The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1401 - Why The Trump Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Walsh show, all of the fear-mongering about Trump being an evil dictator

00:00:04.140 bent on destroying democracy finally led to its desired result on Saturday when Trump

00:00:08.640 came within one inch of death.

00:00:10.160 I have a lot to say about the attempted assassination of President Trump, as you can imagine.

00:00:13.820 And what exactly do we know about the would-be assassin?

00:00:16.260 Almost nothing, according to the official narrative.

00:00:18.180 Is it time to take the quote-unquote conspiracy theories seriously?

00:00:22.100 Plus, have Democrats essentially given up hope of winning in 2024 in the wake of the

00:00:25.940 shooting?

00:00:26.540 Should they give up hope?

00:00:27.380 And did DEI play a role in the tragedy on Saturday?

00:00:30.320 We'll talk about all that and more today on the Matt Walsh show.

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00:01:52.440 One inch.

00:01:53.880 That's about the distance between the top of your ear and your brain, and that's how close

00:01:57.860 America came to transforming instantly into a different country.

00:02:01.560 As of today, we're still an inch away from that new reality.

00:02:05.640 What would that new reality be exactly?

00:02:08.200 We don't know.

00:02:08.680 Is it a civil war, all-out chaos, burning cities, and the complete destruction of our

00:02:12.580 political system?

00:02:13.900 Something not as bad?

00:02:15.440 Something even worse?

00:02:16.240 I have no idea.

00:02:17.640 Nobody does.

00:02:18.800 But it's very clear now that we are nowhere near as far removed from anarchy as we previously

00:02:23.460 thought we were.

00:02:24.320 You know, as 21st century Americans, we tend to feel insulated from the kind of carnage

00:02:28.180 and brutality that has shaped the world.

00:02:29.860 The end of history, it's been called.

00:02:31.320 But history has not ended.

00:02:33.720 It marches on and drags us with it.

00:02:36.620 And our sense of security is draped in the thinnest of veils.

00:02:40.160 It only takes one bullet to pierce through it.

00:02:42.720 Two days ago, that's very nearly what happened.

00:02:45.200 The official narrative is that two days ago, in broad daylight, a 20-year-old, acting completely

00:02:50.240 on his own, armed with an AR-15, managed to climb onto a rooftop carrying a rifle just

00:02:55.820 400 feet away from where Donald Trump was speaking at a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania.

00:02:59.600 This was one of only a handful of rooftops in the area.

00:03:02.980 It was the one that offered easily the best view of the stage where Trump was speaking.

00:03:06.840 The gunman was able to shoot Trump and three of his supporters, killing one of them and seriously

00:03:10.620 injuring two others before the Secret Service managed to take him out.

00:03:13.460 Now, this is a gunman whose phone is apparently inaccessible to the FBI at this hour, but

00:03:18.080 they're completely sure he acted all by himself.

00:03:21.160 Now, hearing those facts, you might conclude that somehow this 20-year-old had managed to

00:03:25.280 elude detection by Trump's protective detail until he was able to open fire.

00:03:29.160 But that's not true.

00:03:30.320 The Secret Service and local authorities were aware of the gunman long before he climbed on

00:03:34.360 the roof. Quoting from CNN, the shooter was spotted by local law enforcement who thought

00:03:38.220 he might have been acting suspiciously near the event magnetometers on Saturday, according

00:03:43.100 to a senior law enforcement official. They put it out over the radio to keep an eye on

00:03:46.740 him, and that information was passed on to the Secret Service as well.

00:03:51.660 So already, we can say definitively that if the Secret Service did their job, that would

00:03:56.180 have been the end of it. Anybody watching this, would-be assassin, would have immediately

00:04:00.100 noticed when he scaled the building, armed with a rifle, and Trump would have been taken

00:04:03.980 to safety right away.

00:04:05.920 Apparently, though, the police and Secret Service lost track of the assailant.

00:04:10.680 But dozens of bison hitters saw what he was doing anyway, and they alerted the police, 1.00

00:04:14.680 including a police officer who was right in front of the roof where the shooter was perched.

00:04:18.980 Yet, for some inconceivable reason, despite all of these warnings, the two counter-sniper

00:04:24.000 teams at the rally, including at least two Secret Service snipers that were looking in

00:04:27.420 the direction of this very rooftop, did not take any action. And the police officer in

00:04:33.840 front of the building, who's visible on recordings of the incident, didn't seem to be doing anything

00:04:38.120 either. And this went on for several minutes. Watch.

00:04:42.080 Look, they're all pointed. Yeah, someone's on top of the roof. Look. Here he is right there.

00:04:57.060 Right there. You see him? He's laying down. You see him? Yeah, he's laying down.

00:05:00.620 Oh, he's caught. It's not going to be poor. And Scott, I'm here with you, fighting like hell

00:05:05.400 to get his sentence. What's happening?

00:05:09.200 We're discussing if we ever take back the land. Because if we do, we're going to make America 0.99

00:05:11.560 better than the people. We're going to make it here. Yeah, look. There he is.

00:05:15.980 Because we have millions and millions of people in our country that should be here.

00:05:21.040 Dangerous people. Criminals. We have criminals. We have criminals.

00:05:24.540 Now, there have been several other presidential assassination attempts in U.S. history,

00:05:39.620 usually from the perspective of the bystanders. They come like a thunderbolt out of the clear

00:05:43.780 blue sky, completely unexpected. Shocking. This is the first one, to my knowledge,

00:05:48.820 where dozens of people in the crowd saw it coming and spent minutes pointing out the

00:05:53.600 assassin to law enforcement, who proceeded to do absolutely nothing about it. This is the first

00:05:58.840 time that you have a whole crowd of people in the minutes leading up to the assassination attempt

00:06:02.580 pointing to the assassin and saying, essentially, hey, that guy looks an awful lot like an assassin.

00:06:09.480 Yet the authorities didn't radio to pull Trump off the stage. They didn't start shooting at the

00:06:13.660 gunman. They didn't do anything. That makes this easily the single most preventable assassination

00:06:18.520 attempt in the history of this country. The Secret Service were led to believe had less

00:06:24.320 situational awareness than random people at a rally. Now, it defies any benign rational explanation

00:06:32.140 why so many people in so many places could see this shooter, but the Secret Service didn't get

00:06:38.920 Trump off the stage at any point. They didn't do anything at all. Several people at the rally

00:06:43.980 explained in interviews that none of this made any sense to them from their perspective either.

00:06:48.880 Here's one of those interviews that's been seen many times now, but it's very important.

00:06:52.480 Here it is again.

00:06:54.100 We noticed the guy crawling, you know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet

00:07:03.360 away from us. So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof.

00:07:09.020 And he had a gun, right?

00:07:09.900 He had a rifle. We can clearly see him with a rifle. Absolutely. We're pointing at him.

00:07:15.840 The police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man, there's a guy on

00:07:20.940 the roof with a rifle. And the police are like, huh, what? You know, like, like they didn't know

00:07:25.160 what was going on. You know, we're like, hey, right here on the roof. We can see him from right

00:07:28.800 here. We see him. You know, he's, he's crawling. And next thing you know, I'm like, I'm thinking

00:07:35.140 to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking? Why have they not pulled him off the stage?

00:07:38.840 I'm standing there pointing at him for, you know, two or three minutes. Secret Service is

00:07:44.300 looking at us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing at that roof, just standing there like

00:07:48.820 this. And next thing you know, five shots running out. But why is there not Secret Service on all

00:07:54.640 of these roofs here? I mean, this is not a big place. So they can see the guy has a rifle from

00:08:00.700 the ground. They're pointing it out to the police and the Secret Service for several minutes.

00:08:05.700 And again, no one does anything. Nobody gets trumped to safety. And as the guy rightly observed,

00:08:12.440 none of this should be necessary anyway, because they should have already had agents on the roof.

00:08:17.780 This rally was out in farm country in Pennsylvania. There aren't that many rooftops in the vicinity.

00:08:22.860 And of all the rooftops, this is the one that most needed to be secured, but it wasn't.

00:08:30.200 Apparently, there was just one police officer who responded in a meaningful way during this

00:08:33.900 whole process before the shooting started. According to Associated Press, a local police

00:08:37.340 officer heard all these people yelling about someone on the roof. Reportedly, the officer climbed

00:08:41.080 up on the roof, at which point the gunman pointed his rifle at him. The officer dropped back down,

00:08:45.720 retreated, and the gunman quickly began firing at Trump.

00:08:48.760 Now, it's not clear why the officer didn't alert Secret Service, or why he didn't engage the

00:08:53.340 shooter immediately, which is what he should have done, or why he wasn't on the rooftop to begin

00:08:58.040 with. Late last night, NBC News reported that, quote, the roof where the suspect was located was a

00:09:03.300 well-known high-priority vulnerability. It was identified just the day before during a security

00:09:07.560 walkthrough. Well, that obviously makes sense. You'd have to be blind to miss the rooftop. I could have

00:09:13.020 brought my four-year-old daughter to that venue before the event and asked her to point out security

00:09:17.040 vulnerabilities. And after I explained what a security vulnerability is, she would have identified

00:09:21.260 the rooftop as a primary area of concern, which raises an obvious question. Who exactly is

00:09:26.000 responsible for the willful decision to leave that roof unsecured? Why did they make that decision?

00:09:33.280 And also, crucially, why haven't they already been publicly fired? Really, there are only two plausible

00:09:39.800 ways to explain how this would-be assassin managed to take a position with a direct sightline to the

00:09:44.220 stage only 150 yards away. It's either the grossest, most extreme kind of incompetence and negligence

00:09:50.960 from the Secret Service that we've ever seen, or they were in on it. I mean, those are our options.

00:09:58.420 There are no other options. The man who was killed, a firefighter named Cory Comparator, would be alive

00:10:05.260 if the Secret Service expended the minimum possible amount of effort to secure this venue.

00:10:10.640 Donald Trump and those two other rally-goers would not have been shot.

00:10:15.840 So what that means is that at this point, every conspiracy theory, quote-unquote, is on the table

00:10:21.160 and will remain on the table indefinitely, most likely, because we'll never be told the full story

00:10:26.320 about the shooter. What we know is that Trump has two factors working against him. First,

00:10:31.460 the federal government, to include especially the agency's task with keeping him safe, hate his guts and 0.99

00:10:36.900 want him destroyed. And second, the federal government, to include especially the agency's

00:10:40.380 task with keeping him safe, has been hollowed out and rendered totally incompetent by DEI hiring

00:10:45.940 practices. And I'll get into that more in our closing monologue today, but the point is,

00:10:50.860 we simply can't rule out them trying to get him killed again or accidentally allowing someone else to

00:10:56.540 do it. Donald Trump is in grave danger right now, still. And it's clear the Secret Service is not up to

00:11:03.180 the task of protecting him, whether that's because they don't want to or they can't, or some combination

00:11:08.980 of those two. This is a national scandal, obviously. The only thing more third world than imprisoning

00:11:15.440 your political opponents is making them fear for their lives every time they go out in public.

00:11:20.260 And that's where we are. Remember that just a few months ago, several Democrats tried to introduce

00:11:24.720 legislation that would strip Trump of his Secret Service protection entirely. The idea was that as soon as

00:11:30.000 he was sentenced to prison, he'd lose his protection. This was all a big joke on MSNBC,

00:11:34.760 but the intent of it was very clear. They wanted to use lawfare to ultimately cause the death of

00:11:39.780 Donald Trump. In some instances, Democrats came right out and basically said it. Interview with Jen

00:11:46.020 Psaki, Congressman Dan Goldman, who oversees the Secret Service as part of the Homeland Security

00:11:50.920 Committee, announced that Trump needed to be, quote, eliminated. Watch.

00:11:55.480 It's just unquestionable at this point that that man cannot see public office again. He is not only

00:12:04.360 unfit, he is destructive to our democracy, and he has to be, he has to be eliminated.

00:12:12.140 So that is a sitting member of Congress, one of the more influential ones with oversight of the 0.86

00:12:16.600 Secret Service, saying Trump simply cannot win. He has to be eliminated. And Joe Biden's spokeswoman,

00:12:23.420 Jen Psaki, just sits there and nods. It's psychotic. We often hear a lot about dangerous rhetoric. 1.00

00:12:32.160 Most of the time, that term is applied to things that are uncomfortable but true. It's often called

00:12:37.060 dangerous to point out the racial disparities in violent crime statistics, for example. But that can't

00:12:42.560 be dangerous because it's A, true, and it's B, not the sort of thing that once acknowledged will

00:12:48.360 plausibly bring harm to any person or group. But the left's decade-long campaign to label Trump a

00:12:55.600 Hitlerian dictator who wants to destroy democracy is actually dangerous because it's A, not true, and

00:13:03.120 it's B, the sort of thing that, if believed, is all but guaranteed to bring about exactly the result

00:13:09.460 we saw on Saturday. That's the point. It's why they say it. I mean, think of it this way.

00:13:16.160 But if Trump really is an evil dictator who wants to destroy America, it would be not only 0.96

00:13:22.200 understandable but, in fact, morally righteous to kill him, which is why it doesn't make any sense 0.92

00:13:27.900 for all these leftists to now be expressing grief and claiming that this kind of violence is

00:13:31.960 unacceptable. Really? Wait a minute. I thought you said he's Hitler. How could it be unacceptable to

00:13:38.040 kill Hitler? I've heard people debate whether killing baby Hitler would be okay, but killing adult 0.99

00:13:44.340 Hitler? I mean, what's there to think about? From a political perspective, Democrats are then 0.95

00:13:50.340 in a real conundrum, and there doesn't appear to be any way out of it for them. I mean, they can't say

00:13:56.740 that Trump deserved to die, but if he didn't deserve to die, then he isn't Hitler incarnate because 1.00

00:14:03.340 Hitler incarnate deserves to die. So what can they do? The only way to continue their Trump narrative is 1.00

00:14:07.940 to actively celebrate his attempted assassination. Most of them don't want to do that for obvious

00:14:12.560 political reasons, but that's the problem. If Trump really is an evil supervillain dictator, 0.88

00:14:17.320 as they have said countless times, then assassinating him would be morally justified, 0.97

00:14:21.640 but they can't justify this, which means they're confessing that everything they've said about him 0.83

00:14:25.500 is nonsense. They either have to openly defend his attempted murder or admit they're full of crap. 1.00

00:14:32.060 There is no good option. They are screwed. Now, Democrats hope to thread this impossible needle by 1.00

00:14:37.960 declaring, as many of them have, from Biden to AOC and many in between, that there is no place for

00:14:43.420 political violence in America. Now, the problem with a statement like that is, first of all,

00:14:48.480 it's rote and cliche. A man just tried to murder a former president and current presidential candidate

00:14:53.820 on live TV. We're talking a historic moment that every American alive today will remember for as long

00:15:00.420 as they live. And in this moment, all you can muster is a hollow slogan, an empty platitude.

00:15:07.080 That's no surprise. After all, what can you expect from hollow people, but hollow slogans?

00:15:11.920 Yet there's another problem, which I hope to explain without being misconstrued. A naive hope,

00:15:18.020 no doubt. The other problem is that the statement, there is no place for political violence in America

00:15:23.680 isn't true. It obviously isn't true. Of course, there can be a place for political violence in

00:15:30.260 this country or any country. This country was born in political violence. This country wouldn't exist

00:15:35.360 without political violence. We just celebrated political violence on July 4th. Political violence

00:15:40.360 can, in certain circumstances, be morally justified. The political violence that resulted in the formation

00:15:47.500 of this country was morally justified, most of us would agree. The problem with the assassination

00:15:54.240 attempt against Donald Trump is that it was not one of those circumstances. It was not morally justified.

00:16:01.180 Donald Trump is not the wicked despotic tyrant they claim he is. What makes it wrong to kill Donald Trump 0.99

00:16:07.660 is that it's wrong to kill Donald Trump. Not that it's always wrong to kill political leaders all the time 0.96

00:16:14.660 in all circumstances throughout all of history. Again, Hitler was a political leader, and most of us would agree 0.99

00:16:19.760 that it would have been a great thing for someone to have killed him. Stalin was also a political leader,

00:16:25.460 and most of us would agree that it would have been great if somebody killed him. And maybe someone did, actually.

00:16:30.680 So it's not always wrong to kill political leaders, obviously, but it is certainly wrong to kill this one.

00:16:38.540 And this should be obvious, but it's worth stating because you have to understand the game Democrats are playing.

00:16:43.400 Condemning Trump's assassination attempt by condemning all political violence is a dodge.

00:16:49.760 They don't want to condemn this specific act, so instead they just condemn the whole category.

00:16:57.120 But it makes no sense to condemn the whole category for the reasons I've just explained.

00:17:02.080 Now, after the assassination attempt on Saturday, Joe Biden shuffled out to give his approximation of a response.

00:17:06.940 This is the same Joe Biden who has spent the last several years referring to MAGA Republicans as an existential threat to democracy.

00:17:13.580 It's the same Joe Biden who said that Trump and his supporters will supposedly bring about the end of the rule of law in this country.

00:17:18.560 But on Saturday night, he seemed to not believe any of that.

00:17:22.740 Watch.

00:17:23.180 But the idea, the idea that there's political violence or violence in America like this is just unheard of.

00:17:30.960 It's just not appropriate.

00:17:32.480 I mean, everybody, everybody must condemn it.

00:17:35.100 Everybody.

00:17:35.960 I'll keep you informed.

00:17:37.140 And if I may be able to speak to Donald, I'll let you know that as well.

00:17:41.840 So Biden's assessment is that it's not appropriate to use lethal force to save democracy and prevent Hitler from taking over the United States, apparently.

00:17:51.780 Now, first of all, not appropriate.

00:17:56.180 That's the term I use when lecturing my boys for making fart noises with their armpits at the dinner table.

00:18:02.920 But it's the most Biden could muster under the circumstances because he knows he's trapped. 1.00

00:18:07.980 He can admit his rhetoric for the past decade has been a lie, or he can affirm that Donald Trump is Hitler and therefore it's good to kill him. 0.99

00:18:14.940 Biden can't do either of those things because he lacks any kind of moral backbone. 0.98

00:18:18.240 So we're left with this middling language.

00:18:20.800 It's not appropriate.

00:18:22.400 It's not appropriate to blow the head off of the leading presidential candidate, Biden mutters.

00:18:27.500 It's rude. 0.91

00:18:28.060 You see, it's impolite.

00:18:28.820 It's uncouth. 0.99

00:18:30.040 Hey, knock it off, you mischievous assassins. 0.94

00:18:32.400 Not cool, folks. 0.83

00:18:33.700 Hey, guys, take it easy.

00:18:34.700 Take it.

00:18:35.160 Enough with that assassination malarkey, OK?

00:18:38.940 What this means is that Joe Biden continues to be the weakest and most pitiful man ever to occupy the White House. 0.97

00:18:45.520 The contrast between Trump raising a defiant fist while streaked in blood and this frail, bumbling, wimpish oaf could not be more striking. 0.99

00:18:56.700 Trump will win in a landslide if they don't kill him first. 0.99

00:18:59.940 I mean, I don't even think they can cheat their way out of it this time.

00:19:03.660 At the moment, it appears Democrats are resigning to that fate.

00:19:06.320 You can expect efforts to replace Joe Biden to completely die down now.

00:19:09.880 Nobody wants to take over this sinking ship.

00:19:12.780 It'd be like answering a Help Wanted ad on the Titanic 10 minutes after the iceberg.

00:19:17.500 Even Biden's handlers have apparently thrown in the towel, which might be why Biden was allowed to appear in public twice yesterday.

00:19:24.020 In the evening, like six hours after his bedtime, he gave this bizarre address from the Oval Office.

00:19:29.200 Let's watch.

00:19:30.660 Let's never descend into violence.

00:19:34.680 Republican convention will start tomorrow.

00:19:37.340 I have no doubt they'll criticize my record and offer their own vision for this country.

00:19:41.600 I'll be traveling this week making the case for our record and the vision, my vision of the country, our vision.

00:19:46.640 I'll continue to speak out strongly for our democracy, stand up for our Constitution, the rule of law, to call for action at the ballot box.

00:19:56.480 No violence on our streets.

00:19:58.500 That's how democracy should work.

00:20:01.280 We debate and disagree.

00:20:02.920 We compare and contrast the character of the candidates, the records, the issues, the agenda, the vision for America.

00:20:09.060 But in America, we resolve our differences at the battle box.

00:20:14.860 You know, that's how we do it, at the battle box, not with bullets.

00:20:18.980 The power to change America should always rest in the hands of the people, not in the hands of would-be assassin.

00:20:25.660 You heard it directly from Joe Biden.

00:20:27.660 We're going to resolve our issues at the battle box.

00:20:31.600 What is a battle box?

00:20:33.120 Is that what Joe Biden calls the board game battleship?

00:20:35.700 Does he think the presidential election will be decided by a rousing game of battleship between the two sides?

00:20:41.240 Is that what they've told him now?

00:20:43.020 Who knows?

00:20:44.020 Anything's possible.

00:20:45.700 And this is the choice you have in the next election.

00:20:47.520 A man who could not be thwarted by multiple impeachments, multiple arrests, a criminal conviction, and an assassin's bullet.

00:20:55.600 Or a man who was thwarted every day by his own teleprompter.

00:20:59.100 And staircase.

00:21:00.260 And bicycle.

00:21:01.460 And bells.

00:21:02.660 So where do we go from here?

00:21:08.900 There have been many calls for unity in the wake of the shooting.

00:21:12.620 Trump himself has said that he's going to rewrite his convention speech to focus on national unity.

00:21:17.820 That makes a lot of sense as a political strategy.

00:21:20.200 It's certainly the right move in a presidential campaign in response to an event like this.

00:21:24.100 That's the right thing for him to do.

00:21:25.660 But can it actually happen?

00:21:28.520 Can this country be unified now?

00:21:33.180 Is there any chance that we all come together and put our differences aside now that we've come so close to chaos?

00:21:38.660 Now that the thin veil was very nearly ripped to shreds?

00:21:42.660 The answer, I'm afraid, is no.

00:21:45.280 That's the conclusion we come to if history is our guide.

00:21:50.180 And it should be.

00:21:51.060 Because as I said at the beginning, we are living in history.

00:21:55.020 We are not at the end of it.

00:21:57.180 And history shows us very clearly that when political tensions eventually lead to political assassination attempts,

00:22:03.320 things don't just stop there.

00:22:06.400 The tie doesn't come to a screeching halt.

00:22:08.320 The factions don't pull up short and say, oh, jeez, maybe this has gone a little too far, guys.

00:22:14.760 That's not the way this has ever worked.

00:22:17.960 And we are not history's great exceptions.

00:22:22.040 It's high time we admit that to ourselves.

00:22:24.680 What this means is that the forces which, at a minimum, at a minimum, set the stage for this,

00:22:32.120 the forces which have demonized Trump and the movement he stands for,

00:22:35.520 the forces which have tried to destroy him in every possible way,

00:22:39.340 the forces which have actually destroyed many normal Americans,

00:22:42.500 far less powerful and prominent than Trump himself,

00:22:45.460 those forces are still at work.

00:22:48.160 They are still scheming.

00:22:50.080 They are still plotting against Trump and against you.

00:22:52.900 We can't unite with them.

00:22:57.460 The only national unity to be had will be had in their defeat.

00:23:03.540 They must be defeated.

00:23:05.140 That is the only way.

00:23:07.500 Trump was right in what he said on stage after the shots rang out with blood smeared across his face.

00:23:12.680 He didn't shout, unite.

00:23:14.940 He shouted, fight.

00:23:17.560 And that's what we have to do.

00:23:19.780 Now more than ever.

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00:24:34.060 Okay, so what do we know about the shooter?

00:24:36.980 Here's the AP.

00:24:38.120 The 20-year-old man who tried to assassinate former President Donald Trump first came to law enforcement's attention at Saturday's rally

00:24:42.840 when spectators noticed him acting strangely outside the campaign event.

00:24:45.980 We talked about that already in the opening.

00:24:50.040 In the wake of the shooting that killed one spectator, investigators were hunting for any clues about what may have drove

00:24:55.620 Thomas Matthew Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, to carry out the shocking attack.

00:24:59.100 The FBI said they were investigating it as a potential act of domestic terrorism,

00:25:03.740 but the absence of a clear ideological motive by the man shot dead by the Secret Service led conspiracy theories to flourish.

00:25:09.760 You don't want to have those.

00:25:12.740 Because, you know, there's one thing we know about assassination attempts.

00:25:16.040 It's that there's never any conspiring involved, right?

00:25:18.680 There's never been any conspiracy behind an assassination attempt.

00:25:23.700 It's absurd to even suggest it.

00:25:25.240 It's absurd to even suggest that there might be more people involved in a plot to kill the president or the candidate for president.

00:25:33.880 The FBI said it believes Crooks, who had bomb-making materials in his car, acted alone.

00:25:40.100 Investigators have found no threatening comments on social media accounts or ideological positions

00:25:43.780 that could help explain what led him to target Trump before the Secret Service rushed to present a Republican nominee off the stage.

00:25:48.640 FBI officials said Sunday they were combing Crooks' background in social media activities while working to get access to his phone.

00:25:57.420 The chatting app Discord, a social media platform popular with people playing online games,

00:26:01.260 said Crooks appears to have had an account but used it rarely and not in the last several months.

00:26:06.260 There's no evidence he used his account to promote violence or discuss his political views.

00:26:10.700 Crooks' political leanings were not immediately clear.

00:26:12.500 Records show Crooks was registered as a Republican in Pennsylvania,

00:26:15.320 but federal campaign finance reports also show he gave $15 to a progressive political action committee on January 20th, 2021.

00:26:24.140 Okay.

00:26:25.760 So totally normal stuff here, folks, right?

00:26:27.900 Nothing to be concerned about.

00:26:29.760 You see, this is a 20-year-old lone wolf shooter who accessed a roof carrying a rifle 150 yards from President Trump,

00:26:36.720 undetected by everyone except dozens of audience members who did detect it and point it out,

00:26:40.380 but nothing was done to stop him.

00:26:42.500 The lone wolf then climbs up a roof carrying a rifle and sets up his shot, like, slowly. 0.99

00:26:49.080 In plain view of everybody, he just sets up his shot to try to kill Trump. 0.97

00:26:55.400 Nobody stops him. 0.56

00:26:56.660 He has no help at all.

00:26:59.220 And then after he's killed, we find out that he apparently has left behind no writings of any kind,

00:27:05.180 no mention of any motive, no manifesto, no social media posts.

00:27:10.020 He's never posted anything on social media ever.

00:27:12.680 He's never said anything on the Internet.

00:27:14.340 He's never said anything political ever.

00:27:16.500 One time, apparently.

00:27:17.440 Not once. 0.99

00:27:19.120 So this is a man who is so politically radical that he would try to kill President Trump,

00:27:25.000 but not politically radical enough to express a political opinion in any public forum ever in his life.

00:27:33.020 Well, you know those 20-year-olds, after all.

00:27:36.620 They don't use social media.

00:27:38.900 Very averse to social media, to saying anything.

00:27:43.120 They're very private.

00:27:43.880 They live very private lives.

00:27:45.100 They don't like to say anything on the Internet at all.

00:27:47.560 So, you know, it makes perfect sense.

00:27:48.680 And, oh, and there's two other factors we have to remember here, that three days after the fact,

00:27:59.140 the government's best hackers still have not managed to get access to his phone because it has a password.

00:28:08.600 Did you know that?

00:28:09.220 That if you put a password on your phone, the FBI won't be able to get into it.

00:28:13.500 So I guess you can, like, use your phone and you can plan all kinds of crimes.

00:28:18.220 And as long as you have a password, it's impenetrable.

00:28:21.780 They can't get into it.

00:28:23.220 They'll just look at your phone and say, oh, he's got a password on it.

00:28:25.140 Never mind, guys.

00:28:25.740 Forget it.

00:28:26.940 Investigation over.

00:28:30.900 Oh, and also this guy who tried to kill the Republican nominee,

00:28:36.240 his last and really only political act that he made was to register as a Republican.

00:28:45.960 Right.

00:28:47.740 Oh, and there's one other point, too, that we should mention that, according to reports,

00:28:51.140 he tried to get on his high school shooting team.

00:28:56.520 And he couldn't make it on the team because he couldn't hit the broad side of a barn.

00:29:01.960 He was, I think the word was, he was comically bad at shooting.

00:29:08.420 Okay.

00:29:10.000 That's the story so far.

00:29:13.680 And, look, it's useless to say, oh, it's still early on.

00:29:17.000 You know, there's so many things we could find.

00:29:18.120 Really, it's early on?

00:29:19.720 Is this really early in the modern age?

00:29:23.940 We're on the, you know, we're on the third day.

00:29:26.920 It's two days ago.

00:29:27.860 We're on the third day.

00:29:30.200 Let's just call it two days ago.

00:29:32.440 Two days ago that this man tried to kill Donald Trump.

00:29:37.300 And we still don't have any social media postings from him at all.

00:29:42.800 I mean, usually, well, if the person is of a certain political persuasion,

00:29:47.660 when someone commits a heinous crime, we have their social media posts like five seconds later.

00:29:54.040 Because it's, you know, generally, with most people, especially most 20-year-olds, they've said a lot on the internet.

00:30:01.240 And it's all over the place.

00:30:02.540 And it's not hard to find.

00:30:04.400 And next thing you know, it's being spread by everybody.

00:30:07.960 So two days, two days to at least discover what he said on social media is in eternity.

00:30:18.320 And yet we're told there's nothing.

00:30:19.580 And that's why I'm just going to completely ignore everyone who lectures us to avoid conspiracy theories about this.

00:30:27.280 As I said at the top, all conspiracy theories are on the table.

00:30:32.100 They all are.

00:30:32.840 This could be an inside job.

00:30:35.240 I mean, this could be.

00:30:36.460 This could be a patsy recruited by the deep state to take out President Trump.

00:30:40.220 That's a possibility.

00:30:41.840 That is a possibility that we should be talking about, not in like a coy way, but just flat out talking about.

00:30:48.640 That's something we have to consider.

00:30:50.120 That could be what happened.

00:30:52.660 In fact, that explanation at this point best fits the facts at the moment.

00:30:58.120 I'm not saying it's true.

00:30:59.300 I'm not saying it's even the most likely possibility.

00:31:01.560 I'm just saying that it's the theory that best predicts all the facts we have at the moment.

00:31:06.580 The fact that his social media was apparently wiped completely clean within minutes.

00:31:10.220 Or beforehand, for all we know.

00:31:11.900 The fact that he had access to the rooftop to begin with.

00:31:14.500 I mean, everything.

00:31:16.760 So, I mean, that's a real possibility.

00:31:18.360 We should talk about it openly.

00:31:20.340 You can't rule it out.

00:31:23.140 And also keep in mind the timing here.

00:31:25.060 This just so happened to occur at the lowest moment of Biden's campaign.

00:31:29.720 Okay, Biden was at a moment when he's doomed.

00:31:34.100 The worst two weeks of Biden's, not just of Biden's campaign,

00:31:37.820 but it's one of the worst two weeks of any presidential campaign we've ever seen in our lifetimes.

00:31:42.500 I mean, it was that bad.

00:31:44.580 And at the end of those desperate two weeks is when this happens.

00:31:51.260 So, again, we have to wonder, was this the break glass and emergency sort of strategy

00:31:55.540 that the powers that be had in their back pockets?

00:31:57.740 And did they finally break the glass?

00:31:59.640 I don't know.

00:32:00.120 I have no idea. 1.00

00:32:02.460 But anyone who says that it's absurd to even consider the possibility is either a liar or a moron. 1.00

00:32:11.640 Okay? 1.00

00:32:13.380 And, you know, screw anyone. 1.00

00:32:15.560 They can go to hell, honestly. 1.00

00:32:16.840 If you're still trying to police these conversations at this point, just shut the hell up. 1.00

00:32:20.420 I'm not interested in it. 0.94

00:32:22.300 But there are other possibilities.

00:32:23.720 One of them is that this was a lone guy radicalized by all the Trump is Hitler rhetoric

00:32:28.320 and everything played out as it did due to extreme incompetence.

00:32:31.220 And then after the fact, the FBI got in there quickly and wiped everything clean

00:32:36.160 because they know well that the Dems and the media have spent the last four years

00:32:41.980 accusing Trump of incitement.

00:32:43.940 And they can't have it come out that they themselves incited this thing.

00:32:49.260 So it's possible that everything was wiped clean after the fact.

00:32:53.720 It's also possible that exactly what we're told is true,

00:32:56.920 that he's a lone wolf, acted completely on his own,

00:32:59.440 for some reason has never said anything political,

00:33:01.980 maybe was never even a political person and just went crazy or something and decided to do this.

00:33:05.420 I mean, we can't rule that out.

00:33:08.840 Another possibility is that this guy is actually a genius who covered his tracks so well

00:33:12.500 the FBI can't uncover them and who has very well studied and planned

00:33:16.500 and knew the security vulnerabilities ahead of time.

00:33:19.160 Some kind of evil genius, we can't rule that out.

00:33:21.200 We can't rule anything out.

00:33:22.220 We cannot rule anything out.

00:33:24.580 And anyone who tells you, anyone who would survey those four or five options I've just

00:33:28.880 very briefly outlined, anyone who would survey those options and say,

00:33:32.520 oh, no, that one, definitely not.

00:33:33.740 No way. 1.00

00:33:34.560 Anyone who does that, again, is a bad faith actor or just an absolute moron 1.00

00:33:38.700 who should be discarded. 1.00

00:33:39.640 Their opinion should be discarded immediately.

00:33:41.140 We need to keep our minds open to any possibility.

00:33:47.460 You just follow, and we're never going to be told anyway.

00:33:49.520 So, you know, in trying to piece it together on our own, we just have to follow the threads

00:33:54.520 as they come up with no, you know, we're not rooting for any particular conclusion on this.

00:34:01.800 Like, whatever the answer is, it's bad, right?

00:34:04.180 There's no good, right?

00:34:06.120 There's no answer to this riddle that will make us go, oh, well, phew, thank God.

00:34:13.220 No matter what, it's bad.

00:34:15.040 So we'll see.

00:34:18.080 AP, again, has this.

00:34:20.920 A defiant Donald Trump, having just survived an assassination attempt,

00:34:23.400 enters a Republican National Convention, having not yet announced his vice presidential pick.

00:34:27.000 Although the latest is that he's going to announce that today.

00:34:29.340 Maybe by the time you're listening to this, he's already announced it.

00:34:33.780 So probably not.

00:34:35.520 No point in offering a lot of analysis ahead of time about what his vice presidential pick might be,

00:34:40.420 because that's going to be announced today.

00:34:44.180 The only thing I'll say ahead of time is that, you know, and hopefully, again,

00:34:50.100 by the time you listen to this, it's a moot point.

00:34:51.800 But the number one thing that matters now for a vice president is that it is Trump's safety,

00:34:59.340 is that it is that it the insurance policy.

00:35:02.320 And so, as many others have pointed out, you know, he needs to pick someone who his enemies

00:35:08.840 would not want as president.

00:35:12.700 He needs to pick someone who his enemies would consider worse than him.

00:35:15.620 And that leaves open someone like Vivek, someone like J.D. Vance,

00:35:24.340 Tucker Carlson, you know, even the idea of DeSantis being VP.

00:35:29.220 Now, I never liked that idea up until this moment,

00:35:31.760 only because I think that it would be a waste of DeSantis' talents to have him as a vice president.

00:35:36.700 But at this point, you know, there's a higher calling here.

00:35:42.560 And we know that Trump's enemies have, in fact, repeatedly said that DeSantis is more dangerous,

00:35:49.460 quote unquote, than Trump is.

00:35:50.980 So I think that should be considered as well.

00:35:53.180 Instead, we'll move on to this.

00:35:54.560 NBC News reports Democrats fret about the political fallout from the Trump rally shooting.

00:35:58.580 In the hours after a would-be assassin fired a bullet through former President Donald Trump's ear,

00:36:04.760 Panfilo DiCenzo, a 40-year-old Democratic voter from Pittsburgh,

00:36:08.540 drew a simple conclusion about the political effect of the attack.

00:36:11.560 It definitely is good for Trump.

00:36:14.020 DiCenzo reasoned that undecided voters may be more likely to vote for him out of sympathy,

00:36:17.880 and that especially with the upheaval in the Democratic Party, you know,

00:36:20.640 more people, I think, are a little bit confused as to who to vote for.

00:36:24.680 One longtime Democratic insider said,

00:36:27.720 we are so beyond effed.

00:36:30.760 Another one said,

00:36:31.700 the presidential campaign ended last night.

00:36:35.380 Now it's time to focus on keeping the Senate and trying to pick up the House.

00:36:39.020 Okay, now look, I don't want to lull anybody into complacency,

00:36:43.900 the false sense of security that we discussed.

00:36:45.840 I don't want anyone to fall into that trap.

00:36:50.820 Obviously, you need to still go out and vote.

00:36:53.540 Vote like your life depends on it.

00:36:55.660 Everyone needs to vote.

00:36:56.580 I'm not trying to convince anyone otherwise.

00:36:58.480 I'm not trying to tell you, oh, this thing's wrapped.

00:36:59.920 Don't even worry about it.

00:37:00.880 You know, just kick up your feet and take it easy.

00:37:04.240 But just speaking honestly about the political situation here,

00:37:08.100 you know,

00:37:08.580 this thing is over.

00:37:11.840 Sure, the Democrats will try all their dirty tricks. 0.79

00:37:13.800 We know that.

00:37:14.280 But even that probably is not enough.

00:37:20.660 Elections are all about stories.

00:37:22.660 Which candidate has the better story to tell?

00:37:25.900 And Trump's story now is so unbelievably compelling.

00:37:30.020 I mean, so incredible, so iconic,

00:37:32.740 so almost mythic.

00:37:34.880 And Biden's story, by contrast, 1.00

00:37:38.060 is so dull and pathetic 1.00

00:37:39.980 that you just can't overcome it. 0.99

00:37:43.180 As I've said several times now on the show,

00:37:45.360 history is a guide.

00:37:47.180 We are in history.

00:37:48.220 And candidates do not survive all that Trump has survived

00:37:51.080 and then lose.

00:37:53.560 They just don't.

00:37:55.400 And that means,

00:37:58.020 and you can mark my words on this one,

00:38:00.060 the calls to replace Biden will stop now.

00:38:02.680 You're not going to hear it again.

00:38:03.700 You're not going to hear anything more about that.

00:38:06.040 Nobody on the left

00:38:07.100 is going to want to swap Biden out for anybody else.

00:38:09.800 For the simple reason that Trump is going to win anyway.

00:38:12.520 And now the calculation changes.

00:38:14.820 Now Biden actually goes from, like,

00:38:17.620 their worst candidate, right,

00:38:20.240 to now he's the perfect candidate for the Democrats.

00:38:23.660 He's actually the perfect guy.

00:38:26.000 They are thanking God or whoever they thank

00:38:29.060 that they didn't nominate somebody else, right?

00:38:32.860 Because Biden's job is now to lose

00:38:36.860 and absorb all the blame for the loss

00:38:39.440 and then wander off to the nursing home

00:38:41.520 and wither away in obscurity and never be seen again.

00:38:43.920 He's now their classic scapegoat, right?

00:38:46.800 Like, that's where the term of scapegoat comes from.

00:38:49.300 It used to be a literal religious sort of ceremony

00:38:54.700 heavy in symbolism where the sins of the people

00:38:59.580 would be put on a goat as a burden

00:39:03.300 and the goat would be sent off into the wilderness

00:39:05.020 carrying their guilt with him.

00:39:07.700 And that's Biden's job now is to be the scapegoat,

00:39:11.380 to lose and disappear.

00:39:13.420 I'll tell you one thing,

00:39:14.240 they definitely aren't going to be floating any names

00:39:15.720 like Michelle Obama out there now.

00:39:18.200 They don't want to sully Michelle's fake

00:39:20.480 astroturfed star power

00:39:22.280 by having her lose decisively to Donald Trump.

00:39:26.220 And they don't want to ruin the careers

00:39:27.640 of any of their up-and-coming stars

00:39:29.300 by, put stars in scare quotes,

00:39:31.280 but by pinning a loss on them.

00:39:34.300 So that's all for Biden now.

00:39:35.740 That's Biden's job.

00:39:37.800 Which is good for him

00:39:38.740 because it's the only thing he can do.

00:39:40.320 The only thing he can do 1.00

00:39:41.220 is be a pathetic whimpering nothing and lose. 1.00

00:39:45.240 And so now the Democrats are saying to him, 0.99

00:39:47.160 like, okay, do what you do best, Biden.

00:39:49.460 This is, here you go.

00:39:52.360 What's the Democrat plan beyond that?

00:39:54.120 Well, pretty simple.

00:39:57.160 The job now is to fortify

00:39:59.100 their bureaucratic defenses,

00:40:00.420 to make sure the machine is working

00:40:02.140 inside the bureaucracy

00:40:03.400 to undermine and sabotage Trump.

00:40:05.680 Make sure he doesn't do anything

00:40:06.900 over the next four years

00:40:07.860 that they cannot immediately reverse

00:40:10.340 on day one of a Democratic presidency in 2028.

00:40:13.680 That's the game.

00:40:15.340 I mean, that's the whole thing right there.

00:40:17.620 Once Trump is president,

00:40:19.480 can he move an agenda forward

00:40:21.900 with all of these forces aligned against him?

00:40:26.260 And can he do that as a president

00:40:30.260 who we know will be gone

00:40:32.020 from presidential politics

00:40:33.040 at the end of four years?

00:40:34.060 Can he accomplish anything

00:40:36.700 that will have a lasting impact

00:40:38.220 beyond his time in office?

00:40:40.340 I think he can,

00:40:42.160 but it's going to take a great team,

00:40:46.220 great personnel,

00:40:47.620 and the resolve and determination

00:40:50.600 to push it through at all costs.

00:40:54.060 And also on top of that,

00:40:55.520 the warrant, right?

00:40:56.720 The warrant from the American people 0.93

00:40:58.480 that you can get in there

00:41:01.660 and say the American people

00:41:03.040 want me to push my agenda through

00:41:04.940 and you people out there,

00:41:07.000 you people in Washington,

00:41:07.900 you're not going to stop this from happening.

00:41:11.000 And I think he's going to have that too,

00:41:12.540 especially now.

00:41:14.640 So it can happen,

00:41:15.700 but that's going to be the real fight.

00:41:17.140 It's going to be,

00:41:17.560 it's going to be,

00:41:18.600 you know,

00:41:19.740 until they start gearing up

00:41:21.540 for the 2028 campaign,

00:41:22.920 you know,

00:41:23.160 in a few years,

00:41:23.840 a couple of years,

00:41:24.800 the fight for the,

00:41:26.440 at least the first two years

00:41:28.720 of Trump's term,

00:41:29.320 it's going to be a lot of it behind the scenes

00:41:31.360 and all of their machinations

00:41:32.980 to stop him from being effective.

00:41:37.980 All right,

00:41:38.400 we've talked a little bit about

00:41:39.220 the media's reaction

00:41:40.080 to the assassination attempt.

00:41:41.280 It was disgraceful,

00:41:42.240 as you'd expect.

00:41:42.760 I don't think we need to spend

00:41:43.460 a lot of time playing clips

00:41:44.760 and all that.

00:41:46.160 You've probably seen most of them.

00:41:48.000 I did want to play this one clip,

00:41:50.100 though,

00:41:50.300 from MSNBC.

00:41:52.100 Here it is.

00:41:52.700 Watch.

00:41:53.560 That is the question.

00:41:54.600 And Jen, 1.00

00:41:55.200 in fact,

00:41:55.500 we've already seen

00:41:56.360 the finger-pointing begin.

00:41:59.420 Some people even blaming

00:42:00.900 President Biden.

00:42:02.640 We heard that very forceful condemnation

00:42:04.980 by President Biden

00:42:06.460 of what happened.

00:42:07.800 As someone who used to work

00:42:09.200 with the president,

00:42:10.760 what are you anticipating

00:42:12.420 in terms of,

00:42:13.480 he's obviously pulled

00:42:14.140 his political ads forward,

00:42:15.380 but as Carol said,

00:42:16.360 the question is,

00:42:16.940 how long does this moment last?

00:42:18.700 And how do you think

00:42:19.440 he sees his role right now?

00:42:21.100 I mean,

00:42:21.540 I think his role,

00:42:22.580 I'm betting that how he responded

00:42:24.760 was as a human being,

00:42:26.140 which is how we just saw

00:42:27.500 Lindsey Graham at moments

00:42:28.620 during that interview

00:42:29.320 and Senator Sanders

00:42:30.360 and Senator Coons respond.

00:42:32.000 That's how everybody

00:42:32.740 should be responding.

00:42:34.220 For anyone out there

00:42:34.900 who has a platform,

00:42:36.100 who thinks the moment right now

00:42:37.340 is to be political

00:42:38.460 and attack the other party,

00:42:40.200 you are feeding into the danger.

00:42:42.280 You are making it more likely

00:42:43.620 there's retaliation.

00:42:45.300 I'm incredibly scared.

00:42:46.600 I'm scared for journalists.

00:42:47.860 I'm scared for people

00:42:48.800 who have public platforms

00:42:50.060 of all parties,

00:42:51.140 and that's how people should feel.

00:42:52.580 So for President Biden,

00:42:54.280 I mean,

00:42:54.780 Senator Coons mentioned

00:42:55.620 he was in church.

00:42:57.200 He's somebody

00:42:57.900 who's very prayerful.

00:42:59.320 He is somebody

00:43:00.400 who attends church.

00:43:01.200 I think he probably

00:43:01.860 is relying on that.

00:43:03.700 And in this moment,

00:43:04.740 I think his instinct

00:43:05.560 would be not to be political.

00:43:06.820 And you just take it

00:43:07.660 day by day.

00:43:08.560 That's where he would be.

00:43:09.780 I mean,

00:43:09.920 he has a huge interview tomorrow.

00:43:11.940 And the moment there

00:43:13.040 is not to talk about

00:43:14.360 the political path forward.

00:43:16.260 It is to be a healer

00:43:18.220 and to lower the rhetoric

00:43:19.760 and the tenor

00:43:21.780 in the conversation

00:43:22.540 in the country.

00:43:23.120 It's just fascinating.

00:43:24.300 Every conversation

00:43:25.300 is going to be different,

00:43:26.400 including that interview.

00:43:28.480 I'm incredibly scared.

00:43:31.200 That's how people

00:43:32.100 should feel.

00:43:34.520 Really?

00:43:35.060 People should feel

00:43:35.900 incredibly scared?

00:43:38.020 I mean,

00:43:38.340 when is fear,

00:43:39.400 incredible fear,

00:43:40.600 ever the advisable

00:43:41.820 and desirable response

00:43:43.420 to anything?

00:43:44.340 And why is she scared

00:43:46.840 for journalists?

00:43:49.160 So Donald Trump

00:43:50.360 is an inch away from death

00:43:51.840 and her first thought is,

00:43:54.560 oh, I hope they don't.

00:43:57.000 What about me?

00:43:58.280 Think about me.

00:43:59.100 Think about the journalists.

00:44:01.200 Of course,

00:44:01.460 it's not a surprise.

00:44:02.840 She cannot see anything

00:44:04.380 except through the lens

00:44:05.280 of her own victimhood.

00:44:06.940 Journalists cannot see anything

00:44:08.040 except through the lens

00:44:08.680 of their own victimhood.

00:44:09.340 And you have to understand

00:44:11.000 for the media,

00:44:13.700 and they've had to try

00:44:14.560 to control themselves,

00:44:16.260 you know,

00:44:16.580 and they've done

00:44:17.260 as good a job of that

00:44:18.660 as we could possibly

00:44:19.560 expect them to do.

00:44:21.620 So they've had to try

00:44:22.480 to control themselves

00:44:23.400 and bottle up

00:44:25.580 to whatever degree possible

00:44:28.120 their contempt for Trump

00:44:29.340 just in the last couple days.

00:44:30.420 That won't last long.

00:44:31.780 That'll last a few more days

00:44:32.700 at most.

00:44:35.080 You know,

00:44:35.580 thinking about

00:44:35.980 where that contempt comes from.

00:44:37.620 And a lot of it

00:44:38.720 is political,

00:44:39.380 ideological,

00:44:40.020 obviously.

00:44:40.700 We know all that.

00:44:42.760 But the other thing

00:44:43.340 that I think

00:44:44.080 probably isn't discussed enough

00:44:45.440 is that

00:44:47.020 journalists are also

00:44:50.080 very jealous.

00:44:51.520 They're envious of Trump.

00:44:53.920 And that,

00:44:54.300 and I don't want to get too,

00:44:55.480 you know,

00:44:56.000 get into too much psychoanalysis

00:44:57.600 of these people,

00:44:58.780 but I think it's a,

00:45:00.260 it's a,

00:45:00.740 a not insignificant part

00:45:02.780 of,

00:45:03.880 of their,

00:45:05.720 of the story here.

00:45:07.140 You know,

00:45:07.300 it's a,

00:45:07.780 it's,

00:45:08.140 it's one of the explanations

00:45:09.020 for why they are so hostile

00:45:10.780 to Trump.

00:45:12.400 Again,

00:45:12.840 apart from ideology

00:45:13.880 that he,

00:45:14.520 you know,

00:45:14.700 all that,

00:45:15.900 of course there's that.

00:45:18.220 And,

00:45:18.740 but there have been

00:45:19.160 Republican presidents

00:45:20.160 before,

00:45:20.680 obviously there are

00:45:21.320 many other conservatives

00:45:21.940 out there.

00:45:23.220 Many other political figures

00:45:25.180 and other figures

00:45:26.120 who are more conservative

00:45:27.120 than Trump

00:45:27.640 and the media hates

00:45:28.900 all them too

00:45:29.500 and pulls a lot

00:45:30.820 of the same tricks,

00:45:31.640 but not to the same degree.

00:45:32.680 They just,

00:45:33.120 they,

00:45:33.400 you know,

00:45:33.800 I'm not saying anything

00:45:34.400 we don't already know.

00:45:35.040 They hate Trump

00:45:35.880 with a special intensity

00:45:38.640 and I think

00:45:40.620 that this is part

00:45:41.560 of the reason why

00:45:42.400 that they are envious

00:45:43.440 of him

00:45:43.920 because Trump's a star,

00:45:47.940 you know,

00:45:48.220 and Trump pretty much

00:45:49.320 always has been.

00:45:50.700 And that's what

00:45:51.460 all these people

00:45:52.180 in the corporate media

00:45:53.040 want to be.

00:45:54.260 Like,

00:45:54.700 none of them

00:45:55.020 want to be journalists.

00:45:55.880 These are not serious people

00:45:56.880 who want to engage

00:45:57.640 in the serious act

00:45:58.820 of journalism.

00:46:00.480 That's not why

00:46:01.140 they're there.

00:46:02.380 They're there

00:46:02.860 because they want

00:46:03.280 to be on TV

00:46:03.800 and they want

00:46:04.140 to be stars

00:46:04.660 and,

00:46:05.520 you know,

00:46:05.720 really they prefer

00:46:06.440 to be,

00:46:06.980 you know,

00:46:07.520 Hollywood stars

00:46:08.260 or whatever,

00:46:08.980 but they had to settle

00:46:09.940 for this

00:46:10.420 and that's what

00:46:12.200 they want to be.

00:46:13.360 And so they see Trump

00:46:14.620 and they see his celebrity

00:46:15.520 and it's what

00:46:15.900 they want to have.

00:46:17.600 And I think now,

00:46:19.260 after that moment

00:46:21.300 on Saturday,

00:46:23.260 even though they're

00:46:24.100 containing it for now

00:46:25.020 a little bit,

00:46:25.580 as much as they can,

00:46:27.480 their envy

00:46:29.180 and therefore

00:46:30.480 resentment of him

00:46:31.720 is at a,

00:46:32.820 like boiling,

00:46:34.560 right?

00:46:34.920 We're taught

00:46:35.200 it's like a volcanic

00:46:36.220 explosion

00:46:37.800 that they,

00:46:38.900 or on the precipice,

00:46:40.260 like the lava

00:46:41.720 is about to come

00:46:42.720 spewing out of the volcano

00:46:43.880 just from this envy

00:46:46.280 they're bottling up

00:46:47.140 because,

00:46:47.720 because of that moment

00:46:49.980 that Trump had.

00:46:52.660 It's a real moment.

00:46:54.160 This is not,

00:46:54.780 this is not a,

00:46:55.680 it's not a movie.

00:46:57.980 Smeared in blood,

00:46:59.040 standing up on stage,

00:47:00.920 fist in the air,

00:47:01.920 chanting fight,

00:47:03.120 you know,

00:47:03.720 it's just a heroic,

00:47:05.220 iconic moment

00:47:07.100 that will live forever

00:47:08.700 in American history.

00:47:10.300 And all these journalists,

00:47:11.780 they fashion themselves

00:47:13.180 heroes

00:47:14.100 and icons

00:47:15.460 and they tell themselves

00:47:17.440 that story

00:47:18.100 over and over again.

00:47:18.960 And, you know,

00:47:19.340 Hollywood makes movies

00:47:20.340 where journalists

00:47:21.000 are the heroes

00:47:21.740 and we get this constantly,

00:47:22.900 but it's only ever

00:47:24.080 in the movies.

00:47:25.520 None of these people

00:47:26.200 have ever had a moment

00:47:27.000 like that

00:47:27.380 and never will.

00:47:28.940 But that's the moment

00:47:29.780 they want.

00:47:31.600 And,

00:47:31.960 and I think that they,

00:47:33.120 I think they really

00:47:33.660 hate them for that.

00:47:37.420 And of course,

00:47:38.060 we also hear

00:47:38.800 don't politicize.

00:47:43.420 She says,

00:47:44.300 let's not,

00:47:44.880 let's not,

00:47:45.400 let's not engage in politics.

00:47:46.700 And we're hearing that

00:47:47.280 a lot too,

00:47:48.080 right?

00:47:48.220 There's two things

00:47:48.900 that we're hearing

00:47:49.360 quite a bit.

00:47:50.180 And one is there's

00:47:51.400 no place for political violence.

00:47:52.600 We've already dealt

00:47:53.040 with that.

00:47:53.480 And the other one

00:47:55.220 related is

00:47:56.260 let's not get into,

00:47:57.320 let's not engage in politics.

00:47:58.660 Let's not politicize

00:48:00.300 this,

00:48:00.740 this event.

00:48:02.940 Well,

00:48:03.180 the only reason

00:48:03.580 they're saying that,

00:48:04.440 of course,

00:48:04.900 is that the politics

00:48:06.220 of this situation

00:48:07.640 are bad for them.

00:48:09.780 It's the reason

00:48:10.300 they don't want

00:48:10.600 to politicize it.

00:48:11.660 But unfortunately

00:48:12.460 for them,

00:48:13.440 there is no way

00:48:15.220 to depoliticize

00:48:17.560 a political

00:48:18.420 assassination attempt.

00:48:19.640 This is the most

00:48:22.300 radical political act

00:48:24.580 anyone can engage in.

00:48:27.080 And there's no way

00:48:28.780 to talk about it

00:48:29.780 apart from that.

00:48:30.660 It is a political act.

00:48:32.820 It just is.

00:48:34.920 And so the idea

00:48:37.400 that we should talk

00:48:38.100 about it apart

00:48:38.580 from politics

00:48:39.160 or not bring politics

00:48:40.280 into it,

00:48:40.820 how can you not bring?

00:48:42.080 You have a guy

00:48:43.020 who tried to kill

00:48:44.100 a presidential candidate.

00:48:45.180 There's no way to,

00:48:45.940 let's not bring politics

00:48:46.880 into this.

00:48:47.720 It's not possible.

00:48:50.000 To not bring politics.

00:48:51.260 Politics are inextricably

00:48:53.100 wrapped up in this story

00:48:55.040 no matter what we do.

00:48:58.920 So when they say

00:48:59.620 don't bring politics

00:49:00.300 into it,

00:49:00.800 they mean,

00:49:01.320 what they mean rather

00:49:02.000 is it's not like

00:49:03.120 they want you to refrain

00:49:04.720 from doing something.

00:49:05.700 They want you to refrain

00:49:06.440 from adding something

00:49:07.460 into this that doesn't belong.

00:49:09.460 Instead,

00:49:09.820 they want to sanitize this.

00:49:11.060 They want to take

00:49:12.140 an element

00:49:12.640 that is a part

00:49:13.480 of this story,

00:49:14.020 which is the politics of it,

00:49:15.500 and they want to

00:49:16.820 extract that.

00:49:17.700 They want to take that out.

00:49:19.640 And we're already

00:49:22.280 seeing that

00:49:22.780 with how they're treating

00:49:23.940 the shooter

00:49:25.940 and would-be assassin.

00:49:27.420 We're supposed to believe

00:49:28.820 that this was

00:49:30.300 a totally

00:49:31.500 non-political person,

00:49:33.780 which doesn't exist

00:49:35.940 in the world,

00:49:38.080 right?

00:49:38.440 Nobody is

00:49:39.420 totally non-political,

00:49:40.960 and if ever anyone

00:49:43.460 could qualify

00:49:44.260 as non-political,

00:49:45.400 it's definitely

00:49:46.780 not going to be

00:49:47.680 a presidential assassin

00:49:49.220 or attempted assassin.

00:49:53.440 So,

00:49:54.000 but that's what

00:49:54.400 they're going to try to do.

00:49:55.900 And I also,

00:49:57.360 you know,

00:49:57.740 I want to be careful

00:49:59.480 about predicting the future,

00:50:00.440 but if I were to

00:50:01.920 offer any theory

00:50:03.620 about what might come next,

00:50:05.240 I think they're going

00:50:06.180 to try to ride this horse

00:50:07.340 for a while

00:50:07.840 if they can,

00:50:08.720 that that's non-political,

00:50:10.040 this guy,

00:50:10.480 who knows?

00:50:10.980 You know,

00:50:11.160 he just,

00:50:11.800 he was having a bad day.

00:50:13.480 Who knows?

00:50:14.900 He didn't like Trump

00:50:15.840 because maybe he didn't

00:50:17.000 like him for some

00:50:17.560 non-political.

00:50:18.060 Maybe he was,

00:50:19.040 you know,

00:50:19.580 he really hated the show

00:50:20.500 The Apprentice.

00:50:21.320 You know,

00:50:21.640 maybe there's a non-political

00:50:22.900 reason for shooting Trump.

00:50:24.720 So they'll try to go with that.

00:50:25.900 It's not going to work.

00:50:27.780 What I would expect

00:50:28.740 their next move,

00:50:29.880 and we're already seeing

00:50:30.480 a little bit of this happen,

00:50:32.020 is going to be

00:50:32.780 to say that,

00:50:33.900 okay,

00:50:34.980 well,

00:50:35.200 he was politically motivated,

00:50:36.980 but he was actually

00:50:38.660 a radical right-winger

00:50:40.060 who hated Trump

00:50:41.840 for not being

00:50:42.600 right-wing enough.

00:50:44.660 And

00:50:45.100 if I had to predict

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00:50:48.060 narrative pivot

00:50:49.900 is going to be,

00:50:50.920 I would

00:50:51.440 bet it'll be

00:50:52.960 something like that.

00:50:54.840 And it will all be nonsense,

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00:52:21.480 The attempted assassination

00:52:22.300 of President Donald Trump

00:52:23.300 is a new low,

00:52:24.160 but are we really surprised?

00:52:25.340 This is where

00:52:25.740 hysterical rhetoric

00:52:26.660 and unhinged hatred

00:52:27.780 inevitably leads.

00:52:29.040 The pattern is clear.

00:52:30.020 They're not just coming

00:52:30.820 for our ideas anymore,

00:52:31.760 they're coming for us.

00:52:32.640 At The Daily Wire,

00:52:33.380 we've been exposing

00:52:34.060 the left insanity

00:52:34.800 for many years.

00:52:36.120 While the mainstream media

00:52:36.980 trips over itself

00:52:37.820 to spin this story,

00:52:38.900 we keep hammering away

00:52:40.100 at the truth

00:52:40.740 they want to bury.

00:52:41.900 The stakes have never

00:52:42.560 been higher,

00:52:43.300 the left is unraveling,

00:52:44.600 and they're getting desperate.

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00:52:55.940 Now let's get to

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00:52:57.380 It's still not entirely clear

00:53:05.420 how a would-be assassin

00:53:06.440 managed to take a position

00:53:07.460 only 400 feet away

00:53:08.500 from Donald Trump,

00:53:09.300 a distance so close

00:53:10.340 that skilled snipers

00:53:11.380 would consider it

00:53:12.000 essentially point-blank range.

00:53:14.080 There's a lot we don't know.

00:53:15.680 There's a lot we will

00:53:16.800 likely never know.

00:53:18.160 But we do know

00:53:19.060 that Trump had,

00:53:20.000 at best,

00:53:20.560 in the most optimistic terms, 0.99

00:53:22.080 an extremely inept, 1.00

00:53:23.440 clumsy, 1.00

00:53:23.960 and amateurish

00:53:24.900 security detail.

00:53:26.580 When you watch the footage,

00:53:27.540 you are first shocked

00:53:28.640 just by witnessing

00:53:29.440 an attempted assassination

00:53:30.480 and then shocked 0.99

00:53:31.260 by how ridiculous 0.97

00:53:32.620 the security team looks. 0.68

00:53:34.700 And this absurdity

00:53:35.400 is due,

00:53:36.140 not entirely,

00:53:36.820 but in very large part,

00:53:38.300 to the fact that

00:53:39.040 the six-foot-three-inch

00:53:40.340 Donald Trump

00:53:41.060 was protected

00:53:41.780 by more than one

00:53:43.000 tiny,

00:53:44.280 and from the look

00:53:44.820 and sound of it,

00:53:45.480 rather scared

00:53:46.280 and overwhelmed woman.

00:53:48.200 Watch again the video

00:53:49.320 of the moment it all happened

00:53:50.380 and the several moments after.

00:53:51.720 Listen to the voices

00:53:52.600 of the Secret Service agents

00:53:53.880 on stage.

00:53:56.020 And listen for one voice

00:53:57.480 in particular.

00:53:58.300 Listen.

00:53:59.340 And then the worst president

00:54:00.900 in the history of our country

00:54:02.200 took over.

00:54:03.240 And look what happened

00:54:04.600 to our country.

00:54:06.460 Probably 20 million people.

00:54:09.380 And you know,

00:54:10.140 that's a little bit old,

00:54:11.340 that chart.

00:54:11.820 That chart's a couple

00:54:12.700 of months old.

00:54:13.440 And if you want to really

00:54:15.160 see something that's sad,

00:54:16.640 take a look at what happened.

00:54:17.620 What are we doing?

00:54:33.420 What are we doing?

00:54:33.940 Where are we going?

00:54:35.060 Shouts a female voice.

00:54:36.800 Now,

00:54:37.140 I'm no security consultant myself,

00:54:38.540 but I do have my own

00:54:39.680 small security detail

00:54:40.800 that accompanies me

00:54:41.580 to many of my public events.

00:54:43.640 It's a much smaller team,

00:54:44.720 as you can imagine,

00:54:45.300 and with much more

00:54:46.120 limited resources.

00:54:47.180 But I do know that

00:54:48.620 the first thing they do

00:54:50.160 before we arrive at a venue

00:54:51.380 is establish the evacuation plan 0.91

00:54:53.300 in case any proverbial crap 0.98

00:54:54.740 hits the proverbial fan. 0.99

00:54:56.580 They won't need to shout,

00:54:57.700 what are we doing,

00:54:58.680 to each other,

00:54:59.260 if that scenario arises,

00:55:00.440 because they already know

00:55:01.500 what they're doing.

00:55:03.100 In the case of the Secret Service,

00:55:04.120 I would think that they would have

00:55:05.100 even more detailed plans,

00:55:06.640 and yet this female agent 0.90

00:55:08.020 was totally clueless

00:55:09.860 when the time came.

00:55:11.700 And that's just the audio.

00:55:12.920 The visuals are even worse.

00:55:14.180 Consider now the iconic photo

00:55:16.280 of Trump pumping his fist

00:55:17.660 defiantly in the air,

00:55:19.080 and right after the shooting,

00:55:21.180 notice the female agent 0.84

00:55:22.220 in front of him,

00:55:22.820 bent over,

00:55:23.480 exposing his chest and head.

00:55:25.620 Now,

00:55:25.900 she does stand upright

00:55:27.140 after the picture is taken,

00:55:28.280 to be fair,

00:55:29.160 but Trump's head and chest

00:55:30.840 are still exposed

00:55:31.880 because she is significantly

00:55:33.020 shorter than him.

00:55:34.820 And that photo

00:55:35.280 is not nearly as damning

00:55:36.340 as this one,

00:55:37.240 where we see a different

00:55:38.140 female agent

00:55:38.860 crouch behind Trump

00:55:40.200 and the other agents.

00:55:41.100 she seems to me

00:55:43.220 to appear to be

00:55:44.180 shielding herself 0.53

00:55:45.720 with their bodies

00:55:46.620 rather than the other way around.

00:55:48.780 And a few moments later,

00:55:49.660 we see that same female agent 0.51

00:55:51.200 along with two others

00:55:52.220 looking,

00:55:53.340 it would seem,

00:55:54.620 panicked

00:55:55.080 as they stand around

00:55:56.760 Trump's vehicle

00:55:57.460 and then wander away

00:55:58.580 from his vehicle,

00:55:59.520 leaving it exposed

00:56:00.220 before coming back to it.

00:56:01.620 Watch.

00:56:01.880 Amen.

00:56:04.520 Amen.

00:56:09.500 Amen.

00:56:09.600 Amen.

00:56:20.940 Amen.

00:56:23.560 Amen.

00:56:25.960 Amen.

00:56:28.000 Amen.

00:56:29.000 Amen.

00:56:29.520 Amen.

00:56:30.620 Amen.

00:56:30.900 Amen.

00:56:31.440 Amen.

00:56:31.840 Notice, as I'm sure you did, the agent struggling to holster her gun, giving up, and then trying

00:56:47.380 again.

00:56:48.560 It is a comedy of errors, only the comedy is not very funny given the circumstances.

00:56:53.380 Now, you might say that it's unfair to pin the security failures on the women. 0.84

00:56:56.600 After all, the failures here go all the way to the top.

00:56:59.480 I mean, they go far beyond the agents on the ground that day.

00:57:02.660 Well, unfortunately, the person at the top of the Secret Service is also a woman. 1.00

00:57:07.880 Kim Cheadle was appointed Secret Service Director by Joe Biden in 2022.

00:57:11.280 Immediately upon being appointed, she did what liberal women in charge of any agency, 0.99

00:57:14.960 organization, or company always do, prioritize DEI above all else.

00:57:19.660 The Daily Signal reports, quote, Cheadle has been a forceful advocate of diversity in the

00:57:24.200 Secret Service and the security industry.

00:57:25.980 She spoke about this in a 2022 interview with the website Women in Security while she was

00:57:30.520 still working at PepsiCo.

00:57:33.060 Quote, that achievement in a male-dominated industry was not lost on me, Cheadle said in

00:57:36.620 the interview.

00:57:37.200 I kept a photo on my desk of the first five women sworn into the service, and I used that

00:57:41.920 to remind me that these women created opportunities for me and I can help others grow and lead as 0.99

00:57:46.980 well.

00:57:47.240 In a CBS interview in 2023, Cheadle addressed some of the issues in the Secret Service and

00:57:52.880 said that a major priority would be diversity efforts.

00:57:56.080 CBS noted that Cheadle was committed to having the Secret Service be 30% women by 2030.

00:58:01.320 Here's the CBS report just mentioned.

00:58:04.860 To expand hiring, they're aiming to have 30% women recruits by 2030 and even allowed YouTube

00:58:11.200 influencer Michelle Carey to train with agents.

00:58:14.860 But I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now of making sure that we need to attract diverse

00:58:23.080 candidates and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our

00:58:27.820 workforce, and particularly women.

00:58:29.700 That workforce will be pivotal for the 2024 campaign season, which for the first time

00:58:35.800 includes a former president who already has lifetime protection.

00:58:40.460 Agents were there when Donald Trump was arraigned in New York.

00:58:44.300 We were able to work out the details ahead of time of how that particular day was going

00:58:48.960 to go, but we will always ensure the safety of all of our protectees that we have.

00:58:53.420 The service has a zero-fail mission.

00:58:55.860 A mission officers are training to uphold, pretending this field is the most famous address in America.

00:59:03.400 Well, it's truly shocking, isn't it?

00:59:05.200 The director of the Secret Service was focused on using social media influencers to attract

00:59:09.680 more female applicants.

00:59:11.060 And somehow, that strategy did not result in a more skilled and competent workforce at the

00:59:16.660 agency.

00:59:17.540 What a twist.

00:59:18.800 Who could have seen that coming?

00:59:20.040 I mean, besides everybody with a functioning brain.

00:59:22.180 Now, from my vantage point, it could not be more clear that DEI policies and the forced

00:59:28.240 inclusion of women probably played at least a role in this tragedy. 1.00

00:59:34.300 DEI almost got a presidential candidate killed, we can now say with some confidence.

00:59:39.840 But does that mean that no woman should ever be allowed to serve in the Secret Service? 0.96

00:59:43.940 Well, yes, it does.

00:59:48.240 A serious country would not hire women to protect its presidents. 1.00

00:59:52.540 For all of the reasons exhibited in painful detail on Saturday.

00:59:57.000 For one thing, even if they do their jobs perfectly, they still lack the physical strength and stature

01:00:01.800 to provide cover for a larger-than-average man, or even a smaller-than-average man.

01:00:07.060 Look at the woman standing in front of Trump. 0.98

01:00:08.780 Does anyone really think that the best person for that job, the best, most qualified human

01:00:14.620 to be standing there in that position, in that situation, on that day, is a woman two heads 0.99

01:00:20.820 shorter than the man she's protecting?

01:00:23.540 Would any serious person deny that it would have been much better to have a larger and stronger

01:00:28.560 man there?

01:00:30.360 No, not any serious person.

01:00:32.960 This is why there should be no women in the Secret Service at all. 1.00

01:00:35.600 This is supposed to be an elite security unit.

01:00:39.520 And there is just no way that a woman, any woman anywhere, could be more objectively suited for the job

01:00:45.920 than all the men you'd have to pass over to select her. 0.98

01:00:49.640 And that's why, just like in the military, the police, fire department, etc.,

01:00:52.600 the physical fitness standards for women in the Secret Service are lower than they are for men.

01:00:59.240 Okay, which means the people making the decision to recruit women into these roles 1.00

01:01:03.160 know that women are less qualified, which is why they lower the standards in order to recruit them. 1.00

01:01:09.480 But I think this is the easy and, among sane people anyway, uncontroversial part of this conversation. 0.80

01:01:17.060 Women are smaller and weaker than men. 1.00

01:01:19.020 They just are. 0.99

01:01:19.660 A man like Trump should not be protected by women smaller and weaker than he is.

01:01:24.480 And that's reason enough to exclude women from the agency. 1.00

01:01:28.200 But it's not the only reason.

01:01:30.960 There's also the fact that women are not psychologically and emotionally equipped 1.00

01:01:34.900 to deal with these kinds of high-stress situations.

01:01:37.840 And notice I say these kinds of high-stress situations.

01:01:42.240 There are other kinds of high-stress situations that women are built to endure. 1.00

01:01:46.420 Pregnancy and childbirth, for instance, are high-stress situations.

01:01:49.840 And so the point is not that women are across the board incompetent and helpless. 0.98

01:01:54.480 I mean, some women are, just like some men are.

01:01:56.860 But that's not the point.

01:01:59.200 The point is that this kind of situation, okay, this kind of situation,

01:02:04.100 a sudden emergency, life or death, physical peril, chaos, screaming,

01:02:08.980 this kind of situation is one where men are much, much more likely to respond

01:02:14.420 in a cool, calm, unemotional, and level-headed way.

01:02:18.120 Men and women are different.

01:02:19.040 We have different bodies and different minds.

01:02:21.300 A man's mind and body are made a certain way 1.00

01:02:23.560 and specially equipped for moments like this.

01:02:26.800 Now, feminists will deny that, of course. 1.00

01:02:30.400 But every single one of them, if they're married, which is a big if,

01:02:34.700 will be waking their husbands up to go downstairs 0.98

01:02:36.760 and investigate a loud noise in the middle of the night, okay?

01:02:39.680 There's not a woman alive on this planet 1.00

01:02:41.840 who would not immediately lose any and all respect for her husband

01:02:45.140 if he woke her up to go check on the noise.

01:02:48.020 Okay, if her husband's shaking her awake in the middle of the night,

01:02:50.900 honey, can you go check it?

01:02:52.820 I'm scared there's a loud noise downstairs.

01:02:54.640 Can you go check it?

01:02:57.060 I don't care how much of a feminist you are. 1.00

01:02:58.820 Your husband does that to you, and you'll never look at them the same again.

01:03:02.140 And that's because every woman, when push comes to shove, 1.00

01:03:07.200 absolutely recognizes that men are the ones who are supposed to deal 0.95

01:03:11.860 with the scary, violent things.

01:03:16.540 That's why they should be the Secret Service agents

01:03:18.640 and the cops and the combat troops.

01:03:21.420 Men are also generally more, and again, generally,

01:03:24.620 men are generally more decisive than women. 0.57

01:03:27.060 They make decisions quicker and more confidently.

01:03:28.800 You can hear that in the footage.

01:03:30.660 It's a woman screaming to the men, asking what they're supposed to do.

01:03:34.280 So even in the Secret Service, the women turn to the men to make decisions. 0.99

01:03:37.500 This, again, is a dynamic that all married couples have observed,

01:03:41.220 and not only in high-stress situations.

01:03:44.740 You know, even if the decision is something with relatively low stakes,

01:03:48.900 but not no stakes, like something like,

01:03:51.560 where are we going for dinner tonight?

01:03:52.900 Generally, the wife will expect the husband to take the lead. 0.98

01:03:57.900 We all know, as men, that if you say to your wife,

01:04:01.820 well, where do you want to go tonight?

01:04:03.240 It's, you'll, you're gonna, you'll be here until breakfast,

01:04:06.020 and then the decision will not matter anymore.

01:04:08.460 So, we've all noticed these dynamics.

01:04:11.820 We've lived them.

01:04:13.520 We just have.

01:04:14.600 And yet, so many of us have been engaged in a giant game of make-believe,

01:04:19.700 pretending that we don't notice the things that we know we do notice,

01:04:24.040 and we know everyone else knows that we notice them.

01:04:28.600 Now, does that mean that men will always answer the call and answer it well?

01:04:32.720 No.

01:04:34.140 I mean, there were a lot of men that, that we can assume,

01:04:37.560 screwed up on Saturday.

01:04:39.980 Think about the cops in Uvalde,

01:04:41.900 who also proved this point.

01:04:44.600 But the answer is to find better men,

01:04:47.860 not to give up and resort to putting women in these roles. 0.87

01:04:52.820 And that is why the women in the Secret Service, 1.00

01:04:55.880 and after this weekend's performance,

01:04:58.000 the Secret Service in general,

01:05:00.320 are all today canceled.

01:05:03.560 That'll do it for the show today.

01:05:04.580 Thanks for watching.

01:05:05.120 Thanks for listening.

01:05:05.780 Have a great day.

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 15, 2024

Ep. 1401 - Why The Trump Assassination Attempt Was Inevitable

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