Every U.S. Politician Physically Attacked in the Last 10 Years
Politician | Party/Affiliation | Violence | Year | Perpetrator’s Politics/Motive |
Donald Trump | GOP | Attempted assassination | 2016 | DEM (1) |
Steve Scalise + Several Others | GOP | Attempted assassination - severe injury | 2017 | DEM (2) |
Donald Trump | GOP | Attempted assassination | 2017 | DEM (3) |
Donald Trump | GOP | Assassination plot | 2017 | ISIL (Iraq) |
Rand Paul | GOP | Assault - severe injury | DEM (4) | |
Donald Trump | GOP | Ricin attack #1 | 2018 | DEM (5) |
Barack Obama + Several Others | DEM | Sent inert miniature pipe bombs in the mail | 2018 | GOP (6) |
Donald Trump | GOP | Ricin attack #2 | 2020 | DEM (7) |
Brett Kavanaugh | GOP Appointee | Attempted assassination | 2022 | DEM (8) |
Paul Pelosi (Nancy Pelosi targeted) | DEM | Assault - severe injury | 2022 | DEM (9) |
Donald Trump | GOP | Attempted assassination - bystander killed, several injured including Trump | 2024 | DEM (10) |
Donald Trump | GOP | Attempted assassination | 2024 | DEM (11) |
Josh Shapiro | DEM | Arson - property damage | 2025 | DEM (12) |
Melissa Hortman | DEM | Assassinated - killed along with spouse | 2025 | DEM (13) |
John Hoffman | DEM | Attempted assassination - severe injury | 2025 | DEM (13) |
Charlie Kirk (Trump Advisor) | GOP | Assassinated - killed | 2025 | DEM (14) |
- This would-be assassin tried to steal a cop’s gun to kill Donald Trump when he was a candidate in 2016. He was motivated by leftist ideology. Turned out he was not a U.S. citizen and was deported back to the UK.
- This was the mass shooting that was done at a GOP congressional baseball practice by a Democrat Socialist follower of Bernie Sanders.
- This Democrat stole a fork-lift and tried to kill Trump by ramming his motorcade.
- Rand Paul was attacked in his yard by his Democrat leftist next door neighbor. He was left with broken ribs and a collapsed lung.
- This was initially thought to be a Ricin attack on Trump and others in his administration, but later turned out to be unrefined castor beans. The sender was ordered to undergo psychiatric treatment after time served. His motive was to “send a message”.
- This was a Trump supporter named Cesar Sayoc who was sentenced to 20 years for sending inert miniature pipe bombs to many Democrat critics of Donald Trump. No injuries resulted. While clearly a Trump supporter, Sayoc was a male stripper who lived in his van. He was not a traditional Republican in any sense.
- This attack was by a leftist Canadian woman who wanted someone to “put a bullet in Trump’s face”. She was apprehended at the border.
- This leftist Democrat was motivated by abortion and sought to kill a Supreme Court Justice who questioned the constitutionality of Roe v Wade.
- This assailant attacked Paul Pelosi but was targeting Nancy Pelosi. He was a destitute alleged drug addict and male prostitute who had an affiliation with The Green Party.
- This was the televised attempt on Donald Trump in Butler, PA. The Biden FBI scrubbed the assailants house, deleted all social media, has not released anything from several encrypted digital devices (including burner phones!), and never held a press conference. The only conclusion is that this was likely Trump Derangement Syndrome, & possibly something far more sinister. Democrat President Joe Biden dropped out of the race a week. later.
- This leftist Democrat was just found guilty of trying to kill Trump on his golf course.
- This arson attack was motivated by Jew hatred and support for Mid-East terrorism. Those sentiments are closely linked to the Democrat Party, though this arsonist had no formal party affiliation.
- There are only two things we know for sure about this killer: he was an appointee of two successive Democrat Governors, the 2nd being Tim Walz, and he wrote a handwritten two page confession letter. According to the killer, he killed in retaliation for being set-up by Tim Walz who had tried to hire him to kill Democrat Amy Klobuchar so Walz could assume her Senate seat. When the killer refused the job, the Democrats tried to eliminate him. (Take that confession with a grain of salt, as you should. Either way, this looks like internal Democrat warfare.)
- This killer was deeply enmeshed in ANTIFA, LGBTQ, and leftist Democrat ideology & killed Charlie Kirk for his conservative and Christian beliefs.
NOTE ON OTHER ACTS OF VIOLENCE: This list is limited to actual direct physical and chemical threats against political figures. Rioting, burning, & looting for political purposes whether at the Capital, an ICE facility, a court house, a statehouse, a police station, or in the streets, is not included.
NOTE ON MENTAL ILLNESS & PSYCHOTROPICS: Blaming political violence on mental illness or SSRIs is like blaming a plane crash on gravity. Those are constants and should not be confused with the motivating political factors.
NOTE ON PARTY: We have a two party system in the U.S. However, no two people fall perfectly in either party the same exact way. I use the following political affiliations and ideologies synonymously with Democrat (DEM): Leftist, Socialist, Communist, Green, Progressive, Totalitarian. And for Republican (GOP): Right, Conservative, Free Market, Libertarian, Constitutionalist, Limitarian.
