EP59: Trump Unifies the Country at RNC Convention Following Assassination AttemptEP59: Trump Unifies the Country at RNC Convention Following Assassination Attempt
On today's show, host Laura Lumer is joined by CNN's Jake Tapper and former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski to discuss the attempted assassination of President Trump and the aftermath of Joe Biden's comments calling for President Trump to be put in a "bullseye."
00:10:48.000I'm your host, Laura Lumer, reporting live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Republican National Convention is currently taking place.
00:10:56.000I want to thank everybody who is tuning in right now, and I also want to take a moment to thank all of my supporters, because just moments ago, I officially hit 1 million followers on Twitter, now known as X.
00:11:09.000I really wouldn't be here today without all of you, and I really appreciate those of you who support me just this last week alone.
00:11:15.000I've probably picked up about 50,000 followers from all of my reporting from Washington, D.C.
00:11:21.000to non-stop, round-the-clock updates following the attempted assassination of President Trump, and now we're here live in Milwaukee to bring you on-the-ground coverage of everything you need to know about the RNC Convention.
00:11:45.000Vance, President Trump's VP pick, will be giving his keynote address tonight.
00:11:49.000He will be the last speaker tonight before the final day tomorrow of the RNC convention.
00:11:55.000And tomorrow, of course, is when President Trump is expected to deliver his speech.
00:12:00.000And of course, here we've had a great time at the RNC convention, where President Trump has really had an uncontested convention, compared to what we saw in 2016, where there was a fight on the convention floor at the last minute to try to rob President Trump of the nomination when he was then candidate Donald Trump.
00:12:20.000So it's been a really great time, and not to sound too hokey or, you know, kumbaya-ish, but there really is a true sense of unity here on the ground.
00:12:29.000In Milwaukee, I've had a lot of people who have been, you know, very negative towards me or people who I traditionally have really not gotten along with from Matt Schlapp, of course, who had me kicked out of CPAC in 2018, all the way to Ron DeSantis' staff come up to me and shake my hand and apologize and try to extend an olive branch.
00:12:52.000And so I think that President Trump nearly escaping death This last Saturday when an assassin tried to put a bullet in his head has really put things into perspective for a lot of people.
00:13:07.000It's an honor to be here at the RNC, especially to witness history.
00:13:11.000I truly believe that President Trump is the best president, certainly of my lifetime, and also the best president this country has ever had.
00:13:18.000And so it truly is an honor to be here this week to witness President Trump take And accept the nomination.
00:13:26.000I'm also happy to see that he has picked J.D.
00:13:31.000And so, joining me in about 30 minutes or so, we'll have Savannah Hernandez, investigative reporter.
00:13:38.000And then also, later on in the show this afternoon, we'll be joined by former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski, who delivered the delegates on the floor of the RNC convention from the state of New Hampshire, where he lives and where he's from.
00:13:51.000So we have a very exciting show for you tonight.
00:13:53.000But with that, I just want to jump right in because we've had a lot of exciting interviews here.
00:13:58.000I think that for the sake of starting the show off with a high beat, I want to show you the clip of me luring Jake Tapper yesterday.
00:14:09.000We have CNN, NBC, MSNBC, all the media that you can imagine is here in Wisconsin.
00:14:16.000And so it's interesting because a lot of these people who work for the left-wing media, they in my opinion, are directly responsible for the rhetoric that has inspired this attempted assassination on President Trump's life.
00:14:30.000And so I decided to confront CNN and confront Jake Tapper, who is arguably the face of CNN, about his incitement to violence against President Trump and asked him whether or not he would condemn President Joe Biden's comments in which he said that it's time to put Donald Trump in a bullseye.
00:14:46.000And of course, those were comments made by Joe Biden about a week or so ago, immediately following the debate.
00:14:53.000So let's go ahead and play this clip of me confronting Jake Tapper.
00:15:00.000What do you think about Joe Biden's remarks the other day that it was time for President Trump to be put in the bullseye?
00:15:08.000Do you think that Joe Biden should issue an apology for calling for President Trump to be put in a bullseye?
00:15:16.000Do you think that CNN's rhetoric and their demonization of Donald Trump over these last eight years has led to people opening fire on President Trump, almost assassinating him on stage?
00:15:30.000As one of the biggest offenders and perpetuators of fake news, that's why President Trump calls you fake tapper, Do you have any remorse for your reporting which has led to an attempted assassination on President Trump?
00:15:47.000Will you condemn Joe Biden, Jake, calling for President Trump to be put in a bullseye?
00:15:51.000Do you condemn any of your fake reporting that has led to an attempted assassination?
00:15:56.000I mean, don't you have any remorse, Jake?
00:17:10.000And so Savannah Hernandez, who's going to be joining me momentarily, also confronted CNN, and we're looking forward to having her on the show today so that we can also play her clips and talk and we're looking forward to having her on the show today so that we can also play her clips and talk to her about her confrontations with NBC's Kirsten Walker, as well as Jake Tapper and Dana Bash from CNN.
00:17:32.000So stay tuned for later on in this episode this afternoon.
00:17:37.000But, you know, it's really incredible to me that the media for the last, what is it now, eight to nine years has just been lying non-stop incessantly about President Trump falsely accusing him of the Russia collusion hoax, accusing him of all sorts of crimes, accusing him of being a rapist, accusing him of everything in the book.
00:17:56.000None of the things that they have said about him are true.
00:17:59.000But this is the type of manufactured outrage that inspired somebody to pick up a gun and try to assassinate him.
00:18:05.000And so, I think that we really need to hold the media accountable.
00:18:10.000We really need to hold people like Jake Tapper accountable, Rachel Maddow accountable, and all of these leftist pundits who, for years, have really instigated and inspired violence against President Trump.
00:18:23.000And it's just really shameful to see that, you know, members of the media don't even have any remorse.
00:18:29.000Obviously, this attempted assassination of President Trump has truly shaken the nation to its core, really shaken the world to its core.
00:18:38.000And there's a lot of videos that are coming out now that show different angles of people running, people running before shots were fired.
00:18:48.000And so I'm just going to go ahead and say it.
00:18:50.000I truly believe that this was an inside job.
00:18:53.000And I think now that the burden of proof is going to be on the Secret Service and DHS to prove that this Was not an inside job because right now all of the evidence suggests that this really was an inside job and I'm going to be releasing more information today.
00:19:08.000I've already published videos that have gone viral that show people running over a minute and a half before shots were fired outside of the rally, which means that people knew there was a sniper on the roof.
00:19:19.000And now we're finding out that, you know, that that counter snipers were inside the building where the shooter climbed on top of in order to try to assassinate President Trump.
00:19:29.000And that law enforcement was aware of the shooter for 30 minutes before the shooting took place.
00:19:35.000Which means that they allowed for President Trump to get up on that stage while knowing that somebody was on the roof.
00:19:40.000Because President Trump had only been speaking for about 20 minutes or so.
00:19:48.000Let's go ahead and play some of the videos.
00:19:54.000Let's go ahead and we're going to play a split screen so that you can see just how much time law enforcement had to neutralize the shooter from the time that a shooter was identified before opening fire.
00:20:05.000And then you can see that it matches up line by line with President Trump's speech.
00:20:09.000Just so you can see how this wasn't like a random incident where it just happened and police You know, didn't know where this guy was.
00:24:41.000I think they hit him because the guy looks dead.
00:24:48.000So you can clearly see that ample time pass and it's really sinister when you watch that side-by-side of the people pointing out and And so we'll go ahead, if you couldn't follow along with the side-by-side, we'll play those individual clips for you right now too.
00:25:06.000So let's go ahead and play clips number 18 and 19 back-to-back so you can see how much time the police had I mean, they had more time than this.
00:25:14.000This is just what people were able to capture.
00:25:16.000I'm sure there's more people, too, who have footage on their phones who have not published it or released it to the media yet.
00:25:23.000But here's several clips, two clips, that you can clearly see the shooter on the roof and people screaming at law enforcement, people running, leaving the rally frantically before shots were fired.
00:25:34.000Which shows you that they should have evacuated the rally and called for President Trump to be removed from the stage before shots were able to be fired.
00:25:41.000So let's go ahead and play clips 18 and 19.
00:26:46.000So you can clearly see, you know, that they had ample time.
00:26:50.000And what's really scary, too, is the woman in the dress who is in that second clip that you see that's looking into the field and wondering, why are people running away?
00:26:57.000That is Margo Martin, who is President Trump's Deputy Communications Director.
00:27:06.000President Trump's staff almost got shot by this guy, too.
00:27:09.000They're very lucky that more people weren't shot and injured and killed.
00:27:29.000They were in critical condition and then they were found to be in stable condition.
00:27:32.000Corey's family announced yesterday that President Trump called them and expressed his condolences and I can confirm that President Trump will be attending Corey's funeral this week.
00:27:43.000I don't want to say when the funeral is going to be because it is private and I want to respect the privacy of the family, although I do know, you know, Where the funeral is going to be and where President Trump will be, but I do not want to release that information.
00:27:56.000But what I can release is the fact that that the family is going to be having a public reception open to the public to come and pay their respects in Pennsylvania.
00:28:05.000I posted the information on the X account for those interested and that's of course going to take place in on Thursday of this week and so the funeral will be after that.
00:28:14.000But very sad and it's just incredible that President Trump is Not only going to the funeral, but also he's going to be having a rally the day after.
00:28:25.000So he's not allowing for an attempted assassin to scare him away from having from having rallies.
00:28:34.000I mean, I've never seen somebody so courageous in my life.
00:28:37.000And now here at the RNC, we have people here in the audience is chanting fight, fight, fight.
00:28:42.000while pumping their fists, because I think we have footage of that too, right?
00:28:45.000We have footage of the clip of President Trump putting his fist in the air with blood running down his face after getting shot in the air.
00:28:51.000I mean, almost half an inch away, we would have watched President Trump's head explode on live television, not to sound graphic, but we were this close, okay?
00:28:59.000We were this close away from watching the end of our country, the end of world peace as we knew it, and also just the end of Donald Trump.
00:29:08.000I don't know if you've ever seen someone get shot in the head before.
00:29:12.000I've seen videos of it, never seen it in person, but it's not pretty.
00:29:15.000We've seen the videotapes of the JFK assassination, and that's really what we would have been looking at.
00:29:20.000We would have been looking at a JFK.2.
00:29:22.000And we already know that our United States government carries out assassinations of United States presidents.
00:29:27.000We already know about what happened to JFK, and I truly believe that the attempted assassination of President Trump was an inside job, and I'm going to be backing up my claims with evidence within the next day or so after I finish posting and I'm going to be backing up my claims with evidence within the next day or so after I finish posting all of these posts and the reports from my findings and information that I believe you and everybody else in the world deserves to see and deserves to know.
00:29:51.000So, I hope that by the end of this, not only does the Secret Service Director Kim Cheadle resign, I hope that Alejandro Mayorkas resigns, and I also hope that there's criminal charges filed against these people for being an accessory to attempted murder.
00:30:04.000Because I will say that Kim Cheadle is complicit, and Alejandro Mayorkas are complicit in this inside job against President Trump.
00:30:15.000And so, I don't really care how inflammatory that sounds, I don't really care who it upsets, because at this point in time, all of the evidence supports my findings, all of the evidence supports the findings that this was an inside job because Kim Sheetal has a responsibility as the Director of the Secret Service to make sure that no threats get pushed forward in the parameters or the perimeters of a United States President, especially during a secured checkpoint.
00:30:42.000And we just found out today that Thomas Matthew Crooks, the shooter who almost murdered President Trump and who actually did murder Cory Kamparate, was able to get through Secret Service two times with his rangefinder scope.
00:30:55.000Okay, so I'm blaming Jim Cheadle and I don't care if that's inflammatory and I will say that this is an inside job by the Secret Service and we know that we know that DHS Alejandro Mayorkas the Secretary of DHS controls The funding and the sign-off for the additional resources for Secret Service.
00:31:17.000And we also know that President Trump's campaign put an additional request in the weeks prior for additional resources for his Secret Service protection.
00:31:25.000We just found out yesterday that there was also an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump.
00:31:31.000And so why was President Trump denied all of these Secret Service resources when the Iranians are trying to kill him?
00:31:37.000When Thomas Matthew Crooks is trying to kill him?
00:31:42.000Okay, this isn't the first time, by the way, someone's opened fire at a Trump rally.
00:31:45.000If you recall back in 2015 when President Trump was having a rally in Las Vegas, when he was then candidate Trump, there was somebody with a gun as well who was tackled by Secret Service and luckily nobody was hurt.
00:31:58.000It is not the first time that somebody has showed up with a gun to a Trump rally, but it certainly is not something that should happen often.
00:32:05.000And a lot of people don't really remember what happened in Nevada several years ago, but I certainly do, and it's unacceptable.
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00:34:12.000Obviously, we saw President Trump has been here in Milwaukee since Sunday evening, and he has attended both nights of the RNC thus far.
00:34:21.000We'll be attending tonight as well, the third night, and tomorrow night, the fourth night, which is when he will be delivering his speech that everybody has been waiting to hear.
00:34:29.000President Trump, directly after the assassination attempt, reportedly rewrote his entire RNC speech, and so he's going to be focusing his message around topics of unity, so you can look forward to watching that primetime tomorrow night.
00:34:42.000I'm sure all the news networks are going to be carrying it live, and I will be on the floor of the RNC convention tonight broadcasting all of it for you, getting video like I have been doing thus far.
00:34:53.000But let's go ahead and play the video footage.
00:34:56.000We have Uh, clip number 16, the RNC chanting fight.
00:35:00.000And of course, people are chanting fight because after President Trump took a bullet to the ear, instead of cowering, he stood up and told them to wait, and he shouted, fight, fight, fight, and he put his fist in the air.
00:35:10.000- - Wow. - - Everybody's chanting, "Fight, fight, fight!" - - So, we've seen a lot of scenes like that.
00:35:32.000Let's see, we have a lot of different clips that we can go through.
00:35:35.000I'm just gonna look at the list here because there's so many, there's so many clips from the different, uh, different RNC events while we've been here.
00:36:09.000Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that Senator J.D. Vance has the overwhelming support of this convention to be the next Vice President of the United States.
00:36:23.000Let's hear this please make the following appointment to guest morning for Senator J.D. Vance, his Vice Presidential Nominee.
00:36:55.000Vance has arguably been in the past one of the most obnoxious Trump haters, having called President Trump Hitler, referring to him as cultural heroin, saying that Trump supporters are stupid and idiots, I think that J.D.
00:37:08.000Vance has now really come around and he is arguably one of the biggest Trump defenders and supporters in the United States Senate.
00:37:15.000And, you know, we interviewed him, if you recall, when we were breaking stories and covering the Colorado efforts to take Trump off the ballot in Colorado, which, if successful, would have set precedent all across the country, probably denying Donald Trump the nomination.
00:37:29.000The Supreme Court took it up, and on the day of the announcement, which they ultimately found that President Trump could stay on the ballot, JD Vance was only one of three United States Senators who actually showed up to support President Trump.
00:37:44.000So I asked him about this and why there were so many Republicans in the United States Senate working against him.
00:37:50.000So let's take a look at this previous clip from several months ago.
00:37:58.000Vance on Loomer Unleashed saying the Senate was trying to go against Donald Trump.
00:38:02.000One of the things that you are in the news for, I mean, look, a lot of Republicans are in the news right now because of this immigration bill.
00:38:09.000You're lucky that you're getting good press, though, as opposed to some of your colleagues like Mitch McConnell and Senator Lankford, who should, in my opinion, just resign.
00:38:19.000But you actually uncovered what looks to be this kind of secret, underhanded clause That Senate Republicans and Democrats worked on together to shove inside this legislation to pave the way for an impeachment of President Trump during his second term, even when he gets elected in 2024.
00:38:39.000So I was showing the memo prior to you coming on tonight, if you can just touch on that.
00:38:45.000And whether you think that, you know, we have enough evidence, as is laid out in your memo and this bill itself, To actually say that there's a concerted effort and a deliberate effort by the Senate Republicans to preemptively plan the impeachment of Donald Trump in a second term.
00:39:06.000Well, Laura, you and I both know that if the Democrats get the majority of the House, they will impeach Donald Trump because they're obsessed with him and they hate him.
00:39:13.000And I unfortunately feel like Senate Republicans just gave them a weapon that they're going to use against the President.
00:39:21.000And I absolutely am confident they're going to use that weapon.
00:39:23.000So the basic idea is if you throw your mind back to the 2019 articles of impeachment, the argument went something like this, that the Congress had appropriated money that had to be spent on, you guessed it, Ukraine.
00:39:37.000And if the president didn't spend that money in the exact way that it was supposed to be spent, He had violated the law and that was the impeachable offense.
00:39:46.000That's actually what they impeached him on the first time.
00:39:49.000Of course, it was ridiculous and it was unconstitutional, but that's what the Democrats do, right?
00:39:53.000Now we have a new piece of legislation, and you have Biden administration officials, Laura, going to the Washington Post and bragging that the legislation will tie his hand.
00:40:05.000Because it doesn't just appropriate money for Ukraine in 2024, it also appropriates it in 2025.
00:40:11.000So if President Trump gets in and conducts diplomacy in a way that's in violation of this appropriation or just decides to actually run foreign affairs as he sees fit because he's the president, they will use this as a weapon against him.
00:40:51.000So all we can do is learn from our mistakes.
00:40:54.000And in the sake of it, for the sake of unity, which is what President Trump has been pushing here at this RNC convention, I think it's very important that we give Senator J.D.
00:41:15.000And the Trump-Vance ticket is going to make that happen.
00:41:17.000So I hope that people can look past any past transgressions.
00:41:21.000Look, if I can do it, then you can do it too, because I think that I'm pretty well known for going scorched earth on all of Trump's enemies, and I think that it's worth giving J.D.
00:41:35.000You know, speaking of this attempted assassination, it's another one of those Laura Loomer was right moments.
00:41:40.000How many of you remember, speaking of a million followers today, I'm sure a lot of you have been following me for a long time, how many of you remember seven years ago when I got arrested in Central Park in New York City for storming the stage of Shakespeare in the Park?
00:42:15.000Further reminding people how long the left has been glorifying violence and inciting violence and assassination porn against President Trump, I want to go ahead and play this clip of me storming the stage of Julius Caesar, clip number 20 of me protesting and then getting dragged away and arrested by the NYPD.
00:42:33.000Because it's very important for you to see how long the Democrats have been doing this.
00:42:37.000And unfortunately, their escalations of violence almost manifested into an actual assassination of President Trump.
00:45:01.000And that's why I chased Jake Tapper at the RNC yesterday, and why I confronted him the way I did, because these people need to be made to feel a sense of shame and remorse for their actions, which have led to people picking up rifles and trying to assassinate Donald Trump.
00:46:09.000I mean, that photo too, the photo that was taken, it's iconic.
00:46:13.000It's now going to actually be the August cover of Time Magazine.
00:46:17.000So, I don't want to say congratulations to President Trump because, well, it's not really a celebratory thing.
00:46:26.000But it is great that they're recognizing the fact that he has been triumphant even in the face of political violence.
00:46:33.000I guess congratulations are in order because hopefully now the media will tone down their vitriol and their hatred for President Trump and people will open their eyes and realize how their violence rhetoric and their anti-Trump propaganda has led to people becoming hypnotized by hatred and political violence.
00:46:52.000Another interesting interview that I had here at the RNC, another congressperson who I was able to speak with, and this person is a great member of Congress, I helped him get elected, and he's a friend of mine, but also too, he really is a true ally of President Trump, is Corey Mills from the state of Florida.
00:47:09.000And so I caught up with Corey to ask him, because I know that You know, his background being in special forces, he's carried out several operations around the world rescuing Americans who have been held hostage in foreign countries.
00:47:24.000And so I wanted to ask him about the security failure and what he, as somebody who has a background in special operations and, you know, has served our country, what he plans on doing to get some accountability regarding this attempted what he plans on doing to get some accountability regarding this attempted assassination and hold the Secret Service and DHS and the agencies responsible, accountable for whatever it is that happened, whether it's whatever they whether it's whatever they want to call it.
00:47:50.000They want to call it a security fault, a security blunder.
00:47:56.000And so take a listen to what Cory Mills had to say about the July 13th committee, very similar to the J6 committee, that he wants to head up and chair to get to the bottom of what happened on that ominous day, July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:48:12.000Alright, so I'm here with Congressman Cory Mills from Florida, outside of the RNC convention, and you've been extremely outspoken.
00:48:19.000You're one of the only members of Congress who actually had all six of the balls to go on live national television and call this attempted assassination of President Donald Trump what it is, an inside job.
00:48:31.000Can you explain further why you think this is an inside job?
00:48:33.000Well, just to clarify, I don't think it's an inside job.
00:48:35.000I'm sick that we can't go ahead and eliminate any of the potential possibilities for being in this investigation.
00:48:39.000I think that we have to identify that.
00:48:41.000There's so many things that have developed that are feeding past megaliths.
00:48:45.000I think that, you know, mallets would be one thing to look at, or anything.
00:48:48.000But when we talk about perimeters, that's a satellite you're advancing by your telefinance.
00:48:53.000When you talk about a building 160 yards outside, perfectly adjacent to the stage, that is a very obvious shooting platform, and so I don't understand how that's not secure.
00:49:01.000When you talk about the fact there's no emergency comms channel set up by local police, by Secret Service details, as well as the other agencies, That baffles me when they say that there was an officer who came to the rooftop, had a rifle pointed at him.
00:49:13.000Why would he call, shoot on the roof, shoot on the roof, and allow the defense to look down?
00:49:19.000I am one of the guys in the military that's always a what-if guy.
00:49:22.000And so when you paint every scenario of possibility, you paint every scenario of potential, you need to investigate up to its entirety.
00:49:29.000And the FBI is not the right ones to do that.
00:49:30.000And we know that they were already spying on 287,000 Americans who had a violation of FISA.
00:49:35.000When you talk about the fact that they have political input into this, when you think about what James Cohn knew, what Peter Strzok, what Lisa Page had done to the President during his time in Russia, Russia, Russia, I just think that we need to look at every single possible scenario to investigate the local law enforcement, we need to investigate the FBI, and we need to determine whether or not this is truly negligence, which I think that Director Chito needs to leave immediately regardless.
00:49:56.000Or whether or not, as I said before when I'm talking about inside jobs, whether somebody knew about this and Because we're now seeing reports that the counter snipers were actually inside the building that the shooter had climbed on top of.
00:50:09.000We're finding out now that they actually knew about the shooter 30 minutes prior to the shooting.
00:50:14.000And President Trump had only been on stage for about 20 minutes.
00:50:17.000I just want to be clear, that's what I mean by inside job.
00:50:19.000But people knowing about that, and a lot of people are kind of nervous to say that, Do you plan on calling for any kind of special hearing?
00:50:27.000I actually have already texted Speaker Johnson.
00:50:31.000I've asked to set together a trade fair to myself today.
00:51:33.000- See you later, thank you. - So I think it's remarkable We certainly need more accountability in Congress, but it's remarkable that Corey Mills is talking about establishing a J13 committee.
00:51:50.000And I don't want to hear the Democrats ever talk about, oh, this insurrection, and oh, violence, political violence on J6, right?
00:52:02.000January 6th was nothing compared to J13, the events on July 13th that almost resulted in the death of President Donald Trump and did result in the death of Corey Camperate.
00:52:14.000So I'm looking forward to seeing Corey's investigation and the formation of this committee.
00:52:21.000I see today that James Comer of the House Oversight Committee has also subpoenaed Kim Cheadle, the Director of the Secret Service, and so she's being ordered to come in before Congress on July 22nd, which is next week, so hopefully we'll get some answers out of that as well.
00:52:37.000And today, I actually had the opportunity to interview Mayor John David Longo, who is a mayor in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:52:48.000And so, he was actually there at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania with his wife, who he told me is pregnant.
00:52:54.000He said they just found out his wife is pregnant, they decided to go celebrate, go to the Trump rally.
00:52:59.000He actually got to meet President Trump, and he said that He was talking to President Trump backstage, and he actually got to participate in the pre-programming before President Trump took the stage.
00:53:11.000And he was able to give a speech, and President Trump congratulated him on his speech, and he was showing me all these video clips today.
00:53:39.000I'm currently reporting from the RNC Convention, and with me today is Mayor John David Longo, who is the mayor of Slippery Rock in Butler County, Pennsylvania, which is the location of the Trump rally in Pennsylvania where an assassin opened fire, tragically killing Fire Chief Cory Camparate, injuring two others, and almost murdering President Donald Trump.
00:54:02.000So thank you so much for joining me today.
00:54:04.000Yeah, so I wanted to interview you and kind of have you walk us through the events at the rally that day because it turned out to be a really exciting moment for you and your wife.
00:54:16.000You told me that you and your wife got to meet with President Trump and you had a really nice conversation with him and you actually opened up the programming for the rally.
00:55:24.000What ends up happening, of course, as you all know, is that this lunatic decides to do violence against President Trump and the rally goers.
00:55:32.000And being a speaker, I was seated with my wife and my family members, along with the other speakers, just to the right of President Trump, nearest the stage.
00:55:41.000If you were President Trump, you would have looked at your 3 o'clock and have seen me Sean Parnell and his wife, my wife, Dave McCormick, Congressman Muser and Congressman Mike Kelly.
00:55:51.000We're all standing there supporting the president.
00:55:54.000There were reports that the shooter had been identified by law enforcement nearly 30 minutes before he opened fire.
00:56:02.000And as we know, President Trump had only been on stage for a short while before shots were fired.
00:56:08.000Did you see anybody panicked in the front row?
00:56:12.000Uh, see people talking about a man with a gun or hear whispers of this because video footage that has been released shows that at least two minutes before the shots were fired, people were running frantically leaving the rally and screaming, there's a man with a rifle, there's a man with a rifle, which means that law enforcement had over two minutes to neutralize this guy.
00:56:30.000Well, we found out it's over 30 minutes because they knew about him for over 30 minutes and Trump had only been on stage for about 20 minutes.
00:56:37.000So let me say this, I spent most of my time that day backstage getting ready for the pre-program and then of course for the meet-and-greet right before.
00:56:45.000So I was toward the end of the line to meet President Trump, so I was only in my seat for maybe 10 minutes, 15 minutes before he came out to greet the crowd.
00:56:55.000So I didn't have a lot of time to observe anything around me, and nor was I in a position to hear what was going on in the back rows of the rally.
00:57:03.000So now all of this is coming out, and I understand, of course, that this was the case.
00:57:07.000And I just can't understand, of course, how that could have possibly been the case.
00:57:12.000How was it that we could let this happen?
00:57:36.000He just came out of a medically induced coma.
00:57:39.000And you told me that Corey was actually about 15 feet behind you, and so unfortunately for you and your wife, you actually saw him dead on the ground with a bullet in his head.
00:57:50.000So, you know, at first I didn't see the shot, just to be clear.
00:57:54.000It wasn't until I raised up from my position, shielding my wife, that I saw that Corey had been shot.
00:58:02.000And it was just an awful thing, of course.
00:58:04.000And my heart, I have to say, my heart goes out to that family.
00:58:08.000I'm so sorry that he came with his family and friends looking to hear a message of inspiration and hope from President Trump and lost his life because of it.
00:58:17.000Have you spoken to his family since the shooting?
00:58:19.000No, no and you know it would be an honor to speak with them but right now I think it's important that we all try to give them as much privacy as possible and allow them to grieve in what surely is most likely the hardest time in their lives.
00:58:33.000And a lot of people don't know this but we were talking earlier and you actually tried to save Corey's life and then you realized that it was too late.
00:58:39.000No, so what actually happened was my wife was asking me to help.
00:58:44.000She noticed that Cory was shot, but unfortunately it was too late.
00:58:49.000He was no longer with us and that was a very serious injury that I'm not sure anybody could have survived.
00:58:58.000Are you going to be attending the public reception that is being held on Thursday in Pennsylvania?
00:59:02.000I know that the family just announced that there's going to be a public reception where people can pay their respects, and then I know that there's a private funeral on Friday.
00:59:13.000Like I said, I want to give the family as much space as possible to grieve, but if they were to listen to this interview, I would hope that they understand that my prayers and the prayers of all of the Super Rock community next door to them are with them, and our thoughts are with Corey right now.
00:59:27.000And we saw reports yesterday, we saw a Facebook post from Helen, Cory's widow, that President Trump called her to express condolences and said that he's going to be calling her in the days and weeks ahead.
00:59:38.000We also learned today that President Trump will be attending the funeral at the end of this week for Cory.
00:59:45.000Again, you know, I just want to make sure that I give them as much space to grieve as possible and make sure that the friends and family who are closest to Cory have the opportunity to spend time with their families so that they can comfort one another.
00:59:57.000And then lastly, we've seen that the Director of Secret Service, Kim Cheadle, is blaming local law enforcement instead of taking responsibility for this tragedy.
01:00:06.000And of course we know that federal barriers and perimeters are the responsibility of the United States Secret Service when They're doing a presidential detail.
01:00:14.000How do you feel as the mayor of a town in Butler County that the Secret Service director is blaming your local law enforcement?
01:00:22.000I saw yesterday that the attorney, the district attorney I believe it was, in Butler County said that she needs to stop blaming local law enforcement and take responsibility because it's the responsibility of Secret Service.
01:00:34.000Yeah, you know, ultimately I would agree that local law enforcement always defers to individuals in the Secret Service, CIA, FBI, etc., especially with an event of that magnitude, right, that size with President Donald J. Trump.
01:00:48.000So, I certainly don't appreciate local law enforcement being, or bearing the brunt, rather, of the blame.
01:00:54.000I do think that individuals in this current administration right now really need to take a look at how it is that they played a part in this failure.
01:01:03.000And what does healing look like for Butler County going forward?
01:01:06.000What do you foresee in the near future or the coming weeks?
01:01:10.000Because I'm sure there's a lot of people who are going to be suffering from post-traumatic stress or once it really sets in.
01:01:16.000Yeah, so I do know that they're holding a candlelight vigil for Corey, and so I would urge anybody who's in the area to please go and Google that to see information about how they can attend.
01:01:27.000I think that's a great part of the healing process.
01:01:31.000Of course, folks are going to come together to celebrate his life.
01:01:34.000You know, in the coming days and weeks, I think it's important to remember, and I hope that folks remember, that Butler County, although we're talking about it right now for this awful thing, has so much good going for it, and there was a lot of good that was shown that day.
01:01:47.000I mean, I saw so many people stepping up to help one another, folks who were injured, folks who were passing out from heatstroke and from the, you know, the horror and the excitement of the moment, and so I think that it's important in order to To heal that we focus on on those good things and to celebrate Cory's life and to continue to pray That's what I would say.
01:02:08.000It's been a comfort to me to draw nearer to God in this moment When it's almost impossible to be consoled for something like this then who better than the Almighty to do that?
01:02:19.000And then lastly, I know it might be an inflammatory question, but given the information that's now coming out with counter snipers being inside the building while the shooter was on the roof, them identifying the shooter 30 minutes prior, which is prior to President Trump taking the stage, do you think that there needs to be an investigation as to whether or not this was an inside job, especially given the fact that the United States government has a history of assassinating U.S.
01:02:45.000I mean, again, it was a gross negligence, so certainly I hope that all of the right people are asking the right questions and making sure that they're getting down to the bottom of understanding just how it is that we could have allowed for this to happen.
01:02:59.000So you can find me on X, Facebook, Instagram.
01:03:02.000Typically, if you type in Mayor L-O-N-G-O, you'll be able to find me and hope to connect with you sometime in the near future.
01:03:08.000Well, we're very thankful that you and your wife are safe and we thank you for your heroic actions and thinking of others in a time of tragedy and extreme danger.
01:03:23.000So it's definitely a very touching interview, and you can see that the mayor obviously was very emotional about it because, as he said, he saw Corey Camperace's dead body on the ground and his wife was, the mayor's wife that is, was telling her husband, please go help him, please go help him, and he had to tell his wife, I think he's just gone.
01:03:44.000So those images are going to be burned into people's minds forever.
01:03:48.000It's very sad what people had to witness.
01:03:50.000I can't imagine the type of grief and the type of pain that Corey's family is going through right now.
01:03:56.000But I know that President Trump is going to be attending the funeral at the end of this week, and there's a public reception open to the public in Pennsylvania on Thursday where people can go and pay their respects.
01:04:07.000But the mayor, as you heard during that interview, He certainly thinks that there's a lot of questions at hand that people need to answer.
01:04:17.000And he also agrees with the district attorney in Butler who said that the Secret Service needs to take responsibility for this.
01:04:22.000Because if you saw the director's statements and also her interview this week, she was blaming local law enforcement.
01:04:29.000When clearly it's the responsibility of the United States Secret Service to protect the perimeters and also make sure that the presidents or former presidents are all protected.
01:04:39.000So I'm sure we're going to be seeing a lot more updates into this investigation, especially next week when the director of Secret Service is brought before the House Oversight Committee in that subpoena.
01:04:49.000And every single day, more information and very disturbing facts are trickling out about the shooter, how he was able to bring in rangefinder scopes through Secret Service, how he was on top of the roof while snipers were inside.
01:05:02.000Very disturbing and as I said before, I'm not afraid to say it, I believe it was an inside job and I believe that when all is said and done, the evidence is going to show us that this was in fact an inside job.
01:05:14.000And as I said before, it's not the first time the United States government has tried to assassinate and they have been successful in assassinating presidents before.
01:05:24.000But with that, I wanna welcome my guest, Savannah Hernandez, an independent reporter with Turning Point USA Action.
01:05:58.000No, but really, it seems like Savannah and I are the only reporters that are out here doing this type of work, and then when people see Savannah and I getting millions of views on our videos, which we do, I mean, your videos out here this week have been phenomenal, then other people fly in and they're interested in also covering these events.
01:06:16.000But you've had some really viral interactions since you've been here at the RNC.
01:06:21.000We both Have taken advantage of confronting the leftist media while they've been here and I was just talking about the attempted assassination and one of the most disturbing things in the aftermath was the reporting by the left-wing media.
01:06:34.000We saw CNN described it as President Trump falling as if he had some type of a medical emergency unrelated to being shot.
01:06:42.000You saw NBC call it popping noises as opposed to gunshots and attempted assassination and you took it upon yourself to confront Kirsten Walker of NBC News who Sure, Laura, so just like you talked about, this is the perfect opportunity for us to really hold the media's feet to the fire, right?
01:07:08.000You and I are always here on behalf of the American people, and we all saw the response from the media to the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and it was absolutely disgusting.
01:07:17.000I think every American really felt like the media were traitors that day because they did not accurately report what happened.
01:07:24.000I mean, if this was Joe Biden in this situation, they would have at least put alleged assassination attempt, right?
01:07:31.000But we didn't even get that for Donald Trump.
01:07:33.000The media was trying to downplay this.
01:07:35.000They were trying to cover it up in any way that they could.
01:07:37.000And it was an insult to the American public.
01:07:41.000So I really wanted to be here and confront the leftist media because on top of the downplaying, as you know as well, it is their rhetoric that has led us to this point in our country.
01:07:51.000It is their reporting, it is their fake news, it is their propaganda that has raised political tensions to the point where we had leftists mourning that the shooter missed President Donald Trump.
01:08:03.000So, I think it's very important to hold their feet to the fire and watching them squirm and, more importantly, have nothing to say is really telling.
01:08:12.000Because, again, Laura, if somebody came and confronted either of us about something that they felt we reported incorrectly, I think that you and I would either respond or at least be able to justify why we have reported on or said what we said.
01:08:24.000You know, if someone came up to you and said, Laura, why were you so mean to the mainstream media?
01:08:32.000I mean, you and I both have been confronted, whether it's outside of the Trump trial or whether it's in New York City, we both have been confronted and asked questions about our reporting.
01:08:42.000You used to work at InfoWars, you used to be an InfoWars contributor, and I can't help but recall the times when you and I have both been at the forefront of exposing this political violence against Trump.
01:08:52.000Whether it was me storming the stage of the Shakespeare in the Park play, and we just highlighted that clip for which I was arrested.
01:08:58.000But at the same time that I stormed the stage of Shakespeare in the Park, one of the things that I chanted while I was getting escorted off stage and dragged away by NYPD was CNN is ISIS.
01:09:08.000Because at the time, and you were working for Infowars at this time, Alex Jones had started this campaign to highlight the domestic terrorism and incitement of violence against President Trump by CNN.
01:09:20.000And of course, they had CNN contributor and employee Kathy Griffin with the ISIS decapitation photo of President Trump that earned her a visit by Secret Service.
01:09:30.000And so, you know, we've been warning people, you and me and others, we have been warning people for over seven years now.
01:09:38.000That this type of rhetoric was going to eventually reach a boiling point.
01:09:41.000But I want to go ahead and play the clip.
01:10:01.000Hi y'all I was just wondering um you guys refused to report on the incompetence of Joe Biden and I was just wondering if you guys were told not to report on that or if you guys really were that ignorant the entire American public for some reason was able to see that Joe Biden ...was grossly incompetent and that he's been in cognitive decline for a long time.
01:10:22.000However, you guys just started reporting this.
01:11:03.000Dana, you're a very respected journalist.
01:11:05.000Jake, not so much respected, but people listen to you still.
01:11:09.000Would any of you guys like to respond to Joe Biden's cognitive decline and why you guys lied to the American people about it for so long?
01:11:17.000Can you please take your hands off of me?
01:11:19.000So there you guys go, that's the media.
01:11:21.000They refuse to answer the questions of the American people.
01:11:26.000So as you can see in that clip, CNN's security got pretty handsy with you.
01:11:30.000I thought that we believe all women, right?
01:11:32.000So maybe you should file a claim against CNN, the network that also was responsible for perpetuating the lies that President Trump was a rapist and that President Trump sexually assaults women, that he puts his hands on women, that he encourages a culture of violence against women.
01:11:53.000Every single headline, but then they literally have a security guard put their hands on you.
01:11:59.000And I'm just so sick of it, because every single time any of us confront any of these people, it's always like a male security guard that puts his hands on us.
01:12:06.000And it's like, it's happened to me a lot, it's happened to you, but I think it's just out of control that we've reached this point in time where security guards are actually putting their hands on women.
01:12:14.000But you have another clip as well, you confronted Kirsten Welker.
01:12:18.000I think this one was actually my favorite, even more than the CNN clip, because she just looked like, I don't know.
01:12:26.000She looked mortified to see you and then she had this look on her face where she just couldn't... These people, what's so funny about it is when you confront them, they just have this very stunned look on their face.
01:13:08.000Alright, y'all, this is Savannah Hernandez and this is actually Kristen Welkner right behind me of NBC News, the exact same network that reported after the attempted assassination of Donald Trump that it was just popping noises.
01:13:21.000Kristen, would you like to say anything?
01:14:04.000The CNN security guards were probably just shocked and horrified because you had confronted Jake Tapper first earlier in the day.
01:14:10.000And then I think Taylor Hanson got them while they were leaving earlier.
01:14:13.000So I think that they were a little shook because they probably thought it was a coordinated ambush because I was aware of myself, and then Taylor, and then I saw your clip, and then you told me that somebody else also confronted them too.
01:14:26.000Yeah, Jonathan Cho, one of my colleagues, also confronted them as well.
01:15:01.000I remember producing Alex's shows, Owen's shows, and having you on, and it seemed like for the longest time, you were kind of stuck in this niche, you know, censorship bubble.
01:15:11.000But now that you've been unleashed, you hit a million.
01:15:16.000You're not backed by billions of dollars.
01:15:17.000I see the time and effort that you put into your work.
01:15:20.000So just, you know, everyone watching on Rumble, please give Laura the, you know, credit that she's due, because you It's just hilarious to see CNN try to compete with someone like you, Lauren.
01:15:30.000Well, I appreciate it, and it's been interesting, too, because I've been here in the media pool, and you've probably seen it, too.
01:15:37.000I've come to meet some of these different mainstream reporters, and some of them have come up to me, actually, and I won't name names because I don't want to get any of them in trouble, but to my surprise, some of them, not Jake Tapper and not Dana Bash, of course, and not Kirsten, But some of these more mainstream people who people would recognize have actually come up to me and said they like my work.
01:15:56.000So maybe there's some secret Trump supporters on some of these mainstream media networks and they're not allowed to do anything or post anything without going through legal or red tape and so of course we're going to be beating them at their own game.
01:16:08.000And I think that deep down inside a lot of them are very jealous.
01:16:23.000And by the time that we've already produced 10 stories or 15 reports online and gotten 20 million views on our reports, they're still waiting to hear back from corporate about whether or not they can post something, right?
01:16:34.000I mean, I posted a clip this morning that I was able to obtain from the hospital that was recorded of President Trump walking in and immediately arriving.
01:16:42.000Nobody had ever seen this footage before.
01:16:52.000Oh, you know, can we utilize your clip?
01:16:53.000It's like, OK, this is why you guys are never going to beat us, because you spend hours trying to verify something that's clearly verifiable.
01:17:00.000I mean, clearly you see it's the motorcade coming in, right?
01:17:04.000It's it's they're lucky that they get funding from the networks because as we've seen the print media is going out of business and it's because everything now revolves around social media and that's why it was so criminal what happened to me and you and others and Alex and Owen but because if it's nice that I have a million followers and I'm grateful for it but honestly if I had not been censored over the last six years that I was censored I'd probably have five million followers right now if not more.
01:17:30.000I mean, not to mention my Instagram and my Facebook that was taken away from me at the time I was banned from Instagram permanently in 2019.
01:17:59.000Thank you, but you also have a ton on truth And so that think about like if you hadn't been censored on these other platforms because I don't think you ever permanently banned Maybe you were correct me if I'm wrong for two years from X I was I was.
01:18:11.000But if you had not been criminally banned for two years, imagine what you'd be at right now, especially because your videos always exceed over a million views.
01:18:25.000And I think that, more than anything, I'm just grateful every day that we have X because, again, like with Donald Trump's assassination attempt, we are seeing so many videos come out from not even journalists, right?
01:18:36.000Just regular citizens who sensed that something was wrong.
01:19:20.000It's a real video and a farmer actually gave an interview about how their cow got up on the roof.
01:19:25.000It's a real video, it's not photoshopped.
01:19:28.000If a cow can get on a sloped roof and a cow that weighs, you know, hundreds of pounds can navigate a sloped roof, why can't a trained sniper navigate a sloped roof?
01:19:37.000Well, the highest levels of our government are filled with idiots, Laura, so that's probably why.
01:19:42.000Or people who just hate Donald Trump so much that they hope that he does get assassinated.
01:19:48.000But again, I'm glad that we were able to see videos like that because if it was only the mainstream media who was allowing us to see what was going on and dictating that narrative, do you think we ever would have even seen this video of the evidence being washed away?
01:20:02.000No, we wouldn't. - No, and that's the thing about social media is ever since Elon Musk has taken over X, I really do think that people have really been empowered to break through false narratives And now, I mean, I don't think that the community note system is really that accurate.
01:20:34.000When you compare this election season to the 2020 election season when people were being banned for calling out, you know, the China virus and vaccines and lockdowns and voter fraud, I think that we have a lot more transparency in our country now.
01:20:48.000It's not perfect, but people also now have the ability to maximize their full potential and not have stolen opportunities because money comes and goes and it'd be nice to make more money always.
01:21:01.000But I think the worst part about all the censorship And all of the deplatforming and debanking that so many independent journalists like us have been subjected to was stolen potential.
01:21:10.000Because you can always make more money.
01:21:21.000And I think that's what it's all about, right?
01:21:22.000Like you and I are putting the blood, sweat and tears into being on the ground for the people because neither of us are in it for the money.
01:21:32.000And again, that's why you're so popular.
01:21:34.000That's why Laura Loomer Unleashed has been such a powerhouse over this just this past year.
01:21:40.000And I'm really excited to see how we're going to be able to report on the 2024 election, because it is going to be so much different than four years ago when censorship was so heavy, when you couldn't even, like you just said, talk about the vaccine, when you had people getting fired because they refused to take it.
01:21:56.000So I think we're just in a completely different place politically.
01:22:02.000You know, even seeing Donald Trump come out at the RNC for night one was just such a powerful moment.
01:22:07.000And I think a lot of Americans after Saturday, really waking up to where we're at as a country and what needs to happen for us to actually get back to a place of normalcy and just taking our country back.
01:22:29.000I'm working on border coverage right now.
01:22:31.000I'm looking at going to Boston, of course covering New York because The border, you know, Donald Trump can come in and close it and start to try to mitigate this crisis, but we still have 10 million illegal immigrants that are fundamentally changing American cities.
01:22:44.000So I'm really focused in on that, especially ahead.
01:22:46.000Well, just under Joe Biden, there's about 60 million, but it's 10 million under Joe Biden that we know of.
01:22:51.000But yes, I don't want to correct you, but 10 million under Joe Biden.
01:22:56.000But I think right now, like the number of illegals in our country, it's probably about 60 to 65 million.
01:23:01.000See, and I'm glad that you added that, actually, too, because I think people really, like, get honed in on, okay, the past four years, but like you said, this has been a really big issue for a long time.
01:23:08.000But even the Republican Party uses that 10 million number.
01:23:11.000They've been using it since the 80s with Reagan.
01:23:46.000I was covering the border too, and I was out there covering the Trump trial with Judge Marshawn, and I get this notification that there's all these, you know, illegal aliens outside of City Hall, and I just jump into the middle of it, and we took this photo where, you know, Savannah and I took a selfie, and there were a few other people there too, and it's like, oh yeah, are we in Africa or are we in New York right now?
01:25:25.000And I wasn't trying to make a joke or anything but it just really was people with AIDS plaza.
01:25:29.000That's just modern day America in 2024.
01:25:32.000Which is kind of funny, but also, too, it's kind of ironic that where all of the African illegals gathered, because, I mean, Africa is the hub of AIDS, and I'm not saying that every African has AIDS, but, you know, look, a lot of these illegal aliens are bringing diseases to our country, and New York City and New York City and Chicago have seen an increase in sexually transmitted diseases, too.
01:25:55.000Previously eradicated diseases, like polio and measles and other things like tuberculosis and typhoid fever and all these different things.
01:26:02.000But, again, like, we're seeing a rise of HIV and AIDS in these cities, and I wouldn't doubt it for one second if it's because of all the illegal aliens.
01:26:13.000Laura, there's a lot going on in New York City that's probably contributing to that.
01:26:32.000I am currently standing at People with AIDS Plaza in front of City Hall in the middle of Manhattan, New York City.
01:26:40.000And I wanted to show you what the city has devolved into.
01:26:44.000I was covering the Trump trial this morning, and then I got an alert that there was a swarm of people in front of City Hall.
01:26:51.000And when I rushed over here, it was about a five-minute walk from the courthouse, I encountered about 1,000 African Islamic invaders These are so-called migrants who are seeking asylum and refugee status.
01:27:04.000And they were here today to try to, in their words, right, raise awareness about how they need more assistance.
01:27:11.000And when I said what type of assistance, they want work permits, they want to get food, they want more money.
01:27:16.000And, you know, the question is, why do you feel that you're so entitled?
01:27:20.000Why do these people that are coming across our border illegally feel that they are so entitled to our taxpayer money?
01:27:26.000There was a report out this week that said from now between 2024 and 2025, the city of New York is actually going to be spending $12 billion to take care of the illegal alien crisis here.
01:27:40.000And they don't seem to care about the burden that that's going to be putting on the taxpayers here.
01:27:47.000It's a beautiful day here at People with AIDS Plaza, and we're gonna take you inside the park right now, inside People with AIDS Plaza, so that you can see all of these invaders from Africa. - So yeah, so that you can see all of these invaders from Africa. - So yeah, People with AIDS Plaza.
01:28:10.000You know, Laura, people always say that the movie Idiocracy mirrors modern day America, and I wish that wasn't true, but it actually is.
01:28:17.000And you know, anytime like a Democratic official opens their mouth, true.
01:28:20.000Anytime you go to New York to people with AIDS plaza, absolutely true.
01:28:25.000Every single time Joe Biden tries to walk upstairs, that seems to be true.
01:28:29.000So, you know, welcome to America in 2024, everybody.
01:29:11.000I was just going to say thank you and I always told myself that I will have made it as a solid journalist once I get on Laura Luna's show.
01:29:18.000So here we go guys, my career has officially started.
01:29:20.000You've been a solid journalist for a long time, you do phenomenal work, you do great work, great job and I'm not only proud of the work that you're doing but I'm also proud to call you a friend.
01:29:31.000You've always been loyal and you've always been supportive and not many people are very kind in this industry.
01:29:35.000Especially once you lose your platform, people view you as not having anything to offer.
01:29:39.000But you always stood by me, even at my lowest lows, when I had basically nothing.
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01:30:06.000So, we're in the middle of connecting with Corey Lewandowski.
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01:38:52.000I believe we now have Corey connected, so joining me now live from Milwaukee, Wisconsin from the RNC convention is former Trump campaign manager, and now he's working with the RNC again, Corey Lewandowski.
01:39:04.000Corey, thanks so much for joining me tonight.
01:39:17.000I saw you on the floor of the convention the other day, and you, of course, have been brought back on by the Trump campaign to help assist with the RNC.
01:39:26.000And I will say, job well done, because it seems like, so far, you and Chris LaCivita have really been able to have a flawless RNC convention.
01:39:35.000There was no contestation of the delegates.
01:39:37.000There was nobody trying to unbind on the floor.
01:39:40.000And it seems like, I don't know if maybe it's the attempted assassination of President Trump or just your stellar organization skills, but whatever it is, it looks like this was as smooth as it could go.
01:39:50.000Any comments on the flow of the RNC thus far?
01:39:58.000I'm glad that Nikki Haley released her delegates.
01:40:00.000We made a call to all of them, and then they did decide to support Donald Trump, which is very important to us.
01:40:06.000You know, it's been really well done so far.
01:40:09.000And the most impactful stories have been those everyday Americans who've been on the stage telling their story, talking about the fentanyl crisis in this country, talking about the illegal immigrant crisis in this country.
01:40:19.000You know, I'm sure people want to hear from the politicians, but these everyday American stories are so much more powerful.
01:40:24.000And I think that's what's going to win the hearts and minds of people going forward.
01:40:30.000What is your biggest takeaway thus far from the RNC convention?
01:40:33.000I'm just retweeting it now too because we do have about 40,000 people watching live.
01:40:37.000I just hit a million followers on X and so really exciting because it's a really big day and so many people are tuning into this show to watch this episode live from the RNC.
01:40:47.000Corey, so I appreciate you joining me.
01:40:50.000What's the biggest takeaway thus far from this RNC convention?
01:40:53.000Do you really believe that people are going to unify?
01:40:56.000Because it seems like there's a lot of people now that are either putting grievances behind them, bearing the hatchet.
01:41:02.000I've witnessed it firsthand here at the convention.
01:41:05.000I had Matt Schlapp come up to me personally and apologize for kicking me out of CPAC a few years ago.
01:41:10.000I've had people from the DeSantis campaign come up to me and apologize as well.
01:41:15.000Do you think that this near-death experience from Donald Trump has inspired people to be kinder, more gentler, and nicer to each other?
01:41:21.000Or do you think it's just a bunch of kumbaya, you know, momentary nonsense?
01:41:26.000Or do you really think that we are going to see peace in the Republican Party?
01:41:30.000Look, I think we're really unified right now, whether you're a MAGA Republican like I have been, or you're a more, you know, moderate Republican like the Nikki Haley wing of the Republican Party.
01:41:40.000You know, everybody here is moving forward in one direction, which is to support Donald Trump and J.P.
01:41:45.000Vance so that they are the next 47th President and Vice President, respectively, of the United States.
01:41:50.000Look, our party has an opportunity to rise to this occasion, to talk directly to the American people, to tell them what our vision is for America.
01:41:59.000We have been living under a Joe Biden disaster for the last three and a half years.
01:42:04.000He had to practice standing at the debate for 90 minutes.
01:42:08.000He thinks he's an African-American woman.
01:42:10.000He thinks that Donald Trump is his Vice President of the United States, and we think that his cognitive ability is only going to get better?
01:42:48.000I've had him on my show before, and I'll just be very blunt because you, like me, Corey, you're a no-nonsense, zero-bullshit person, so I think you can appreciate this.
01:42:57.000I think that the strategy, and again, I don't work for President Trump, but if I did, I would probably advise that the strategy going forward should be to address the oppo up front.
01:43:09.000Vance, of course, has a history of calling President Trump Hitler, calling President Trump an idiot, saying he's cultural heroine, calling Trump supporters idiots.
01:43:17.000But I think that this can actually, ironically, and I don't think that I would usually ever say this, could be spinned to a positive to amplify that message of unity and to say, listen, if J.D. Vance could be one of the most obnoxious Trump haters and then if J.D. Vance could be one of the most obnoxious Trump haters and then transform over eight years into being one of the strongest advocates of President Trump and the America First mission in the United States.
01:43:39.000Senate, then that is a testament to what we can do to the American people by having strong communication, strong campaign messaging and bringing people from across the aisle who thought they hated President Trump, who had been brainwashed by eight years of propaganda and lies and who had been brainwashed by eight years of propaganda and lies and have those people cross over the way J.D. Vance did and turn those into Trump supporters and members of the MAGA movement.
01:44:01.000Do you agree with my assessment or do you see things differently?
01:44:23.000Vance was attacking Donald Trump way back in 2016, he also had a number of rivals who he ran against who were attacking him.
01:44:31.000Guys who went on to serve admirably in his administration, like Dr. Ben Carson and Secretary Rick Perry, who was an opponent during the 2016 campaign.
01:44:41.000So look, the convert sometimes Is more welcome than the first believer.
01:44:45.000Look, no one can ever say they were with Donald Trump before I was.
01:44:49.000But I will tell you this, we are so happy that he's expanded the base.
01:44:52.000He's expanded people coming to support him.
01:44:55.000Whether you are green, black, blue, orange, brown, yellow, it doesn't matter.
01:44:59.000We want everybody to come and support President Trump.
01:45:01.000because we've got a lot of work to do over the next four years.
01:45:20.000I get to fight you for the title of Biggest Trump Loyalist?
01:45:23.000Look, we could have that fight, but I've been there since the very beginning, and I love you, but hey, I'm pretty good at fighting, by the way.
01:45:29.000I think I've gotten in trouble a few times with fighting at these places.
01:45:33.000Truly, Corey Lewandowski was there from day one, like many others, like Roger Stone as well.
01:45:39.000There's very few people who were there with President Trump from day one, but I will say you were one of the true Trump loyalists who has always been there despite all the media attacks and all the attacks that you've been subjected to over the years for supporting President Trump.
01:45:58.000What do you think that we can expect to see tomorrow night when President Trump delivers his acceptance of the nomination speech?
01:46:06.000Look, President Trump is going to be very conciliatory in the sense that he wants to unite this country.
01:46:10.000You know, the great leaders all rise to the occasion, whether it was, you know, during the Gettysburg Address that Lincoln gave, or after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, or most recently, after the historic tragedy on 9-11.
01:46:22.000Look, great leaders stand up and bring people together, and people forget about being a Republican or Democrat.
01:46:28.000They want to support this country to be successful.
01:46:30.000I think that's what you're going to hear from Donald Trump, which is join us, join our movement.
01:46:34.000We don't care where you've been in the past.
01:46:36.000Join us so that we can make this country great again, so we can make it strong again, so we can make it safe again, so we can make it prosperous again.
01:46:43.000And if you're an American, you know, I don't know how you could disagree with that.
01:46:46.000You know, nobody, there is nobody wants to raise their children on the south side of Chicago.
01:46:51.000There's nobody wants to see Joe Biden for another four years.
01:47:08.000And given that statement, too, and all the speeches that we've seen about unification, what else do you expect to see in the speeches tonight?
01:47:16.000And what do you think that we can expect to see from the Republican Party going forward?
01:47:20.000I know a lot of people are worried about, you know, oh, we've seen a lot of statements like, oh, people are just on their best behavior now because President Trump was almost assassinated.
01:47:30.000Do you think that the sentiments that we're seeing from other members of the Republican Party, even some members of the Democrat Party and the media, which we hope they'll have a guilty conscience and some feelings of remorse, Do you think that we can see this continue in the long term or do you think that this is just kind of a temporary aftershock of watching President Trump almost have his head blown off live on television during his rally?
01:47:53.000Well, look, the Democrats have to get rid of the rhetoric.
01:47:57.000They've said that Donald Trump is a threat to democracy, that he will use the weaponization of the Justice Department to go after his opponents.
01:48:32.000a kid who grew up in absolute squalor poverty, got a college degree at the Ohio State University, went on to serve admirably in the United States Marine Corps, got accepted to Yale Law School, graduated from that prestigious institution, went out to Silicon Valley, made some money there, and then now he's 39 years old.
01:48:50.000He's a U.S. senator, and he's the Republican nominee for vice president of the United States.
01:48:54.000So only in America can 30 years can someone go from literally abject poverty to the pinnacle of potential power in this country.
01:49:02.000It's the greatest thing that this country has to offer people, which is the American dream.
01:49:06.000And under the Trump administration, for four more years, more people will have the chance to have that dream.
01:49:11.000And then I want to ask you, too, just if you can, Corey, touch on the attempted assassination from this last Saturday.
01:49:18.000There's a lot of very disturbing reports that have come out.
01:49:20.000And look, you've been a big supporter of President Trump as his former campaign manager.
01:49:24.000You're no stranger to Secret Service details or traveling with the President and, you know, Secret Service protection.
01:49:31.000And so we've now learned that Secret Service was aware of the shooter.
01:49:35.000along with local law enforcement for 30 minutes before shots rang out, which means that they were aware of the shooter before President Trump took the stage since he was on stage for about 20 minutes, which means that they allowed him to take the stage while knowing that there was a potential shooter or actual shooter rather in the perimeter.
01:49:52.000We also found out that the shooter, Thomas Matthew Crooks, went through Secret Service twice with his rangefinder scope for his rifle, We have also found out that he was on top of the roof whilst counter snipers were inside the building that he was actually standing on top of.
01:50:09.000He had explosive devices on his body and also his vehicle across the street was packed full of explosive devices ready to be detonated to potentially harm and blow up Trump supporters.
01:50:20.000Do you think that this was an inside job?
01:50:23.000It almost seems like it was too much of a deviation for this to not be intentional.
01:50:27.000Do you think that this was an inside job by the Secret Service Director and Alejandro Mayorkas, who controls Secret Service, by signing off on resources or denying resources as he did?
01:50:41.000Look, if any resources were asked for and weren't given, then absolutely there has to be accountability for it.
01:50:46.000What's amazing to me is that we've got a 20-year-old kid walking Through, you know, on the outskirts of a protectees, you know, bubble area, carrying a ladder and a long rifle, and nobody seems to be able to think that that's odd.
01:50:59.000We've got a minute and 26 seconds of individuals who are saying, look, there's a guy up on the roof up there, and allegedly, a police officer climbs up to see this individual, finds him at the bottom end of a rifle, doesn't get on his radio, there's no radio call on this, but he just simply climbs back down and slithers away.
01:51:18.000I've been part of President Trump's team since he has picked up Secret Service all the way back in October of 2015.
01:51:25.000There is traditionally a communications channel for local, state, and federal law enforcement officials.
01:51:30.000If there is a problem, they can put a bowl out or be on the lookout for on one channel.
01:51:35.000You're telling me a police officer climbed up to the top of this building, saw an individual on a roof, saw a rifle pointed at him, and didn't ever make a radio call?
01:51:44.000I find that fascinating, to be very honest with you, as someone who's served as a police officer in the past.
01:52:12.000Secret Service Director, who Joe Biden said is a great guy and talked to, is actually a female.
01:52:17.000And Joe Biden clearly has no idea what's going on.
01:52:19.000So, let's get to the bottom of it and let's do it damn quick.
01:52:23.000We can get to the bottom of it, but exactly what you just said, having been a law enforcement officer yourself and also knowing what we know about the fact that this police officer didn't even radio over after coming face-to-face with the shooter, I guess I'll just ask you again, because a lot of people are saying that it's too inflammatory to say this, but I don't think it's inflammatory.
01:52:42.000I think this is exactly what's going to come to be the case.
01:52:45.000We've already seen that the United States government has assassinated United States presidents in the past.
01:52:51.000So I believe that it was an inside job.
01:53:40.000And I don't understand how the director of the U.S. Secret Service still has her job right now.
01:53:45.000I think that you're exactly correct, Corey.
01:53:49.000We're probably going to find out in six weeks or less.
01:53:52.000I think it's probably going to be a lot less than that.
01:53:55.000I'm happy to see that the director, Kim Cheadle, has been subpoenaed by James Comer, but hopefully the Republicans will actually stick to this message of demanding answers and accountability.
01:54:07.000Personally, I don't know why they're all here at the RNC convention.
01:54:11.000I think that it would have shown more leadership and more unity and also more of a sense of urgency to get Donald Trump elected had all of these members just gone back to Washington DC this week for an emergency session instead of inviting Kim Cheadle.
01:54:26.000I mean, as if she should have the choice about whether she attends or not on July 22nd.
01:54:31.000But I'm sure that you and I are on the same page about that, Corey.
01:54:35.000I just want to give you last few words, Corey.
01:54:39.000Anything that you want to say to the viewers right now about the RNC or the future of the Trump campaign?
01:55:37.000I'm really looking forward to heading back over after my show tonight to watch those incredible speeches and to also see President Trump speak tonight.
01:55:44.000So I want to thank you for all of your hard work and your years of loyalty and support for President Trump, the greatest president ever.
01:56:06.000Well, I believe, and I'm not an overly religious person, I am Catholic, I believe a higher power saved Donald Trump because he's got a plan for him and for our country going forward.
01:56:16.000I agree with you and I say the same thing and I'm not a super religious person either but you cannot explain that other than divine intervention.
01:56:24.000The way that he turned his head and especially given the fact that he never used those graphics during his rallies.
01:56:30.000It was kind of a last minute decision by Dan Scavino and I think...
01:56:35.000the advance team there that said, okay, the president wants to use these graphics to talk about the illegal immigration statistics, and they were about to not do it, but President Trump insisted.
01:56:54.000Well, that's Corey Lewandowski, of course.
01:56:59.000You can find him on X. And, as I said before, he's the former Trump campaign manager.
01:57:05.000He was with President Trump in the beginning, in 2015-2016.
01:57:09.000Truly a true Trump loyalist, and it's great to hear his insight, given the fact that the Trump campaign brought him back on to assist with this RNC convention.
01:57:20.000It is now 5 o'clock, and I do have to head back over now to the RNC convention to watch the evening speeches.
01:57:28.000We're going to hear from members of the Trump family tonight and several members of Congress.
01:57:33.000And tonight's around 9 o'clock, I believe.
01:57:47.000Vance's speech is going to be at 9.31 p.m.
01:57:49.000And then tomorrow, of course, is the last day of the RNC convention, and we're going to see President Trump speak.
01:57:55.000I'm told that Melania Trump will be attending tomorrow.
01:57:58.000Ivanka Trump will also be attending tomorrow.
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