[Python] Python Bot That Repeats Deleted Messages on Discord (Issue)

I wrote a Discord bot that is supposed to repeat deleted messages from users. It responds to a ping without issue, and composes a message if someone deletes but does not pull the content of the message that is deleted. The only time it is pulling the content of a deleted message is if it is pinged in the message. Ex: "@bot, this is a deleted message" this will be repeated by the bot, but "this is a deleted message" will spit out a no content error. I am a novice at Python and would love any pointers. Code below with comments. Thank you.

import discord
import os
from flask.app import cli
from keep_alive import keep_alive
from discord.ext import commands

intents = discord.Intents.default()
intents.message_content = True
intents.messages = True
client = discord.Client(intents=discord.Intents.default())
token = os.getenv('token.env')

# Event to detect and log deleted messages
@client.event
async def on_message_delete(message):

# Response message
response = (
f" **Deleted Message Alert** \n"
f"User: {message.author}\n"
f"{message.content or 'No text content'}"
)

# Ignore messages sent by bots
if message.author.bot:
return

# Send the response to the same channel
await message.channel.send(response)

# Event to detect when the bot is pinged
@client.event
async def on_message(message):
# Check if the bot is mentioned
if client.user in message.mentions:
await message.channel.send("Hello!")

# Ensure other commands and events still work
await client.process_commands(message)

# Log when the bot is ready
@client.event
async def on_ready():
print(f"Logged in as {client.user.name} - {client.user.id}")

#server activation
keep_alive()

# Runs the bot
client.run(os.getenv("TOKEN"))


Tried other suggestions from sources found online, which either killed the code entirely or had the same error.

Re-wrote and formatted the code differently with no impact/change.

Took sections out to test if the "event to detect when the bot is pinged" is causing issue, no change other than bot did not respond to a ping.

Also removed the no text content section which just produced a blank message.

EDIT: I have asked an LLM its opinion on the code and have gotten nothing helpful.

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