The Matt Walsh Show - Ep. 1402 - The Official Story On Trump’s Shooting Makes No Sense At All

00:00:00.000 Today on the Matt Wall Show, as more comes out about Trump's attempted assassin, and we learn

00:00:03.760 more about what happened on that day, the story makes less and less sense. Something just isn't

00:00:08.480 adding up. We'll try to sort through it today. Also, Trump announces J.D. Vance as his vice

00:00:12.480 presidential pick. Biden tries to defend his own inciting rhetoric. Scientists now claim that

00:00:17.140 climate change is messing with time itself. And in the wake of the assassination attempt,

00:00:21.160 a number of conspiracy theories have taken hold on the left. Trump arranged to have someone shoot

00:00:25.960 him in the head, they claim. But don't judge this theory until you hear the evidence, which is 0.52

00:00:29.720 completely non-existent. All of that and more today on the Matt Wall Show.

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00:01:43.160 month. That's puretalk.com slash Walsh today. 72 hours after an assassin shot and nearly killed

00:01:50.460 Donald Trump in Pennsylvania, here is the official story so far. A random 20-year-old acting completely alone

00:01:58.040 walked within 150 yards of a presidential campaign rally with a rifle, climbed onto a rooftop in full

00:02:04.360 view of Secret Service snipers, set up his shot, and fired without anyone intervening and with no help

00:02:09.760 from anyone. This 20-year-old is also so politically radical as to an attempt at assassination and yet

00:02:16.780 not radical enough to have ever posted any political writings or commentary on any social media site

00:02:23.420 ever in his life. He also wrote no manifesto, left behind no indication about why he did it.

00:02:30.600 Even after authorities gained access to his phone, they say they still have no clue about his

00:02:34.460 motivations. All we're told is that for some reason, he obviously wanted Donald Trump dead.

00:02:40.020 There's just a handful of videos of the shooter circulating, including one in which he makes some

00:02:43.980 weird sexual joke and one in which he appears briefly in a BlackRock video featuring his high

00:02:49.620 school classroom. Other than that, it's as if he never existed. As far as we can tell,

00:02:56.160 this man's last and only political act before attempting to kill the Republican candidate was

00:03:01.000 to register as a Republican, reportedly. Oh, and apparently there were Trump signs outside of

00:03:07.000 his parents' home, we're now told, where he was living. Watch.

00:03:10.480 Investigators dressed in plain clothes as well as FBI agents approach this house. That's where the

00:03:17.360 family of Thomas Crooks lives, which is right here on Milford Drive. Then we started to see those

00:03:23.300 agents going door to door, canvassing the neighborhood and speaking with people who live

00:03:27.700 here. They're trying to get answers to the many questions that still remain. Crooks' motive is still

00:03:32.900 unclear. Records show he is a registered Republican, and neighbors today told us that they've actually

00:03:38.440 seen Trump signs outside of the home over the course of the last few years.

00:03:43.760 Now, if all that's true, we have no idea why these signs are outside the shooter's home. We have no

00:03:49.460 clarity on this point whatsoever, because none of this makes sense, and nobody's explaining anything.

00:03:56.600 Nevertheless, you must believe the official narrative and ask no questions about it, or else you are a

00:04:01.240 conspiracy theorist. And one thing we know about assassination attempts is that there's never any

00:04:05.600 conspiring involved. There's never been a conspiracy behind an assassination attempt, right? So we

00:04:10.480 wouldn't want to engage in that. As unbelievable and insulting as this is, this is the version of

00:04:17.340 events that you're being told to accept. But with every hour that goes by, it somehow makes even less

00:04:22.880 sense than it did before. Every new detail is more baffling than the last. Last night, for instance,

00:04:29.580 CBS News reported that several Beaver County police snipers were stationed inside the building that

00:04:36.840 the shooter eventually climbed on top of. They were supposedly looking for threats in the crowd at

00:04:41.760 the rally, but there were no officers or snipers on the roof for reasons that remain unexplained, even

00:04:46.800 though that would be the rational spot to place those snipers on top of the building rather than

00:04:53.320 inside of it. But it's now an uncontested fact that the shooter used the police staging area as a vantage

00:05:01.600 point to shoot Donald Trump. According to the local outlet, Beaver Countian, which broke the story,

00:05:09.300 quote, a security operations plan had placed each of the three counter snipers inside of the building,

00:05:15.300 looking out of windows toward the rally, with none stationed on his roof. Due to a lack of manpower, the men

00:05:20.560 did not have spotters assigned to them as would be standard operating procedure. So maybe the excuse

00:05:27.680 is that they couldn't spare anyone to watch the roof. They just ran out of people. Obviously, we need

00:05:32.920 to know exactly who drafted that security operations plan because that person should never be in charge

00:05:38.640 of any security operation ever again. Nevertheless, roughly a half hour before the shooting started,

00:05:44.940 these snipers positioned inside the building saw the 20-year-old shooter without his rifle,

00:05:49.780 looking up at the roof, observing the building before he disappeared, and then came back and sat

00:05:54.320 down. So, and by the way, so this is, and one thing you'll see as we go through this story is that

00:05:59.260 this guy was not, by all appearances, some sort of super gene, evil super genius, okay? He went through

00:06:09.400 this thing very slowly and clumsily, just walking around like he's 30 minutes ahead of time, staring at the

00:06:17.340 spot where he wants to perch himself to shoot presidential candidate, just in full view of

00:06:22.400 police officers. In fact, his actions were so suspicious that one of the snipers inside the

00:06:28.760 building took a photo of the gun. Additionally, according to a separate local news station, quote,

00:06:34.500 a law enforcement officer had also previously seen crooks on the ground and called him in as a

00:06:38.660 suspicious person with a picture before 5.45 p.m. Officers supposedly looked around, couldn't

00:06:45.440 immediately find him, and, you know, that was it for then at that moment. So just to review,

00:06:51.860 this man was on the radar of the security forces at the rally 30 minutes before he fired the first shot.

00:06:58.660 And he fired it on top of the very same building where the police were staged. Already 30 minutes

00:07:07.640 before the crime took place. They had enough reason to detain this guy, at the very least,

00:07:12.360 and delay the rally, but it gets even worse. At one point, and this part is, I mean,

00:07:22.760 the whole thing's baffling, but this in particular. At one point, in full view of the snipers inside the

00:07:28.660 command post, the gunman, quote, took out a range finder, prompting police sniper to radio his

00:07:35.900 command post about it. That meant that he alerted the Secret Service to the threat. But still,

00:07:42.380 nobody detained the man, and nobody pulled Trump off the stage, even though there's only one reason

00:07:47.700 a suspicious person would be using a range finder right outside of a Trump rally. And everybody knows

00:07:54.620 what it is. There is no conceivable innocent reason for a guy to be lurking around the site

00:08:00.600 of a campaign rally with a range finder. Or if there is an innocent reason, the innocent reason

00:08:06.040 is significantly less plausible than the sinister reason. Yet nothing was done. So the man disappeared

00:08:13.680 again, then came back a third time, this time carrying a backpack. And once again, the snipers called

00:08:20.300 into their command post, explaining that this suspicious man was now walking toward the back

00:08:24.540 of the building. But nobody stopped him. Nobody took any physical action to prevent what they could

00:08:31.940 evidently see coming. Apparently, all of these reports prompted some police officers to call for

00:08:38.380 backup and try to scale the roof to stop the shooter, but they obviously failed to do so. The gunman climbed

00:08:42.620 on top of the building using an air conditioning unit, not a ladder as previously reported, and fired

00:08:47.860 several shots at Trump before he was taken out. So what explains why Donald Trump wasn't taken off

00:08:53.460 the stage at any point in this process until a gunman had already shot him in the head? Because

00:08:58.440 even if you want to claim that for some reason they couldn't confront the suspect right away, or

00:09:02.720 which it doesn't make any sense, even if that were true, well, you can take Trump off the stage

00:09:08.160 at the very least until you manage to get the weird guy with the range finder and the backpack

00:09:14.100 off of the building. Why didn't Secret Service snipers on the roof behind Trump take out the

00:09:20.700 shooter before he was able to open fire? If you look at some of the videos from the rally, you'll

00:09:25.500 notice that initially the snipers behind Trump appear to be kind of relaxed at first. They're

00:09:29.580 standing up. They're not in the prone position looking through their rifle scope. But then some

00:09:33.820 people in the bleacher see something. They start pointing. Eventually, the Secret Service snipers

00:09:37.320 go prone, clearly responding to a threat. So I want to show you two clips. First, the snipers in their

00:09:43.120 relaxed posture and then what the snipers were doing just before the shots rang out.

00:09:47.720 What?

00:09:48.720 USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! This is a big, big, big, big, big round.

00:10:00.320 Make sure we take back the White House because if we do, we're gonna make America better than

00:10:07.580 ever before we're going to make it and it's not easy because we have millions and millions

00:10:14.060 of people in our country that shouldn't be here dangerous people criminals we have criminals

00:10:21.820 we have drug dealers we have people that should not be here and it's much tougher than if it

00:10:29.800 happened you know we had the strongest border ever in recorded history we had the best border

00:10:35.280 in fact if they could ever put up a shot i don't know if they can do it

00:10:38.420 if you want to really see something that said take a look what happened

00:10:43.480 i think they hit him because the guy is he looks dead

00:11:01.420 so this is a much more serious failure than we were told it was this is not a case of the secret

00:11:10.140 service somehow failing to notice the shooter they clearly knew he was there or that some

00:11:15.100 potentially imminent threat was very close to the stage we know that from the video we know from the

00:11:20.060 reporting at a minimum they had reason to think that trump was an imminent danger they had very

00:11:25.260 good reason to think that but they essentially did nothing in response they let trump take a bullet

00:11:31.160 to the head before they addressed the threat in any way according to the biden administration we

00:11:36.740 should not be outraged or concerned about any of this yesterday the head of the dhs alejandro mayorkas

00:11:42.500 explained that he has quote 100 confidence in the director of the secret service who he oversees

00:11:48.200 watch do you does the president have confidence in the secret service director after saturday's

00:11:54.420 failures i have 100 confidence in the director of the united states secret service i have 100

00:12:00.380 confidence in the united states secret service and what you saw on stage on saturday with respect

00:12:07.460 to individuals putting their own lives at risk for the protection of another is exactly what the

00:12:13.420 american public should see every single day it is what i indeed do now uh just to uh remind you this

00:12:21.540 is the same alejandro mayorkas who claims the border is completely secure and now he's saying that he has

00:12:26.280 100 confidence in the director of the secret service three days after the secret service allowed the

00:12:30.920 leading presidential candidate to take a headshot from a rifle while he delivered a speech on stage

00:12:36.340 the only conceivable way you'd have 100 confidence in this agency and the people who lead it

00:12:42.920 is if you're fine with the outcome of trump getting shot at i mean at this point it's not really a

00:12:50.040 conspiracy theory to say the biden administration apparently thinks that saturday's assassination

00:12:53.460 attempt was acceptable they're coming right out and saying it to our faces if it was unacceptable they

00:12:59.120 would fire the people who allowed it to happen but they aren't i mean saying you have 100 confidence

00:13:04.540 in the secret service after an incident like this it's like looking out over the wreckage of a collapsed

00:13:09.260 bridge and declaring that you have 100 confidence in the engineering team that designed it 100

00:13:16.140 confidence not even like 90 confidence or 73 confidence their utter and total and catastrophic

00:13:24.480 failure has not lost them even one percentage point of confidence in your book

00:13:29.160 and it's not just the dhs secretary saying this last night joe biden was asked by lester halt about the

00:13:35.840 director of the secret service he made it clear he has no problem with the director's performance

00:13:40.280 he also made it clear he has no idea who the director is because he said i've heard from him

00:13:45.820 even though the director of the secret service is a woman uh watch is it acceptable that you have 0.99

00:13:51.660 still not heard at least publicly from the secret service director well i've heard from him but have

00:13:57.820 heard from him publicly publicly i've sat down in a situation downstairs secret service the fbi the

00:14:05.500 national security agencies the homeland security all the major elements so biden may not be sure who

00:14:12.680 the director of the secret service is but he's sure that he or she or whoever is doing a great job

00:14:17.880 as evidenced by the fact that her agents nearly got his chief political rival killed

00:14:22.680 and of course because no one in the biden administration has any shame whatsoever the

00:14:27.600 secret service director has said that she has no intention of stepping down you know it's just

00:14:32.640 like the pull out from afghanistan which directly resulted in the deaths of several u.s service

00:14:36.700 members nobody resigned after that debacle nobody was fired nobody in the government seemed to care

00:14:42.220 frankly and we're seeing that repeat after the single most significant security failure by the

00:14:47.040 secret service since the attempt on ronald reagan's life actually it's worse than that i mean based on

00:14:51.540 everything we know now we can say with a high degree of confidence that this is the worst security

00:14:57.360 failure by the secret service in its history okay it first was put in charge of protecting the president

00:15:04.080 in 1901 and this is the worst we've ever seen since 1901 but no one in any position of authority in the

00:15:15.240 agency or outside of it will be held accountable in any way whatsoever

00:15:18.660 this is why our system of government has lost all the trust the public may have had in it at one point

00:15:25.820 there's no sense of accountability no sense of responsibility if anything these people are

00:15:32.300 embracing their failures almost as if they wanted them to happen

00:15:35.060 which means we'll never be told the truth about what happened in butler pennsylvania on saturday

00:15:41.320 will never be given the full story of how it happened why this guy was allowed to do this or who this

00:15:47.160 guy even is and the thing is even if we are someday given all that information there will still be no

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00:17:01.520 but talking about the secret service director this did just come in uh as i'm filming just came across

00:17:06.800 my desk and uh this is the daily mail secret service director gives bizarre reason why an agent

00:17:12.440 wasn't on the roof where gunman thomas matthew kirks opened fire on trump as he rejects calls to resign

00:17:17.280 um embattled we just talked about her rejecting the calls but in terms of uh you know as far as

00:17:22.860 what what is the excuse like why didn't you have anyone watching that roof why wasn't anybody on the roof

00:17:29.680 um we now have her answer to that such as it is embattled secret service head kimberly kimberly 1.00

00:17:35.880 has revealed the fateful and bizarre reason why her agency failed to put an agent on the roof uh that

00:17:41.680 gunman thomas matthew crooks used to carry out an assassination attempt of donald trump

00:17:45.140 um she says quote get a load of this that building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point

00:17:56.900 and so you know there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want

00:18:02.000 to put somebody up on a sloped roof and so you know the decision was made to secure the building from

00:18:09.400 inside that's what she's going with uh that it was a sloped roof and so they couldn't put agents on on

00:18:21.760 top of it now where where's i where do you even begin with an excuse like this we're supposed to

00:18:30.620 believe that trained snipers cannot be trusted to be on a slightly sloped roof without falling off and

00:18:37.560 breaking their necks i mean we're talking we're not talking about the empire state building okay

00:18:40.740 this is this is it's it's a it's a slightly sloped roof it's like a very you you couldn't even like

00:18:48.360 you couldn't even slide down it if you tried to you have to scooch yourself down you wouldn't

00:18:52.600 just slide off of it so we're supposed to believe that train snipers who are uh trained enough that

00:19:02.780 they're being entrusted with security at a at a presidential campaign rally that they can't get

00:19:08.380 on a sloped roof i mean is this how it works out in the field if there's a hostage situation at a bank

00:19:14.040 and you need a sniper posted on a roof to take out the bad guy would you look up and say oh never mind

00:19:20.420 we can't all the roofs oh you know you say there's a slight slope on that roof we can't do it sorry we

00:19:25.280 don't he might fall off and sprain his ankle we don't we can't do it it's uh you know we we can

00:19:30.320 only save hostages if they're surrounded by flat roofs we're it's really only a flat roof situation

00:19:35.480 is what we can do i don't think it works that way in fact i know it doesn't work that way because as

00:19:41.060 colin rug on twitter has pointed out the snipers who were behind trump during the rally the ones who

00:19:48.420 didn't take out the bad sniper before it was too late they are on a sloped roof okay so you already

00:19:56.020 have security agents on sloped roofs at this very rally and yet that particular sloped roof you

00:20:05.400 couldn't be on because it has a slope um it's just it's so brazen the excuses are so brazen and so

00:20:15.180 insulting to our intelligence that they leave you once again with no good options when you're trying

00:20:23.040 to interpret all this and figure out what's really going on and the refusal to be accountable

00:20:28.220 right the refusal to admit any fault it's so that refusal is so extreme and so obsessive

00:20:35.620 that what she's really telling us now what the the head of the secret service is telling us

00:20:41.100 kim cheetle is that there's nothing she would do differently even after the fact okay with the 0.99

00:20:49.900 benefit of hindsight this woman apparently cannot identify a single thing she would have done to

00:20:56.120 prevent a presidential candidate from getting shot in the head when you have someone show up at a

00:21:02.840 presidential campaign rally to attempt an assassination who's wandering around the site

00:21:07.860 with a backpack and a rangefinder for 30 minutes and then perches himself on the roof of the building

00:21:15.240 where police are stationed that the head of secret service looks at that scenario and there's nothing

00:21:23.160 she would have done differently that's that's it there's nothing nothing we could have done it was 0.71

00:21:26.860 totally outside of our control so again no good options either this woman kim cheetle is such a lying 1.00

00:21:36.740 piece of garbage okay such a such a such a fraudulent liar that obviously she needs to lose her job and 1.00

00:21:47.540 should be criminally investigated for negligence or she's so incompetent she is so stupid and 1.00

00:21:56.280 incompetent that she genuinely looks at this situation and it scratches her head and says i don't know what 1.00

00:22:02.260 what could we have done i don't know what what there's you know all the rest of us who were not in the

00:22:08.340 secret service we have no experience with any of this at all we can look at the scenario and we can

00:22:13.320 identify like 50 different things you could have done to stop this from happening we can identify 50

00:22:20.660 different things you could have done before the rally we can identify 50 different points in that 30

00:22:25.680 minute window when you could have prevented it from happening so we can do that and yet she cannot 1.00

00:22:32.020 um or she can but she refuses to so either she's just incompetent and stupid to a uh an inconceivable 1.00

00:22:45.660 degree or she's a liar um i tend to think it's kind of it's a bit of both 1.00

00:22:54.460 so i kind of i i go with uh you know you got a chocolate and vanilla choice here i i go with the 0.98

00:23:00.300 the the the swirl we don't need to choose because i think that she's she's definitely incompetent and 1.00

00:23:05.940 very stupid but she's also a liar um there's you just can't believe any of this 1.00

00:23:11.520 so we we are left to speculate we speculate about what her actual motives are uh and then we can and 1.00

00:23:20.180 then and then we also have to speculate about okay none of this makes any sense what you're telling us

00:23:25.940 makes no sense you're giving us reasons why the agents on the ground did not act and those reasons

00:23:34.540 don't make any sense so so we're we're still at square one here and we're asking ourselves okay well

00:23:40.480 that those can't be the reasons that makes no sense the roof is too sloped the roof is too sloped that

00:23:45.760 doesn't make any sense um so we have to ask ourselves like what was the real reason that's

00:23:51.620 not the real reason what is it as i said at the top i don't i think we'll we'll never be given the

00:23:58.200 full answer to that question all right big political news breaking yesterday right after

00:24:03.000 we finished filming the show daily mail reports donald trump picked ohio senator jd vance as his

00:24:07.720 running mate on set on monday afternoon choosing a grassroots favorite ahead of more seasoned

00:24:12.080 political operators the former president left it until the last possible moment using all his

00:24:17.580 showman skills to leave the world guessing before opting for 39 year old vance um trump made his

00:24:25.000 announcement of truth social saying as vice president jd will continue to fight for our constitution stand

00:24:29.100 with our troops and we'll do everything he can to help me make america great again um and you know

00:24:35.600 this was a great pick in my opinion i think vance accomplishes all of the things that a vice president

00:24:39.820 especially one for donald trump needs to accomplish and that begins now with assassination insurance

00:24:45.960 you could just look at the reaction from trump's opponents and you can see it they hate vance they

00:24:51.160 hate him at least as much as they hate trump they see him as just as dangerous quote unquote as trump if not

00:24:58.880 even more so you take trump out and you're stuck with president vance now that's not that's not going to

00:25:05.260 be an appealing option to trump's enemies it doesn't guarantee they won't try it anyway but it does give

00:25:11.140 you some insurance there and vance is a great pick even aside from all that he's a talented politician

00:25:15.940 charismatic figure articulate consistent defender of the maga agenda america first guy uh someone you

00:25:21.820 can pass the torch to and not to get ahead of ourselves but he'll be a formidable candidate in

00:25:26.680 2028 in fact you know the bench the republican bench is shaping up pretty well uh you got vance

00:25:32.840 de santis vivek uh yunkin um so these are young talented guys conservative for the first time in

00:25:40.260 my lifetime i think we can say that the republican bench is more talented than the democrat bench especially

00:25:47.040 when the democrat bench consists of kamala harris and gavin newsom and nobody else gretchen whitmer i guess is 1.00

00:25:55.060 is the other one but we are told that in vance's case he has some baggage baggage we're told and

00:26:03.240 the baggage is that in 2016 eight years ago if you can believe this he didn't like trump he was not he

00:26:10.080 wasn't a trump guy eight years ago here's uh politico reporting on that in the year before trump took the

00:26:18.960 oval office vance who once described himself as a never trump guy was quick to criticize the former 0.82

00:26:23.720 president using words like idiot and even hitler to describe trump since then vance said that he 0.71

00:26:28.080 regrets his past criticism of trump especially during his contentious republican senate primary 0.99

00:26:31.820 in 2021 the ohio senator who got trump's endorsement in the primary has also since called trump a great

00:26:36.820 president but before the endorsement that helped him grab a senate seat here are five things the vice

00:26:41.760 presidential pick said about trump i'm a never trump guy vance said in an interview with charlie

00:26:47.940 rose in 2016 while publicizing his memoir hillbilly elegy i never liked him as someone who doesn't

00:26:53.720 like trump myself i sort of i understand where trump's voters come from but i also don't like

00:26:57.280 trump himself and that made me realize that maybe i'm not quite part of either world totally

00:27:01.600 also included in the ads for uh club for growth action and usa freedom fund were some advances 1.00

00:27:07.140 since deleted tweets criticizing the former president my god what an idiot he wrote in one of his tweets 0.98

00:27:13.020 um in a private facebook message in 2016 uh vance questioned whether trump would be america's hitler 1.00

00:27:22.980 or a or just a cynical asshole like nixon setter and so forth you know those are the um that's the 0.96

00:27:31.080 that's going to be the one of the primary attacks on on vance right now and it has been that he said 0.99

00:27:36.000 those things because vance didn't like trump eight years ago that's the scandal here

00:27:42.200 and and i always think it's funny when people try to use this kind of ammunition

00:27:47.420 because what is the ammunition exactly like what is the attack that his views have changed to some

00:27:53.820 extent over the course of nearly a decade that he doesn't hold all of the exact same opinions now

00:28:00.040 that he did eight years ago doesn't that make him just human doesn't make him a human being i mean

00:28:08.420 does any human on earth today hold all of the exact same opinions now that they did in 2016 whether

00:28:14.480 about trump or anyone else or anything else and if so that you know if that's the case for you

00:28:20.040 if you can do a survey of all of your opinions and say oh yeah they haven't changed at all since

00:28:26.720 2016 then that then that's embarrassing for you it shows that you are entirely closed off from

00:28:33.640 receiving new information you're not going to adjust your views on anything it shows that you're

00:28:39.280 not engaged in any critical thinking you're not a you're not a reflective uh thoughtful person in that

00:28:44.620 case now you know if with that said if somebody has completely and fundamentally changed their core

00:28:54.840 beliefs right if they've if they've totally switched right down to the core everything that they say

00:29:02.860 they believe well i mean that could be okay also people go through conversion experiences and uh if

00:29:07.740 they're converting from the bad thing to the good thing then that should be celebrated and that can

00:29:12.400 also be a sign of critical thinking but at least in that case it's something that you should have to

00:29:17.200 explain especially if you want to hold political office if you've completely changed everything you

00:29:22.280 believe then well then there are questions that people should ask about that uh you should you

00:29:27.580 should be able to tell the story of your political conversion and again especially if you want to be

00:29:33.160 some kind of a leader you need to be able to demonstrate that not only was it sincere but that you now

00:29:38.260 are you know that you you didn't just arrive at these opinions six hours ago that you have you know yes

00:29:45.640 your views have changed dramatically and drastically and at a fundamental level but you are now

00:29:51.740 firm in your beliefs and all of that uh you have to prove that you're not just a fraud kind of

00:29:58.780 shifting with the winds flip-flopping back and forth and so on but a person whose core beliefs have

00:30:04.000 remained basically intact while changing their views about things on the peripheral such as changing

00:30:09.360 their opinion about a politician like trump and this is the case for jd vance well in that case there's

00:30:14.980 not even a lot to explain there like that's again just just being a normal thoughtful human

00:30:20.620 um and i'm in this boat myself my my core values and beliefs have remained basically unchanged my whole

00:30:28.500 adult life because i really believe in them and i happen to think they're true fundamentally but all of

00:30:34.040 the opinions and and perspectives kind of surrounding them the stuff that's closer to the surface

00:30:38.940 um the you know you have your core beliefs and then a lot of the peripheral opinions it's really

00:30:45.660 like how do you apply those beliefs and and all that sort of thing and that stuff yeah that that

00:30:52.120 changes that's changed for me in some cases somewhat dramatically over the course of the last 10 or 15

00:30:57.520 years which is why it's funny when people do this to me right they do it to everybody if you're in

00:31:01.620 public any kind of public forum uh for me they'll dig up some blog posts from 2014 or something and

00:31:07.340 they'll say oh yeah well if you say this now then why were you saying this other relatively different

00:31:14.180 thing 10 years ago huh what's up with that hey hey look at this here's something you said in 2012

00:31:20.740 a bit different but you're singing it singing a different tune now aren't you apparently your

00:31:26.900 perspective as a 38 year old man with six kids is somewhat different from your perspective when you

00:31:31.900 were a 26 year old man with no kids what's going on what what's what are you learning and changing 1.00

00:31:39.340 and growing con artist grifter um so you get a lot of that and it's very it's very very stupid 1.00

00:31:46.380 especially when again we're talking about the the the opinions closer to the surface and 0.99

00:31:51.960 something like how do i feel about this guy donald trump that is an opinion closer to the

00:31:58.240 it's not it's not a core belief okay your view at least it shouldn't be your view on donald trump

00:32:03.500 as a person and as a political candidate is not a core belief at your soul that is more you have

00:32:09.060 your core beliefs uh and then really especially when trump first came on the scene the big question

00:32:14.320 was whether he aligns with those beliefs whether you can trust him i mean all like all that that's

00:32:20.320 what the question was and um and the fact that vance has uh changed his view on that is just

00:32:29.580 hope doesn't mean anything it's not there's there's it's not even it shouldn't even be worth talking

00:32:34.920 about really um and if we learn anything from it actually uh it's that and this is something we've

00:32:45.440 seen time and time again with trump to his credit which is that he really doesn't hold a grudge

00:32:50.660 um he probably he holds a grudge less than anyone we've ever seen in politics because we've seen

00:33:01.220 exactly this you could have someone who has attacked trump in quite strident terms for a long time and

00:33:09.140 they change their opinion and trump is will embrace them you know he doesn't he doesn't hold it against

00:33:14.060 them he's everybody else right is going to vance and saying well why did you say that eight years

00:33:18.520 ago but trump has already moved past it um as mentioned biden was interviewed by nbc on monday

00:33:28.420 he was asked about recent comments where he said that trump should be put in the bullseye

00:33:33.620 that's what he said watch how he responds to that here it is well let's talk about the conversation

00:33:40.000 this has started and it's really about language what we say out loud and the consequences of those

00:33:45.300 you called your opponent an existential threat on a call a week ago you said it's time to put trump

00:33:51.160 in the bullseye there's some dispute about the context but i think you appreciate i didn't say

00:33:57.020 crosshairs i was talking about focus on look the truth of the matter was what i guess i was talking

00:34:02.040 about as a time was there's very little focus on trump's agenda yeah the term is bullseye was a

00:34:10.240 mistake to use or i didn't i didn't say crosshairs i've been bullseye i mean focus on him focus on

00:34:15.940 what he's doing focus on one is on his policies focus on the number of lies he told in the debate

00:34:22.960 focus i mean there's there's a whole range of things that look i'm not the guy that said i want

00:34:28.420 to be a dictator on day one i'm not the guy that refused to accept the outcome of the election

00:34:32.820 i'm not the guy who said that one accept the outcome of this election automatically you can't

00:34:39.120 only love your country when you win and so the focus was on what he's saying and i mean the idea

00:34:47.540 but have you taken a step back and done a little soul searching on things that you may have said that

00:34:54.220 could incite uh people who are not balanced well i i don't think look how do you talk about the threat

00:35:04.600 to democracy which is real when a president says things like he says do you just not say anything

00:35:11.560 because it may incite somebody look i i i i've i have not engaged in that rhetoric now my my opponent

00:35:20.380 is engaged in that rhetoric he talks about to be a bloodbath if he loses talking about how he's going

00:35:26.340 to forgive all the uh actually i guess suspend the sentences of all those who were arrested and

00:35:34.060 sentenced to go to jail because of what happened in the capitol i'm not out there making fun of

00:35:40.260 like when i remember the picture of donald trump when nancy pelosi's husband was hit with a hammer

00:35:45.840 going talking about joking about it this i mean i i can't even watch this guy anymore i can't get

00:35:53.560 through clips of him and it's nuclear level cringe every time a frail old man disintegrating right in

00:35:59.960 front of us and his defense is that he didn't say crosshairs so he said that trump is in the bullseye

00:36:05.320 but he didn't say crosshairs but that means the same thing i mean well there is a distinction right

00:36:14.600 crosshairs are what you use to aim and the bullseye is what you're aiming at so you're saying that trump

00:36:22.620 is the bullseye means he's the thing you're aiming at that doesn't that's not much better i i don't think

00:36:28.360 that that's any better at all i think that again is basically the same thing but i will say

00:36:34.320 uh to to i don't know if this counts as a defense of biden it's something i very rarely do

00:36:41.060 but i i will say that that's not even the point right uh this stuff about oh well biden said trump's

00:36:47.300 in the in the bullseye you know nobody thinks that the shooter heard about the bullseye comment and took

00:36:54.200 it literally and then went out and tried to assassinate trump because of it nobody thinks that

00:36:58.700 right we don't we don't think that that's not that's not what anybody is saying in fact

00:37:01.940 yeah i will say it's like a little unfair to use that particular phrase against biden because that

00:37:09.440 kind of language crosshairs bullseye etc pretty common in politics it's on the level of trump's

00:37:15.600 bloodbath comment which was about the economy right and then the media tried to twist it wildly out of

00:37:20.800 out of proportion and we rightly condemn the media for trying to turn that into something it wasn't

00:37:26.900 because bloodbath is yeah it's it's violent language quote unquote but it is metaphorical

00:37:34.660 language it's very common metaphorical language and so you're being intentionally obtuse if you

00:37:41.120 listen to trump say it's going to be a bloodbath you say oh he's he's he's signaling this is a dog

00:37:45.900 whistle i mean come on you've heard that phrase a million times and just like bullseye you know in

00:37:51.820 the crosshairs even though he didn't say that he said bullseye but the the term bullseye is very

00:37:57.820 often used in a metaphorical way and we all know that we all we've all used that kind of language

00:38:03.200 and we all get it um and it is important to point that out not because i have any interest really in

00:38:08.760 defending biden and you know if people do use this against him and take it intentionally out of out of

00:38:15.600 out of context well that's just him getting a taste of his own medicine so i'm not going to cry any

00:38:19.760 crocodile crocodile crocodile tears for him don't get me wrong but it is important to point out not

00:38:26.140 for biden's sake but because we need to stay focused on the actual point here which is that

00:38:33.520 biden is uh partly responsible for inciting this assassination attempt but not because of metaphorical

00:38:44.060 language he used that's not the point okay the rhetoric that concerns us is the 10 years

00:38:50.560 that he along with pretty much every other prominent democrat spent labeling trump a fascist

00:38:56.540 dictator and a threat to democracy because that was not metaphorical i mean they didn't mean it that way

00:39:02.500 they meant that in a literal way so when they compare when they said that he was a dictator they said

00:39:06.940 he's a fascist when they compared him to hitler they did not intend it as a poetic license or

00:39:14.360 hyperbole they didn't intend for us to take it that way and if you would ask them at the time they 0.96

00:39:19.600 would have said no i mean literally that's what he is he's just as bad as hitler if not worse

00:39:24.280 they said this many times and biden himself many times in in the weeks before uh the shooting and

00:39:32.980 for years at before that said that trump is a threat he's a threat to democracy he's a threat

00:39:38.460 to our way of life that's the stuff right there that's what he all these people should be held

00:39:44.740 accountable for doesn't matter bullseye bloodbath like that's not the point when you when you demonize

00:39:54.160 your political opponent to that level and in those terms and you use words like a threat he is a

00:40:02.800 threat he's a threat to you well yes people if some if some crazy person hears that and interprets

00:40:11.980 that as oh well this guy's a threat to me i got to take him out he's not even that's not even the

00:40:17.220 crazy guy misinterpreting it he's not even he's not even really taking it farther than you intended

00:40:21.740 he's just listening to you and taking what you said to heart

00:40:26.300 no he's not taking it too far he's simply believing you is all he's doing and we don't need to get

00:40:34.900 into this point again we talked about it yesterday but um but it it it does bear repeating at least

00:40:41.560 briefly that you know if if everything they said about trump was true then yeah it would be morally 0.60

00:40:51.400 justified to assassinate him if it's true that he's an evil dictator he wants to destroy democracy

00:40:58.540 destroy the country uh existential threat i mean all these things he wants to enslave people he's 0.62

00:41:05.420 going to bring a handmaid's tale uh all that if all that was true then i mean yeah of course that that

00:41:12.220 it would be justified it was like pretty much any you any act that you would take to prevent this person

00:41:19.000 from seizing power could be morally justified um the the only thing that makes it morally unjustified

00:41:27.620 is that all of that stuff wasn't true um but they said it they said it over and over again they may

00:41:36.800 not have believed it i don't think that biden never believed it he doesn't believe anything at this

00:41:40.720 point he doesn't know what the hell's going on but all the other democrat mouthpieces that have been

00:41:45.480 saying this the prominent democrats the ones in positions of power that have been saying this

00:41:48.980 over and over again about how donald trump is a threat they know it's not true i mean they don't

00:41:52.520 believe it um in fact they know better than anyone how untrue it is they were there when trump was in

00:42:01.500 office from 2016 to 2020 they know how that went down they know that far from being a dictator wielding

00:42:09.600 authoritarian power he could barely wield any power at all because they had the entire federal government

00:42:15.760 and it's it's it's it's bureaucratic tentacles uh everywhere uh you know in every area uh with

00:42:24.080 their hand in every pot sabotaging him so they know that um but when you have look when you have this

00:42:33.600 kind of language and this kind of rhetoric and this kind of propaganda being hammered relentlessly over

00:42:41.440 and over and over again for years and years and years you don't even have to be crazy to come to

00:42:46.620 believe it which is not an excuse obviously for this shooter or anybody else but it's it's a it's a point

00:42:53.900 about the propaganda that when it's when it's that relentless um it doesn't even take an already crazy

00:43:02.380 person to start to believe it uh speaking of relentless propaganda climate change is another

00:43:12.380 example of that so i just want to i just want to read this headline to you okay here's the headline

00:43:18.540 it's it is attention grabbing at least it was for me climate change is messing with time more than

00:43:26.780 previously thought scientists find so that's the headline the headline is that climate change is so

00:43:33.140 bad and we're going to find out just how bad it is okay but it's so bad that it's not just warming up

00:43:38.860 the earth and it's going to drown us all and all that it's actually warping time itself our very

00:43:44.340 conception of time is being changed because of climate change it's a big study and it's a it's a big

00:43:52.420 important thing it's a big headline so let's find out a little bit about this how could that be the

00:43:57.200 case okay the impacts of human-caused climate change are so overwhelming that they're actually

00:44:03.280 messing with time according to new research polar ice melt caused by global warming is changing the

00:44:08.500 speed of the earth's rotation increasing the length of each day in a trend set to accelerate over the

00:44:13.060 century as humans continue to pump our planet pump out planet heating pollution according to a study

00:44:18.020 published monday in the proceedings of the national academy of sciences and yet another

00:44:22.280 sign of the huge impact humans are having on the planet uh quote this is a testament to the

00:44:28.320 gravity of ongoing climate change says a geophysicist at nasa's jet propulsion laboratory and a report

00:44:34.800 author the number of hours minutes and seconds making up each day on earth are dictated by the

00:44:40.680 speed of the earth's rotation which is influenced by a complex knot of factors um and there's some science

00:44:47.800 there which may or may not interest you these include processes in the planet's fluid core the

00:44:52.080 ongoing impact of the melting of huge glaciers after the last ice age as well as melting polar ice

00:44:56.900 due to climate change okay so that so the climate is making it's making the day longer the day is

00:45:04.060 getting longer and longer so if you feel if you've been feeling that if you've been perceiving that that

00:45:08.180 it feels like the days just drag on and on and on um it's it's true because of climate change that's

00:45:14.520 that is all the fault of climate change but how long are these days getting because of climate change

00:45:19.860 we have to you have to read about i don't know 10 paragraphs down before you get to this

00:45:24.780 uh the team of international scientists looked at a 200 year period between 1900 and 2100 using

00:45:31.540 observational data climate models to understand how climate change has affected day length in the past

00:45:36.920 and to project its role in the future climate change climate change fueled sea level rise caused the

00:45:43.180 length of the day to vary between 0.3 and 1 milliseconds in the 20th century over the past

00:45:49.300 two decades however the scientists calculated an increase in day length of 1.33 milliseconds per

00:45:56.000 century significantly higher than at any other time in the 20th century

00:46:01.140 so that that was it that was the that that's what it's all leading to it's making the day longer

00:46:08.160 it's a big problem big enough problem we need a study about it we need a cnn headline about it

00:46:14.700 um and how is it affecting the day well it's making the day longer by it's well it's not even a day it's

00:46:22.380 uh it's increasing by 1.33 milliseconds per century so by my quick napkin calculation here with time

00:46:33.640 changing this quickly due to climate change a day will be a full second longer in about

00:46:41.340 90 000 years right i think that's that's how it works out so 90 000 years from now um people if

00:46:51.860 there's any people left on earth are going to be just days will be eternal they're going to linger

00:46:58.420 on forever the day will never end the days will drag on and on and on for a full second longer

00:47:05.240 they'll have to they'll have to endure that additional second per day in 90 000 years about

00:47:12.780 but this is actually a perfect example of what we were just discussing that um

00:47:21.080 it may seem like you have to be crazy to believe that to believe in all the apocalyptic predictions

00:47:29.900 that we hear constantly about climate change it may seem like only a nutcase would believe this stuff

00:47:35.280 but that's not true um all you have to be is someone who is surrounded by the propaganda all the

00:47:42.140 time um has no real out you know doesn't have anyone in their life who's a voice of sanity not

00:47:49.060 anybody that they listen to anyway and uh and you know on top of that be uh not be someone who's who's

00:47:57.060 not exactly a critical thinker that's all that describes like a lot of people you don't have to

00:48:02.720 be a maniac and if you're in that group and you see a headline like this

00:48:08.200 you know it's and of course you don't read on you don't keep reading and do the math and all that 0.89

00:48:14.680 they don't want you to do that you just just the headlines all you need that's uh that it's it's

00:48:20.360 even a it's even affecting our perception of time it's how bad climate change is an entire second

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00:50:09.300 now i haven't spent a whole lot of time on this show talking about the left's reaction to the

00:50:20.280 assassination attempt on donald trump the reaction has been everything you'd expect just as vile and

00:50:24.780 depraved as you knew it would be there's been a lot of stuff like this here's jack black's bandmate

00:50:29.840 kyle gas at a concert in australia making a wish on stage watch

00:50:34.420 don't miss trump next time

00:50:47.860 don't miss trump next time he says now that's obviously a disgusting thing to say uh to say 0.99

00:51:00.040 to say it at all is despicable and grotesque to say it in a foreign country is cowardly and traitorous 0.99

00:51:04.680 if not if not legally traitorous then morally at least but um and and they've since apologized for

00:51:10.760 that and backtracked and everything and now that they're apparently they're shutting down their tour

00:51:14.720 uh because of it all that's to be expected but you know it was said and uh it's actually not shocking

00:51:22.420 in fact the only thing shocking in that clip is that apparently people actually attended a jack black

00:51:28.040 concert so australia's fall from grace continues and there are many more clips and social media posts

00:51:34.620 like that one we don't need to harp on them but i do want to take a moment for today's daily

00:51:38.660 cancellation to focus briefly on a different sort of reaction from the left mere moments after the

00:51:44.700 shooting happened on saturday many leftists had already decided that the shooting didn't actually

00:51:49.360 happen at all or it did but it was planned ahead of time by trump himself he hired somebody to shoot

00:51:55.180 at him or he pretended that the guy shot at him the theory isn't exactly clear the left cannot meme

00:52:00.000 and it also can't come up with coherent conspiracy theories we've learned but the basic idea whatever

00:52:04.800 the specifics might be is that the shooting was staged in fact this idea is so popular that the

00:52:10.700 word staged was trending nationwide immediately after the shooting the guardian reports quote soon after

00:52:16.680 a bullet grazed donald trump's ear the conspiracy theory hashtag started appearing social media

00:52:20.640 discourse on the shooting was immediately punctuated by hashtag staged hashtag fake assassination

00:52:26.560 hashtag staged shooting as a familiar refrain took hold don't trust what they tell you one post on x with

00:52:33.900 the hashtag staged queried whether a bullet really tore past trump's ear it's been viewed more than 500 000

00:52:39.500 times quote if it grazed him then where did the traveling bullet go as it would have continued flight

00:52:44.740 towards that towards those people it asked much of the skeptical commentary relies on analyzing images

00:52:50.600 and footage taken by official media outlets of the pennsylvania rally another tweet from an account

00:52:54.880 critical of trump had uh said uh quote or had 2.1 million views as of monday although it did not

00:53:01.780 carry one of the hashtags that proliferated around the internet from saturday into sunday quote a

00:53:05.920 presidential candidate got shot in the face and our collective reaction as a country was to laugh

00:53:10.520 because nothing has ever looked so fake it said now i don't know a single person whose reaction was to

00:53:16.600 laugh but then again i'm not a sociopath and i don't surround myself with sociopaths for a more

00:53:22.120 detailed explanation of the staged theory you can of course turn to tiktok which is full of videos from

00:53:27.760 self-appointed crime scene analysts who have determined that this shooting could not have actually

00:53:32.600 happened or if it did it had to be trump behind it here's uh one watch i mean it's a little weird you

00:53:38.280 know that this is america and shooters don't miss unless they're hired to people often flee the scene

00:53:42.380 of a shooting but these people did not instead they crouched down not enough to protect themselves

00:53:45.700 just enough so they could keep recording and when they saw that the cheeto puff was okay

00:53:49.140 they erupted into applause and the secret service still did not rush him off the stage

00:53:52.680 because there was no active threat perceived even though it had not been declared that the

00:53:55.940 shooter had been apprehended and i'm just wondering something that i can't say out loud

00:53:59.880 this is america and shooters don't miss unless they're hired to she says she apparently believes

00:54:12.380 that america is populated exclusively by expert marksmen we're a nation of highly trained assassins

00:54:18.140 who never miss unless we're paid to we're a nation of john wicks she imagines never mind the fact that

00:54:23.600 any gang shooting in any major city will expend about 10 bullets just to hit the target once in the leg

00:54:28.300 and this wasn't a gang shooting obviously but the point still stands and if you don't find her

00:54:32.740 reasoning compelling maybe you'll be persuaded by this guy with a ponytail and a tie-dye shirt the

00:54:38.240 true mark of a forensics expert watch trump's floundering project 2025 everything is like hitting

00:54:46.920 the fan right he needs a bump and there's a lot of dedicated mag out there mega be honest would any of

00:54:54.260 you be willing to take a bullet for your president your idol your king god

00:54:58.640 anyway so uh it's not unreasonable to think they found somebody who's willing to lay their life on

00:55:07.220 the line because how the hell does this guy wander around crawl around up for seven minutes people are 0.71

00:55:14.280 pointing this guy out he is able to get a shot off and really like if he was skilled enough to pull

00:55:20.700 all this off you really don't think he'd be a better shot like i'm sorry but a lot of this seems fishy

00:55:26.380 a lot of this seems planning that photograph with the flag and like it just seems so staged

00:55:31.800 of all the absurdly false claims packed into that 50 second clip probably the most absurd is the claim

00:55:37.420 that trump was the one floundering prior to this assassination attempt it was trump i mean the biden

00:55:42.700 campaign had just endured two weeks where the top headline on every news channel and in every

00:55:47.620 publication was that their candidate is senile and and unable to perform the basic functions of the

00:55:53.200 office so if anyone was desperate and likely to do something drastic it was them and yet this

00:56:01.840 conspiracy theory is pervasive on the left and has gone far beyond the boundaries of tiktok and twitter

00:56:06.240 the youtuber james klug went out into the real world and asked random liberals what they think about it

00:56:12.060 and let's just say that the idea that tiktok and twitter aren't real life has taken a major blow

00:56:17.460 watch it's a oh it's a false flag false flag yeah false flag people somebody died and two people

00:56:23.800 injured what do you think about that false flag i thought it was magnificently staged it was

00:56:29.300 professionally done it almost looked real wait wait staged by who oh by mr trump of course i think

00:56:36.440 this whole thing is staged you think it's staged yeah it depends on everybody's view yeah view of

00:56:42.480 the assassination attempt what do you think does it does it kind of depend on where you're standing

00:56:46.500 whether or not you agree with the assassination attempt or disagree with it i just don't see

00:56:52.660 i just don't see that being the truth but that's my i just i'd rather just not make any comment really

00:56:59.360 quick what's the what's what do you talk about the truth what do you mean oh you just don't believe

00:57:02.700 it was an assassination attempt no no please don't we're so anti-trump i don't even want it was it a

00:57:08.540 bad thing though uh i mean was it a bad thing would you condemn it oh that he got shot right of course

00:57:15.400 right of course you don't do that that's all yeah that's that's really bad yeah exactly you don't do

00:57:21.000 that was it staged probably so you just thought it was it was fake of course one person died in the

00:57:26.400 crowd two critically injured what happened there small price it doesn't that wouldn't matter to trump

00:57:30.540 do you think he cares if people die for him to be elected death doesn't mean anything to trump

00:57:35.060 now staged uh from whose side do you think donald trump staged it for attention could be or it could

00:57:40.540 be the other side trying to make a scene or something but i don't the fact that he only got

00:57:44.240 his ear and he would like stood up and said america i don't come on right it doesn't feel normal

00:57:48.560 so as you can tell this is a big lift for the conspiracy theorists they prefer to claim that no bullet

00:57:54.160 was ever fired that the gun was shooting blanks or something but the people in the audience

00:57:58.940 were hit and one was tragically killed so that fantasy is ruled out so they're left with option

00:58:04.080 b which is that trump arranged to have a real gun shoot a real bullet 25 millimeters from his brain

00:58:12.320 he went out and found some random 20 year old and trusted the guy to give him an ear piercing from 150

00:58:18.940 yards out of course the funny thing is that if trump really did this which as anybody with an iq above

00:58:25.500 freezing already knows he didn't it would still mean that it would still mean he's incredibly brave

00:58:30.860 i mean it would mean that he's an evil conniving villain yes but certainly the bravest evil conniving

00:58:35.500 villain in history if he hired someone to shoot at his head i mean all i can say is that if i really

00:58:42.460 wanted something and the only way i could obtain it somehow was to allow someone else to aim an ar-15 at

00:58:48.260 my ear i would choose to simply not have that thing whatever it is whether it's the presidency or

00:58:54.140 anything else so even in the left's feverish imagination even in the fictional land of their

00:59:00.420 most far-fetched deranged conspiracy theories trump's physical bravery is almost superhuman

00:59:08.480 now i don't think we need to spend much more time explaining why trump didn't arrange to be shot in the

00:59:15.380 head it's the kind of conspiracy theory that debunks itself i think the slightly more interesting 0.95

00:59:21.180 question is why these people are humiliating themselves by advancing this moronic theory in

00:59:26.160 the first place now partly it's their basic instinct to demonize trump at every turn in every situation 0.93

00:59:31.580 reflexively no matter what happens we know that but at a deeper level i think these people can't wrap

00:59:37.960 their minds around the fact that trump responded with such dignity and courage in such a harrowing

00:59:44.140 circumstance because they know that if they were in his shoes if someone shot at them they would

00:59:49.760 crumple into a ball they would hyperventilate cry uncontrollably they cannot accept that anyone could

00:59:55.460 respond differently least of all donald trump and maybe uh deeper still they recognize that this is a

01:00:05.040 defining moment for donald trump it is a it is it is no doubt the defining moment of his life and he

01:00:12.840 defined himself in that moment as someone who is brave and admirable trump's enemies cannot stand

01:00:20.160 that fact i mean it fills them with rage they can't accept it because they want trump to be defined by

01:00:26.800 his sins and his foibles both real and imagined they've spent a decade working on this project to

01:00:33.660 define trump they want to define they want trump to be defined by you know the access hollywood tape or

01:00:38.760 january 6th or or whatever they've worked again for a decade to define him in the most negative terms

01:00:44.800 possible and then this happens and all of that work goes to waste but but there is a lesson here for

01:00:53.660 all of us if only we're willing to learn it which is that we're all defined by moments only a few moments

01:01:00.960 when all is said and done now most of us will never have a a moment that ends up in the history book

01:01:05.860 like trump but even so when we die at our funeral or for years after that those closest to us will not

01:01:15.340 vividly remember or remember at all the vast majority of the things we did and said and it's a sad truth

01:01:22.980 really it's like something you should really let sink in because in fact almost everything we have ever

01:01:28.380 done or said will be forgotten it's already been forgotten even by us instead there will be just

01:01:35.840 a few moments a few defining moments that live on in people's minds just a few moments will

01:01:44.180 determine how you are remembered a hundred years from now trump's name will be associated with only a

01:01:49.800 few things maybe only one and if it is just one it will be this one a hundred years from now your name

01:01:59.300 my name will probably be forgotten entirely as is the fate of the vast majority of humans who've ever

01:02:04.220 lived but for however long you're remembered you will be remembered through moments only a few

01:02:12.520 will they be moments where you rise to the occasion where you fail to that's up to you to decide 0.98

01:02:21.140 and that's the lesson we could all learn from this unless we're too busy inventing the dumbest 0.74

01:02:27.260 conspiracy theories of all time which is why the people squandering this learning opportunity

01:02:32.020 in that way are today canceled that'll do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for

01:02:37.720 listening talk to you tomorrow have a great day godspeed

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The Matt Walsh Show - July 16, 2024

Ep. 1402 - The Official Story On Trump’s Shooting Makes No Sense At All

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