By Ray Cardello for July 14, 2025, Season 31 / Post 50

We have talked about and seen many examples of the Democrat hyperbole equating any cut in government spending to the deaths that will result. Cut funding for abortions, and thousands of young pregnant women will die. Yet when shelves of formula were empty in grocery and drug stores during Biden’s term, the sound you heard from Democrats about infants with no food was crickets. Cut funding for Medicaid, and illegals will die homeless and hungry on the streets. Yet, when twenty-plus homeless veterans commit suicide each day because their hope has run out for a comfortable bed and a decent meal, you hear nothing that resembles a solution from Democrats. No, people are not going to die from cutting wasteful government spending. Someone who enjoys their life lounging on the sofa playing video games may have to get a job, but they will survive. But there are critical jobs that some people have that, when they do not do their jobs, innocent people may actually die. It was a straightforward phrase that Bill Belichick of the New England Patriots had that served the team well for their twenty-year dynasty. “Just do your job.” If everyone lives within themselves and does their job completely and well, we will all know success.

This week marks the first anniversary of the day thousands of believers collected in a field in Butler, Pennsylvania, to hear the leader of the MAGA Movement and the Republican Party, and hopefully the 47th President of the United States. It was a beautiful, sunny Sunday afternoon in rural Pennsylvania, and the crowd was filled with the electricity and excitement of a Trump Rally. The warm-up speakers took their turn at the podium, and the anticipation built for Lee Greenwood to fill the air with the familiar words of Trump’s anthem and the familiar blue suit and red tie to appear on the stage. Trump did not disappoint. He knows how to work a crowd, and he was amongst his people, except for a lone person on a nearby rooftop aiming his rifle at Donald Trump, intent on ending the life of this man the Left saw as a threat to our democracy. A short time into his speech, Trump turned to a graph on the big screen to his right as a shot rang out. Because of that momentary turn of his head, the bullet took off a piece of Trump’s ear, but left the killer’s target, Trump’s head, intact. Trump was saved that day by divine intervention, but tragically, sitting behind Trump was Corey Comperatore, a retired firefighter who was sitting with his family. Corey instinctively dove to cover his family when he heard the shot. He protected his wife and daughters but absorbed the shooter’s bullet that would end his life. Corey Comperatore died a hero in Butler that day, but only because some people failed to do their job.

The attempted assassination of former-President and candidate Donald Trump will go down as one of the worst days and biggest failures in the history of the Secret Service. The Secret Service has one job: to keep the President and others designated for protection alive. God kept Donald Trump alive despite the failings of the Secret Service, but not Corey, who left his now widowed wife and beautiful daughters to question why their husband and dad did not go home with them that day.

There have been investigations and suspensions. There have been some answers, but not the truth. We will never know the real story behind the failings of the Service, but that is how our government works. Things happen, people fail, we spend time and money asking questions, and then never see anyone held accountable. Those of us who believe in God and his plan trust that Donald Trump was spared an assassin’s bullet because God has more work for Trump to do on Earth, like save this country. Corey’s work was done when he saved his family