Trump was shot and killed at an outdoor rally in Pennsylvania on Saturday evening. Did someone try to kill him? Was it a premeditated attack? Is it possible that Trump s assassination was actually a prophecy that was supposed to happen a few months ago?
00:35:43.900Because when we look at the history of political violence over the past few years, we do see that it is predominantly on the left.
00:35:51.200Whether it was Steve Scalise getting shot in the hip, critically injured at a baseball game a few years ago by a Bernie Sanders supporter, or whether it's this assassination attempt, whether it is the BLM Antifa-led violence that absolutely ransacked cities for months on end in 2020.
00:36:13.480Right now, we are seeing that political violence is predominantly, I'm not saying exclusively, but primarily and predominantly on the left.
00:36:25.240And I think that we just need to reckon with that.
00:36:27.980And actually, like if we look at Joe Biden, and we look at some of the things that he has said, we see that he has played a role in this.
00:36:38.420He has played a role in this rhetoric.
00:36:39.940So he said over and over again in his Oval Office speech, as he said, battle box twice, by the way, battle box.
00:38:34.700And then do you remember the speech that he gave in front of the blood red wall flanked by members of our military talking about the threat of Donald Trump?
00:38:48.920Trump, the threat of extremist MAGA Republicans, a threat to democracy.
00:38:55.120Also, Biden recently made a comment saying that it is time to put Trump in a bullseye.
00:39:03.740This is according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:39:06.800In a July 8th call with donors to his campaign, Biden said it's time to put Trump in the bullseye.
00:42:33.500And if you believe, like Donald Trump does, that illegal immigration is wrong, that we should secure our borders, that illegal immigration is a threat to our nation, then you too will be compared to a Nazi or a fascist or even Hitler himself.
00:42:50.180Remember this clip that we played last week, last Thursday, when we talked about Project 2025, which over the past couple of weeks, the left has been absolutely freaking out about, lying about, OK?
00:43:01.800Not just saying, oh, wow, I really disagree with this.
00:43:07.220That'd be one thing if you were on the progressive side.
00:43:09.540But to actually say, they're actually saying this is like Project 2025, which is, for the most part, a very mainstream Republican document that reiterates a lot of what Republicans have been saying for decades.
00:45:09.140Comedian Kathy Griffin, how she did this whole like music video.
00:45:14.140And then she posted a picture of herself holding what looks like.
00:45:19.180I mean, I can hardly even look at that.
00:45:21.500A picture of of Donald Trump's severed head holding what looks like Donald Trump's severed head with blood running down all over his face.
00:45:30.400Like you'll also remember in Snoop Dogg's 2017 music video for his song Lavender, he shoots President Trump while President Trump is wearing clown makeup.
00:45:40.860He names the clown Ronald Klump and he shoots him in this music video.
00:45:50.780Now, Katie Fang is an NBC legal analyst.
00:45:55.460She said on July 11th, 2024, it's a binary choice, a democracy or a dictatorship.
00:46:05.900Arne McIntyre, actually, he said this a few months ago, a couple months ago when the New Republic came out with their new series saying, oh, we're comparing Trump to Hitler.
00:46:16.940He said, just so you know, I'm paraphrasing, the left is laying the groundwork to justify the assassination of Trump.
00:47:44.200They are a threat to our democracy, which we hear from the left is what America is, which, of course, America is not a pure democracy.
00:47:53.140But they say that anything who is that is a threat to our democracy, including so-called MAGA Republicans, that they are a threat that needs to be taken out.
00:48:03.300They'll even use language like Biden did that they need to be placed in a bullseye.
00:48:08.200Like, what do you think an unhinged person is going to do with that kind of idea?
00:48:13.620Because a lot of people who don't have any purpose, they don't have any meaning, they don't really have any communal or familial ties.
00:48:24.840And if they are hearing that this guy is Hitler, they're thinking to themselves, well, what would I have done if I could have to Hitler back in the 1940s?
00:48:35.880I mean, if someone had assassinated Hitler in the middle of the Holocaust and potentially saved thousands or millions of lives, we would be regarding that person as a hero, right?
00:48:50.760Like, their name would have lived on forever.
00:48:54.700Like, we would have statues of this person.
00:48:57.800Their name would go down in history as a hero.
00:49:00.800And so people who are listening to these pundits, to these politicians say that Trump is Hitler, they're thinking, well, this is my moment to go down in history.
00:49:14.580Of course, you wouldn't say that the person who assassinated Hitler was acting inappropriately or out of bounds, right?
00:49:24.460And here's what calls into question, too, the sincerity of these politicians.
00:49:28.120You've got Biden, you've got the Clintons, you've got Obama, you've got Kamala Harris, you've got all these pundits giving their very canned answers, their statements, even AOC saying there's no place for political violence.
00:49:43.120Look, if you really think he's Hitler, then why are you wishing him well?
00:49:48.640If you really think he is Hitler, responsible for the slaughter of millions of innocent people, then why do you want him to recover quickly?
00:50:10.460So if he's not Hitler, if he is not a unique threat to democracy, like if he is not going to be some fascist dictator that's going to put a bunch of people in concentration camps, then stop saying that.
00:50:22.720And if he is those things, then don't pretend like you are against violence against him, unless you would have been against violence toward Hitler.
00:50:32.780But you see, people like this, people like this shooter potentially, and other people in the MSNBC audience, they don't know that the people saying these things probably don't really believe them.
00:50:43.100They don't realize that they are just prey, that they are just being used as fodder in all of this.
00:50:48.680They don't know that they're being exploited, that they're being emotionally manipulated.
00:50:51.320If you've been listening to CNN and MSNBC for the past eight years, then you are absolutely brainwashed with ideas about the right, Republicans, Christians, Trump, that are literally just not grounded in reality.
00:51:06.520Think about this dude that tried to kill President Trump.
00:51:21.100Like, how absolutely and quickly radicalized this guy must have been in such a short period of time.
00:51:30.460Josh Hammer, whom we've had on the show several times, he said, left-wing hysteria has now led to the attempted assassination of Steve Scalise, the attempted assassination of Brett Kavanaugh, and the attempted assassination of Donald Trump.
00:51:42.240We mentioned Steve Scalise earlier, but we didn't mention Brett Kavanaugh, the Supreme Court justice.
00:51:46.880Like, you remember that after the Dobbs decision.
00:51:50.200And after the hysteria that has really surrounded him for years at this point, before he was even on the Supreme Court, how the left has basically said that the Supreme Court has blood on their hands for their various decisions, or at least to the Supreme, the conservative Supreme Court justices.
00:52:08.460And so a crazy person from California traveled to Brett Kavanaugh's house armed and tried to assassinate him.
00:52:15.440Thankfully, he was stopped by law enforcement, but he was able to get close to Brett Kavanaugh's house, where he lives with his wife and his daughters.
00:52:22.800Okay, I really don't want to hear about how the right has a violence and extremism problem, okay?
00:52:30.540The closest we've got to assassinations over the past few years have been because of left-wing crazy people.
00:52:36.280I do want to take a moment to honor the life that was lost.
00:52:41.580Now, the other two men that are in critical condition in the hospital, they might also succumb to their injuries.
00:52:48.700We should pray that that doesn't happen, but one man has already done so.
00:53:42.900He truly loved us enough to take a real bullet for us, and I want nothing more than to cry on him and tell him thank you.
00:53:49.560Please pray for this sweet family, his two daughters and his wife.
00:53:54.680What was going to be a very exciting, fun day for them was turned into the worst day of their life.
00:54:02.060There is a GoFundMe account that has already raised almost $4 million.
00:54:08.100We can link it in the description of this episode if you would like to go check that out.
00:54:13.680The governor of Pennsylvania, Josh Shapiro, he's a Democrat, and I thought that he did a really, really good job of honoring the victim of this murder, a resident of his state.
00:54:27.080This is a great example of putting to the side the partisan divide and just honoring someone's life.
00:55:03.860She also asked that I share with all of you that Corey died a hero, that Corey dove on his family to protect them last night at this rally.
00:56:37.520He was described by former classmates as a bullied loner with a penchant for hunting outfits and video games.
00:56:45.140It's so often one of those types, a bullied loner.
00:56:49.340Apparently, he tried out for the school's rifle team, but he was turned away because he was so bad at shooting,
00:56:55.260said Frederick Mock, a current captain of the team who was a few years behind the shooter at the school.
00:57:01.580I mean, praise God for that, that he was such a bad shooter, because that is probably part of the reason why President Trump is still alive.
00:57:11.320He was asked not to come back because of how bad of a shot he was.
00:57:14.040It was considered, like, dangerous, said one of the team members.
00:57:20.420The rifle he used in the attempted assassination was purchased by his father, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:57:25.260Investigators do not yet know if he took the gun without his father's permission.
00:57:28.920But, you know, he's he's an adult. He's 20 years old.
00:57:31.980Investigators later found explosive devices in the shooter's car, which was parked not far, far from the grounds where the rally took place.
00:57:41.000The FBI now is taking over the investigation.
00:57:44.080A lot of people have a lot of skepticism about that.
00:57:46.840Pretty good reason to not trust the FBI in many circumstances.
00:57:51.980They do seem to, in many cases, be foot soldiers of the progressive cause.
00:57:58.140That's not to say there aren't many solid FBI agents out there out there, because I think they are.
00:58:04.280And I hope that the best resources are allocated to this, because this is not just a threat to one person.
00:58:12.280As we saw at the rally, it is a threat to everyone.
00:58:15.360It is a threat to everyone who supports the president.
00:58:17.620It is a threat to everyone who is in, you know, stands in the wake of progressive violence.
00:58:25.240Obviously, this is not the first time that there has been an assassination, an attempted assassination of a president.
00:58:31.820We've got Abraham Lincoln, even James A. Garfield.
00:59:03.980And then we've got many who were shot and were not actually killed, like Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, FDR, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and then Ronald Reagan.
00:59:16.560Ronald Reagan in 1981 was shot by John Hinckley Jr. outside the Washington Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C.
00:59:23.880He was hit by a ricocheted bullet and suffered a punctured lung, but recovered after surgery.
00:59:30.120And, um, the statement that he gave when he went back to the White House a couple, a couple weeks later, and just to paraphrase, he said, I owe my life to no one except to God, because it was so clearly God who saved him.
00:59:48.180And it was his purpose, he said, from there on out to ensure that he was simply living out God's purpose.
00:59:56.400And really, Ronald Reagan's faith was pretty incredible.
00:59:59.760You can read his autobiography, where he just had a really amazing understanding of, um, of the gospel.
01:00:07.000And I just pray that for President Trump.
01:00:08.840I pray that this would, would be a spiritual awakening for President Trump, that he would owe his life to God, not to himself, not really to anyone else.
01:00:17.880Although, of course, God might have used people to protect Donald Trump, it really is God, who is the author of life, who gives and takes away, who should get all of the credit and all of the praise for saving President Trump in this moment.
01:00:32.060And I just pray that this would be a moment for Trump, that he would hit his knees in humility and in repentance, and that God would draw his heart toward himself.
01:00:43.500There are a lot of theories about the dereliction of duty that may have occurred, some people saying that the Secret Service simply did not do their jobs, that they should have looked on, they should have ensured that all of the roofs were secure, that it shouldn't have been possible for the shooter to get so close to get up on this roof and to take aim at President Trump.
01:01:11.620Many people are saying that there was a lack of security there, that there was a lack of discernment, that there was a lack of caution, that there was a lack of care.
01:01:21.060Some people are even pointing out in a video where you can see the snipers start to engage with the shooter on another roof that they hesitated for too long.
01:01:30.960I think right now, there's a lot that we don't know.
01:01:34.780There are a lot of questions, some justified, maybe some a little bit too hasty.
01:01:41.620There's going to be a lot that's revealed over the coming days.
01:01:44.720I am thankful for those who did do their jobs well.
01:01:48.060There is also a story by the Associated Press that apparently there was a police officer that tried to climb onto the roof to get the shooter to come down, but the shooter pointed his gun at him, and so the police officer retreated.
01:02:01.620Now, I don't know what the result was of that, what information the police officer then gave to the rest of law enforcement and the Secret Service.
01:02:10.000Or maybe if that interaction was what actually rushed the shooter and made him not aim as well as possibly he could have, and maybe that was the reason why he missed Trump.
01:02:21.900There's just a lot of questions that we have.
01:02:25.040Now, a little information about the Secret Service.
01:02:27.640Secret Service protection is authorized for some current and former high-level officials and their immediate families.
01:02:33.300It should be given to RFK Jr. as a presidential candidate, but Biden has to authorize that, and he hasn't, which I think is completely wrong.
01:02:41.340But there are Congress people who have tried to also strip Trump of his Secret Service protection.
01:02:47.860The Disgraced Former Protect Ease Act, H.R. 8081, would reform the U.S. Secret Service's protective mission by automatically terminating Secret Service protection for those who have been sentenced to prison following conviction for a federal or state felony.
01:03:03.940So there are nine congressmen sponsoring H.R. 8081.
01:03:48.860He said that he believes that RFK should get full Secret Service protection immediately.
01:03:57.660Here is a full screen, speaking of Secret Service, of the shooter's location and the different mapping.
01:04:04.600So you can just have a visual of how things played out.
01:04:07.700And then the Secret Service snipers, some people saying they did a great job.
01:04:12.240Some people saying they did a terrible job.
01:04:14.900And here's another aerial view that kind of gives another perspective of where things were.
01:04:20.560Again, like I'll just say from my perspective, I have no idea why he was able, why the shooter was able to climb that roof.
01:04:27.020Now, I do think he was probably very difficult to see because you can see, like, the top of the roof is at this angle.
01:04:33.620And if he is on the back side of that angle and he's just kind of peeking his head out and peeking his gun over, the snipers from over there are going to have a really difficult time making, like, ensuring that what they're seeing is really a human being.
01:04:47.320I mean, the last thing they want to do is, like, shoot a civilian on accident.
01:04:51.240There is a guy saying that he tried to tell law enforcement that there was a guy on top of the roof.
01:05:39.580Dan Boncino has been talking about this and how the Secret Service just did not do their jobs well.
01:05:46.280And Dan Boncino also claims that this is a problem with the leadership at Secret Service.
01:05:51.240He has pointed out that the woman who runs the Secret Service simply has not done a good job.
01:05:59.380And that failures in leadership are to blame here.
01:06:04.460And some people are saying that the Secret Service has DEI policies, which, by the way, they do.
01:06:11.960They do have DEI policies where they are rewarding people seemingly based on their intersectional identity.
01:06:21.760I don't know if that's what led to what happened here, but that is absolutely true.
01:06:27.740Tim Kennedy tweeted, I'm glad the former president is OK, but the fact that a shooter was able to be within 200 meters with a rifle for presidential nominee while an elevated position is beyond negligent, is beyond negligent, if not intentional.
01:06:40.920Former Army sniper and congressman Corey Mills went on Fox News saying this was massive negligence to the point of me speculating what was intentional and what wasn't.
01:06:51.260Then there's another former Army ranger sniper who is defending the snipers.
01:06:57.900His name is Kenny D saying, look, it's a lot easier said than done to make sure that everything is secure and protected.
01:07:05.720There are a variety of factors that may have gone in to them not shooting right away, them not shooting quickly enough to stop the sniper.
01:07:14.640I don't know anything about being a sniper, obviously, but I do not know how they did not secure the entire area, especially the roofs like that.
01:07:25.240I mean, that's a thought that I would have just as a common person.
01:07:29.000I would think, oh, we should make sure that no one can get off can get on the roof because that would be one of the only ways that someone would be able to target President Trump.
01:07:38.880People are also noting the female Secret Service agents and how frazzled they seemed when they were protecting President Trump.
01:07:48.820I don't have a lot to compare this to.
01:07:51.680And so maybe they were acting like other Secret Service agents do.
01:07:56.140I'll play you the clip and you can decide.
01:08:08.880I mean, they do indeed look very frazzled that one lady can't get her gun into her holster.
01:08:34.240Now, again, maybe that's normal that maybe that's what Secret Service agents always, always look like when they are in this kind of situation.
01:08:42.800If so, I think that's troubling in and of itself.
01:08:45.240A lot of people saying women shouldn't be Secret Service agents.
01:08:48.980I don't want to minimize the sacrifice that women in combat positions or Secret Service agents or police officers make because they have saved lives.
01:08:59.580They do protect people, they do protect people, and I'm very thankful for that.
01:09:02.880Most men and most women would not take on that kind of position where their life is on the line.
01:09:09.080And so I don't want to pretend like that doesn't matter and isn't heroic.
01:09:15.160But these kinds of positions that require agility, that require strength, that require just body mass, I do think should be reserved for men.
01:09:27.200Even if you are the bravest woman, the toughest woman that has ever existed, like I commend you for that.
01:09:36.320The fact of the matter is you are still 5'3 a buck 40, okay?
01:09:41.680And Donald Trump is like 240 pounds and 6'3.
01:09:46.160That means that your body, as strong and fit as you might be, as brave as you might be in your spirit, your body cannot cover him the way that he needs to be covered.
01:09:57.800Like you are allowing for holes for vulnerability that should not be there.
01:10:03.540I just don't think that women physically were made for these kinds of roles.
01:10:38.380Your goal as the Secret Service should be simply to protect, to serve, to be as lethal as possible.
01:10:49.100You can't be as lethal as possible if you are 30% female, period.
01:10:54.540Same thing with combat positions for the military.
01:10:58.280You can say that that's misogynistic, but I actually think it was Michael Knowles who said it's actually misogynistic to require women to take a bullet for a man.
01:11:13.240Okay, what has the response been from evangelicals?
01:11:17.940I'll just go through this quickly, and then I promise we'll get to the prophecy part, and then we will end this.
01:11:24.060Russell Moore did condemn in general, did condemn in general political violence.
01:11:30.880Not progressive political violence, but just political violence in general.
01:11:36.360Now, he is also one who has defended the movement of Black Lives Matter, as well as many other evangelicals who have done the same.
01:11:51.780There were many Christians, and I won't name all of their names, who were so quick to post to Black Square, to raise their fist with Black Lives Matter, to even say ridiculous things like riots are the voice of the unheard, to either ignore or in some cases justify the violence that was happening on the streets in the name of, but completely disconnected from, the death of George Floyd.
01:12:18.840And they are the ones who will post Micah 6.8 in their bio, and they will say that part of sanctification is being some kind of social justice activist, that that's not political.
01:12:34.100Of course, I disagree with them on the definition of justice because it's not biblical.
01:12:38.560I completely disagreed with how they handled the death of George Floyd and how they mishandled scripture when it comes to justice and partiality.
01:12:50.600But really what gets me here is that they were so quick, without hesitation, without facts, without knowing the motivations of what happened with George Floyd or any other police killing, that many of them are very hesitant to say anything today.
01:13:09.620They haven't said anything about President Trump.
01:13:12.200They don't say anything when it comes to the overturning of Roe v. Wade or abortion because they don't want to get political.
01:13:18.540No, the truth is they want to get political when it is a progressive cause, but not when it's a cause that can be deemed conservative.
01:13:26.420And they'll say, oh, you know, I'm not responsible for talking about the news.
01:13:29.540I'm not responsible for talking about politics.
01:13:32.700I don't think everyone is responsible to talk about every news story or every political event.
01:13:37.620I don't talk about every political event or political issue or news story, and that's part of my job.
01:13:42.280So I don't think that every influencer and every Bible study leader and every pastor has to talk specifically about everything that happens.
01:13:49.560I'm just saying don't allow your outrage and your public voice to be dictated by what progressives say that you should be mad or sad about.
01:14:24.720And as a minister of the gospel, as an ambassador of peace and order, I think it would be really good of you, even those of you who have kind of been deluded a little bit by your idolatrous hatred of Trump, to say, this is too far.
01:14:40.480And maybe some of you who have been, for the past several years, been calling him a white supremacist and all of his supporters racist, maybe you should take some time to self-reflect.
01:15:28.740They should at least have the courage to say that.
01:15:31.380And if they don't, and if you've been wondering if they've got their left leanings, their social justice leanings, or if they are so nuanced that they actually just preach a lot of confusion and nothingness about these issues that matter, that are really biblical issues before they're political or cultural issues, then I don't know.
01:15:50.440I would probably seek a different church.
01:15:53.280I mean, we're entering into even scarier times.
01:15:56.460It seems like we are lurching even further towards the precipice, whatever that is.
01:16:00.360I don't even know exactly what that looks like.
01:16:03.060But you want a shepherd that is willing to take on the wolves, right?
01:16:07.980So you want a pastor that is willing to speak up while they are still free to speak up.
01:16:11.840If they are too afraid to speak up when they're free to speak up, you can bet your bottom dollar when free speech, when freedom of religion is really on the line, is really being threatened, that they won't have the courage then.
01:16:24.300You want a shepherd that is going to walk through the fire for their flock, right?
01:16:30.460And so if you are sensing cowardice from your pastor personally, I think that it's time to get out.
01:16:37.880There were a lot of pastors that did have a lot of good responses, and I'm thankful for that.
01:16:42.600I am so thankful for the pastors with courage.
01:17:27.740They describe the vision that God gave them.
01:17:31.940And this one man says that God gave him a vision that a bullet will be lodged at Trump in an attempted assassination, that it will blow his eardrum, and that Trump will hit his knees and he will be following hard after the Lord.
01:17:46.380And there were many other parts of this prophetic vision of a revival, spiritual awakening, and all of that stuff.
01:17:56.200I saw a lot of people, people that I follow and like, like and share this because it sounds similar to what happened over the weekend.
01:18:03.700But that doesn't cut it for a prophet of God, a prophet, a true prophet of God who received a vision from God, which I will always have the utmost skepticism about, and you should too, will be right.
01:18:37.700What they say, if it is truly a prophecy from God, a foretelling prophecy from God, so they are seeing the future, and they're saying it's a vision from God, they will be 100% correct.
01:18:49.920They won't say something that is similar to like something that happened.
01:18:52.700I don't think that Trump blew his eardrum.
01:19:07.280Look, in these chaotic and crazy times, there are always going to be people who will capitalize on your fear to tell you that God has given them some kind of vision.
01:19:18.820There's a foretelling prophet, and there's a foretelling prophet.
01:19:22.600The foretelling prophet sees the future, and again, if they are from God, they are going to be 100% right.
01:19:29.500I don't know anyone that fits the bill on that right now.
01:19:32.100And then there's the foretelling prophet, someone who is telling the truth, who God has given the gift of telling the truth based on God's word.
01:19:42.860Look, we already have divine revelation in Scripture.
01:19:47.320Those who are adding to that by saying something that cannot be supported by Scripture and is not even fully supported by reality should be disregarded.
01:19:58.240Just be careful, because I understand the allure of this.
01:20:02.840Look, I almost got sucked into a prophecy that I saw on Facebook back in 2020.
01:20:09.060I mean, talk about a chaotic and crazy time when all of us were feeling so vulnerable, we couldn't trust the media, we couldn't trust politicians, we couldn't believe our own eyes and ears.
01:20:18.580We had to deny our common sense when it came to masks and all of that stuff that they were telling us.
01:20:23.440Information was changing all the time.
01:20:25.220So many pastors didn't have the courage to speak up.
01:20:28.220Many people were not gathering with the church.
01:20:30.320And so that community that helps us stay reasonable and grounded in truth and in our faith dissipated in a lot of ways.