groups and Cole Tomas Allen, the 31-year-old California teacher charged with attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump at Saturday’s White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

When asked by The Daily Signal if the department is investigating Allen’s reported association with leftist groups, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche said “yes, of course.”

The Justice Department held a press conference Monday shortly after the suspected shooter was charged with attempting to assassinate the president of the United States.

Reports said Allen was associated with a progressive collective known as “The Wide Awakes,” but the organization denied the connection in a statement to the Daily Caller News Foundation‘s Hudson Crozier.

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Shortly before the Justice Department press conference, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt addressed the attempted violence.

“Those who constantly falsely label and slander the president as a fascist, as a threat to democracy and compare him to Hitler to score political points, are fueling this kind of violence,” she told reporters. “The left-wing cult of hatred against the president and all of those who support him and work for him has gotten multiple people hurt and killed, and it almost did so again this weekend.”

Leavitt said Allen’s manifesto echoed the rhetoric about the president on social media and in the press.

“Much of the manifesto of the would-be assassin is indistinguishable from the words that we hear daily from so many,” she said.

The California man also faces charges of transporting a firearm across state lines and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. He appeared in federal court in Washington for his arraignment on Monday.

Allen left a manifesto with family members referring to himself as the “Friendly Federal Assassin” and expressing plans to target senior Trump administration officials who were present in the hotel ballroom.

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