Roughly 48 hours after a gunman tried to assassinate the President of the United States at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, Katie Porter sent a fundraising email with a subject line that read, simply: "F*** Trump" (minus the asterisks).
That's not a summary. That's the actual subject line. And it only gets worse from there.
Imagine Barack Obama surviving three assassination attempts and 18 hours later, a Republican sent a fundraising email like this pic.twitter.com/RLj825Y7Sk
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) April 27, 2026
The email, timestamped Monday, April 27, at 7:07 p.m. and sent through Left Net on behalf of Porter's gubernatorial campaign, opens with what can only be described as a call-and-response rally chant:
"Say it with me. Ready, 1 … 2 … 3 … F*** Trump. Yeah, that's right, F*** Trump. Together, we're going to kick Trump's ass in November and stop him in his tracks."
Keep in mind what the country had just been through. On Saturday night, Trump and the First Lady were seated at the head table of the Washington Hilton when shots rang out in the ballroom. Reporters dove under tables. C-SPAN cameras captured the chaos live. The Secret Service rushed the president and his Cabinet out of the room.
The suspected shooter, 31-year-old Cole Tomas Allen, a California teacher who had attended a "No Kings" protest before making the cross-country trip, was apprehended with an alleged manifesto that prosecutors said was steeped in Democratic rhetoric targeting Trump and his allies.
By Monday, Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche was at a podium announcing federal charges and warning: "Violence has no place in civic life. It cannot and will not be used to disrupt democratic institutions or intimidate those who serve them."
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Katie Porter's campaign, apparently, had not gotten the memo.
While the DOJ was still outlining the details of a foiled presidential assassination, Porter's team was busy hitting send on an email accusing Trump of being a would-be murderer:
"We KNOW what Trump is willing to do and how far he's willing to go — he's willing to kill people in the streets, to rip health care away, to ruthlessly attack our democracy."
This is the same man who had just survived his third assassination attempt in less than two years: shot in Butler, Pennsylvania, in 2024, nearly ambushed at his golf course in West Palm Beach, and now rushed out of a hotel ballroom by Secret Service while gunfire echoed through the room. And Porter's campaign, in that moment, chose to characterize him as the one with blood on his hands.
It's worth noting that this email wasn't some rogue staffer's mistake. It wasn't a comment clipped out of context or a bad joke that landed wrong. It was a polished, formatted fundraising appeal, complete with donation buttons, a bullet-pointed policy platform, and a pitch to elect Porter governor of California. The violent rhetoric wasn't incidental. It was the hook. And she closed it exactly the way she opened it: "And F*** Trump."
Porter has branded herself the "whiteboard lady," the no-nonsense accountant of the powerful. But there's nothing accountable about exploiting an assassination attempt to juice your donor list. There's no whiteboard big enough to explain away the decision to send that email, at that moment, with that language, and then ask people for five dollars.
U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro said of Allen: "This is the kind of situation that we cannot tolerate." She was talking about a man with a gun. She could just as easily have been talking about the environment that put one in his hands.
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