What exact statements did Rob Weiner make about assassinating Trump and when were they said?
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Executive summary
No reporting in the supplied sources documents any public statements by a person named “Rob Weiner” advocating the assassination of Donald Trump; the available coverage instead centers on President Trump’s inflammatory comments about late filmmaker Rob Reiner after Reiner and his wife were found slain, and on reactions from lawmakers and media outlets [1] [2] [3]. Because the supplied articles do not record statements by “Rob Weiner,” this analysis distinguishes what is documented (Trump’s comments about Rob Reiner and the timeline of those comments) from what is not found in the reporting (any admission or threat by a “Rob Weiner” to assassinate the former president) [1] [4].
1. What the reporting actually shows about the controversy and timeline
Within 24 hours of the discovery that Rob Reiner and his wife, Michele, had been killed in their Los Angeles home, President Donald Trump posted on Truth Social a message that blamed Reiner’s outspoken criticism of Trump for the killing and used the term “TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME,” language that many outlets described as unsubstantiated and inflammatory; that post and subsequent Oval Office remarks took place the morning after the deaths were reported and drew immediate bipartisan condemnation [4] [1] [2]. Multiple news organizations — including the Associated Press, PBS NewsHour, CNBC, HuffPost, The Guardian, and Time — quoted the Truth Social post and reported that Trump later reiterated critical comments about Reiner to reporters in the Oval Office, calling him “a deranged person” and saying he “was not a fan” [1] [5] [4] [6] [3].
2. Exact text attributed to Trump in the cited reporting
The Truth Social post published and quoted in the reporting reads, in the excerpts provided: “A very sad thing happened last night in Hollywood. Rob Reiner, a tortured and struggling, but once very talented movie director and comedy star, has passed away, together with his wife, Michele, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding, and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as TRUMP DERANGEMENT SYNDROME, sometimes referred to as TDS,” and added that “He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession of President Donald J. Trump…” — language reproduced verbatim in outlets including HuffPost, CNBC and Time [4] [6] [3]. Reporting also cites Trump’s verbal comments to reporters in the Oval Office repeating his view that Reiner was “deranged” and that he “was not a fan” [5] [2].
3. Who reacted and how the press framed the remarks
Lawmakers and public figures from across the political spectrum criticized the president’s comments as inappropriate given that police were still investigating the deaths; specific rebukes from figures quoted in the coverage include Republican Rep. Thomas Massie calling the remarks “inappropriate and disrespectful” and Democratic Sen. Chris Murphy saying the president had “lost it” for attributing blame to Reiner’s politics [1] [7]. News organizations framed Trump’s post as an unsubstantiated causal claim and part of a pattern of “post-first, confirm-later” social media reactions to breaking tragedies, a characterization noted in PBS and AP reporting [8] [1].
4. The reporting’s silence on “Rob Weiner” and assassination claims
None of the supplied sources contain any quotation, excerpt, or paraphrase attributing to a person named “Rob Weiner” a statement about assassinating Donald Trump; supplied articles focus on Rob Reiner (the director) and on Trump’s response to Reiner’s death and related political fallout [1] [2] [3]. Given the absence of such reporting in the provided material, it is not possible on this record to say that Rob Weiner made any statements about assassinating Trump, nor to provide exact wording or dates for statements that do not appear in the cited coverage [1] [4].
5. Possible sources of confusion and how reporting could be misread
The similarity of names — Reiner versus Weiner — and intense media coverage of the Reiner killing and presidential reaction create a credible risk of conflating individuals; several outlets explicitly identify Rob Reiner as the subject of Trump’s remarks and make no mention of a Rob Weiner, underscoring that the news cycle was about Reiner’s death and Trump’s posts, not about admissions of violence from a separate person [3] [6] [7]. The reporting also documents earlier viral posts and rapid social-media reactions that sometimes preceded official facts, a pattern that can amplify name errors and misinformation [8].
6. Bottom line and limits of this analysis
On the record provided, the only exact, dated statements available are President Trump’s Truth Social post and his Oval Office comments about Rob Reiner, both made the morning after the Reiners were found slain and reported widely by outlets such as AP, PBS, CNBC, HuffPost and Time [4] [1] [6] [3]. The supplied reporting does not contain any statements by “Rob Weiner” about assassinating Trump; absent additional sources explicitly documenting such claims, this analysis cannot produce exact wording or timing for statements that the available coverage does not record [1] [2].