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Widow Blames Biden for Pennsylvania Shooting, Trump Judge Assigned

5/6/2026

Left

Helen Accuses Biden

Helen Comperatore, widow of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting victim, publicly accused President Joseph R. Biden of directing the 20-year-old gunman.
U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, appointed by President Donald Trump, will hear the case with arraignment set for May 11.
Andrew Schulz contested Charlamagne tha God’s view that Trump’s immigration stance could spur murder.
Karoline Leavitt urged politicians to curb anti-Trump rhetoric and blamed Democrats for the shooting.

Right

Cole Allen Arraigned

A Cedars-Sinai nurse practitioner praised the failed White House Correspondents’ Dinner shooting on social media.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s alleged assassin, Cole Tomas Allen, will be arraigned before Judge Trevor N. McFadden on May 11.
His LinkedIn lists a Caltech mechanical-engineering degree and a computer-science master’s.
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt called attack the third attempt on Trump and blamed left-wing rhetoric.

Blindspot

Right coverage, with seven sources, received substantially more editorial attention than Left coverage, which had two sources.
Right coverage emphasized the federal grand jury indictment adding a fourth charge of assault on a federal officer, a detail that Left coverage did not include.

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Helen Accuses Biden

Helen Comperatore, widow of the Butler, Pennsylvania shooting victim, publicly accused President Joseph R. Biden of directing the 20-year-old gunman.
U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden, appointed by President Donald Trump, will hear the case with arraignment set for May 11.
Andrew Schulz contested Charlamagne tha God’s view that Trump’s immigration stance could spur murder.
Karoline Leavitt urged politicians to curb anti-Trump rhetoric and blamed Democrats for the shooting.

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