Larry Bell wrote in a May 4 Newsmax column:
We might hope the latest of three assassination attempts against President Trump, which saw attendees at the 2026 White House Correspondent’s Dinner fearfully crouching under tables, will have aroused broader awareness of real dangers, the president, and those close to him, face.
Those dangers take the shape of routine characterizations, such as a “dictator,” and “threat to democracy,” and “king,” by a more than hostile partisan media.
Additionally, our nation’s 47th commander in chief has dominated hostile national and global public and social media attention, since 2015. At that time, you may recall, he and Melania descended into a cut-throat political scene via Trump Tower’s golden escalator, to initiate his first presidential campaign.
Few mainstream pundits gave him any real prospects for winning the primary, much less beating Hillary Rodham Clinton: a former first lady, senator, and secretary of state.
No press honeymoon upon taking office was emergent either.
The mainstream (or legacy press) immediately took to carrying water an endless blitzkrieg of weaponized legal actions, with the goals of discrediting and removing him.
[…]Rather than cheer for U.S. defeat, wouldn’t it be refreshing to see Democrats and partisan media finally put country above politics and credit Trump for courageously doing so with his life on the line throughout three assassination attempts?
Maybe by vilifying him less, more civil anti-Trump media and others won’t need to scout ahead for closest tables to dive under for safety from assailants when attending his events.
Bell seems to have forgotten just how personal and threatening Newsmax became when the president was a Democrat. Most notoriously, it published a 2009 column calling for a military coup to deal with the “Obama problem.” Newsmax ultimately removed the column and sidelined Perry as a columnist. A month later, Newsmax published Pat Boone’s call for a “tenting” of the White House due to Obama, a solution normally reserved for pest control. There are plenty of other examples.
We don’t recall Bell ever holding the publisher of his column accountable for its vilification of Obama and President Biden.