EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump stands tall following shocking assassination attempt
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Summary
Rachel Parker, who was there at the Pennsylvania rally when President Trump was shot, gives us the lowdown on what she saw, including incredible videos that she filmed on location. And then I tell you a little bit more about what I'm up to tomorrow, going to a riot zone.
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Hello, my friends. Huge show today, obviously. We talked to our friend Rachel Parker,
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who was right there in Pennsylvania at the rally when President Trump was shot. We'll have
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the lowdown from her, including incredible videos that she filmed on location. And then I'll tell
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you a little bit more about what I'm up to tomorrow. I'm actually going to a riot zone.
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Hopefully I'll be safe. I have a bright jacket that says press on it. Hopefully police won't
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pepper spray me. I'll tell you more about that soon. But first, let me invite you to become a
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Tonight, the latest on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. It's July 15 and this
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As you know, it's been a couple of days since Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Just absolutely astonishing to see the coverage of an assassination attempt in today's modern
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world, not just social media where everyone learned about it and where conspiracy theories
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or false reports were quickly debunked much faster than the mainstream media got even the
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story basics out there. It was truly a triumph of social media over legacy media, not just for
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speed and accuracy, but also for fairness. I mean, it was just absolutely astonishing to see things
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like the Washington Post, which incredibly Jeffrey Bezos, who owns the Washington Post,
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tweeted his sympathy to Trump. But of course, his newspaper claimed there was no motive here.
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And we really don't know what's going on. It was I think it was the end of the legacy media in many
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ways. The entire world was on Twitter. In fact, Elon Musk tweeted that they reached a record,
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a massive record in users globally and in America. I mean, here's something that would have been
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impossible short years ago, a photo of the bullet in midair whizzing by Donald Trump's head, having just
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hit his ear an inch away from his head. Unbelievable. There were a lot of unbelievable things. We saw the
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Secret Service just melt down. And many say it's because of the new DEI, diversity, equity and
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inclusion mandate of the Secret Service, where normally you have big hulking guys. I mean, think about
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security in the real world. If you've ever been to a nightclub, the bouncer is always a massive
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rock of a man. Half the purpose is to deter. But the other purpose is if things get rough,
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he can just throw people around. You never have small people as security and never small,
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physically small women. And they seem to be fidgeting, not knowing what to do, not being
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able to holster a gun, picking up their sunglasses, a lot of strange things. And the Secret Service being
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a very evasive. Here's a clip from a Secret Service press conference yesterday where they were asked about
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the shooter and how the shooter could get within 150 yards of the president. And the Secret Service
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spokesman literally said, oh, that's not our department. That's outside our perimeter.
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Talk to the local cops. Could you imagine that as their answer here? Take a look at that insanity.
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Thank you, Chief. And just to reiterate what the Chief said, local ordinances in the state of Wisconsin
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do not supersede state law. Wisconsin is an open carry state and therefore the city of Milwaukee and
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no other jurisdiction in this state can supersede that state law. Folks should be aware, though,
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that proactively before the convention gets started, we did take action at the local level
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to ban items that we could ban. So we used our authority already at the municipal level
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to take that sort of security precaution that we were able to do. But in terms of banning weapons
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in the outer perimeter, that is not within our purview because of state law.
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Let's talk a little bit more about that shooter on the rooftop. He was visible for two minutes
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before he shot. Two minutes where people were pointing and shouting. Take a look at this video.
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People pointing, shouting to the fact that there was a shooter on the roof. If they could see it,
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why couldn't police? In fact, there was a report that a policeman went up there,
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Look, they're all pointed. Yeah, someone's on top of the roof. Look, here he is right there.
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Right there. You see him? He's laying down. You see him? Yeah, he's laying down.
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Oh, he's not. He's not going to be caught. And he's got him here with the inviting hotel
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And the pressure will take back the last because if we do, we're going to make America better
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than his people. We're going to make it. Yeah, look. There he is.
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Because we have millions and millions of people in our country that should be dangerous people.
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Criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals.
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obviously the shooter shot the bullet and he is the guilty one but i think it is extremely
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unlikely that he acted alone and the description of him so far doesn't seem to click a 20 year old
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with no social media footprint whatsoever no manifesto left behind oddly he appeared in a
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black rock tv ad what are the odds just very very strange but i think that there's a phrase i hadn't
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really heard it a lot until yesterday stochastic terrorism and i think one way to understand that
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phrase is for four or eight or more years we've had a drumbeat in the mainstream media and other
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mainstream establishments that donald trump is a tyrant that he's a nazi that he's like hitler
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that he's authoritarian that he will kill you that he breaks the law that he will be a fascist that he
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will jail his opponents and the irony about all these claims is actually what's being done to trump
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he's the one who's been arrested prosecuted who's had his home raided by the democrats he never did
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that when he was president he didn't prosecute hillary clinton even though hillary clinton
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quite evidently committed a number of crimes it was trump whose mar-a-lago was raided by the fbi
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but the drumbeat the trump is terrible trump is a danger trump must be defeated trump is the enemy
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um it's almost i mean a comparison that comes to my mind is how hamas indoctrinates young people in
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gaza from the time they are children kill the jews hate the jews slit their throat shoot them
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be a martyr if you indoctrinate someone for 20 years as they do in hamas don't be surprised if they
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commit acts of terrorism and then barbarism um and i i'm not saying it's quite that far in america
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but you've got more than 330 million americans and if you have a constant drumbeat this is an evil man
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someone's going to do something it's almost like that cia program mk ultra where they you know the
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jason born movies were based on that idea of using hallucinogenic drugs to get people to basically do
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anything turn them into killing machines there's a lot of questions to be answered for sure and i
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don't actually trust the fbi to answer them you know i uh joe biden doesn't have a lot to recommend
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himself these days especially with his disastrous performance in the leaders debate but um he does
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keep pumping away at that hate rhetoric i don't know if you remember these images from a biden speech
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a few months ago it looks positively i don't know satanic even nazi in its iconography um biden tried
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to make light of it calling that dark brandon but it is dark and he dehumanizes and delegitimizes
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trump they they prosecute him they want to jail him they call him a felon they do this to make him
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lower and less reed hoffman an enormous democrat donor uh just last week was saying that he wants
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to quote really martyr trump to make him an actual martyr not just a metaphorical martyr but to
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actually martyr him and that's another way of saying killing him so are we surprised that someone
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actually pulled the trigger now what's happened since that moment has been in some ways even worse
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trump in an amazing act of courage stood up pumped his fists and said fight fight fight before being
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shuffled off the stage and i think that shows obviously some showmanship but it shows courage
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and presence of mind under fire it is absolutely courageous to stand up when he had no idea what
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was going on face the crowd and cheer before being let off absolutely that took courage um
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and his comments that he has made on social media have been frankly magnificent they have been high
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minded they have not been vengeful or bitter they have not been accusatory either towards the secret
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service or towards the democrats he hasn't been negative he's risen to the occasion his opponents have
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not my former friend david from writing in the atlantic was just atrocious blaming the victim
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stephen marsh uh wrote in the globe and mail that trump is the violent one and beware of trump's
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vengeance and we're about to get chaos from trump okay that was written yesterday there wasn't a single
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riot overnight not a single riot not a single act of vengeance not a single shooting or stabbing
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or window smashed because of what happened the chaos and the vengeance is on the democrat side
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they're projecting they actually wanted trump to die and now they're it's it's absolutely bizarre
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an incredible thing is msnbc that american talk network has suspended its entire roster of daytime
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commentators because they acknowledge according to a cnn report that they don't trust that their
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pundits won't say insane extreme things they literally don't trust their own journalists not to say
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some kooky thing like trump deserved it canadians can be awful too i mentioned uh the the articles
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written by david from and stephen march here's a ubc professor who is lamenting that um the shooter
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missed i mean these are the tolerant people these are the stop bullying people but we've known that
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we've seen over the last 10 months that they're absolutely fine with nazism and anti-semitism
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and street violence as long as it's on the left uh aimed at canada and america what's incredible
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and perhaps not surprising is that the violent left has not missed a beat they're right back at it in
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places like portland and milwaukee milwaukee where the republicans are holding their convention right now
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there are protests on the streets there are encampments on the streets we're sending a couple of rebel
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journalists to cover it i think you'll see that they haven't been slowed down one ounce or one inch
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i am quite certain that they will tell our reporter yankee pollack who's going there uh that they wish
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the assassination would happen just moments ago i'm recording this uh in the late afternoon uh trump
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announced his vice presidential pick a senator named jd vance who is famous for being sort of a
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midwestern populist conservatives working class conservative and he's an excellent campaigner
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a very principled make america great again america first uh choice but i think the reason his choice is
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so brilliant is he's what i've seen some people call assassination insurance and it's terrible to say it
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but it is a factor in america where four presidents have been murdered and others like ronald reagan have
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been shot and thankfully survived that you have to think of who would become president if the
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president was killed and in the case of joe biden if the president were killed incapacitated died
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peacefully whatever it would be kamala harris who is absolutely atrocious by every measure and i think
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a lot of people who despise biden would say yikes yeah it's uh probably better that biden stay on than
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kamala harris gets it well if you're talking about assassination insurance donald trump
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is a late i think he's almost 80 i think he's 78 or 79 or 80 and i mean he's still fighting on all
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pistons i mean he's still got his wits about him he's still got his courage i mean look at look at
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what he did on stage in pennsylvania i think the shock of the moment probably would have killed joe
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biden himself but if if god forbid donald trump were to die or or even worse god forbid be assassinated
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jd vance a generation younger but tougher in many ways would solidify the america first agenda
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as opposed to some uh centrist uh choice to balance the ticket who would positively invite assassination
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so i think that's an inspired appointment the world is churning it's fascinating i heard the craziest
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report i've heard over the last few days is that justin trudeau actually phoned donald trump
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i i find that hard to believe but uh i can't remember where i saw that but it was reported
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credibly i'm astonished by that uh it must have taken a day of convincing for uh uh foreign affairs
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staff to tell um trudeau look you may hate the guy but he's probably going to be the next president
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and you're going to have to deal with him just grit your teeth and try and be polite from it i was
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startled actually it took melanie jolie our foreign minister more than a day to put out even a tweet
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anyways so thank god trump is alive i think the republican uh america first conservative movement
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is energized i think that there was something somewhat miraculous about trump's survival and
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he turned it into a very courageous moment um like i say we will have a reporter and a videographer
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in milwaukee i'm actually headed to ireland tonight because there are massive riots against an immigration
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incident encampment i'll tell you more about it i'm grabbing the flight tonight i'm going to fly
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through the night i'll land in the morning i'm going to go to the scene of the riots and try and
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give you the reports there obviously that's not the top story in the world the top story in the world
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it's what's going on in the united states and we will have that covered we've got a couple of
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journalists making their way there tonight too so we've got the stories covered you for you here
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there they're in the on stay with us up next our friend rachel parker who was on location at that
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rally in pennsylvania when donald trump was shot stay with us she's next
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well the assassination attempt against donald trump is huge news around the world because everyone
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knows that the whole world is in the balance of what happens in november's election in the united
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states and no matter what the democrats have done through their political political smears through
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their journalistic smears through their prosecutorial smears none of it has stopped trump
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but of course you can stop any man by killing him and it came within an inch of happening on the
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weekend absolutely incredible and wouldn't you know it one of our canadian friends was at that
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rally in pennsylvania little did she know she would be having a front seat in a historic moment i know
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that i'll always remember where i was when donald trump was almost assassinated joining us now is our
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friend from true north who happened to be in pennsylvania i'm talking about rachel parker who joins us now
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via zoom rachel great to see you thanks for having me ezra well i tell you you were right in the center of
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history on saturday why don't you tell us a little bit about first of all what you were doing why you
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were down there what it was like before those shots rang out just give us a minute on the background what
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what were you doing there yeah so i had gone down to the rally in butler with my two brothers actually
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i'd asked them to come and help me with some camera work we drove down from st catherine's i'm at my
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my mom's house in ontario right now so it's about a four-hour drive and i wanted to go because i'm
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starting a new podcast with true north called rachel in the republic and i wanted to get some on the
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ground content of the american election i've just started covering american politics and i think
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you really miss a lot when you cover everything remotely from home all the time so i wanted to go
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i wanted to talk to some americans get their pulse on the election you know ask basic questions is joe
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biden up for the job why are you voting for donald trump do you think donald trump needs to change his
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messaging so we arrived in butler pennsylvania around 2 30 started doing interviews as soon as we hit the ground
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it was a pretty normal uh political event as far as rallies go it was definitely a larger magnitude
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than anything i'm used to i don't think we see crowds of quite that size up here in canada i know
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that pier poliev has received a lot of praise for pulling people in the thousands but there's people
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estimates were ranging from 12 to 20 000 people at the rally in butler pennsylvania on saturday so an
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absolutely insane amount of people showing up to hear their president on a very hot day 34 degrees
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celsius numerous people passed out from the heat and you know it was everyone was in a great mood everyone
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was having a great time people were really excited to be there it was at this point in the campaign
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that a lot of the lawsuits that we've seen just being levied at president trump from every angle
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have been falling apart and so i think the momentum of the campaign is really picking up
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people feeling very optimistic and i think a lot of people felt like they were showing up
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at a rally to support who would likely be the next president of the united states yeah and not to
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mention joe biden imploding before our very eyes not just in the debate but in every press
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appearance thereafter there must have been an excitement and a confidence you can never
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take things for granted and when republicans win they have to win beyond the margin of cheating
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beyond the margin of lawyers but it feels optimistic now tell me what it was like when the shots
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rang out on the video footage it sounds like a pop pop pop sound take a look at what happened
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did you hear the shots from where you were um what was it like first of all where were you seated
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in relation to the president were you back in the crowd were you near the front
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and did you hear the the shooting when it rang out so i was set back a little ways from the crowd
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in the media booth so i had a very good view of former president trump from where i was standing and
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certainly i could see a crowd of thousands in front of him there were so many people there that not
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everyone was able to even make it in front of the media booth obviously you typically like to have
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the media booth at the back so it isn't obstructing view for anyone but there was still a number of
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supporters who were behind me and to both sides of me so even in the shot that i was able to capture
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that day of the crowd there were still thousands people standing behind me so i did have a very good
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view i did hear the shots ring out as you know the president was speaking for just a few minutes
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talking about the sad state of america under current us president joe biden when the shots rang out um
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they were to the left of me i heard them immediately the crowd immediately recognized
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that they were bullets everyone began to duck and i narrowed in looking at the president to see
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what was going on and of course he fell to the ground to protect himself immediately you see those
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secret service agents run on stage jump on him to protect him with their bodies which is a very very
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brave act to run into ongoing bullet fire i know that there is conversations about the ways that the
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security and certainly the secret service failed on that day and i think those are important
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discussions to have divorcing the fact that that was a very brave act of those men and there was
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one woman pictured there as well so in that moment you know after those initial eight bullets rang out
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it was a bit quiet everyone was kind of wondering did that really happen were were they fireworks and of
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course i'm looking focused on the stage and i'm noticing that secret service is not moving trump is
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not getting up my understanding of a situation like this is that i expected in the case of gunfire that
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the president would be immediately whisked away to safety and because they remained on the podium
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for so long and even for a few seconds without moving i thought maybe the worst had happened i
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thought maybe the president had been struck by a bullet and killed a few moments later we know that
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wasn't the case he stood up along with the secret service agents and then we have that absolutely
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incredible and viral and powerful moment one of the most amazing moments in american political history
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when donald trump his face his ear blood streaking from his ear puts his fist forward and starts
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pumping his arm chanting fight fight fight and the energy in the crowd was one of relief and also just
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euphoric as the people who came to support their former and likely future president realized that he
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was still alive although he did look injured and you know everyone begins to clap and cheer and start
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chanting usa usa it was at that point that the secret service finally take him away it was definitely
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slower than i anticipated i thought they would be removing him much quicker than they did but they
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were able to get him away safely in the end and we know that now his his ear was grazed by a bullet but
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just incredible and a lot to talk about about the conduct of the secret service who were secret
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service who were local police um the new head of the secret service is a uh actually she comes from
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uh corporate security at pepsico so not not exactly used to uh defending presidents and her big focus is
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on dei diversity equity and inclusion including promoting marginalized groups uh there there was some
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video footage including this footage here seen millions of times showing some of the smaller female
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officers fumbling with their guns uh fixing their glasses if there may be an explanation for what
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we see in that clip but it certainly was distressing and i and i i tell you that bullet came within
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an inch of killing trump in fact uh order of an inch yeah and if he just had tilted his head or
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hadn't tilted his head i think he would be dead let me ask about the uh would-be assassin
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um a lot of questions about who he was is he really a 20 year old with no social media footprint was he
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really a lone actor who managed to get on a roof um we see lots of footage of people pointing to him
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and hollering there's a guy on the roof with a gun we we heard witnesses uh saying that they were
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shouting trying to bring that to the attention of police did you see any of that or was that simply
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outside your field of view did you hear any of that apparently there were up to 50 people calling
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for police to take out that man who was crawling on a roof did any of that come to your eyes or ears
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before the shooting i was not aware that there was any threats at all until i heard the bullets
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ring out and in fact the crowd was so big and there were so many people to get through that the
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area that i was standing in after the initial threat of bolts had passed there was many people
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standing there discussing if it was in fact bullets that they heard or if they had heard
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fireworks and you'll remember that the media in the early moments were describing it as a popping noise
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because we were so unsure what had happened and you know at this point there had already been some
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members of the audience behind the president who had been struck including one beautiful american
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patriot and volunteer firefighter who was killed we know that now but for those of us on the crowd side of
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the crowd that i was on we were not aware of the situation and there was still speculation that maybe it
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wasn't in fact bullets there was some speculation that maybe the president was bleeding because of
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how hard his secret service had tackled him it did take quite a bit of time for that information to come
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out and for us to be certain that yes there was a shooter and the president was struck in the ear so
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certainly from where i was seeing i was not aware of the threat of the of the shooter and it was only
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later when i finally had internet service again and i was looking online that i saw those videos and it's
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just it's striking and you know you just can't fully grasp the level of incompetence that occurred
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for a shooter to be on a building while a former u.s president and the republican presidential nominee
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is on the stage there is no reason that donald trump should have been on that stage with a live shooter
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in the nearby region i've seen reports saying that the secret service has a policy that they don't
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shoot first i've never heard that before i don't even believe that they should absolutely be shooting
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if there's a shooter who's looking to take out a former u.s president and the republican nominee
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and even if that is the case why was the president on the stage the president should never have been
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on that stage if there is even the slightest possibility of a threat in the area so certainly
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just a stunning level of incompetence or maliciousness at play and those are questions
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that the american public is asking and certainly deserve to know the answer to and by the way there is
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absolutely a politicization of the secret service we know for example that rfk jr who's
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father and uncle were both assassinated running for president he has repeated repeatedly requested
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protection from the secret service and it has been refused by no one less than the department of
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homeland security chairman himself secretary himself it is absolutely a political move to
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threaten and weaken rfk jr but same thing with donald trump in fact there was a
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um a motion or a bill put forward to strip trump of any secret service protection this was a democrat
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sort of gotcha move um that is that it looks absolutely evil uh in the wake of what happened on saturday
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well listen i want to get to some of the videos you shot the first one i know has been seen millions of
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times because it was so raw and so quick and also i think summarized what a lot of americans and indeed
00:27:09.480
people around the world felt which is who is to blame for this well obviously the shooter is to blame
00:27:14.920
and whoever he was working with or for i don't believe he was on his own but who had for years now
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really for a decade demonized trump compared him to a tyrant compared him to hitler said he was a danger to
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democracy who other than the media and you caught someone who was furious with the media let's take
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a look at that clip now you remember what you caught you this is your fault
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you know it's tough to disagree with that at least in a moral sense obviously those reporters and
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particularly the very one standing on the stage did not kill anyone and most likely didn't want anyone
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killed but there is no doubt about it there has been a drumbeat for years um and and listen i don't
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want to be so dainty to think that when you say we're putting a bullseye on them that you mean a
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literal guns bullseye but the language that the left has deployed and the democrats have deployed and the
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media has deployed against trump for nearly a decade absolutely is militaristic totalistic
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um reed hoffman major democrat donor says i want to actually martyr him but there's not a lot of
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wiggle room there what do you make of that guy's feelings obviously he was full of emotion and anger
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um i think he came pretty close to the truth on that what do you think so it's interesting that was
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the video that blew up the most of everything that i had posted and if you go back and look at some of
00:29:01.400
my other content you'll notice as i was describing that scene for you where the crowds chanting usa usa once
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they realize that former u.s president donald trump is okay it looks at that moment like he will be
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okay he's then whisked away by his secret service immediately following that hundreds of people in
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the crowd turned around to the media especially those reporters standing on the platform and the
00:29:22.440
risers the big broadcasters and began waving their arms at them and yelling shame and this is your fault
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and that clip that we just played was taken a little after that you can see the audience has largely
00:29:32.760
left at this point and that man was still yelling at the media so that was hundreds of people in the
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crowd was their immediate response after an assassination attempt on a former u.s president
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that's remarkable that's remarkable that the american public is that angry recognize how just how
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disturbing and and what the damage their lives have caused and for anyone who felt you know sympathetic
00:29:54.760
for the media in that moment it was hard to continue those feelings of sympathy when you saw the
00:29:59.960
way that the media portrayed the attempted assassination of donald trump with headlines like
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trump fell or trump got scared after hearing popping noises and even hours after the truth had come out
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they were still reporting donald trump said that he was shot no he was shot are you blind i can see it
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with my own eyes you just have to watch all you have to do is go back and watch some video image you can
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see the bullets flying by his face yeah they just continue to lie about it and they could not bring
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themselves to tell the truth about what happened in butler on saturday yeah and and it wasn't just uh
00:30:30.360
you know you know hard line ideological newspapers jeffrey bezos one of the world's richest men the
00:30:36.120
owner of amazon who bought the washington post as a kind of a political um seat at the table he tweeted
00:30:43.640
his support to trump but then the next day his own newspaper ran a banner headline that the motive of the
00:30:50.600
shooter is unknown the motive is unknown really we we really don't know what this is all about it could
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have been a uh you know just just astonishingly stupid that that takes the american people as stupid
00:31:03.960
and i think in this case it's just too far i i see all over the place at least on social media
00:31:11.240
people who were reluctant or shy to support trump just saying enough of that um this is too far and this
00:31:17.880
is the time for me to come to the occasion and even in hard blue as in democrat jurisdictions like
00:31:23.800
san francisco and la people wearing their trump hats people because this isn't just about a candidate now
00:31:29.640
this is about someone tried to destroy democracy itself and they almost did i want to show one more
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clip he did a bunch of what we call streeters just men on the street conversations here's one
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and uh let's see what he has to say a little crazy here it's amazing people thought it was fireworks
00:31:47.400
yeah i thought it was fireworks because i looked over i was right by the fence not too far from the fence
00:31:52.920
and it was like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang it was like five shots or six shots total
00:31:58.680
and then everybody hit the ground guys let's go please let's go all right but uh i don't know what
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this is going to do to the campaign you know i hope a plus on on uh donald trump's side who would do
00:32:14.920
this you know i mean there were security all over the place i don't know well what can i say i didn't
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see anybody uh they said there were somebody in the trees and whatever and i saw them all rush over but
00:32:30.360
uh that's about all i saw are you worried that trump might not be able to continue holding events
00:32:35.160
like that's because his life is in so much danger well i think he he's uh used to taking risks and
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with the security around it i mean that's that's a possibility in fact i was thinking on the way here
00:32:47.720
what if somebody would bring a gun like they check everything i asked security uh have you
00:32:53.880
given contraband yet and they said uh yeah we got a couple knives and stuff but you saw the list
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uh don't bring that stuff you know don't be stupid of course there's enough witnesses around here
00:33:09.480
to uh you know see what was going on yeah there there has been a call for an investigation i know
00:33:15.480
josh hawley was among the first to call for a proper investigation in the congress uh the fbi says
00:33:21.640
they'll do all the investigating i'm not sure if that gives me any confidence of course the fbi deeply
00:33:26.200
implicated in a lot of biden's schemes to harass and entrap donald trump including i think it was
00:33:33.880
just today that the fbi raid on trump's home at mar-a-lago florida was declared unconstitutional
00:33:41.720
by a judge that entire prosecution claiming he had um you know classified documents the entire thing was
00:33:49.400
illegal said a judge the entire prosecution the entire raid and so to give the fbi that conducts
00:33:56.040
illegal unconstitutional raids against donald trump to put them in charge of the investigation here
00:34:01.080
i think is absurd i saw eric prince the founder of the former mercenary force called blackwater
00:34:07.880
uh he said look you you just got a clean house he said in a long twitter rant um basically everything
00:34:14.760
trump has to get real about security because it's not going to come from the fbi and the secret
00:34:18.840
service hey i got one question for you um i haven't seen any but maybe i've missed it have you
00:34:25.320
rachel seen a single report of a riot or a kind of vengeful violent act anywhere across the united states
00:34:38.040
and i haven't and let me know if you have and can you compare that with what you think might have
00:34:43.480
happened if say a democrat candidate had been so nearly assassinated um at a public event i mean
00:34:52.200
the left projects their violence and their tyranny and authoritarianism onto trump and the republicans
00:35:00.200
but i i it's actually astonishing that in a country of a third of a billion people there's been no
00:35:06.280
violent reaction to this that's it's astonishing to me i think we all know what the response would
00:35:12.920
have been if there had been an assassination against a democrat politician or even say u.s president
00:35:18.680
joe biden we would have seen riots in the streets similar to what we saw back in the days when blm was
00:35:24.520
still at its height i'm sure we'll see that rise up again in the week coming to the november 5th
00:35:28.920
election the same type of rides that we saw following the death of george floyd when americans
00:35:34.680
took to their streets and destroyed their cities and often primarily black american cities they destroyed
00:35:39.960
cities many of those cities have not returned to the place that they were once in they've been
00:35:45.000
absolutely shuttered businesses have been shuttered the economy has been shuttered in many of these
00:35:48.760
places in contrast we haven't seen any riding from republicans following the failed assassination
00:35:54.520
attempt of their candidate and even more than that i would say ezra one of the things that struck me
00:35:59.800
most about the event in butler pennsylvania on saturday was how calm everyone remained the entire
00:36:07.720
time in the initial moments after i heard the bullets ring out you hear a bit of screaming you hear
00:36:12.840
a bit of screaming and when you hear the um see the secret service returning fire and otherwise
00:36:20.040
it's just very quiet i initially thought we were going to see a stampede of people running out of
00:36:24.760
the ground i was you know worried about people getting run over you saw none of that no trampling
00:36:28.920
everyone remained extremely calm and people really just wanted to stay and to learn what had happened
00:36:35.000
and most importantly to ensure that donald trump was going to be okay in that last interview you
00:36:39.880
played you can see the police they are yelling at us to get out of the grounds we now know that was
00:36:44.360
because they found a suspicious package and that it looked like there was some really rudimentary
00:36:48.760
bomb making going on with the shooter so you can understand their urgency to clear the grounds and
00:36:53.800
ensure that the spectators remain safe just in case something did go off that didn't happen of course
00:37:00.440
but everyone wanted to keep staying around everyone wanted to know what happened everyone wanted to talk to
00:37:05.080
each other and you could already see people working on processing this information and working to heal
00:37:10.040
kind of together as a nation very much the opposite i believe what we would have seen if this assassination
00:37:14.840
had attempted happened at a democrat event or certainly later on we would see the riots in the
00:37:20.120
streets with the young people i think everyone who attended that day they weren't concerned about
00:37:24.360
themselves they were concerned about the president and they were concerned about each other
00:37:28.120
well i tell you it was incredible that you were there and that i know you did a lot more videos
00:37:35.720
than we showed i'd encourage people to go to your twitter feed to see them and i presume you're publishing
00:37:41.560
these things as well on the true north website is that right yeah we're working on you saw me kind
00:37:47.400
of holding up the mic there we do have better quality footage and the stuff i've posted to x so we're
00:37:51.160
working on compiling that now and hopefully getting it onto youtube today got it and the best place to find
00:37:56.600
that is tnc.news is that right you got it true that's true north well rachel it's great to see you
00:38:04.360
of course thank god you're safe and almost everyone was i know there was a terrible tragedy of someone
00:38:11.480
getting killed on the weekend and of course trump himself lightly injured but perilously close to an
00:38:20.520
assassination thanks for sharing your first-hand observations with us um can i just ask you before
00:38:27.080
we let you go uh what you have planned next you mentioned you're starting a new series of podcasts
00:38:33.800
about uh i think it's about the presidential season give us a taste of of what we can expect from you in
00:38:39.240
the weeks and months ahead yeah we'll be taking a dive into of course the american election this week
00:38:45.240
on wednesday we'll be taking a look at what's going on the rnc we'll have trump's vice presidential pick
00:38:50.440
today we're already hearing rumors that that was jd vance we'll see if those are confirmed later this
00:38:54.600
afternoon when that is announced could be happening as we're speaking right now so basically just taking
00:38:58.920
a look at the major issues of the campaign i do hope you're going back into the states i will admit
00:39:03.160
i was actually it was very difficult for me to get accredited to attend the rally obviously i could
00:39:07.640
have gone as a general admission but uh was nice to have the access of the media booth there
00:39:11.960
certainly especially the view giving everything that played out the way that it did so hopefully
00:39:16.360
going to some more events in the states but uh gonna have to try to get a hold of the trump
00:39:20.120
campaign and uh work on getting accredited a little more easily for some future events
00:39:24.760
all right well we look forward to it thanks again for sharing all these things with us and
00:39:28.840
stay safe out there it's a wild world and i appreciate you documenting it for us thanks so much
00:39:34.440
Ezra talk soon all right there you have it rachel parker with true north who is on location
00:39:40.200
at the fateful rally in pennsylvania stay with us more ahead
00:39:55.640
well isn't rachel great i really admire her and i look forward to following her reportage
00:40:00.840
from the united states our friend yankee pollack is on his way to milwaukee now along with efrah
00:40:06.280
monsanto who's coming down from toronto they're going to do their best to report on
00:40:10.040
the scene i think a lot of the action will be actually outside the convention the protests
00:40:14.680
and counter protests in the streets we'll have that covered for you and as i mentioned earlier
00:40:18.680
i'm actually running to the airport right now to hop on a night flight to ireland because things are
00:40:23.400
popping off there just to give you a little reminder i was at a place called kulak where a huge
00:40:29.960
empty factory was going to be turned into a migrant housing they were going to put 500 men 500 dudes in
00:40:37.480
this factory in this poor neighborhood just across the street from like some kids places like a kid's
00:40:43.800
theater and a kid's restaurant and like a kid's arcade and the local people are saying what are you
00:40:48.840
doing and the police moved in to clear the blockade there was arson um here's some of the footage from
00:40:55.480
when i was there two months ago take a look it is an encampment there are men who rotate through here
00:41:02.200
there are flags there are signs who are these men and what are they protesting they're irishmen
00:41:09.320
from the neighborhood of kulak who are protesting an empty warehouse that used to be owned by a paint
00:41:16.920
company it's a massive warehouse in which is planned a migrant residence what they plan to do the
00:41:26.040
government is turn this warehouse which used to store paint into a home for 500 to a thousand migrants
00:41:35.960
including some single men they seek to put modular homes into this building and these people in the
00:41:44.920
local community are saying they can't bear that some of them say to have this many single men in this
00:41:51.320
neighborhood with nothing to do is a risk especially given that right across the street is the bowling
00:41:58.920
alley the burger king the place where all the kids mill around putting hundreds of military age foreign men
00:42:06.440
unemployed right across the street could upset the neighborhood could cause issues ranging from safety
00:42:14.120
to access to services this is not a wealthy part of dublin and here's some of the footage from today
00:42:21.640
when riot police and the locals had a standoff well it wasn't a standoff it was a riot take a look
00:42:34.680
in fact they pepper sprayed one of the people i interviewed when i was over there so that's
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where i'll be tomorrow i'll have my report to you from there i hope you find that interesting uh we'll
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publish it all in real time or you can see it at migrantreports.com all right that's our show for
00:43:11.560
today so much going on in this mad mad world until tomorrow on behalf of all of us at revolution you
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at home good night and keep fighting for freedom