00:03:24.060He wasn't being apologetic for the sham trial.
00:03:27.280He wasn't trying to talk his way out of things, but he was debunking the claim at its base.
00:03:32.780He was saying that this was not a real trial.
00:03:34.500And the only thing that Trump himself was guilty of was even being a part of the sham trial.
00:03:39.040Now, that was one of many trials we know that in the United States.
00:03:42.760They threw everything in the book that they had at Donald Trump, legally speaking.
00:03:47.040Well, and then eventually the assassination attempt, which, of course, we'll get to to try to take down the former president,
00:03:52.940who has, of course, now been confirmed as the Republican presidential nominee.
00:03:57.100He was confirmed on Monday at the Republican National Convention.
00:04:00.740And 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.
00:04:10.180And that is going to be important moving forward.
00:04:13.060We're seeing a big change in how politicians approach the media for so long.
00:04:17.220They've been so apologetic here in Canada.
00:04:19.020We've seen that Andrew Scheer, Aaron O'Toole, very apologetic with the Canadian media.
00:04:23.400Now we've seen something new and refreshing with Pierre Polyev, where he does not apologize for being conservative.
00:05:40.160I 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.
00:05:51.280I still believe that I did some good work while I was there in trying to uncover some of the lies.
00:05:57.340But 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.
00:06:06.560And 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.
00:06:22.680And so for reasons like that, I eventually was—I wasn't pushed out.
00:06:39.220You can see the center block and the west block behind me in that shot.
00:06:42.160And you can see police forcing protesters back.
00:06:44.800It 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.
00:06:53.680And what was going on in that clip was that there was a tent structure on the street.
00:06:57.900And so we were all walking backwards because we were looking at the police.
00:07:00.960We 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.
00:07:06.440And 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.
00:07:14.020And so we noticed too late the hay bales were pretty much upon us.
00:07:18.340And as we turned to get over them, people started tripping and falling on each other.
00:07:21.860And I was caught underneath a group of people.
00:07:24.100I fell into that hay bale body started falling on top of me, which is a very scary thing for anyone to experience.
00:07:45.540And 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.
00:08:05.120And 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.
00:08:11.560And 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.
00:08:18.880Now, you and I saw that clip and we know what went on there was wrong.
00:08:23.460And 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.
00:08:35.560We know that the Trudeau Liberals and Justin Trudeau, he doesn't care and he never will.
00:08:40.500But interestingly, even J.D. Vance, not even yet elected a senator at the time, took notice of this happening in Ottawa.
00:08:47.020And he wrote on X, then Twitter at the time, this is a direct quote,
00:08:50.540I'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.
00:09:13.380America 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.
00:09:27.180And of course, you guys, I'm sure, have seen the videos. He got so close. He got so close.
00:09:31.980I truly believe that it was an act of divine intervention.
00:09:35.060I believe that God is in control of all things and it was not Donald Trump's time to go.
00:09:39.260But I think if it wasn't without that, I think that that would have been very successful.
00:09:44.240And 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.
00:09:55.740They 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.
00:10:08.380It hates the people that it was elected to serve. And Donald Trump loves the people. He loves the people.
00:10:13.760He doesn't I think you and I both know this. He grew up very wealthy. He is very wealthy.
00:10:17.160He's certainly not doing this for the money. He's not doing this for the power.
00:10:20.240He was arguably in many ways more popular than he was before he was president.
00:10:25.220The managerial class, the media loved Donald Trump before he ran for president and they all turned on him since.
00:10:30.920So certainly he has a lot less access to the high class life that he would have lived before he was president.
00:10:36.040Now we can't even go out to an event of his own without being shot at.
00:10:40.060So 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.
00:10:50.300And who better to represent them than Chrystia Freeland, who I often very controversially say might even be more unlikable than Justin Trudeau.
00:10:58.500Don'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.
00:11:05.820She 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.
00:11:13.920And we're seeing a lot of, you know, people on the right and the left saying Justin Trudeau is a fake feminist.
00:11:18.780Honestly, I think that she's been a horrible finance minister and I think she deserves to be pushed out as finance minister.
00:11:24.340So 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.
00:11:29.460I think this might actually be the one half decent thing that he would do.
00:11:32.220That being said, I'm sure he would replace her with someone even worse.
00:11:35.880But 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,
00:11:44.460just 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.
00:11:54.200As of today, a bank or other financial service provider will be able to immediately freeze or suspend an account without a court order.
00:12:07.620Now, this should go down as one of the worst moments in Canadian history.
00:12:11.760I 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.
00:12:17.440But even J.D. took notice of it at the time, writing on X, quote,
00:12:21.800This is why crypto is taking off. The regime will cut off your access to banking if you have the wrong politics.
00:12:29.540He's, of course, right. Millions of Canadians are buying crypto every single day.
00:12:33.180I, myself and my husband, we have experienced our bank assets being frozen with little notice.
00:12:38.520The CRA just gave notice to our bank that they were freezing our bank account and it was frozen the next day.
00:12:44.200We 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,
00:12:52.620mostly because we didn't comply with the CRA and we weren't cooperative with them.
00:12:56.500But 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.
00:13:03.240And I think that this is something that Canadians remember. And we saw that this week on, I believe it was Monday,
00:13:08.600Justin Trudeau put an announcement out on Twitter saying, check your bank account.
00:13:11.800There's exciting news about a carbon tax rebate in there. And every single comment underneath that video was,
00:13:17.260why are you freezing my account again? Anytime the Liberal government tells me to check my bank account,
00:13:21.440I have a feeling that it's frozen. I feel fear.
00:13:24.400So Canadian people haven't forgotten about this and I don't think they ever will.
00:13:30.020And I don't think they ever should. We're talking about JD. There's a couple other interesting things that he's done.
00:13:36.660He has noticed the phenomenon of Canadian churches being burned down.
00:13:42.280Now, this is something that True North has really honed the beat on.
00:13:45.140My colleague, Cosman Georgia, has covered this so closely.
00:13:48.040He has a map of all the churches in Canada that have been burned down.
00:13:51.280Every time we find out about a new one, he adds it to his map. He's really been covering this beat so well.
00:13:55.460If you haven't seen his report, I highly recommend you go check it out.
00:13:58.560The reason these churches started being burned down was after we heard that there were mass graves of residential school children.
00:14:06.600Now, we don't know that no graves have actually been found. It's just been rocks that they found.
00:14:10.720But that hasn't stopped masses of Canadian churches being burned down.
00:14:14.060Over 100 Canadian churches being burned down.
00:14:16.400To no word from our ruling officials or from the Trudeau Liberals.
00:14:20.420But that didn't stop JD Vance from taking notice of it.
00:14:23.600He wrote on X, what the hell is happening in Canada?
00:14:27.360To the news of all the churches that have been vandalized.
00:14:30.400And it is a very good question. What the hell is happening in Canada?
00:14:33.280Like 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.
00:14:42.120But that news hasn't made it out publicly.
00:15:35.680You 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.
00:15:46.420And we have already, you know, a bit of a relationship built.
00:15:53.540So I think it'll mark a good thing for our trade relationship with a Canada in the U.S.
00:15:57.500However, 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.
00:16:06.400Because we certainly cannot have enough allies with what we're seeing in our country right now.
00:16:11.340It feels a lot of times like we're losing.
00:16:13.480Things seems like maybe the tide is turning.
00:16:15.480And I think voices like J.D. will be important over the coming years to continue pushing that conservative momentum forward.
00:16:22.020Now, there's one other interesting little tidbit that I wanted to share with you all.
00:16:25.660J.D. was actually friends with Jamil Jivonji in college.
00:17:27.480Across the room stood a fellow student who seemed equally unfamiliar with wine and cheese.
00:17:32.680We went on to develop a strong friendship forged through moments of shared discomfort over the course of our three years in the Ivy League.
00:17:39.320We were by one another side for awkward interactions with professors and classmates, life-changing job interviews, and hundreds of hours of studying.
00:17:46.620We became such good friends that I eventually performed the Bible reading at his wedding.
00:17:51.300So I think that just paints a really good picture of who J.D. is.
00:17:54.240If 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.
00:18:00.180If 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.
00:18:08.100You know, they went to this wine and cheese reception.
00:18:09.820They didn't know about the different kinds of cheese.
00:18:13.220I 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.
00:18:18.000So it seems like you would have had wine at some point.
00:18:20.140And, of course, just the last line, we eventually became such good friends that I performed the Bible reading at his wedding.
00:18:26.000Just 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.
00:18:35.720I think it's also worth talking about why J.D. was picked as Trump's running mate.
00:18:41.140Now, 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.
00:18:51.220And 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.
00:19:01.640But 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.
00:19:14.060Because 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.
00:19:24.760I mean, you saw that clip of him that I played for you earlier on CNN.
00:19:27.520This is someone who really plays by his own rules and does politics his own way.
00:19:31.640So we talk about the protection of Donald Trump.
00:19:34.200A 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.
00:19:41.040You know, we talk about Trump's protection.
00:19:44.000It is interesting to see what's going to happen.
00:19:45.820You guys, I'm sure, have been following the story of the assassination attempt closely.
00:19:49.460I 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.
00:19:55.840We know that Secret Service had eyes on him.
00:19:58.020I, 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.
00:20:10.440The Secret Service, some reports have said that they have a no-shoot policy.
00:20:33.520The ruling class really believes that we are all so dumb and unable to think for ourselves.
00:20:37.400They honestly think that we're going to believe this or they think that nothing will happen.
00:20:41.780They think they can say whatever they want.
00:20:43.000And 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.
00:20:49.300Case in point, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau invoking the Emergencies Act.
00:20:52.140He still has not faced the consequences for those actions.
00:20:55.180He is still the Prime Minister of Canada.
00:20:57.660I mean, we can have the discussion about the NDP propping him up there.
00:21:00.300I just want to quickly touch on the Republican National Convention, which we know took place this week.
00:21:06.040Donald Trump was confirmed as the presidential nominee on Monday, as was J.D. confirmed as the vice president for the 2024 presidential bid.
00:21:16.280There were some other people who spoke.
00:21:17.720We talked about J.D., but there were some other people who were considered very plausible running mates.
00:21:23.720This is someone who, even though he wasn't picked as the VP, has had such an explosive career and has been so successful.
00:21:30.300He, of course, also ran to be the president.
00:21:32.900He did not when we know that that was given to Donald Trump.
00:21:36.080But this is someone who went from being essentially a nobody to someone that almost everyone knows.
00:21:40.280He's become a household name because he was so successful in his presidential bid.
00:21:43.880And I think part of that is because he's so well-spoken.
00:21:46.360And 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.
00:21:56.580I 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.
00:22:06.180But we're not going to win this election just by criticizing the other side.
00:22:10.280We're going to win this by standing for our own vision of who we really are.
00:22:15.800What does it mean to be a Republican in the year 2024?
00:22:19.960What does it mean to be an American in the year 2024?
00:22:22.900It means we believe in the ideals of 1776.
00:22:27.880It 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.
00:22:38.300It means we believe in the rule of law.
00:22:41.380And I say this as the kid of legal immigrants to this country.
00:22:45.480That means your first act of entering this country cannot break the law.
00:22:50.260That is why we will seal the southern border on day one.
00:22:54.160So you can see there, just so eloquent.
00:23:03.840This is someone to keep an eye on in the weeks and years to come.
00:23:07.860It's seeming like there's some discussion that he might actually seek to take.
00:23:11.580JDC 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.
00:23:19.100And I suspect that he will be given the green light to run as a senator in Ohio.
00:23:24.120So I think just someone to keep a close eye on the years to come.
00:23:27.360Just want to quickly touch on Donald Trump.
00:23:29.700You 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.
00:23:37.880We're seeing a lot more security around him.
00:23:40.800The 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.
00:23:50.320There were some videos circulating online over the weekend saying, oh, there's all men around him.
00:23:54.560One thing I can't get over was the female Secret Service agents.
00:23:57.840I'm like, if you guys haven't seen these videos, you've got to go back and watch them.
00:24:00.640These women look like they absolutely have no idea what they're doing.
00:24:03.720And 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.
00:24:11.780She isn't big enough to cover his body.
00:24:15.680And she actually bent down at one point to pick up his Make America Great Again hat, which I don't know.
00:24:20.800Maybe I don't know if he had asked or two.
00:24:22.280Maybe he thought he was going to trip over.
00:24:23.320But that seemed like a really dumb move because they didn't actually know at that point that things were secure.
00:24:28.360And 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.
00:24:35.140He 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.
00:24:43.740The first shots could be a distraction.
00:24:45.840So I still, you know, we got that great shot.
00:24:47.700And of course, that will be remembered in American history in days to come.
00:24:50.260And 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.
00:24:56.660That will be the moment that comes to define his campaign.
00:24:59.720But 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.
00:25:09.360And again, it's just you do have to watch this and you do have to have fears and concerns about his security.
00:25:15.060Obviously, he would know more about the situation than we do.
00:25:17.600Looking at it all and seeing the Secret Service agents, it just sort of left a sense of unease in me.
00:25:21.980You know, despite these women's best efforts, they're just simply not able to do the job properly because they're not big enough.
00:25:27.800And we know that they also wouldn't be fast enough or strong enough because we believe in biological reality.
00:25:32.640And we know that men and women are different, even if it's become incredibly controversial to say that is the truth.
00:26:00.420I'm sure the scene in the room was absolutely electric at that moment.
00:26:14.300And you can see there what I had mentioned, all the male Secret Service agents absolutely flanking the president.
00:26:19.140So, 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.
00:26:25.780And 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.
00:26:32.260So we will be following that closely in the days and weeks to come.
00:26:35.500Guys, that is all we have time for today.
00:26:37.280Thank you so much for tuning in to Rachel and the Republic.
00:26:40.020I will be back next week with more content on the American election for you all.
00:26:45.040And there is certainly no shortage of stuff to cover.
00:26:47.200So I'm very curious to see where it will bring us over the next few weeks.
00:26:50.000I hope that you guys have a great rest of your day and rest of your week.