Rebel News Podcast - EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump stands tall following shocking assassination attempt

00:00:00.000 Hello, my friends. Huge show today, obviously. We talked to our friend Rachel Parker,

00:00:03.920 who was right there in Pennsylvania at the rally when President Trump was shot. We'll have

00:00:08.860 the lowdown from her, including incredible videos that she filmed on location. And then I'll tell

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00:00:59.520 Tonight, the latest on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump. It's July 15 and this

00:01:12.120 is the Seattle LeVant show.

00:01:16.480 Shame on you, you censorious bug.

00:01:28.480 As you know, it's been a couple of days since Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania. 0.93

00:01:34.380 Just absolutely astonishing to see the coverage of an assassination attempt in today's modern

00:01:40.780 world, not just social media where everyone learned about it and where conspiracy theories

00:01:47.000 or false reports were quickly debunked much faster than the mainstream media got even the

00:01:52.660 story basics out there. It was truly a triumph of social media over legacy media, not just for

00:01:58.620 speed and accuracy, but also for fairness. I mean, it was just absolutely astonishing to see things

00:02:07.040 like the Washington Post, which incredibly Jeffrey Bezos, who owns the Washington Post,

00:02:13.580 tweeted his sympathy to Trump. But of course, his newspaper claimed there was no motive here.

00:02:19.960 And we really don't know what's going on. It was I think it was the end of the legacy media in many

00:02:24.900 ways. The entire world was on Twitter. In fact, Elon Musk tweeted that they reached a record,

00:02:31.100 a massive record in users globally and in America. I mean, here's something that would have been

00:02:37.720 impossible short years ago, a photo of the bullet in midair whizzing by Donald Trump's head, having just

00:02:47.960 hit his ear an inch away from his head. Unbelievable. There were a lot of unbelievable things. We saw the

00:02:56.680 Secret Service just melt down. And many say it's because of the new DEI, diversity, equity and

00:03:05.280 inclusion mandate of the Secret Service, where normally you have big hulking guys. I mean, think about

00:03:12.400 security in the real world. If you've ever been to a nightclub, the bouncer is always a massive

00:03:17.140 rock of a man. Half the purpose is to deter. But the other purpose is if things get rough,

00:03:22.820 he can just throw people around. You never have small people as security and never small,

00:03:28.720 physically small women. And they seem to be fidgeting, not knowing what to do, not being

00:03:33.920 able to holster a gun, picking up their sunglasses, a lot of strange things. And the Secret Service being

00:03:39.280 a very evasive. Here's a clip from a Secret Service press conference yesterday where they were asked about

00:03:45.780 the shooter and how the shooter could get within 150 yards of the president. And the Secret Service

00:03:53.240 spokesman literally said, oh, that's not our department. That's outside our perimeter.

00:03:57.820 Talk to the local cops. Could you imagine that as their answer here? Take a look at that insanity. 0.97

00:04:02.900 Thank you, Chief. And just to reiterate what the Chief said, local ordinances in the state of Wisconsin

00:04:09.620 do not supersede state law. Wisconsin is an open carry state and therefore the city of Milwaukee and

00:04:16.900 no other jurisdiction in this state can supersede that state law. Folks should be aware, though,

00:04:23.500 that proactively before the convention gets started, we did take action at the local level

00:04:28.900 to ban items that we could ban. So we used our authority already at the municipal level

00:04:34.800 to take that sort of security precaution that we were able to do. But in terms of banning weapons

00:04:42.300 in the outer perimeter, that is not within our purview because of state law.

00:04:46.840 Let's talk a little bit more about that shooter on the rooftop. He was visible for two minutes

00:04:52.880 before he shot. Two minutes where people were pointing and shouting. Take a look at this video.

00:04:58.900 People pointing, shouting to the fact that there was a shooter on the roof. If they could see it,

00:05:04.320 why couldn't police? In fact, there was a report that a policeman went up there,

00:05:07.700 was scared and went back down. Take a look.

00:05:09.800 Look, they're all pointed. Yeah, someone's on top of the roof. Look, here he is right there.

00:05:24.000 Right there. You see him? He's laying down. You see him? Yeah, he's laying down.

00:05:27.560 Oh, he's not. He's not going to be caught. And he's got him here with the inviting hotel

00:05:32.320 to get his Senate. What's happening?

00:05:34.560 And the pressure will take back the last because if we do, we're going to make America better

00:05:39.120 than his people. We're going to make it. Yeah, look. There he is.

00:05:42.600 Because we have millions and millions of people in our country that should be dangerous people.

00:05:49.360 Criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals.

00:05:53.560 obviously the shooter shot the bullet and he is the guilty one but i think it is extremely

00:06:07.580 unlikely that he acted alone and the description of him so far doesn't seem to click a 20 year old

00:06:14.440 with no social media footprint whatsoever no manifesto left behind oddly he appeared in a

00:06:21.020 black rock tv ad what are the odds just very very strange but i think that there's a phrase i hadn't

00:06:30.120 really heard it a lot until yesterday stochastic terrorism and i think one way to understand that

00:06:36.620 phrase is for four or eight or more years we've had a drumbeat in the mainstream media and other 0.91

00:06:42.940 mainstream establishments that donald trump is a tyrant that he's a nazi that he's like hitler 0.99

00:06:48.320 that he's authoritarian that he will kill you that he breaks the law that he will be a fascist that he 0.98

00:06:53.940 will jail his opponents and the irony about all these claims is actually what's being done to trump

00:06:59.760 he's the one who's been arrested prosecuted who's had his home raided by the democrats he never did

00:07:06.300 that when he was president he didn't prosecute hillary clinton even though hillary clinton

00:07:10.220 quite evidently committed a number of crimes it was trump whose mar-a-lago was raided by the fbi

00:07:16.180 but the drumbeat the trump is terrible trump is a danger trump must be defeated trump is the enemy

00:07:21.820 um it's almost i mean a comparison that comes to my mind is how hamas indoctrinates young people in 0.99

00:07:29.140 gaza from the time they are children kill the jews hate the jews slit their throat shoot them 0.99

00:07:35.320 be a martyr if you indoctrinate someone for 20 years as they do in hamas don't be surprised if they 0.99

00:07:41.960 commit acts of terrorism and then barbarism um and i i'm not saying it's quite that far in america

00:07:49.440 but you've got more than 330 million americans and if you have a constant drumbeat this is an evil man

00:07:55.440 someone's going to do something it's almost like that cia program mk ultra where they you know the

00:08:02.400 jason born movies were based on that idea of using hallucinogenic drugs to get people to basically do

00:08:09.560 anything turn them into killing machines there's a lot of questions to be answered for sure and i

00:08:13.760 don't actually trust the fbi to answer them you know i uh joe biden doesn't have a lot to recommend

00:08:21.560 himself these days especially with his disastrous performance in the leaders debate but um he does

00:08:28.280 keep pumping away at that hate rhetoric i don't know if you remember these images from a biden speech

00:08:35.700 a few months ago it looks positively i don't know satanic even nazi in its iconography um biden tried

00:08:44.900 to make light of it calling that dark brandon but it is dark and he dehumanizes and delegitimizes

00:08:52.200 trump they they prosecute him they want to jail him they call him a felon they do this to make him

00:08:59.860 lower and less reed hoffman an enormous democrat donor uh just last week was saying that he wants

00:09:07.360 to quote really martyr trump to make him an actual martyr not just a metaphorical martyr but to

00:09:15.600 actually martyr him and that's another way of saying killing him so are we surprised that someone

00:09:20.360 actually pulled the trigger now what's happened since that moment has been in some ways even worse

00:09:27.200 trump in an amazing act of courage stood up pumped his fists and said fight fight fight before being

00:09:33.520 shuffled off the stage and i think that shows obviously some showmanship but it shows courage

00:09:39.800 and presence of mind under fire it is absolutely courageous to stand up when he had no idea what

00:09:46.600 was going on face the crowd and cheer before being let off absolutely that took courage um

00:09:52.300 and his comments that he has made on social media have been frankly magnificent they have been high

00:10:01.380 minded they have not been vengeful or bitter they have not been accusatory either towards the secret

00:10:06.720 service or towards the democrats he hasn't been negative he's risen to the occasion his opponents have

00:10:12.740 not my former friend david from writing in the atlantic was just atrocious blaming the victim

00:10:19.060 stephen marsh uh wrote in the globe and mail that trump is the violent one and beware of trump's

00:10:25.060 vengeance and we're about to get chaos from trump okay that was written yesterday there wasn't a single

00:10:30.120 riot overnight not a single riot not a single act of vengeance not a single shooting or stabbing

00:10:36.480 or window smashed because of what happened the chaos and the vengeance is on the democrat side

00:10:42.500 they're projecting they actually wanted trump to die and now they're it's it's absolutely bizarre

00:10:49.320 an incredible thing is msnbc that american talk network has suspended its entire roster of daytime

00:10:57.480 commentators because they acknowledge according to a cnn report that they don't trust that their

00:11:02.640 pundits won't say insane extreme things they literally don't trust their own journalists not to say

00:11:08.600 some kooky thing like trump deserved it canadians can be awful too i mentioned uh the the articles

00:11:14.620 written by david from and stephen march here's a ubc professor who is lamenting that um the shooter

00:11:21.120 missed i mean these are the tolerant people these are the stop bullying people but we've known that

00:11:28.160 we've seen over the last 10 months that they're absolutely fine with nazism and anti-semitism

00:11:33.100 and street violence as long as it's on the left uh aimed at canada and america what's incredible

00:11:39.420 and perhaps not surprising is that the violent left has not missed a beat they're right back at it in

00:11:44.980 places like portland and milwaukee milwaukee where the republicans are holding their convention right now

00:11:52.160 there are protests on the streets there are encampments on the streets we're sending a couple of rebel

00:11:58.400 journalists to cover it i think you'll see that they haven't been slowed down one ounce or one inch

00:12:04.040 i am quite certain that they will tell our reporter yankee pollack who's going there uh that they wish

00:12:08.840 the assassination would happen just moments ago i'm recording this uh in the late afternoon uh trump

00:12:15.840 announced his vice presidential pick a senator named jd vance who is famous for being sort of a

00:12:22.980 midwestern populist conservatives working class conservative and he's an excellent campaigner

00:12:31.980 a very principled make america great again america first uh choice but i think the reason his choice is

00:12:39.340 so brilliant is he's what i've seen some people call assassination insurance and it's terrible to say it

00:12:45.480 but it is a factor in america where four presidents have been murdered and others like ronald reagan have

00:12:52.480 been shot and thankfully survived that you have to think of who would become president if the

00:12:56.780 president was killed and in the case of joe biden if the president were killed incapacitated died

00:13:02.000 peacefully whatever it would be kamala harris who is absolutely atrocious by every measure and i think 0.99

00:13:08.320 a lot of people who despise biden would say yikes yeah it's uh probably better that biden stay on than

00:13:12.960 kamala harris gets it well if you're talking about assassination insurance donald trump

00:13:17.600 is a late i think he's almost 80 i think he's 78 or 79 or 80 and i mean he's still fighting on all

00:13:25.440 pistons i mean he's still got his wits about him he's still got his courage i mean look at look at

00:13:29.600 what he did on stage in pennsylvania i think the shock of the moment probably would have killed joe

00:13:34.580 biden himself but if if god forbid donald trump were to die or or even worse god forbid be assassinated

00:13:41.080 jd vance a generation younger but tougher in many ways would solidify the america first agenda

00:13:48.840 as opposed to some uh centrist uh choice to balance the ticket who would positively invite assassination

00:13:57.400 so i think that's an inspired appointment the world is churning it's fascinating i heard the craziest

00:14:03.720 report i've heard over the last few days is that justin trudeau actually phoned donald trump

00:14:09.080 i i find that hard to believe but uh i can't remember where i saw that but it was reported

00:14:13.960 credibly i'm astonished by that uh it must have taken a day of convincing for uh uh foreign affairs

00:14:22.200 staff to tell um trudeau look you may hate the guy but he's probably going to be the next president

00:14:27.320 and you're going to have to deal with him just grit your teeth and try and be polite from it i was

00:14:31.720 startled actually it took melanie jolie our foreign minister more than a day to put out even a tweet

00:14:37.320 anyways so thank god trump is alive i think the republican uh america first conservative movement

00:14:44.040 is energized i think that there was something somewhat miraculous about trump's survival and

00:14:50.280 he turned it into a very courageous moment um like i say we will have a reporter and a videographer

00:14:56.200 in milwaukee i'm actually headed to ireland tonight because there are massive riots against an immigration

00:15:03.960 incident encampment i'll tell you more about it i'm grabbing the flight tonight i'm going to fly

00:15:08.520 through the night i'll land in the morning i'm going to go to the scene of the riots and try and

00:15:12.840 give you the reports there obviously that's not the top story in the world the top story in the world

00:15:17.400 it's what's going on in the united states and we will have that covered we've got a couple of

00:15:21.480 journalists making their way there tonight too so we've got the stories covered you for you here

00:15:26.680 there they're in the on stay with us up next our friend rachel parker who was on location at that

00:15:34.040 rally in pennsylvania when donald trump was shot stay with us she's next

00:15:38.120 well the assassination attempt against donald trump is huge news around the world because everyone

00:15:58.280 knows that the whole world is in the balance of what happens in november's election in the united

00:16:04.440 states and no matter what the democrats have done through their political political smears through

00:16:09.800 their journalistic smears through their prosecutorial smears none of it has stopped trump

00:16:15.320 but of course you can stop any man by killing him and it came within an inch of happening on the

00:16:20.680 weekend absolutely incredible and wouldn't you know it one of our canadian friends was at that

00:16:29.640 rally in pennsylvania little did she know she would be having a front seat in a historic moment i know

00:16:38.600 that i'll always remember where i was when donald trump was almost assassinated joining us now is our

00:16:45.400 friend from true north who happened to be in pennsylvania i'm talking about rachel parker who joins us now 0.96

00:16:52.040 via zoom rachel great to see you thanks for having me ezra well i tell you you were right in the center of

00:16:59.480 history on saturday why don't you tell us a little bit about first of all what you were doing why you

00:17:06.440 were down there what it was like before those shots rang out just give us a minute on the background what

00:17:12.440 what were you doing there yeah so i had gone down to the rally in butler with my two brothers actually

00:17:18.200 i'd asked them to come and help me with some camera work we drove down from st catherine's i'm at my

00:17:23.080 my mom's house in ontario right now so it's about a four-hour drive and i wanted to go because i'm

00:17:27.720 starting a new podcast with true north called rachel in the republic and i wanted to get some on the

00:17:32.120 ground content of the american election i've just started covering american politics and i think

00:17:37.960 you really miss a lot when you cover everything remotely from home all the time so i wanted to go

00:17:42.840 i wanted to talk to some americans get their pulse on the election you know ask basic questions is joe

00:17:48.680 biden up for the job why are you voting for donald trump do you think donald trump needs to change his

00:17:52.360 messaging so we arrived in butler pennsylvania around 2 30 started doing interviews as soon as we hit the ground

00:17:57.720 it was a pretty normal uh political event as far as rallies go it was definitely a larger magnitude

00:18:02.840 than anything i'm used to i don't think we see crowds of quite that size up here in canada i know

00:18:08.040 that pier poliev has received a lot of praise for pulling people in the thousands but there's people

00:18:12.760 estimates were ranging from 12 to 20 000 people at the rally in butler pennsylvania on saturday so an

00:18:17.800 absolutely insane amount of people showing up to hear their president on a very hot day 34 degrees

00:18:22.040 celsius numerous people passed out from the heat and you know it was everyone was in a great mood everyone

00:18:27.560 was having a great time people were really excited to be there it was at this point in the campaign

00:18:31.240 that a lot of the lawsuits that we've seen just being levied at president trump from every angle

00:18:35.880 have been falling apart and so i think the momentum of the campaign is really picking up

00:18:39.880 people feeling very optimistic and i think a lot of people felt like they were showing up

00:18:43.400 at a rally to support who would likely be the next president of the united states yeah and not to

00:18:48.440 mention joe biden imploding before our very eyes not just in the debate but in every press

00:18:53.960 appearance thereafter there must have been an excitement and a confidence you can never

00:18:58.840 take things for granted and when republicans win they have to win beyond the margin of cheating

00:19:04.200 beyond the margin of lawyers but it feels optimistic now tell me what it was like when the shots

00:19:10.600 rang out on the video footage it sounds like a pop pop pop sound take a look at what happened

00:19:15.880 did you hear the shots from where you were um what was it like first of all where were you seated

00:19:26.120 in relation to the president were you back in the crowd were you near the front

00:19:29.880 and did you hear the the shooting when it rang out so i was set back a little ways from the crowd

00:19:36.360 in the media booth so i had a very good view of former president trump from where i was standing and

00:19:41.640 certainly i could see a crowd of thousands in front of him there were so many people there that not

00:19:45.400 everyone was able to even make it in front of the media booth obviously you typically like to have

00:19:49.320 the media booth at the back so it isn't obstructing view for anyone but there was still a number of

00:19:53.800 supporters who were behind me and to both sides of me so even in the shot that i was able to capture

00:19:58.760 that day of the crowd there were still thousands people standing behind me so i did have a very good

00:20:02.520 view i did hear the shots ring out as you know the president was speaking for just a few minutes

00:20:08.360 talking about the sad state of america under current us president joe biden when the shots rang out um

00:20:14.760 they were to the left of me i heard them immediately the crowd immediately recognized

00:20:18.360 that they were bullets everyone began to duck and i narrowed in looking at the president to see

00:20:22.840 what was going on and of course he fell to the ground to protect himself immediately you see those

00:20:27.720 secret service agents run on stage jump on him to protect him with their bodies which is a very very

00:20:33.400 brave act to run into ongoing bullet fire i know that there is conversations about the ways that the

00:20:40.120 security and certainly the secret service failed on that day and i think those are important

00:20:44.280 discussions to have divorcing the fact that that was a very brave act of those men and there was

00:20:48.920 one woman pictured there as well so in that moment you know after those initial eight bullets rang out

00:20:54.040 it was a bit quiet everyone was kind of wondering did that really happen were were they fireworks and of

00:20:59.480 course i'm looking focused on the stage and i'm noticing that secret service is not moving trump is

00:21:04.360 not getting up my understanding of a situation like this is that i expected in the case of gunfire that

00:21:09.400 the president would be immediately whisked away to safety and because they remained on the podium

00:21:14.120 for so long and even for a few seconds without moving i thought maybe the worst had happened i

00:21:18.680 thought maybe the president had been struck by a bullet and killed a few moments later we know that

00:21:23.960 wasn't the case he stood up along with the secret service agents and then we have that absolutely

00:21:28.920 incredible and viral and powerful moment one of the most amazing moments in american political history

00:21:34.520 when donald trump his face his ear blood streaking from his ear puts his fist forward and starts

00:21:40.200 pumping his arm chanting fight fight fight and the energy in the crowd was one of relief and also just

00:21:46.520 euphoric as the people who came to support their former and likely future president realized that he

00:21:51.720 was still alive although he did look injured and you know everyone begins to clap and cheer and start

00:21:56.680 chanting usa usa it was at that point that the secret service finally take him away it was definitely

00:22:02.200 slower than i anticipated i thought they would be removing him much quicker than they did but they

00:22:06.360 were able to get him away safely in the end and we know that now his his ear was grazed by a bullet but

00:22:11.080 of course he is and will be okay

00:22:30.440 just incredible and a lot to talk about about the conduct of the secret service who were secret

00:22:36.040 service who were local police um the new head of the secret service is a uh actually she comes from

00:22:44.600 uh corporate security at pepsico so not not exactly used to uh defending presidents and her big focus is 0.99

00:22:51.960 on dei diversity equity and inclusion including promoting marginalized groups uh there there was some

00:22:58.840 video footage including this footage here seen millions of times showing some of the smaller female 0.99

00:23:04.280 officers fumbling with their guns uh fixing their glasses if there may be an explanation for what

00:23:10.600 we see in that clip but it certainly was distressing and i and i i tell you that bullet came within

00:23:18.360 an inch of killing trump in fact uh order of an inch yeah and if he just had tilted his head or

00:23:24.760 hadn't tilted his head i think he would be dead let me ask about the uh would-be assassin

00:23:30.200 um a lot of questions about who he was is he really a 20 year old with no social media footprint was he

00:23:40.600 really a lone actor who managed to get on a roof um we see lots of footage of people pointing to him

00:23:47.880 and hollering there's a guy on the roof with a gun we we heard witnesses uh saying that they were

00:23:54.520 shouting trying to bring that to the attention of police did you see any of that or was that simply

00:23:59.240 outside your field of view did you hear any of that apparently there were up to 50 people calling

00:24:04.840 for police to take out that man who was crawling on a roof did any of that come to your eyes or ears

00:24:12.280 before the shooting i was not aware that there was any threats at all until i heard the bullets

00:24:18.040 ring out and in fact the crowd was so big and there were so many people to get through that the

00:24:22.600 area that i was standing in after the initial threat of bolts had passed there was many people

00:24:27.560 standing there discussing if it was in fact bullets that they heard or if they had heard

00:24:31.640 fireworks and you'll remember that the media in the early moments were describing it as a popping noise

00:24:36.040 because we were so unsure what had happened and you know at this point there had already been some

00:24:40.040 members of the audience behind the president who had been struck including one beautiful american

00:24:44.600 patriot and volunteer firefighter who was killed we know that now but for those of us on the crowd side of

00:24:49.880 the crowd that i was on we were not aware of the situation and there was still speculation that maybe it

00:24:54.600 wasn't in fact bullets there was some speculation that maybe the president was bleeding because of

00:24:58.920 how hard his secret service had tackled him it did take quite a bit of time for that information to come

00:25:03.640 out and for us to be certain that yes there was a shooter and the president was struck in the ear so

00:25:08.520 certainly from where i was seeing i was not aware of the threat of the of the shooter and it was only

00:25:13.240 later when i finally had internet service again and i was looking online that i saw those videos and it's

00:25:18.280 just it's striking and you know you just can't fully grasp the level of incompetence that occurred

00:25:24.520 for a shooter to be on a building while a former u.s president and the republican presidential nominee

00:25:30.840 is on the stage there is no reason that donald trump should have been on that stage with a live shooter

00:25:36.120 in the nearby region i've seen reports saying that the secret service has a policy that they don't

00:25:40.200 shoot first i've never heard that before i don't even believe that they should absolutely be shooting

00:25:44.280 if there's a shooter who's looking to take out a former u.s president and the republican nominee

00:25:49.400 and even if that is the case why was the president on the stage the president should never have been

00:25:53.320 on that stage if there is even the slightest possibility of a threat in the area so certainly

00:25:57.880 just a stunning level of incompetence or maliciousness at play and those are questions

00:26:01.800 that the american public is asking and certainly deserve to know the answer to and by the way there is

00:26:06.680 absolutely a politicization of the secret service we know for example that rfk jr who's

00:26:14.200 father and uncle were both assassinated running for president he has repeated repeatedly requested

00:26:21.800 protection from the secret service and it has been refused by no one less than the department of

00:26:25.960 homeland security chairman himself secretary himself it is absolutely a political move to

00:26:33.320 threaten and weaken rfk jr but same thing with donald trump in fact there was a

00:26:39.480 um a motion or a bill put forward to strip trump of any secret service protection this was a democrat

00:26:47.960 sort of gotcha move um that is that it looks absolutely evil uh in the wake of what happened on saturday

00:26:56.840 well listen i want to get to some of the videos you shot the first one i know has been seen millions of

00:27:02.280 times because it was so raw and so quick and also i think summarized what a lot of americans and indeed

00:27:09.480 people around the world felt which is who is to blame for this well obviously the shooter is to blame

00:27:14.920 and whoever he was working with or for i don't believe he was on his own but who had for years now

00:27:21.080 really for a decade demonized trump compared him to a tyrant compared him to hitler said he was a danger to

00:27:28.840 democracy who other than the media and you caught someone who was furious with the media let's take

00:27:35.160 a look at that clip now you remember what you caught you this is your fault

00:27:49.160 you know it's tough to disagree with that at least in a moral sense obviously those reporters and

00:28:07.720 particularly the very one standing on the stage did not kill anyone and most likely didn't want anyone

00:28:13.480 killed but there is no doubt about it there has been a drumbeat for years um and and listen i don't

00:28:20.440 want to be so dainty to think that when you say we're putting a bullseye on them that you mean a

00:28:25.320 literal guns bullseye but the language that the left has deployed and the democrats have deployed and the

00:28:30.840 media has deployed against trump for nearly a decade absolutely is militaristic totalistic

00:28:38.840 um reed hoffman major democrat donor says i want to actually martyr him but there's not a lot of

00:28:46.280 wiggle room there what do you make of that guy's feelings obviously he was full of emotion and anger

00:28:51.720 um i think he came pretty close to the truth on that what do you think so it's interesting that was

00:28:57.000 the video that blew up the most of everything that i had posted and if you go back and look at some of

00:29:01.400 my other content you'll notice as i was describing that scene for you where the crowds chanting usa usa once

00:29:07.000 they realize that former u.s president donald trump is okay it looks at that moment like he will be

00:29:11.720 okay he's then whisked away by his secret service immediately following that hundreds of people in

00:29:17.880 the crowd turned around to the media especially those reporters standing on the platform and the

00:29:22.440 risers the big broadcasters and began waving their arms at them and yelling shame and this is your fault

00:29:28.120 and that clip that we just played was taken a little after that you can see the audience has largely

00:29:32.760 left at this point and that man was still yelling at the media so that was hundreds of people in the

00:29:37.720 crowd was their immediate response after an assassination attempt on a former u.s president

00:29:42.600 that's remarkable that's remarkable that the american public is that angry recognize how just how

00:29:49.560 disturbing and and what the damage their lives have caused and for anyone who felt you know sympathetic

00:29:54.760 for the media in that moment it was hard to continue those feelings of sympathy when you saw the

00:29:59.960 way that the media portrayed the attempted assassination of donald trump with headlines like

00:30:04.280 trump fell or trump got scared after hearing popping noises and even hours after the truth had come out

00:30:10.760 they were still reporting donald trump said that he was shot no he was shot are you blind i can see it

00:30:16.200 with my own eyes you just have to watch all you have to do is go back and watch some video image you can

00:30:19.720 see the bullets flying by his face yeah they just continue to lie about it and they could not bring

00:30:24.680 themselves to tell the truth about what happened in butler on saturday yeah and and it wasn't just uh

00:30:30.360 you know you know hard line ideological newspapers jeffrey bezos one of the world's richest men the

00:30:36.120 owner of amazon who bought the washington post as a kind of a political um seat at the table he tweeted

00:30:43.640 his support to trump but then the next day his own newspaper ran a banner headline that the motive of the

00:30:50.600 shooter is unknown the motive is unknown really we we really don't know what this is all about it could 1.00

00:30:55.960 have been a uh you know just just astonishingly stupid that that takes the american people as stupid 1.00

00:31:03.960 and i think in this case it's just too far i i see all over the place at least on social media 1.00

00:31:11.240 people who were reluctant or shy to support trump just saying enough of that um this is too far and this

00:31:17.880 is the time for me to come to the occasion and even in hard blue as in democrat jurisdictions like

00:31:23.800 san francisco and la people wearing their trump hats people because this isn't just about a candidate now

00:31:29.640 this is about someone tried to destroy democracy itself and they almost did i want to show one more

00:31:36.040 clip he did a bunch of what we call streeters just men on the street conversations here's one

00:31:41.240 and uh let's see what he has to say a little crazy here it's amazing people thought it was fireworks

00:31:47.400 yeah i thought it was fireworks because i looked over i was right by the fence not too far from the fence

00:31:52.920 and it was like bang bang bang bang bang bang bang it was like five shots or six shots total

00:31:58.680 and then everybody hit the ground guys let's go please let's go all right but uh i don't know what

00:32:06.040 this is going to do to the campaign you know i hope a plus on on uh donald trump's side who would do

00:32:14.920 this you know i mean there were security all over the place i don't know well what can i say i didn't

00:32:24.520 see anybody uh they said there were somebody in the trees and whatever and i saw them all rush over but

00:32:30.360 uh that's about all i saw are you worried that trump might not be able to continue holding events

00:32:35.160 like that's because his life is in so much danger well i think he he's uh used to taking risks and

00:32:42.520 with the security around it i mean that's that's a possibility in fact i was thinking on the way here

00:32:47.720 what if somebody would bring a gun like they check everything i asked security uh have you

00:32:53.880 given contraband yet and they said uh yeah we got a couple knives and stuff but you saw the list 0.99

00:33:01.240 uh don't bring that stuff you know don't be stupid of course there's enough witnesses around here 0.89

00:33:09.480 to uh you know see what was going on yeah there there has been a call for an investigation i know 0.99

00:33:15.480 josh hawley was among the first to call for a proper investigation in the congress uh the fbi says

00:33:21.640 they'll do all the investigating i'm not sure if that gives me any confidence of course the fbi deeply

00:33:26.200 implicated in a lot of biden's schemes to harass and entrap donald trump including i think it was

00:33:33.880 just today that the fbi raid on trump's home at mar-a-lago florida was declared unconstitutional

00:33:41.720 by a judge that entire prosecution claiming he had um you know classified documents the entire thing was

00:33:49.400 illegal said a judge the entire prosecution the entire raid and so to give the fbi that conducts

00:33:56.040 illegal unconstitutional raids against donald trump to put them in charge of the investigation here

00:34:01.080 i think is absurd i saw eric prince the founder of the former mercenary force called blackwater

00:34:07.880 uh he said look you you just got a clean house he said in a long twitter rant um basically everything

00:34:14.760 trump has to get real about security because it's not going to come from the fbi and the secret

00:34:18.840 service hey i got one question for you um i haven't seen any but maybe i've missed it have you

00:34:25.320 rachel seen a single report of a riot or a kind of vengeful violent act anywhere across the united states

00:34:38.040 and i haven't and let me know if you have and can you compare that with what you think might have

00:34:43.480 happened if say a democrat candidate had been so nearly assassinated um at a public event i mean

00:34:52.200 the left projects their violence and their tyranny and authoritarianism onto trump and the republicans

00:35:00.200 but i i it's actually astonishing that in a country of a third of a billion people there's been no

00:35:06.280 violent reaction to this that's it's astonishing to me i think we all know what the response would

00:35:12.920 have been if there had been an assassination against a democrat politician or even say u.s president

00:35:18.680 joe biden we would have seen riots in the streets similar to what we saw back in the days when blm was

00:35:24.520 still at its height i'm sure we'll see that rise up again in the week coming to the november 5th

00:35:28.920 election the same type of rides that we saw following the death of george floyd when americans

00:35:34.680 took to their streets and destroyed their cities and often primarily black american cities they destroyed 0.97

00:35:39.960 cities many of those cities have not returned to the place that they were once in they've been

00:35:45.000 absolutely shuttered businesses have been shuttered the economy has been shuttered in many of these

00:35:48.760 places in contrast we haven't seen any riding from republicans following the failed assassination

00:35:54.520 attempt of their candidate and even more than that i would say ezra one of the things that struck me

00:35:59.800 most about the event in butler pennsylvania on saturday was how calm everyone remained the entire

00:36:07.720 time in the initial moments after i heard the bullets ring out you hear a bit of screaming you hear

00:36:12.840 a bit of screaming and when you hear the um see the secret service returning fire and otherwise

00:36:20.040 it's just very quiet i initially thought we were going to see a stampede of people running out of

00:36:24.760 the ground i was you know worried about people getting run over you saw none of that no trampling

00:36:28.920 everyone remained extremely calm and people really just wanted to stay and to learn what had happened

00:36:35.000 and most importantly to ensure that donald trump was going to be okay in that last interview you

00:36:39.880 played you can see the police they are yelling at us to get out of the grounds we now know that was

00:36:44.360 because they found a suspicious package and that it looked like there was some really rudimentary

00:36:48.760 bomb making going on with the shooter so you can understand their urgency to clear the grounds and

00:36:53.800 ensure that the spectators remain safe just in case something did go off that didn't happen of course

00:37:00.440 but everyone wanted to keep staying around everyone wanted to know what happened everyone wanted to talk to

00:37:05.080 each other and you could already see people working on processing this information and working to heal

00:37:10.040 kind of together as a nation very much the opposite i believe what we would have seen if this assassination

00:37:14.840 had attempted happened at a democrat event or certainly later on we would see the riots in the

00:37:20.120 streets with the young people i think everyone who attended that day they weren't concerned about

00:37:24.360 themselves they were concerned about the president and they were concerned about each other

00:37:28.120 well i tell you it was incredible that you were there and that i know you did a lot more videos

00:37:35.720 than we showed i'd encourage people to go to your twitter feed to see them and i presume you're publishing

00:37:41.560 these things as well on the true north website is that right yeah we're working on you saw me kind

00:37:47.400 of holding up the mic there we do have better quality footage and the stuff i've posted to x so we're

00:37:51.160 working on compiling that now and hopefully getting it onto youtube today got it and the best place to find

00:37:56.600 that is tnc.news is that right you got it true that's true north well rachel it's great to see you

00:38:04.360 of course thank god you're safe and almost everyone was i know there was a terrible tragedy of someone

00:38:11.480 getting killed on the weekend and of course trump himself lightly injured but perilously close to an

00:38:20.520 assassination thanks for sharing your first-hand observations with us um can i just ask you before

00:38:27.080 we let you go uh what you have planned next you mentioned you're starting a new series of podcasts

00:38:33.800 about uh i think it's about the presidential season give us a taste of of what we can expect from you in

00:38:39.240 the weeks and months ahead yeah we'll be taking a dive into of course the american election this week

00:38:45.240 on wednesday we'll be taking a look at what's going on the rnc we'll have trump's vice presidential pick

00:38:50.440 today we're already hearing rumors that that was jd vance we'll see if those are confirmed later this

00:38:54.600 afternoon when that is announced could be happening as we're speaking right now so basically just taking

00:38:58.920 a look at the major issues of the campaign i do hope you're going back into the states i will admit

00:39:03.160 i was actually it was very difficult for me to get accredited to attend the rally obviously i could

00:39:07.640 have gone as a general admission but uh was nice to have the access of the media booth there

00:39:11.960 certainly especially the view giving everything that played out the way that it did so hopefully

00:39:16.360 going to some more events in the states but uh gonna have to try to get a hold of the trump

00:39:20.120 campaign and uh work on getting accredited a little more easily for some future events

00:39:24.760 all right well we look forward to it thanks again for sharing all these things with us and

00:39:28.840 stay safe out there it's a wild world and i appreciate you documenting it for us thanks so much

00:39:34.440 Ezra talk soon all right there you have it rachel parker with true north who is on location

00:39:40.200 at the fateful rally in pennsylvania stay with us more ahead

00:39:55.640 well isn't rachel great i really admire her and i look forward to following her reportage

00:40:00.840 from the united states our friend yankee pollack is on his way to milwaukee now along with efrah

00:40:06.280 monsanto who's coming down from toronto they're going to do their best to report on

00:40:10.040 the scene i think a lot of the action will be actually outside the convention the protests

00:40:14.680 and counter protests in the streets we'll have that covered for you and as i mentioned earlier

00:40:18.680 i'm actually running to the airport right now to hop on a night flight to ireland because things are

00:40:23.400 popping off there just to give you a little reminder i was at a place called kulak where a huge

00:40:29.960 empty factory was going to be turned into a migrant housing they were going to put 500 men 500 dudes in 0.76

00:40:37.480 this factory in this poor neighborhood just across the street from like some kids places like a kid's

00:40:43.800 theater and a kid's restaurant and like a kid's arcade and the local people are saying what are you

00:40:48.840 doing and the police moved in to clear the blockade there was arson um here's some of the footage from

00:40:55.480 when i was there two months ago take a look it is an encampment there are men who rotate through here

00:41:02.200 there are flags there are signs who are these men and what are they protesting they're irishmen

00:41:09.320 from the neighborhood of kulak who are protesting an empty warehouse that used to be owned by a paint

00:41:16.920 company it's a massive warehouse in which is planned a migrant residence what they plan to do the

00:41:26.040 government is turn this warehouse which used to store paint into a home for 500 to a thousand migrants

00:41:35.960 including some single men they seek to put modular homes into this building and these people in the

00:41:44.920 local community are saying they can't bear that some of them say to have this many single men in this

00:41:51.320 neighborhood with nothing to do is a risk especially given that right across the street is the bowling

00:41:58.920 alley the burger king the place where all the kids mill around putting hundreds of military age foreign men

00:42:06.440 unemployed right across the street could upset the neighborhood could cause issues ranging from safety

00:42:14.120 to access to services this is not a wealthy part of dublin and here's some of the footage from today

00:42:21.640 when riot police and the locals had a standoff well it wasn't a standoff it was a riot take a look

00:42:34.680 in fact they pepper sprayed one of the people i interviewed when i was over there so that's

00:43:01.480 where i'll be tomorrow i'll have my report to you from there i hope you find that interesting uh we'll

00:43:05.960 publish it all in real time or you can see it at migrantreports.com all right that's our show for

00:43:11.560 today so much going on in this mad mad world until tomorrow on behalf of all of us at revolution you

00:43:16.760 at home good night and keep fighting for freedom

Rebel News Podcast - July 15, 2024

EZRA LEVANT ｜ Trump stands tall following shocking assassination attempt

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