Mid-Day Update： September 23, 2025
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Summary
A Florida jury convicts a would-be Trump assassin who showed up at the golf course of President Trump and poked his gun through the fence, hoping to try to take out President Trump. President Trump's teleprompter fails him on the way up to the United Nation's General Assembly, and the rest of the day is a madhouse of other news.
Transcript
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Hello, everybody. I'm John Fossett with this Great America Show midday update for Tuesday, September 23rd.
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Big news today out of a Florida courtroom. After a two-week trial, Florida jurors reached a verdict in the federal case against Ryan Ruth.
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Ryan Ruth was the would-be Trump assassin who showed up at the golf course of President Trump in Palm Beach
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and poked his gun through the fence, hoping to try to take out President Trump.
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Thank God for Secret Service not able to do so.
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He was found guilty on all five counts, including attempting to assassinate a major presidential candidate,
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assaulting a federal officer, and other gun charges.
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As the verdict was read aloud, Ruth, who's 59 years old, tried to stab himself in the neck with a pen,
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trying to commit suicide to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison, where he's going to.
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And he's going to rot in hell while he's there.
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And President Trump is up in New York today, issuing a blockbuster speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
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Building on the escalator and teleprompter failures, President Trump showed up at the United Nations this afternoon,
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went to go get on an escalator to go up to the General Assembly, took two steps, the escalator broke down,
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he then gets up, walks up those escalator stairs, gets up to the United Nations to address the General Assembly,
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Sure, just an accident, but nonetheless, the United Nations, just a massive, massive failure.
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After participating in that UNGA, the General Assembly,
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President Trump had a series of bilateral meetings with world leaders,
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including an encounter with Ukraine's Vladimir Zelensky.
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The meeting is surely to evolve around Zelensky trying to get concessions from President Trump,
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whether it be funding or authorization to buy weapons,
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or an attempt to get the United States to react to the endless series of events
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that have been happening over the last few days.
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During his meeting with Zelensky, President Trump was asked
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if NATO countries should shoot down Russian planes that are invading their airspace.
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Do you think that NATO countries should shoot down Russian aircraft if they enter their airspace?
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Now, the most recent incident was that allegedly Russia violated Estonia's airspace.
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Moscow insists the planes flew over international waters in the Baltic Sea.
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Oslo and Copenhagen airports yesterday stopped by a massive drone or drones,
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a lot of fingers being, again, pointed at Russia,
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with no substantial evidence there as to who they were or who was flying them.
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President Trump telling Chuck Schumer this afternoon and Hakeem Jeffries to go pound sand
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after they're begging for a meeting while trying to shut down the government at the same time.
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President Trump wants nothing to do with their demands that they think they're going to get.
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they want their trillions of dollars of wasteful spending for transgender surgery for minors
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or dead people on Medicaid or allowing illegal aliens to steal billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded benefits.
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Or you go down the list of what the Democrats stand for.
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and he's not going to allow America to stand for it.
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Great on President Trump to not give them some sort of platform
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for them to come and do their charades at the White House.
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Breaking news out of the big tech and big media sphere,
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They've announced today they will reinstate accounts banned for election and COVID-19 violations.
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Congressman Jim Jordan, who sits in the House Judiciary Committee,
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announced the capitulation for their draconian censorship rules over the past few years
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This is just a series of events now as these CEOs are being demanded
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to come testify before Congress to answer as to what they've been doing.
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I'm sure you've all heard the news by now that Jimmy Kimmel is coming back to late-night TV,
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Nextar Media Group has joined Sinclair Broadcast Group
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and announced it will not air Jimmy Kimmel live after ABC, of course, caved.
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Now, you may say, what's the big deal that they won't air them?
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who spews his lies and hate on his low-rated television show.
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Although, ABC and Disney and Bob Iger may cave.
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Folks, please be sure to join us tonight, 6 p.m. Eastern time,
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Mark Mitchell, one of the preeminent pollsters of this country.
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And what Americans and what the voters are saying
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are they saying it's justified or not justified?
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And who do they believe is perpetrating more hate
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