In the aftermath of the attempted shooting of former U.S. president and current Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump at a July 13th, 2024 campaign event, a variety of false claims regarding the attack circulated on X (the social media platform previously known as Twitter). Users of Community Notes, X’s crowdsourced fact checking feature, quickly began attempting to address misleading claims about this incident, which ran the gamut from ideologically-motivated misidentifications of the shooter to assertions that the attack was a false flag, with a generous dose of altered and misrepresented images thrown in for good measure. On the bright side, Community Notes was successful in labeling some of the most viral false posts regarding the shooting, many of which were subsequently deleted by the post authors. However, the system continues to struggle with scale, as the rumors and falsehoods addressed in the Community Notes on popular posts continue to spread unchecked in posts from smaller accounts, particularly in cases where the posts do not contain images.over a thousand Community Notes were written regarding the shooting, but most have yet to receive sufficient ratings to determine their fateAll proposed Community Notes, along with ratings and current note statuses, are freely available for download, enabling study of the usage and performance of the Community Notes system. This analysis covers notes written between 6 PM Eastern Daylight Time on July 13th, 2024 and 8 PM July 15th, and includes only those notes that contain the text “Trump” as well as at least one…Community Notes and attempted assassinations