Juno News - Trump's V.P. loves Canada

00:00:00.000 Donald Trump has selected his running mate, and he's no stranger to Canada.

00:00:15.600 Ohio Senator J.D. Vance has an impressive resume.

00:00:20.020 He's a former U.S. Marine, and he's also a best-selling author.

00:00:24.000 But he also has said some things notable to us Northerners.

00:00:28.060 The Senator has expressed support for the Freedom Convoy, for crypto, and for Canadian churches,

00:00:35.240 which have been burned down by the dozens without a peep from Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

00:00:41.980 Now, it seems strange and a little sad that a Senator south of the border has a better pulse on the Canadian everyman

00:00:49.280 than the politicians elected to represent us.

00:00:53.020 But isn't that increasingly the case under the Trudeau Liberals?

00:00:56.780 They don't care about us, and they haven't pretended to for a while now.

00:01:02.700 So while Justin Trudeau wastes our defense budget on tampons for men,

00:01:06.820 it brings me some relief to know that the man most likely to be the next vice president

00:01:12.380 of the most powerful nation on earth has at least some sympathy for the Canadian Conservative plight.

00:01:18.720 I'm Rachel Parker, and you're watching Rachel in the Republic.

00:01:32.280 Hi, everyone. Welcome back to Rachel in the Republic.

00:01:34.960 We are going to take a look at the senator from Ohio who has just been named Donald Trump's running mate

00:01:40.320 on his 2024 presidential ticket.

00:01:42.900 Now, you might think I'm being a little dramatic with these comparisons here,

00:01:47.260 but I think as we go through today's show, you'll see just how correct I am in saying that this is somebody

00:01:53.160 who cares more about Canadian Conservatives than our own elected politicians.

00:01:57.460 And there's also a few things that we can learn from him here in Canada.

00:02:01.180 One of the most interesting things about J.D. is that he is a masterclass at dealing with the media.

00:02:08.540 He would perhaps even put federal Conservative leader Pierre Polyev de Cheney,

00:02:12.060 and we all remember that infamous clip of Pierre embarrassing the reporter while munching on an apple.

00:02:17.900 But don't take it from me. Listen to J.D. himself.

00:02:21.140 Here he is talking to the mainstream media about Donald Trump and his conviction cases.

00:02:25.860 Let's take a look at this next clip.

00:02:27.620 Interested in being the running mate of a convicted felon?

00:02:30.380 Well, Wolf, the entire purpose of this trial was to allow the media and the Democrats to say exactly that.

00:02:36.800 This is never about justice.

00:02:38.420 This is about plastering convicted felon all over the airwaves,

00:02:42.300 when in reality the only thing that Donald Trump is guilty of is being in the courtroom of a political sham trial.

00:02:48.520 You cannot say that this trial was anything more than politics masquerading as justice.

00:02:55.100 And yes, I will help Donald Trump however I think that I can, Wolf,

00:02:59.980 because if we allow this to happen, it's so much bigger and so much more troubling than Donald Trump.

00:03:05.900 If we allow the standard that you can throw your political opponents in jail because they're doing better than you in an election,

00:03:11.460 it will be the end of this country as we know it.

00:03:13.380 As I said, an absolute masterclass in how to deal with the dishonest media.

00:03:17.700 And you see there that it is CNN, one of the worst culprits of lying to the American public.

00:03:22.220 What we saw there was J.D. Vance.

00:03:24.060 He wasn't being apologetic for the sham trial.

00:03:27.280 He wasn't trying to talk his way out of things, but he was debunking the claim at its base.

00:03:32.780 He was saying that this was not a real trial.

00:03:34.500 And the only thing that Trump himself was guilty of was even being a part of the sham trial.

00:03:39.040 Now, that was one of many trials we know that in the United States.

00:03:42.760 They threw everything in the book that they had at Donald Trump, legally speaking.

00:03:47.040 Well, and then eventually the assassination attempt, which, of course, we'll get to to try to take down the former president,

00:03:52.940 who has, of course, now been confirmed as the Republican presidential nominee.

00:03:57.100 He was confirmed on Monday at the Republican National Convention.

00:04:00.740 And I think that is why he was picked as Trump's running mate, because J.D. knows how to undress the media and to break down their lies clearly and succinctly.

00:04:10.180 And that is going to be important moving forward.

00:04:13.060 We're seeing a big change in how politicians approach the media for so long.

00:04:17.220 They've been so apologetic here in Canada.

00:04:19.020 We've seen that Andrew Scheer, Aaron O'Toole, very apologetic with the Canadian media.

00:04:23.400 Now we've seen something new and refreshing with Pierre Polyev, where he does not apologize for being conservative.

00:04:29.220 He's conservative unabashedly.

00:04:30.940 And he starts by debunking the media's claims when they approach it with something that he doesn't believe in.

00:04:36.520 For too long, we've seen conservatives go along with the lies.

00:04:40.180 Now, let's start by taking a look at one of J.D.'s most interesting comments on a situation unfolding in Canada.

00:04:48.260 Listen, I don't think we want to go back to this fateful time in Canadian history, but it is important for the context of today's show.

00:04:53.880 So we're going to travel back in time to the COVID-19 pandemic. 0.51

00:04:57.540 You likely remember those fateful days.

00:04:59.440 And I want to start by setting the scene for you so you remember just how bad things got in Canada during February 2022.

00:05:05.580 Take a look at this next clip.

00:05:10.180 Now, I suspect that most of you have never seen that clip before.

00:05:37.840 It was actually shot by me.

00:05:40.160 I was a little-known journalist working in the mainstream media up in Ottawa at the time, working for an outlet called iPolitics, which was a subsidiary of the Toronto Star.

00:05:50.060 Don't come for me, you guys.

00:05:51.280 I still believe that I did some good work while I was there in trying to uncover some of the lies.

00:05:57.340 But ultimately, the reason that I left the mainstream media and that I now work for True North, for those of you who aren't familiar with my story, is that it just became impossible to report on the truth.

00:06:06.560 And I was so tired of being censored at my own workplace, and often things were edited into my work later on that I had not agreed to, which is just immoral on a base level to write something under a writer's name, under an author's byline that they never signed off on.

00:06:22.680 And so for reasons like that, I eventually was—I wasn't pushed out.

00:06:27.160 In a way, I was.

00:06:27.740 I wasn't fired.

00:06:28.660 I did quit.

00:06:29.620 But I was really pushed out.

00:06:30.840 There wasn't space for me in that ecosystem.

00:06:32.560 So I took that clip while I was still working for the mainstream media.

00:06:36.200 You can tell what's going on there.

00:06:38.040 We are on Parliament Hill.

00:06:39.220 You can see the center block and the west block behind me in that shot.

00:06:42.160 And you can see police forcing protesters back.

00:06:44.800 It was one of the most emotional things that I've ever covered in my life, probably seconded now by the attempted assassination of Donald Trump on Saturday.

00:06:53.680 And what was going on in that clip was that there was a tent structure on the street.

00:06:57.900 And so we were all walking backwards because we were looking at the police.

00:07:00.960 We wanted to make sure we knew where they were so we didn't accidentally get hit with a baton or trampled by them as they walked.

00:07:06.440 And all of a sudden, a bunch of us looked behind us and we realized that the street was blocked by this tent structure that had hay bales on either side of it.

00:07:14.020 And so we noticed too late the hay bales were pretty much upon us.

00:07:18.340 And as we turned to get over them, people started tripping and falling on each other.

00:07:21.860 And I was caught underneath a group of people.

00:07:24.100 I fell into that hay bale body started falling on top of me, which is a very scary thing for anyone to experience.

00:07:29.400 I'm also extremely claustrophobic.

00:07:32.180 And I began panicking.

00:07:33.740 I really thought that something really bad was going to happen.

00:07:35.940 But there were luckily protesters on the other side of the structure that began just grabbing us and pulling us out.

00:07:41.540 So obviously we were OK in the end.

00:07:43.580 But it was a very frightful moment.

00:07:45.540 And I think looking at that clip, it just reminds me of the intense, raw emotion that we saw during the Freedom Convoy and just really the sickness of our federal government played out in that scene where you have civilians who are so desperate to be heard by their federal government that they drive up to the Capitol and they park themselves on the street of the Capitol.

00:08:05.120 And they sleep in their trucks and they sleep in their trucks and in their cars for weeks on end so that their federal government will take them seriously.

00:08:11.560 And this is how our federal government responded was with police pushing people, walking over them and arresting those who didn't move out of their way.

00:08:18.880 Now, you and I saw that clip and we know what went on there was wrong.

00:08:23.460 And a federal judge has even agreed that what was wrong, they said that the Trudeau government's invocation of the Federal Emergencies Act to remove protesters was unconstitutional and infringed on our rights as Canadians.

00:08:35.560 We know that the Trudeau Liberals and Justin Trudeau, he doesn't care and he never will.

00:08:40.500 But interestingly, even J.D. Vance, not even yet elected a senator at the time, took notice of this happening in Ottawa.

00:08:47.020 And he wrote on X, then Twitter at the time, this is a direct quote,

00:08:50.540 I'm not even sure that Vance was aware at the time, but obviously he wasn't aware of the incredible way that those words would kind of come back to haunt him when he talks about an assault on democracy.

00:09:13.380 America experienced one of the most significant attacks on democracy and American politically on Saturday when gunman Thomas Crooks attempted to assassinate former U.S. president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.

00:09:27.180 And of course, you guys, I'm sure, have seen the videos. He got so close. He got so close.

00:09:31.980 I truly believe that it was an act of divine intervention.

00:09:35.060 I believe that God is in control of all things and it was not Donald Trump's time to go.

00:09:39.260 But I think if it wasn't without that, I think that that would have been very successful.

00:09:44.240 And the reason we saw that attack on Donald Trump on Saturday, it follows years of dogmatic and violent rhetoric about Donald Trump from the managerial class in the United States.

00:09:55.740 They hate Donald Trump. Tucker Carlson said this, and I think he put it perfectly, that Donald Trump is really an indictment of America's ruling and elite political class because the ruling class in America, like the ruling class in Canada, hates the people.

00:10:08.380 It hates the people that it was elected to serve. And Donald Trump loves the people. He loves the people.

00:10:13.760 He doesn't I think you and I both know this. He grew up very wealthy. He is very wealthy.

00:10:17.160 He's certainly not doing this for the money. He's not doing this for the power.

00:10:20.240 He was arguably in many ways more popular than he was before he was president.

00:10:25.220 The managerial class, the media loved Donald Trump before he ran for president and they all turned on him since.

00:10:30.920 So certainly he has a lot less access to the high class life that he would have lived before he was president.

00:10:36.040 Now we can't even go out to an event of his own without being shot at.

00:10:40.060 So I think it's important that we don't fool ourselves and that we recognize that the managerial class that we talk about in the States that hate Donald Trump, we have those same people here in Canada.

00:10:50.300 And who better to represent them than Chrystia Freeland, who I often very controversially say might even be more unlikable than Justin Trudeau.

00:10:58.500 Don't come for me in the comments. I just want you to think about it for a minute and just, you know, she has been his best henchman.

00:11:05.820 She has done everything that he has asked of her. We're now seeing some rumors in the media about how they might be looking to push her out as finance minister.

00:11:13.920 And we're seeing a lot of, you know, people on the right and the left saying Justin Trudeau is a fake feminist.

00:11:18.780 Honestly, I think that she's been a horrible finance minister and I think she deserves to be pushed out as finance minister. 0.96

00:11:24.340 So if she was removed, I think it would make sense. Like, I don't even think this is an argument of Justin Trudeau being a fake feminist.

00:11:29.460 I think this might actually be the one half decent thing that he would do.

00:11:32.220 That being said, I'm sure he would replace her with someone even worse.

00:11:35.880 But if you don't remember and if you need some convincing that Chrystia Freeland is one of the worst and most anti-Canadian politicians we've ever seen in Canadian history, 0.95

00:11:44.460 just maybe need a little reminder. Take a look at this next clip of her announcing that the Trudeau Liberals would be freezing the bank accounts of those involved in the Freedom Convoy.

00:11:54.200 As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order.

00:12:07.620 Now, this should go down as one of the worst moments in Canadian history.

00:12:11.760 I don't know if it will. I feel like the leftists probably are writing the history books. Maybe we should get someone on that soon.

00:12:17.440 But even J.D. took notice of it at the time, writing on X, quote,

00:12:21.800 This is why crypto is taking off. The regime will cut off your access to banking if you have the wrong politics.

00:12:29.540 He's, of course, right. Millions of Canadians are buying crypto every single day.

00:12:33.180 I, myself and my husband, we have experienced our bank assets being frozen with little notice.

00:12:38.520 The CRA just gave notice to our bank that they were freezing our bank account and it was frozen the next day.

00:12:44.200 We had not received any notice in the mail about issues. We hadn't received any notice to our accountants and we never got access to that bank account again,

00:12:52.620 mostly because we didn't comply with the CRA and we weren't cooperative with them.

00:12:56.500 But my husband is very active in politics, as am I. And this can happen to anyone. It's still happening to people after the Freedom Convoy.

00:13:03.240 And I think that this is something that Canadians remember. And we saw that this week on, I believe it was Monday,

00:13:08.600 Justin Trudeau put an announcement out on Twitter saying, check your bank account.

00:13:11.800 There's exciting news about a carbon tax rebate in there. And every single comment underneath that video was,

00:13:17.260 why are you freezing my account again? Anytime the Liberal government tells me to check my bank account,

00:13:21.440 I have a feeling that it's frozen. I feel fear.

00:13:24.400 So Canadian people haven't forgotten about this and I don't think they ever will.

00:13:30.020 And I don't think they ever should. We're talking about JD. There's a couple other interesting things that he's done.

00:13:36.660 He has noticed the phenomenon of Canadian churches being burned down.

00:13:42.280 Now, this is something that True North has really honed the beat on.

00:13:45.140 My colleague, Cosman Georgia, has covered this so closely.

00:13:48.040 He has a map of all the churches in Canada that have been burned down.

00:13:51.280 Every time we find out about a new one, he adds it to his map. He's really been covering this beat so well.

00:13:55.460 If you haven't seen his report, I highly recommend you go check it out.

00:13:58.560 The reason these churches started being burned down was after we heard that there were mass graves of residential school children.

00:14:06.600 Now, we don't know that no graves have actually been found. It's just been rocks that they found.

00:14:10.720 But that hasn't stopped masses of Canadian churches being burned down.

00:14:14.060 Over 100 Canadian churches being burned down.

00:14:16.400 To no word from our ruling officials or from the Trudeau Liberals.

00:14:20.420 But that didn't stop JD Vance from taking notice of it.

00:14:23.600 He wrote on X, what the hell is happening in Canada?

00:14:27.360 To the news of all the churches that have been vandalized.

00:14:30.400 And it is a very good question. What the hell is happening in Canada?

00:14:33.280 Like I said, we know that they have not found mass graves at any of the sites where they have claimed that there was mass graves from residential school children.

00:14:42.120 But that news hasn't made it out publicly.

00:14:43.780 That's been quietly slipped through.

00:14:45.840 We've reported on it at True North, but you won't hear it in the mainstream media.

00:14:51.040 If you don't believe me, if you don't take me at my word that JD is probably going to be good for Canadian conservatives.

00:14:55.960 And that he understands our plate more than anyone else.

00:14:58.680 Well, he even got a pass from Canada's ambassador to the US.

00:15:03.260 Kirsten Hillman appears to be a fan of the pick.

00:15:07.160 Because of Vance's knowledge of the Canada-US trade relationship.

00:15:10.940 But here's her talking on CTV News about the pick this week.

00:15:14.600 Take a listen.

00:15:15.260 Yeah, I've met him a couple of times.

00:15:17.440 He's from Ohio, as you know.

00:15:19.660 Ohio is the third largest exporting state to Canada.

00:15:24.460 Over $20 billion a year they export to Canada.

00:15:27.520 So we're a huge customer for Ohio.

00:15:29.540 So he's come to a lot of our Canada-US events.

00:15:33.660 And I've chatted with him there.

00:15:35.680 You know, I think actually he's somebody who knows Canada well, who's been very important for his state, who is essential to the success economically of his state.

00:15:46.420 And we have already, you know, a bit of a relationship built.

00:15:48.860 So that's good.

00:15:49.460 So there you heard it directly from the horse's mouth.

00:15:51.460 He's someone who knows Canada well.

00:15:53.540 So I think it'll mark a good thing for our trade relationship with a Canada in the U.S.

00:15:57.500 However, of course, I'm more concerned about those aspects of J.D. showing that he understands Canadian conservatism and that he will be an ally in Canadian conservatism.

00:16:06.400 Because we certainly cannot have enough allies with what we're seeing in our country right now.

00:16:11.340 It feels a lot of times like we're losing.

00:16:13.480 Things seems like maybe the tide is turning.

00:16:15.480 And I think voices like J.D. will be important over the coming years to continue pushing that conservative momentum forward.

00:16:22.020 Now, there's one other interesting little tidbit that I wanted to share with you all.

00:16:25.660 J.D. was actually friends with Jamil Jivonji in college.

00:16:29.940 They were at Yale together.

00:16:32.100 And Jamil, you guys might remember him.

00:16:34.760 He was a National Post columnist for many years.

00:16:36.960 I actually first got to know him.

00:16:38.520 I saw him kind of come on my profile around that time.

00:16:41.040 But I got to know him a little bit more closely with the work that he did with the Manning Conference.

00:16:45.020 It's been renamed the Canada Strong and Free Networking Conference over the year.

00:16:48.020 It's sort of like the main conservative conference of the year.

00:16:51.100 I'm not sure what the purpose was of the rebrand.

00:16:53.280 Everyone in conservative circles still refers to it as Manning.

00:16:56.560 But he's now gone on.

00:16:58.460 He was elected as the conservative MP where Aaron O'Toole used to be the MP.

00:17:05.660 I want to read you a little bit from this column that he wrote in 2020 about his relationship with his close friend J.D.

00:17:11.800 Jivonji wrote, quote,

00:17:12.880 I first met J.D. Vance during our law school orientation at Yale University a decade ago.

00:17:18.320 We attended a wine and cheese reception.

00:17:20.620 I didn't know so many different kinds of cheese existed and I had never tasted wine before.

00:17:25.360 Needless to say, I felt out of place.

00:17:27.480 Across the room stood a fellow student who seemed equally unfamiliar with wine and cheese.

00:17:32.680 We went on to develop a strong friendship forged through moments of shared discomfort over the course of our three years in the Ivy League.

00:17:39.320 We were by one another side for awkward interactions with professors and classmates, life-changing job interviews, and hundreds of hours of studying.

00:17:46.620 We became such good friends that I eventually performed the Bible reading at his wedding.

00:17:51.300 So I think that just paints a really good picture of who J.D. is.

00:17:54.240 If you can't read that as sort of an average, as I said before, an everyman, as a blue-collar worker, as just a regular person.

00:18:00.180 If you can't read this and just come away with a good impression of J.D., then I just would assume that you're part of the elite managerial class.

00:18:08.100 You know, they went to this wine and cheese reception.

00:18:09.820 They didn't know about the different kinds of cheese.

00:18:11.380 It's very common.

00:18:12.280 I would be the same.

00:18:13.220 I did think it was funny where he said he'd never tasted wine before because I'm assuming he was at least in his 20s here.

00:18:18.000 So it seems like you would have had wine at some point.

00:18:20.140 And, of course, just the last line, we eventually became such good friends that I performed the Bible reading at his wedding.

00:18:26.000 Just wholesome stuff, the type of politics and the type of relationships and the type of people that we need to get back to electing both in Canada and the U.S.

00:18:35.720 I think it's also worth talking about why J.D. was picked as Trump's running mate.

00:18:41.140 Now, there hasn't been any official reports of this, but there's been a lot of speculation online that it was important for Trump to pick someone that would protect him.

00:18:51.220 And what I mean by that is not protecting him physically, but not appointing somebody who was sort of a washed down conservative that, you know, still plays by the media's talking points, still apologetic for his conservatism.

00:19:01.640 But someone who was more of a populist, someone who was unapologetic, because if Trump had elected a weak VP, someone like a Tim Scott or Nikki Haley, then it would make sense for another assassination attempt.

00:19:14.060 Because then Donald Trump would be out of the way and his choice would be someone with washed down conservatism that the managerial class could sort of run a rough shot over.

00:19:23.180 With J.D., we don't see that.

00:19:24.760 I mean, you saw that clip of him that I played for you earlier on CNN.

00:19:27.520 This is someone who really plays by his own rules and does politics his own way.

00:19:31.640 So we talk about the protection of Donald Trump.

00:19:34.200 A lot of people say, you know, with someone like J.D., that was a good move for Donald Trump politically, but also just for his own personal safety.

00:19:41.040 You know, we talk about Trump's protection.

00:19:44.000 It is interesting to see what's going to happen.

00:19:45.820 You guys, I'm sure, have been following the story of the assassination attempt closely.

00:19:49.460 I think we have more questions and answers at this point as to what exactly went wrong and how that shooter was able to be on the roof.

00:19:55.840 We know that Secret Service had eyes on him.

00:19:58.020 I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the shooter was not shot before he was able to launch eight rounds into a crowd of American citizens with a former U.S. president speaking.

00:20:10.440 The Secret Service, some reports have said that they have a no-shoot policy.

00:20:13.740 I've never heard of that before.

00:20:14.800 I definitely don't believe it to be true.

00:20:16.400 And even if that was their policy, there was no reason why Donald Trump should have been on that stage.

00:20:20.780 He should not have been allowed on that stage until they were absolutely certain that there was no threat nearby.

00:20:25.800 You've probably seen the other reports saying that Secret Service weren't at that location because of a sloped roof.

00:20:31.400 Come on.

00:20:32.160 This is a thing.

00:20:32.780 This is the thing. 1.00

00:20:33.520 The ruling class really believes that we are all so dumb and unable to think for ourselves. 0.98

00:20:37.400 They honestly think that we're going to believe this or they think that nothing will happen. 0.99

00:20:41.780 They think they can say whatever they want.

00:20:43.000 And even if people grow in and complain, they aren't going to lose their positions of power because that is what we've been seeing in recent years.

00:20:49.300 Case in point, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act.

00:20:52.140 He still has not faced the consequences for those actions.

00:20:55.180 He is still the Prime Minister of Canada.

00:20:57.660 I mean, we can have the discussion about the NDP propping him up there.

00:21:00.300 I just want to quickly touch on the Republican National Convention, which we know took place this week.

00:21:06.040 Donald Trump was confirmed as the presidential nominee on Monday, as was J.D. confirmed as the vice president for the 2024 presidential bid.

00:21:16.280 There were some other people who spoke.

00:21:17.720 We talked about J.D., but there were some other people who were considered very plausible running mates.

00:21:21.560 One of them was Vivek Ramaswamy.

00:21:23.720 This is someone who, even though he wasn't picked as the VP, has had such an explosive career and has been so successful.

00:21:30.300 He, of course, also ran to be the president.

00:21:32.900 He did not when we know that that was given to Donald Trump.

00:21:36.080 But this is someone who went from being essentially a nobody to someone that almost everyone knows.

00:21:40.280 He's become a household name because he was so successful in his presidential bid.

00:21:43.880 And I think part of that is because he's so well-spoken.

00:21:46.360 And I think he's going to be such an asset for the Republican Party moving forward because of how well-spoken he is and how much he understands the issues and as well how he's able to speak to the young people.

00:21:56.580 I just wanted to play this clip for you of him speaking last night at the RNC just to get a sense of who he is and how he's going to be just important as a leader for the party moving forward.

00:22:05.640 Take a listen.

00:22:06.180 But we're not going to win this election just by criticizing the other side.

00:22:10.280 We're going to win this by standing for our own vision of who we really are.

00:22:15.800 What does it mean to be a Republican in the year 2024?

00:22:19.960 What does it mean to be an American in the year 2024?

00:22:22.900 It means we believe in the ideals of 1776.

00:22:27.880 It means we believe in merit that you get ahead in this country, not on the color of your skin, but on the content of your character and your contributions.

00:22:38.300 It means we believe in the rule of law.

00:22:41.380 And I say this as the kid of legal immigrants to this country.

00:22:45.480 That means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law.

00:22:50.260 That is why we will seal the southern border on day one.

00:22:54.160 So you can see there, just so eloquent.

00:22:56.680 He fully captures the issues.

00:22:58.460 I would highly recommend that you go back, take a listen to his full speech.

00:23:02.580 It's worth your time.

00:23:03.840 This is someone to keep an eye on in the weeks and years to come.

00:23:07.860 It's seeming like there's some discussion that he might actually seek to take.

00:23:11.580 JDC as a senator in Ohio, I believe the last reports I saw said that he was waiting to talk to Donald Trump to see if Donald Trump would approve of that move.

00:23:19.100 And I suspect that he will be given the green light to run as a senator in Ohio.

00:23:24.120 So I think just someone to keep a close eye on the years to come.

00:23:27.360 Just want to quickly touch on Donald Trump.

00:23:29.700 You know, we know he was shot in the ear at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday when he first entered the RNC on Monday.

00:23:35.760 He had a bandage over his year.

00:23:37.880 We're seeing a lot more security around him.

00:23:40.800 The Secret Service, they didn't need to up security at the RNC because it already had the highest classification of security that any event can receive.

00:23:49.100 But it was funny.

00:23:50.320 There were some videos circulating online over the weekend saying, oh, there's all men around him.

00:23:54.560 One thing I can't get over was the female Secret Service agents. 1.00

00:23:57.840 I'm like, if you guys haven't seen these videos, you've got to go back and watch them.

00:24:00.640 These women look like they absolutely have no idea what they're doing. 1.00

00:24:03.720 And the most shocking thing to me was in those moments after Trump was shot in the ear when he's standing on stage, you have a female Secret Service agent in front of him.

00:24:11.780 She isn't big enough to cover his body.

00:24:14.100 She's about a head shorter than him.

00:24:15.680 And she actually bent down at one point to pick up his Make America Great Again hat, which I don't know.

00:24:20.800 Maybe I don't know if he had asked or two.

00:24:22.280 Maybe he thought he was going to trip over.

00:24:23.320 But that seemed like a really dumb move because they didn't actually know at that point that things were secure.

00:24:28.360 And if you listen to Dan Bongino talk on Fox News, he's been covering the Secret Service's failures of the event on Saturday so well.

00:24:35.140 He really says, you know, the main thing to do is to protect the president and to get them out of that location because you don't know that there's not going to be more than one shooter.

00:24:43.740 The first shots could be a distraction.

00:24:45.840 So I still, you know, we got that great shot.

00:24:47.700 And of course, that will be remembered in American history in days to come.

00:24:50.260 And that's really going to be the picture, the photo of Donald Trump standing with his arm up and blood trickling from his ears, surrounded by Secret Service agents.

00:24:56.660 That will be the moment that comes to define his campaign.

00:24:59.720 But I think there needs to be questions asked about how that shot was even allowed to be taken, that his whole torso and his head was exposed in the seconds after someone had fired eight rounds at him.

00:25:09.360 And again, it's just you do have to watch this and you do have to have fears and concerns about his security.

00:25:15.060 Obviously, he would know more about the situation than we do.

00:25:17.600 Looking at it all and seeing the Secret Service agents, it just sort of left a sense of unease in me.

00:25:21.980 You know, despite these women's best efforts, they're just simply not able to do the job properly because they're not big enough. 1.00

00:25:27.800 And we know that they also wouldn't be fast enough or strong enough because we believe in biological reality.

00:25:32.640 And we know that men and women are different, even if it's become incredibly controversial to say that is the truth.

00:25:38.800 So Donald Trump is at the RNC.

00:25:41.800 There is such high security there.

00:25:43.660 And I just want to play this one clip of you of him at the RNC looking actually quite emotional.

00:25:48.660 I don't think I've ever seen a single time when Donald Trump looked emotional.

00:25:53.780 But here he is after having survived the assassination attempt.

00:25:56.500 This wasn't his first appearance at the RNC.

00:25:58.260 This was a little later.

00:25:59.300 Take a look at this next clip.

00:26:00.420 I'm sure the scene in the room was absolutely electric at that moment.

00:26:14.300 And you can see there what I had mentioned, all the male Secret Service agents absolutely flanking the president.

00:26:19.140 So, you know, it'll be interesting to watch where this story takes us in the weeks to come because, like, as I said, there's so many questions.

00:26:25.780 And it seems with every new thing the Secret Service says, we have more questions than we do answers, like their comment about the slope group.

00:26:32.260 So we will be following that closely in the days and weeks to come.

00:26:35.500 Guys, that is all we have time for today.

00:26:37.280 Thank you so much for tuning in to Rachel and the Republic.

00:26:40.020 I will be back next week with more content on the American election for you all.

00:26:45.040 And there is certainly no shortage of stuff to cover.

00:26:47.200 So I'm very curious to see where it will bring us over the next few weeks.

00:26:50.000 I hope that you guys have a great rest of your day and rest of your week.

00:26:53.120 I will see you in a couple days.

00:26:54.720 God bless.

Juno News - July 17, 2024

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