A couple of media places did release a very short blurb in small print that the "suspect" had no plans to assassinate anyone according to law enforcement after a short investigation.

Honestly, I’d be surprised if the venn diagram of “people who would keep guns in their car” and “trump’s base” wasn’t a circle.

There’s going to be a lot of false positives in an environment like that

The Riverside county sheriff is the one who first used the term assassination attempt. Media uncritically repeated what the sheriff said.

And when it comes to America, a man with guns in his car is a normal situation.

God I hate this place.

I was sitting there reading the articles thinking, "if a loaded weapon amongst Trump supporters is an assassination attempt we're going to need a spreadsheet here .."