After Saturday s attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents Dinner, we re now at the point where it s truly challenging to keep track of all the serious attempts on Donald Trump s life. You might think that s an overstatement, or you might think you can name all those assassination attempts from memory, but I'm willing to bet that's not true.
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00:00:30.000After Saturday's attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner,
00:00:34.160we're now at the point where it's truly challenging to keep track of all these serious
00:00:38.560attempts on Donald Trump's life. You might think that's an overstatement, or you might think you
00:00:43.040can name all those assassination attempts from memory, but I'm willing to bet that that's not
00:00:48.180true at all. So here's the test. What happened on September 6, 2017, during Trump's first term
00:00:54.960his president. He was in North Dakota to give a speech at a refinery. While he was in transit,
00:01:01.440a 42-year-old man from North Dakota stole a forklift, drove it into Trump's motorcade route
00:01:05.960with the intent, according to the state's attorney, of, quote, flipping the limo and killing the
00:01:11.280president. Now, the plan, as creative as it was, was foiled when the forklift got stuck on a fence.
00:01:18.920In the end, it was basically a Timu killdozer. Ultimately, the attacker settled for lighting a few buildings on fire. For all this, he received an extremely light sentence, time served, because according to his public defenders, he suffered from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.
00:01:35.840So yes, his excuse, this is not a joke, was ADHD. And it worked. You see, ADHD is a disorder that
00:01:44.440could explain literally everything away from getting bad grades to trying to kill the president.
00:01:50.720If ADHD had been invented in the 1860s, maybe John Wilkes Booth could have saved himself the
00:01:56.880trouble of running away and being an outlaw and then getting shot. In addition to the forklift
00:02:03.380attack, by my count, Trump has faced five other serious attempts on his life. Now, most people
00:02:09.760at this point say it's three attempts. Actually, it's six. There was Michael Sanford in 2016 who
00:02:16.820tried to grab a police officer's gun to shoot Trump in Las Vegas. Thomas Crooks on the infamous
00:02:21.700sloped roof in Butler. Ryan Ruth with the sniper's nest at the golf course. Austin Tucker Martin with
00:02:28.280shotgun at Mar-a-Lago, and now the attack at the dinner on Saturday. And that excludes all the
00:02:34.300people who sent Trump ricin in the mail. These are all cases in which assassins moved well beyond
00:02:40.700making threats or planning an attack even. They went out in the world ready to throw their lives
00:02:47.560away with the goal of murdering Donald Trump. This has happened six times, at least. Those are the
00:02:53.300ones we know about. No other president in the history of this country has been directly targeted
00:02:59.040this many times by serious assailants. That is a straightforward, uncontested fact.
00:03:05.480Gerald Ford had two serious assassination attempts. Truman had one. Reagan had one. Andrew
00:03:11.400Jackson had one. FDR had one. If you go looking up assassination attempts on, say, Barack Obama,0.52
00:03:18.280who we were told was the first black president, and therefore he was, you know, being hunted
00:03:22.540relentlessly by white supremacists, you'll find just one incident that's remotely on the level
00:03:27.960of the Trump attacks. And that incident involved a guy named Ortega Hernandez, who fired rounds at
00:03:34.220the White House from a quarter mile away when Obama wasn't there. Beyond that, nothing. If you
00:03:40.460pull up the Wikipedia page for security incidents involving Barack Obama, the first entry reads
00:03:57.900In the past two years, can anyone name a single major act of political violence
00:04:01.400that was committed by a Trump supporter?
00:04:05.020The shooter who targeted those Minneapolis lawmakers claimed that he was taking orders from Tim Walls,
00:04:10.140which is not exactly a right-wing motivation.
00:04:12.980Tom Thomas Crooks, who we can conclude from a social media post, as well as the fact that he shot Donald Trump in the head, wasn't exactly a MAGA guy.
00:04:20.860He was a Trump supporter at one point, but he was radicalized against the president during the pandemic, apparently.
00:04:26.620On the other hand, violence committed by the left has been very hard to miss.
00:04:30.760Putting aside the Trump assassination attempts, Charlie Kirk was murdered on camera in front of the entire world.
00:04:35.300brian thompson the health insurance ceo was gunned down by a schizophrenic leftist ice agents
00:04:41.780in dallas were nearly shot to death by a sniper who somehow missed and hit a few illegals instead
00:04:47.060two israeli embassy staffers were executed by a guy screaming free palestine
00:04:52.020a law enforcement officer was shot in a coordinated plan to assault an ice detention facility
00:04:56.900in alvarado texas multiple tesla dealerships were set on fire and dozens of tesla vehicles
00:05:03.300were vandalized. The headquarters of the New Mexico GOP was hit with firebombs. Josh Shapiro's
00:05:08.680residence was set on fire by another free Palestine freak. Multiple officers were shot in an attack on1.00
00:05:16.200a border patrol facility in McAllen, Texas. A gunman opened fire on an ABC station in Sacramento
00:05:22.760after the network suspended Jimmy Kimmel for lying about Charlie Kirk's murder.
00:05:27.240All these attacks happened in just the past two years. If you go back a little bit farther than
00:05:31.940that, then you start getting into all the attacks on pro-life pregnancy centers, of course, BLM,
00:05:37.640the Summer of Love. There is simply no comparison here. This is not a both sides issue. Now,
00:05:47.480that's not to say that there's never been violence in this country that was motivated by extremist
00:05:51.740right-wing beliefs, but especially in the past two years, the past five years even,
00:05:56.120the political violence has basically gone one way.
00:06:01.820If there's any comparison to be made here to the epidemic of left-wing violence today,
00:06:08.320well, the comparison is to the epidemic of left-wing violence in the past,
00:06:12.500especially the 1970s, which has largely been memory hold.
00:06:16.840Schools certainly don't talk about it, but it definitely happened.
00:06:21.300In his book, Days of Rage, Brian Burrow quotes a retired police agent as saying,
00:06:26.120people have completely forgotten that in 1972, we had over 1,900 domestic bombings in the United
00:06:32.700States. People don't want to listen to that. They can't believe it. One bombing now and everyone
00:06:38.380gets excited. In 1972, it was every day. Buildings getting bombed, policemen getting killed. It was
00:06:44.220commonplace. And that's true. From 1971 to 1972, just a one-year period, the FBI reported more than0.60
00:06:51.9002,500 bombings in the United States. That averages to about five every day. And almost all of them
00:06:59.220were committed by leftist organizations like the Weather Underground, the Black Liberation Army,
00:07:05.400the May 19th Communist Organization, and so on. Now, what's different now is that the average
00:07:11.460left-wing attack is far more lethal than it was in the 1970s. And more importantly,
00:07:16.320unlike the 1970s, the violence reflects the consensus view of most Democrat Party politicians
00:07:23.480and voters. Consider the embarrassingly bad Reddit-tier cringe manifesto of the man who
00:07:31.260tried to kill Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner on Saturday. That man's name, as you know
00:07:36.420now, is Cole Allen. Now, this is a guy who donated $25 to Kamala Harris and believed pretty much
00:07:44.260every piece of Democrat Party propaganda imaginable, judging by social media posts.
00:11:22.900It's an interesting exception for this guy to make. It's not unreasonable to conclude that Cole
00:11:27.940Allen wanted to prioritize white targets. After all, in this manifesto, Allen goes out of his way0.68
00:11:34.100to identify as half black as a way of suggesting that white leftists should be the ones shooting0.98
00:11:40.900at the president. In the part of his manifesto where he addresses hypothetical issues somebody0.98
00:11:45.920might have with the assassination, he writes, as a half black, half white person, you shouldn't be0.67
00:11:51.920the one doing this. Rebuttal. I don't see anyone else picking up the slack. And then he states
00:11:57.880administration officials, not including Mr. Patel, they are targets, prioritized from highest ranking
00:12:03.420to lowest. So Cole Allen is channeling stock Democrat Party rhetoric when it comes to racial
00:12:09.520equity and oppression narratives. He doesn't think that he should have to do the work, as they say.
00:12:16.300And when he does feel compelled to act, he's going to spare the first non-white administration0.58
00:12:21.140official he can think of, even if that official is widely known as a loyal Trump supporter.0.52
00:12:27.220So race, as always in Democrat Party politics, is the primary fixation.
00:12:33.480And we all know that Cole Allen, had he been successful, would have been widely celebrated
00:12:38.100on the left. At this point, there's a pattern emerging with these assassination attempts.
00:12:44.780Every time something like this happens, you see one of three responses from the left.
00:12:50.020If the assassination is successful, like it was with Charlie Kirk, they'll openly celebrate it all over social media, which we saw with not only Charlie Kirk, Brian Thompson as well.
00:13:01.300On the other hand, if the assassination is unsuccessful, they'll either lament the fact that the shooter didn't finish the job, or more commonly now, they'll claim the whole thing was a hoax or a false flag.
00:13:12.560because those are the two categories of of assassination attempts if if in the mind of a
00:13:19.680leftist either a successful one or a hoax if it's not successful then it must be a hoax
00:13:25.500a legitimate assassination attempt that doesn't work is like impossible in the minds of a leftist
00:13:32.240now but the one thing for sure is that in no scenario will democrat voters in large numbers
00:14:38.080Well, it's a very persuasive piece of commentary. I mean, I'm certainly convinced. You know, the attempted assassination at the White House Correspondents' Dinner, yeah, it must have been a hoax.
00:14:49.480Because, I mean, this is what happened. The Trump administration recruited a leftist Kamala Harris voting Trump hater to participate in a staged assassination that would include the shooter getting shot at and then locked in federal prison for the rest of his life.
00:15:04.520The Kamala Harris voter agreed to this plan that works against both his political and personal interest because he's, you know, a really nice guy. He's a really generous guy.
00:15:16.780Meanwhile, the Trump administration, despite dastardly planning multiple assassination hoaxes, apparently, decided to keep their patsy alive and a permanent liability to them rather than just killing him like they could have easily done.
00:15:31.960And they did this because they are also really strangely generous in a very odd and specific way.
00:15:38.960So, in summary, we have a plot where all parties involved are working against their own interests with no real discernible benefit to any of them.
00:15:49.400There's no evidence of this plan. It doesn't even make any intuitive sense.
00:15:53.460And the motives for everybody involved are unclear, if not insane.
00:15:56.600But still, I believe it because I'm a very smart person.
00:16:01.960Oh, and he did all this, by the way, all this, the hoax was really so that for an excuse to build the ballroom.
00:16:07.520That's the other part. That's the other part of this theory.
00:16:09.860The ballroom, which is already being built, but it's it's happening anyway.
00:16:14.260But they wanted to do a whole hate crime, a whole assassination hoax just to justify the thing that's already happening.
00:16:21.360Now, this is very common. You know, we can laugh about it and we should laugh at it.
00:23:12.540so you get the idea and you'll notice it's entirely women and
00:23:31.960low-testosterone men in these videos. Several of them are public school teachers. Here's
00:23:36.500one more example. This is apparently someone who sits on a school board. Quote,
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00:25:20.060Now, we're well past the point where conservatives need to get serious about the extent of this
00:25:24.680threat. And to do that, we need to be honest about why all the hoax theories are circulating
00:25:30.320on social media right now among both conservatives and leftists. For the most part, for most people,
00:25:36.320it's a lot more palatable to believe that these assassinations are staged than to confront the
00:25:42.500truth, which is that indeed a large percentage of this country's population has been radicalized.0.79
00:25:50.660If you're a conservative, they want you dead.
00:25:55.260I mean, that could very well include your next door neighbor or your doctor, your Uber driver, the person serving you food at a restaurant.
00:29:18.460I'll get into the responsibility that we all have to help bring down the temperature in a second.
00:29:23.440But first, let me touch on the news today and what was perhaps inevitable that the Trump administration would try to use Saturday's horrific act of violence.
00:29:31.860to try to clamp down on criticism and free speech.
00:29:35.860Today, the president and the first lady, Melania Trump,
00:29:38.860citing a joke that comedian Jimmy Kimmel made last Thursday
00:29:41.860on his show, tried to connect that joke
00:31:46.560Frankly, just the latest example of Aaron Rogers using his platform to spread misleading and false information.
00:31:54.720So wildly irresponsible. There are lunatics out there who believe this kind of stuff.0.91
00:31:59.840I mean, Kimmel's right when he says he's putting his family at risk.0.82
00:32:02.760So you don't get to imply that Kimmel is on the Epstein list because crazy people might take it seriously.
00:32:08.160But making a joke about Trump getting murdered is totally fine, apparently.
00:32:14.040Tapper goes on like this for several more minutes.
00:32:16.960And first of all, there was no joke here. It's kind of an important point.
00:32:20.920Jimmy Kimmel hasn't been funny in about 15 years or longer.
00:32:24.540He hasn't really told a joke in that long.
00:32:26.920And this particular moment was no exception.
00:32:29.920As a one-liner, it had all the humor of a trans activist on Reddit0.76
00:32:33.680gleefully celebrating Charlie Kirk's assassination.0.71
00:32:36.400On top of that, his whole argument is a straw man.
00:32:39.480No one is saying the killer was motivated specifically by Jimmy Kimmel's joke.
00:32:43.060The point is that the entire left-wing media apparatus,
00:32:46.480which is to say virtually every media outlet in the country,
00:32:50.060constantly repeats this kind of rhetoric.
00:32:52.600And when leftists are exposed to this kind of venom all the time, it has the effect of turning many of them into dangerous and unstable people.
00:33:03.400Or I think more accurately, many of them are already unstable.
00:33:08.960And then you're dumping all of this nonsense on top of it.
00:33:15.940Some of them are going to go to the logical conclusion.
00:33:18.060what it's worth kimball's routine uh went on to repeat the same nazi tropes that cnn uses every
00:33:25.340day they they uh they want people to marinate in this stuff because they know the effect it has
00:33:31.020watch oh look at who we have here steven miller steven miller is so racist the reason he went0.92
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00:33:44.880He's like if baby Hitler traveled in time to kill us.0.96
00:33:48.960Again, there's not even an attempt at humor here.0.84
00:34:39.420And he's going to pull any sort of federal support. Right. You know, I think about when somebody using Donald Trump's words and actions targeted me and a bunch of other members of the press.
00:34:51.000You know who I didn't hear from? Donald Trump. Right. So the guy doesn't care when people commit violence in his name.
00:34:58.000He only cares when the violence is committed against him and he does not see that he is a contributor to the atmospherics of the world we're living in. Right.
00:35:08.660So now Trump is responsible for the people who are trying to murder him.
00:35:13.140Victim blaming, you know, is something the left used to pretend to care about.
00:35:17.280But that doesn't even begin to describe this.
00:35:20.220I saw somebody on X say that this is like that Chappelle show sketch, Mad Real World, where they stab the white guy's father and sleep with his girlfriend and kick him out of the house because he makes them feel unsafe.
00:35:31.380uh you really can't parody this kind of pathological way of looking at the world
00:35:37.320because it's so farcical uh on its face i don't like how you looked at me why you gotta look at
00:35:44.760me like that sandra i apologize i don't know how i'm looking at you like that like what oh look
00:35:50.060look you're doing it i'll look over here don't look at me you don't know how to talk to people
00:35:54.580why you gotta be looking at me white man i'm not looking at anyone if someone could0.99
00:36:25.180in a span of 20 years this has gone from sketch comedy to mainstream democrat party orthodoxy0.97
00:36:33.500they will shoot at you multiple times and then blame you for it and again this is coming from
00:36:39.500the guy who hosted meet the press he's one of the most prominent journalists in the country or was
00:36:43.680claims to be one of the sane ones the takeaway is clear if and when these people finally do
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00:39:33.420The more this type of propaganda ramps up from every angle, the more prepared the right needs to be.
00:39:40.820Instead, the opposite seems to be happening as Fox News is a comedian who was at the correspondence dinner.
00:39:47.540He was caught on a hot mic before the shooting, remarking about how the front door to the hotel was being propped up by two random women who were not affiliated with the Secret Service.
00:40:00.300He was marveling at how lax security was. Watch.
00:40:04.620I love that they have like two random chicks holding the front door open.
00:40:10.820guys we're not even trying anymore it's just it's not even like i just mean like they're not even
00:40:16.760a team of service people it's like the girls who work here are holding the door even if it was the
00:40:20.600guys wouldn't even make it better it's like it's just like they might as well put a door stop in
00:40:28.420they put up a door stop and a scarecrow this guy so that's jimmy fela in the clip he's someone who
00:40:37.100unlike jimmy kimmel actually tells jokes from time to time doesn't just make death threats tries to
00:40:41.660you know tell jokes what comedians are supposed to do in fact he's often pretty observant and in
00:40:45.100this case he made the same basic observation as the gunman in his manifesto cole allen repeatedly
00:40:50.680expressed his surprise that the secret service presence in the hotel was so minimal he wrote
00:40:55.180quote if i was an iranian agent instead of an american citizen i could have brought a mod deuce
00:40:59.540in here and no one would have noticed that's a reference to a 50 caliber machine gun and he
00:41:05.040raises a good point, actually. If the Secret Service isn't going to screen anyone in any way
00:41:09.220until they try to enter the actual ballroom, it's a big problem. According to reports that we've
00:41:14.720seen, it looks like the Secret Service shot several times and managed to shoot one of their
00:41:19.660own agents, not the actual assassin. They only arrested him because he tripped and fell after
00:41:24.280running straight through a checkpoint. With that in mind, imagine what 50 highly trained Iranian
00:41:29.420commandos could have done. They could have stormed into the ballroom easily. From the surveillance0.99
00:41:34.700camera footage we saw, some of the Secret Service agents wouldn't have seen it coming.
00:41:40.340Now, you can see it here, the Secret Service agent in the suit there isn't even looking in
00:41:46.300the right direction, and no one at the checkpoint even attempts to tackle the guy. Imagine the
00:41:50.940Secret Service was actually dealing with a well-trained group of assassins, which isn't
00:41:55.060exactly unthinkable since we're at war with a country that has a documented history of organizing
00:41:58.800terrorist attacks on American soil. And by the way, running through the checkpoint is just one
00:42:03.840of their available options. They're completely free to roam around the hotel, rent as many rooms
00:42:08.860as they wanted. They could have planted explosives. And possibilities are endless. And it doesn't
00:42:14.580appear the Secret Service had considered many of those options. Instead, by all accounts,
00:42:18.780they ran the exact same security plan that they've run for the last 50 White House
00:42:23.020Correspondents dinners. Now, if nothing else, it's a solid metaphor for how unprepared we are
00:42:28.140in general on the right. Social media, along with the corporate press, has fried the brains
00:42:33.080of millions of Americans, a total break from reality, a mass psychosis that poses a direct
00:42:39.760threat to every sane person in the country. It certainly poses a threat to everybody serving in
00:42:43.620public office on the right. It can't be overstated that nothing like this has ever happened before
00:42:49.160in American history. And as tempting as it may be to conclude that there's some vast international
00:42:53.980conspiracy here, the truth is actually a lot more disturbing. No matter where you live, if you're a
00:42:58.660conservative, you're almost certainly surrounded by people who want you dead. That is not hyperbole.
00:43:02.420it's not paranoia it's a factually true statement if you take it seriously which you should could
00:43:10.660very well save your life that will do it for the show today thanks for watching thanks for
00:43:14.900listening talk to you tomorrow great day godspeed i do believe that if people have committed treason