The man that we all see on TV with the strong personality who sometimes doesn t mince for words, was not the man that I stood beside that evening. What I saw was a man that in the aftermath of one of the most terrifying experiences of his life, showed that his family was at the forefront. The true test of someone s character is how they behave under fire. We had one president who couldn t climb a flight of stairs and another who was fist pumping after getting shot. Fight, fight, fight.
00:21:11.220When Chris Macchio came out, President Trump, and we were, obviously, as you say, we're very close.
00:21:16.460And President Trump says, it is now 6.11 p.m.
00:21:19.540And everybody just kind of stopped because we all, we all know what that means, 6.11 p.m.
00:21:26.500And that's, that's on 6.11 p.m. on July 13th, a crazed ActBlue donor shot President Trump, shot him in the ear, killed Corey Comparatore, injured two other individuals who were in the crowd.
00:21:39.740And every single person, by the way, every single person who came there on that day, yourself included, Joshua Lysak, who flew out for it, we knew.
00:21:50.180We knew that the chances were that it could happen again.
00:21:52.980But President Trump went there with the leftist class in front of him.
00:22:38.200And it truly, and President Trump kept saying it over and over, that he believes his life was spared by God for a very special reason and a very special purpose.
00:22:51.780Courage in the face of fear, like Elon was saying.
00:22:54.140His speech was short, but very mutual.
00:22:55.340And then Elon comes out, courage under fire.
00:22:58.920And Kevin, the fact that, you know, put it together what you were saying earlier, that President Trump is now, he's got Elon on board, and he's now openly embracing Christianity in a way that we have not yet seen before on the campaign trail or really in the Trump era, where after this brush, kissed on the ear by death, that he's embracing Christ, that he's having the Ave Maria song.
00:23:28.520Talk to me a little bit about what that means and the fact that, and if we have the picture of, I know it's on the cover of Bulletproof, we can throw it up.
00:23:37.240The fact that he, this was the spot where he knelt and prayed.
00:23:45.140And I got to say, folks, you know, this was just an incredible, moving situation to see him there, to be there with the family, the Corey Campatore family, and know that as horrific as it was, as terrible as it was, there are still deep questions that need to be answered about who exactly it was,
00:24:06.020who shot and killed Corey Campatore, because keep in mind, this was a murder, folks.
00:24:11.520This was a murder, and I have to, and Thomas Matthew Crooks isn't just the person who attempted to kill Donald Trump.
00:24:18.260He is the person who murdered their father, who murdered her husband, and we need to get to the bottom of the fact of whether or not this guy was acting alone.
00:24:28.560And that's why in Bulletproof, we've got the report that's already out, full device analysis, we've got private investigators going into Bethel Park, where Crooks lived, we're going up through Pittsburgh, we're going into Butler, doing everything we can to actually figure out who this person is.
00:25:00.980He did a painting of Donald Trump kneeling, and it was reminiscent of that George Washington painting that you bought for dad before, just like kneeling by his horse in Valley Forge, and now Trump at Butler.
00:25:16.020You know, it's, we're a Christian nation.
00:25:21.380You know, that's how we started, and just to see, just to see it demonstrated, and examples of people helping us, like, get the show going.
00:25:30.240We started with a table and chair, you know.
00:25:32.520We had, we had some guy, Pete, from the United Republicans of Butler County.
00:25:37.280He came, gave us, gave us poster board for a bulletproof book.
00:25:53.620Like, people were there for each other, and that's, we could talk about it all day, but, you know, actions, actions speak louder than words, and it was phenomenal to, like, be there with that.
00:26:05.580So many people coming up and talking with us, thanking us for, you know.
00:26:10.760And that's what it means to be a force multiplier, Kevin.
00:26:13.640And that's what it means to be a force multiplier when you get involved, when you take action, when you step up.
00:26:29.580That if you're just sitting around, if you're being idle, and you're not doing anything, and you're on the couch, and you're thinking, oh, I'm good to go, and I'm just gonna, you know, do this.
00:26:39.020I'm not gonna, I'm not gonna get involved.
00:26:48.980But if you step up, if you move to the next thing, then God will give you the power, and God is the ultimate force multiplier, because he is the creator of all force.
00:27:00.000And so God, when he gives you the power, then suddenly you and the people you meet and the people you interact with, it all comes together to create something greater than the equal sum of the parts.
00:27:14.360And that's what that, this wasn't even a rally.
00:27:16.800I don't even know how to describe what Butler was.
00:27:19.480But I will tell you something, that I vow to get to the bottom, even now more so than ever, of who Thomas Matthew Crooks and Ryan Wesley Routh were, not just for President Trump and not just for this country, but for the Compatore family who had their father and their husband stolen from them.
00:27:38.860A good man, a great man, stolen, ripped from their arms.
00:27:44.880And this kid, we don't get any answers about him.
00:27:51.300And that's why the Bulletproof Project exists.
00:27:54.340That's why we're doing what we're doing.
00:27:55.660Kevin, I know you've got to run in a couple of minutes, but if I could ask you to talk just on something else that's come up, you know, these hurricanes have really been rocking the swing states.
00:28:06.520And now we hear, and Kenny Cody's about to come on, but now we hear that the next hurricane's about to hit where you're currently based out of down in Tampa, Florida.
00:28:24.240But I believe it's a Category 5 now and almost 120, 150 mile an hour winds.
00:28:32.260You know, I live right down there near Bayshore Boulevard where you've seen the guys, like the goofballs, like riding by in the Trump John boat.
00:28:49.140I was down there in St. Pete with Bernie Jacques last week trying to clean up.
00:28:53.000And up here in Pittsburgh, you got like snow banks, right?
00:28:55.880Like when they plow the roads, but down there, it's all sand.
00:28:59.860So they literally just have, and DeSantis talked about it, he overruled the policy where the landfills must stay open 24-7 so we can clean up as much as we can before this hits.
00:29:10.640And it's going like, if they don't clean that up beforehand, it will truly be devastating.
00:29:18.020There's already houses, you know, I had, I saw like water levels five feet tall in some houses trying to clean it up.
00:29:25.420And it's catastrophic, especially for polling places.
00:29:31.020Like, what are we going to do about North Carolina if there's like nowhere to even vote?
00:29:35.600So that's the importance of ballot chasing mail-on ballots.
00:29:38.940But let's pray for everybody down in harm's way, Clearwater, St. Pete's, Tampa, anyone down there about the next thing.
00:29:47.560And Kev, you need to stay up in Pennsylvania because you are not allowed to go down, fly back into them hurricanes.
00:29:53.600God bless me and have fun out there knocking doors.
00:29:57.960Yeah, if you want a free car, go ahead to Kevin's house because he's got two trucks and they're about to be floating away in the next couple of days here.
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00:35:06.700You know, I think TEMA, which is Tennessee's emergency management agency,
00:35:10.420has done a really good job in working with our local government to ensure that we're getting all the resources that we need,
00:35:15.640and there's been no blockades of assistance from TEMA.
00:35:17.680But, you know, FEMA also suffers from a perspective of scammers.
00:35:22.320You know, this has been pretty common in our area and in counties throughout East Tennessee and Western North Carolina,
00:35:27.480where people are literally pretending to be FEMA agents and trying to derive and steer off
00:35:32.700of the people getting donations and rescues being able to happen to make a quick dollar.
00:35:36.560So I think this distrust of FEMA is palpable, but it's also dealing with a scam from people who are wanting to grift off the backs of people who are suffering.
00:35:45.640So I do think that there are some barriers and, you know, some walls being put up from FEMA because, like I've said,
00:35:52.960the federal response has not been as good as we would have hoped for, and local leaders are having to step up.
00:35:57.740But we're also dealing with our own grifters that are literally trying to pose as FEMA agents to grift off the back of those who are suffering the most.
00:36:06.780So that we're dealing with a lot of different problems, I think, that we need local leadership
00:36:10.680and we need people like Glenn Jacobs and others to ensure that we can look to other resources besides FEMA
00:36:16.720that already has sort of a distrust and not to suffer from scammers like we're seeing throughout the region.
00:36:23.360Yeah, unfortunately, this is a huge problem that crops up with every, you know, with every natural disaster
00:36:29.100or even just movements these days online, GoFundMe is replete with these things.
00:36:33.980And that's even just for myself, you know, because I run social media accounts, you know,
00:36:37.960that you've got to be really careful what you share.
00:36:40.400You've got to be really careful what you put your name on or what you give out to your followers
00:36:43.480because, you know, there's a real trust there.
00:36:45.800And if you break that, that's going to come out.
00:36:47.840But, you know, just, Kenny, in general, tell me from, you know, this political angle,
00:36:53.220do you think that the federal government is really doing what they should be doing in these areas?
00:37:46.640But for some reason, because we're filtrated with small towns in Appalachian rural areas,
00:37:51.440for some reason, we're just expected to kind of act on our own.
00:37:54.220And we have, and I'm very proud of the region for responding the way that we have and uniting the way that we have.
00:38:00.020And oftentimes I would rather have it like that because we know our people, we know our needs.
00:38:05.080Oftentimes I wish those regulations and FEMA regulations would just kind of be left alone so we can help our own people.
00:38:10.240Just give us the money and the resources to make the rescues and do what we need to do on our own and then leave us alone.
00:38:16.340And besides that, just give us the donations and give us the resources that we need.
00:38:21.100But oftentimes I've just seen such a differentiated response between those urban areas and those cities rather than in the Appalachian rural areas.
00:38:30.460And that's really unfortunate because we do need those resources and we do need the money.
00:38:34.140But I wish – it seems like they care more about blocking people who are willing to help than actually spreading the word nationally and getting this sort of effort that we need nationally like we saw in Houston and like we saw in New Orleans back in the 2010s and early 2000s.
00:38:51.120I wish we were seeing that kind of response from the federal government and the mainstream media, but we're not.
00:38:54.620And we all remember what that was like.
00:39:06.380I remember – and by the way, Bush, for all the complaints that he got, for all the response that he got for not doing enough, he had the 82nd Airborne there within a couple of days.
00:39:18.740And now we're hearing – J.D. Vance was talking about this over the weekend that they're trying to send the guys in, but they're not sending as many troops as they wanted or the people that are going aren't actually conducting these paratrooper drops to be able to save people, to get them out of there, search and rescue.
00:39:32.760And I even said that over the weekend, I said yesterday, that, look, we've got one video of them dropping some supplies with a few Chinooks, which is great.
00:39:40.780But if you want search and rescue, if you want people to be saved, unfortunately, that's a little bit too late.
00:39:48.160A day late and a dollar short on that one.
00:39:49.560And we interviewed Corey Mills over the weekend.
00:39:51.460Actually, Kevin interviewed Corey Mills, and Corey said specifically, the way these landslides were, these flash floods, we're going to be finding bodies for months.
00:40:00.940Through the end of the year, they're going to be finding bodies, pulling them out of the mud on this horrific situation.
00:40:06.260Coming back after the break, more with Kenny Cody, live from East Tennessee, talking about the federal government's response, or lack thereof, to Helene.
00:40:16.620We're here about the boring people at your office.
00:40:25.400I'm trying to listen to the new human events with Jack Pozovic.
00:40:30.220We're Jack Pozovic back live, human events daily.
00:40:32.460We're on with Kenny Cody coming up from East Tennessee.
00:40:35.000You know, it occurs to me, Kenny, that we were just talking with Kevin about the importance in Butler of people joining together, the way that people just step up.
00:40:46.180People step up to do the right thing when terrible things happen.
00:41:05.340And then, of course, Elon Musk getting involved, being there in Butler.
00:41:08.260And it's something as well when it comes to this hurricane response, that when the federal government's not there, that it's individual Americans.
00:41:15.900And you don't have to be Elon Musk and Donald Trump to get involved and help.
00:41:20.440Now, we like when Elon Musk and Donald Trump get involved, of course, and they can help in other ways.
00:41:26.720But it really is just everyday Americans doing little things that are able to bring things together when a disaster such as this hits, isn't it?
00:41:42.280We have people from Pennsylvania that have actually came down here.
00:41:45.020You know, Robbie Starbuck, who is a conservative influencer here in Tennessee, has stepped up and distributed Starlink all over the east to east Tennessee region and the western North Carolina region.
00:41:54.200You know, you have people like Representative Jeremy Fajan, Glenn Jacobs, Diana Marshbarger, Marshall Blackburn, you know, hospitals, neighbors, nonprofits, the state government, the local government.
00:42:05.260Like, we're all uniting together for one cause because I think that you're seeing that lack of federal response or, I mean, to be quite honest, a lack of federal empathy for the Appalachian region.
00:42:16.180And I think that when you see the lack, it creates this anger and emotion within you like, okay, if they're not going to help us, we're going to help ourselves.
00:42:24.340And, you know, I think that that can be compared to what was happening in Pennsylvania with Trump, with Elon Musk, with J.D. Vance and all those that are in Butler post-assassination attempt.
00:42:35.820You're seeing a unity, unlike never before, in the Republican Party and in the conservative movement.
00:42:40.500And notice what we are seeing here in East Tennessee.
00:42:44.180Like, you're seeing Republicans and conservatives pick up their bootstraps and go and work.
00:42:50.820Like, you're not seeing people sit in their offices and watch other people work.
00:42:56.760You're seeing people willing to get dirty, willing to get their hands dirty, going there and, you know, and lifting literally truckloads of supplies of water, of canned foods, and distribution centers.
00:43:07.800People literally lending their own helicopters, their own trucks, their own distribution ways and means to give back to the community.
00:43:14.660And I think you're seeing that in Unicoi County.
00:43:16.800You're seeing that in Green and Cock County here in East Tennessee.
00:43:19.340You're seeing that from local leadership, and that's kind of what it takes.
00:43:25.900You know, the Harris campaign, let's talk about joy.
00:43:28.280I'll tell you who's not really having joy right now is seeing those in Appalachia struggling and seeing no response from their president or their vice president.
00:43:35.620But yet, where we're having hope from is our local leadership, is those in East Tennessee, those in Western North Carolina that are on the ground working every single day to ensure that the Appalachians in our communities and the Appalachian Mountains are ensuring that they're able to live,
00:43:53.300that they're able to survive through one of the roughest catastrophes and tragedies that we've ever seen in our region.
00:43:58.920And that's not because of the joy from the Harris campaign and the joy from the Biden administration, but from the hope that those like Trump, Vance, and local leaders here in East Tennessee and Western North Carolina have stepped up to provide.
00:44:13.720And there's another question, though, that I do have to ask, and I've spoken to some folks down in Western North Carolina as well, and that's the question of voting.
00:44:21.180Because we are just, we are less than one month away from the election.
00:44:26.220People are asking me, Tennessee, North Carolina, these affected areas, how are people going to be able to vote there?
00:44:32.280It's going to lift up the state governments.
00:44:33.940You know, I think I saw something the other day where the North Carolina government is passing a resolution to give, you know, local governments the ability to, you know, have funding to provide all available resources for those to be able to early vote.
00:44:46.240Because I think Western North Carolina, I think all of North Carolina actually is able to be able to vote, early vote on the same day.
00:44:51.600I think it's like October 17th or around there when they start early voting.
00:44:55.800And, you know, that's the kind, you know, things like Tennessee, state governments like Tennessee are how we need to approach it.
00:45:12.000We have to be able to vote by whatever means possible.
00:45:14.700And every state government, every election administration, every single election commission in these counties need to be willing to step up and not just sit back and go, okay, well, we have to sit back and just wait to see how the tragedy is going to affect turnout.
00:45:27.240We actually have to have the resources and the assistance available to bring people to the polls in North Carolina and in Tennessee.
00:45:34.300And I'm hoping that with seeing that kind of leadership from Tennessee, I'm not worried about my state, to be quite honest.
00:45:39.620I think the state government and local governments are going to step up and ensure people can early vote and ensuring that people can step up and get to their own locations.
00:45:47.380But they need to take the advice from Tennessee and from states that are stepping up to bring people to the polling.
00:45:53.620We need to distribute and make sure that we are allocating all funds and all resources to ensure that even people who are suffering through one of the worst tragedies are able to get to the polls and vote because that's what people care about right now.
00:46:04.680It is changing the way things are right now, ensuring that they're not left alone by the federal government like they have been during Hurricane Colleen and actually vote to make change.
00:46:13.280And the way that is to make change is to vote and ensuring that we have all the resources, the funds and allocations to be able to vote.
00:46:21.140So I hope that North Carolina, the counties of North Carolina and the regions of North Carolina are doing the same thing as Tennessee and stepping up and ensuring people are able to vote by whatever means necessary.
00:46:29.920This is what it is, folks. This is what it's all about, because these are and I'm just going to say that the Democrats would love nothing more than to suppress these votes.
00:46:41.660And I said it on War Room. I'll say it again today that it's starting to look like to me like a very deliberate voter suppression operation in swing states.
00:46:52.120Not so much Tennessee, but particularly Western North Carolina and Northern Georgia.
00:46:57.820If those areas are not able to vote, then you will see a massive voter suppression operation that has been done, slow walking the resources, slow walking the aid.
00:47:07.900Look, I understand that voting is not on the top of anyone's priority list when you're faced with something like that.
00:47:13.760But that being said, if you want to fix things, if you want things to get better, if you want to respond to the government that is not giving you the resources you deserve in a disaster,
00:47:25.920this is your way to send a message that you want new government and to change your government by putting Donald J. Trump and J.D. Vance in office.
00:47:34.680And J.D. Vance is the voice of middle America.
00:47:38.720Kenny Cody, where can people follow you, man?
00:47:40.020At Kenny Cody on X and on Truth Social, you can find all my comms at muckrack.com slash my name.
00:47:49.160And just really appreciate you, Jack. Really appreciate you giving the platform to East Tennessee and to Western North Carolina during some troubling times.
00:47:54.840I really wanted to say thank you, and I appreciate it.
00:47:57.960Has to be done. What can I say? I'm not from the area. I'm a dirty Yankee.
00:48:01.660But when people are hurting, you've got to come in and help out.
00:48:05.140Ladies and gentlemen, as always, you have my permission to lay short.