On July 13th, 2024, a man attempted to assassinate Donald Trump, a former president and the frontrunner for the presidential election this year. He ended up striking several people in the crowd, killing one man, a father and a firefighter, Corey Comperatore.
00:01:08.000That this man had a line of sight directly to Donald Trump, 130 yards away.
00:01:15.000Police were warned over and over again, and not one, not one law enforcement officer of any, in any way, simply said to their radio, get the president off the stage.
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00:04:30.000Let's jump into the first story, of course.
00:04:33.000And we'll begin with the image that is going to be in the history books forever.
00:04:37.000This picture of Donald Trump that was taken by, I believe the man's name, is it Evan Vucci?
00:04:43.000Maybe his name, I hope I'm not getting that wrong.
00:04:47.000And Donald Trump surrounded by Secret Service agents pulling him from the stage, raising a fist with blood streaking down his face and the American flag in sight.
00:04:55.000This is the iconic image of a president who refused to be stopped, who refused to be put down.
00:05:02.000But there's breaking news and there's a lot of information.
00:05:04.000I got to be honest, we got to go through all of these photos and let me see if I have this.
00:05:14.000This photograph is going to be iconic for the rest of American history and it's going to be defining of what is an evil regime versus the good that's fighting.
00:06:26.000I was living in Philadelphia at the time, and we got the feed from New York, the local New York One feed.
00:06:34.000Rudy Giuliani got on TV and he said alternate side of the street parking is suspended for tomorrow and I thought that is calming, that is reassuring, that is tomorrow is coming, New York is still here, everything is still the same, don't worry about moving your cars everyone.
00:06:51.000And I got a similar sense, different, but a similar sense of like, we are America, we are here, we are strong, we are still moving forward, we are not put down.
00:07:01.000I think you could hear that in the crowd, too, right?
00:07:03.000They're screaming, there's anxiety, and when he stands up, you get that USA chant, right?
00:07:07.000There's this moment of rallying around Trump and what he symbolizes as a country, because this will be one of those things where everyone says, where were you when you heard that President Trump had been shot in Pennsylvania?
00:07:16.000I mean, it is Going to change the course of American history the same way that 9-11 did, or RFK's assassination did.
00:07:22.000We always, once we have a complete picture of what happened, we reflect on things a little differently.
00:07:29.000The moment this happened, my phone is lighting up.
00:07:33.000I pull up the feed, and all I know is, I was told Donald Trump had been shot.
00:08:09.000And what was terrifying to me was, as is happening, I'm sitting at this table where everyone's just playing a game and not paying attention, and there's a man to my left who's a local politician.
00:08:18.000And as soon as it happened, my phone's going, and I'm looking down.
00:08:21.000I look over to him, and we both look at each other, and I'm like, did you?
00:08:27.000I wondered to myself, and I asked, I said, how come all of the TVs in this casino did not just change?
00:08:32.000How come the intercom did not just come on?
00:08:35.000And the manager said, ladies and gentlemen, we hate to interrupt your entertainment, but an assassination attempt has just been made on Donald Trump at a presidential rally.
00:08:44.000I feel like that to me is what that sounds that sounds like what would happen.
00:08:50.000You should know this, and no one knew that this happened.
00:08:55.000TV was on, they were watching, I think they were watching baseball and basketball, and people were completely oblivious.
00:09:00.000But, to the point you were making, when, as soon as I saw it, and I pulled up the photo, the guy across from me goes, right alongside Iwo Jima.
00:09:11.000I mean, because we live in a digital age, these images move faster, but also get spread farther.
00:09:17.000And to think that this is going to be the image we walk away from from this moment is actually amazing, because again, to contrast with other tragedies we've had in American history, I mean, sometimes it's the car speeding away, right?
00:09:28.000And instead, we got this clip of Trump saying, let me get my shoes and wait, and then like connecting with the crowd.
00:09:52.000This morning we had Brian Glenn on and we were walking through his kind of first-hand experience at the rally and something that I hadn't really seen reported really anywhere else.
00:10:00.000He said that once the initial shots rang out that a lot of people in the crowd, he was like 30-40 percent, they turned around and they started yelling at the media saying like, this is your fault, you guys did this.
00:10:14.000Even Fox News too, they were like, Like going all in on them, which I thought was something that was interesting.
00:10:19.000But I also have to say, too, I think President Trump was so right to use the words fight.
00:10:25.000And I know a lot of the kind of prevailing theme that we've been hearing at the RNC, which I've been all day, has been this concept of unity and coming together.
00:10:32.000And obviously, we're not calling for violence.
00:10:35.000But I think you have to make the point that you can't have unity and you cannot unite with people who fundamentally want your movement.
00:10:43.000And want you, as supporters of President Trump, supporters of the MAGA agenda, either locked away in prison like they're doing with Jan Sixers, or in this case, dead.
00:10:52.000And I don't think that unity is really the word right now, because if the tables were turned and it were a Trump supporter who had tried to shoot President Biden, you would not be hearing the word unity.
00:11:03.000You would see the media going all in on anyone MAGA, and it'd be a very different tune.
00:11:09.000This is how it goes every time when we watch the Summer of Love and the far left engage in this like low-tier terrorism.
00:11:17.000And once again, we've maintained the entire time we have to win through the process because they're the ones trying to destroy the process.
00:11:24.000We have to uphold and maintain a legal system because they are the ones trying to tear it down.
00:11:29.000We had a caller last week say, how do we do this when, with the arrest of Steve Bannon and Merrick Garland skirting his criminal charges and getting away with it, how do we function?
00:11:40.000And it's, we have to keep trying to play through the system because they're hoping that we abandon these rules.
00:11:47.000They're hoping that we give up on our system.
00:11:50.000Well, Emma Jo Morris at Breitbart, she said something really smart on Twitter today.
00:11:54.000She said, there's always this expectation that Trump has to make some gesture of unity with the establishment, but never the expectation for the establishment to make that overture to Trump.
00:12:04.000And I think that that's really huge because we see that.
00:12:06.000We saw Biden saying, you know, everybody cool it down, vote at the battle boxes, you know, pray for former Trump.
00:12:16.000And then when the White House was asked today, If Biden was going to tone down the rhetoric, he said no, because he doesn't actually have any plans to.
00:12:26.000Let him continue spewing his propaganda.
00:12:29.000And that includes telling Trump and all of Trump supporters and all of conservatives in the country that they are wrong, horrible people.
00:12:37.000Many in the media often do say we're on the precipice of civil war, and they're usually wrong about it, but I really think we were an inch away this time from something really scary.
00:13:16.000I'm the Canadian here, and I'm watching this, and I'm watching the videos over and over again, and I've watched the JFK assassination.
00:13:22.000It was violent, it was graphic, it was deliberately publicly displayed to rub in the face of the people, humiliate them, and demoralize them.
00:13:32.000Had it been that, I'm thinking there, this is how I would write my name somewhere down to get recruited.
00:13:37.000Send me off to battle, that would be my line in the sand.
00:13:41.000But the most amazing thing about that image, everybody's got a character of Trump, he's got his orange hair, his 10.
00:13:48.000That moment where he's red in the face with rage and commitment, and you don't see him as the caricature anymore, that is the human.
00:13:57.000That is a man who, they just tried to kill him.
00:14:00.000There's no, you know, I got the best words.
00:14:02.000That's a man on a mission now and you see him as the human and no longer the character
00:14:05.000and that's the image that's going to be there.
00:14:06.000And you start thinking about his family too.
00:14:09.000You know, that was one thing I thought.
00:14:10.000I've been on Laura Trump's show a few times and I, you know, she shares pictures of the
00:14:14.000grandkids and you see his family out there.
00:14:16.000They're very vocal and you're just like, oh my goodness, imagine seeing your father, you
00:14:26.000But again, you have that moment where you think, like, if Trump stands up and puts his fist and says, I'm OK, like, it's for America, but I'm also sure it's for his family.
00:14:34.000I mean, we saw Melania's statement where she was like, please remember.
00:14:42.000I also think the timing of all of it, like you were saying, what was it, a difference of literally one millimeter ahead until he was reportedly looking at, you know, charts depicting illegal immigration.
00:14:51.000But I even think if you take it back to way long before this, I mean, had Democrats and establishment Republicans not put him through the trials and tribulations of all the lawfare, the attacks that they had put him through for years since 2016, he probably would not have been talking about, right, what he would have been talking about in that moment.
00:15:10.000Who knows if he would have even been in Pennsylvania because his campaign rally schedule could have been different because he wouldn't have been stuck in a New York courtroom.
00:15:17.000There are so many things that the Democrats put him through that got him to be standing at that stage and that moment to be looking back tilted to the right.
00:15:25.000Like Steve said, from prison, he had the armor of God in that moment.
00:15:29.000But when you really, I think, trace it back all the way to 2016, it's mind-blowing.
00:15:34.000There are a lot of people who are highlighting the American flag.
00:15:37.000Flipped over in itself and inverted into the shape of a cross.
00:15:42.000I don't believe what you want, but I want to say that while they're saying that Donald Trump had some kind of divine intervention here, The idea that Donald Trump tilting his head by a millimeter saved his life.
00:15:59.000The odds of this, of everything playing out the way it was, and I think to myself, this is like crazier than the plot of the silliest cheesy action movie.
00:16:09.000Right, it's the only positive thing illegal immigration has done, which is give Donald Trump that chart to look at.
00:16:13.000But we're here right now, where Donald Trump Within a few seconds, he's turning to the right, he's talking to people, and then he tilts.
00:17:47.000A clear line of sight within 130 yards of the frontrunner for the presidential election, and not once in a half an hour did a single law enforcement officer say, Suspicious man on the roof, get the president off the stage.
00:18:01.000All they had to do was click their walkie-talkie and say, get Trump off stage, security threat.
00:18:10.000Cory Mills brought up that when, as a former sniper, when they would do these assessments with Secret Service.
00:18:16.000They track what are vantage points at 100 yards, 200 yards, 300 yards.
00:18:20.000So I'm supposed to believe, and the American people are supposed to believe, that in this instance, a crazed lone gunman had a ladder placed up against a building where police were staging, climbed onto the roof, was seen by two law enforcement officers who took pictures of him, encountered another law enforcement officer who saw him on the roof and backed away, was identified by members of the crowd and by Secret Service, And no one did anything until he literally shot Donald Trump.
00:19:50.000This was the time and that kid, but for the grace of God.
00:19:54.000Donald Trump was supposed to be in prison.
00:19:57.000But the Supreme Court sided with Donald Trump on presidential immunity.
00:20:01.000But, the important factor, while most legal analysts expected that there would be some degree of immunity for Donald Trump, what I don't think anyone expected was that they would additionally add in their ruling that you could not use presidential actions, official acts, as evidence of other wrongdoing.
00:20:21.000Which, again, no one expected, would undermine the New York hush money case.
00:20:27.000And then delay the sentencing of Donald Trump.
00:20:31.000He would not have been able to go to the convention.
00:20:33.000They would have held him back, and that failed.
00:20:35.000Now, that being said, I don't know what that means.
00:20:38.000And it certainly doesn't mean that all of these Secret Service agents are in on anything.
00:20:41.000It doesn't mean that the local law enforcement are in on anything.
00:20:43.000It doesn't mean anything other than, like you said, let it happen on purpose.
00:20:47.000And all that it would require for that to be the case is a single logistics person Intentionally saying, don't worry guys, we've covered every vantage point and location, and ignoring one.
00:21:07.000Well, and also to your point, you know, if he had to assemble his weapon on that roof, surely someone would have noticed this, or did he have to get back down and get a weapon and then climb up again?
00:21:17.000Like, whatever happened here is actually concerning because it seems like there was, we know there was too much time, but also it doesn't seem like it was subtle, right?
00:21:26.000It's not like he was in all white and hiding on the roof for three days.
00:21:29.000I mean, it really seems like people watch this person climb up and down the roof.
00:21:32.000Speaking of logistics, I also think it'll be interesting to get in, though apparently we can't get into his phone.
00:21:37.000You can only hack phones if you're, you know... No, they did.
00:21:40.000It's been reported they got in, but they can't find anything.
00:21:44.000I think it's an interesting logistical oversight, though, on the shooter's part to even assume that a roof that's, what, less than 150 yards away from where President Trump was speaking, to assume that it would even be unsecured, that seems like just an oversight if you'd really been planning this out.
00:21:58.000And frankly, I think there's a lot of similarities to just the Whether it's oddities, I think that's sort of the age-old question of the Biden regime, right?
00:22:05.000Is it intentional or is it a result of incompetence?
00:22:08.000But with the way Secret Service conducted themselves when it came to the January 6 pipe bomb incident, right?
00:22:14.000The footage that was released via Tom Massey showing them Despite some big pipe bomb being there that Secret Service is just, you know, sitting in the car, they're letting a gaggle of school children walk in front of it, the Capitol Police officers taking a picture of it and then going back into the car.
00:22:28.000And I think it's just sort of a pattern of very interesting behavior that we should not be expecting from the Secret Service.
00:22:44.000I mean, if he showed up to this rally and was walking around it acting suspicious, they reported him, nobody took any action.
00:22:51.000In order for that security breach to have occurred, he was walking around with a weapon in a bag or on his person, and then got lucky and found this building?
00:23:08.000So I think it's pretty obvious that I don't think you need to be a law enforcement professional to say that the law enforcement and Secret Service and security failed here on every level.
00:23:17.000I think it's a very scary thing of what it says that one determined person can do and be able to accomplish allegedly on their own to a One of the most famous people on planet Earth.
00:23:27.000Somebody who's supposed to have some of the best Secret Service protection on planet Earth.
00:23:30.000I don't know what that says for people who don't have Secret Service protection.
00:23:33.000I don't know what that says for you other US representatives because again, this was allegedly just one motivated person.
00:23:40.000And if this is what one motivated person could do, I don't know what that says for the security and state of our country with the current political climate.
00:23:50.000What you'll hear from the left is Trump is Hitler and if you were able to kill baby Hitler, Do you think there's a manifesto?
00:24:01.000There is no logical path to say a single person who was determined was able to scout out a location during Secret Service detail, and was able to find a ladder to climb on top of a building, encountering three law enforcement officers, who at no point called it in, and then two minutes from the crowd screaming he's on the roof and got a gun, not a single person got dropped off the stage.
00:24:54.000But I don't see how you argue that two minutes and one second before Trump was literally shot, there's video of people screaming, he's got a gun, he's got a gun.
00:25:05.000And not one, not one law enforcement said, pull Trump.
00:26:03.000Nobody can be that wrong, and there can't be that many mistakes on accident in a sequence.
00:26:07.000I think the police and Secret Service can seriously be that incompetent.
00:26:11.000They didn't have a drone in the area, they had no aerial overview, and it's upsetting.
00:26:16.000And I think it's frightening again what, as of now, we're told only one motivated person can do.
00:26:22.000The damage one motivated person can do to our political system.
00:26:26.000Because we would be on the precipice of a civil war if Trump was a centimeter tilted otherwise.
00:26:31.000Have you seen the reports that, and I can't confirm this, I don't know, but I just saw one report saying that Secret Service might have been divided between the Trump event and the Jill Biden?
00:26:42.000Because it is interesting to think that, like, they've been doing this for how long?
00:26:46.000I mean, they were originally founded to fight counterfeiting in the U.S., but then they've had this job forever, and they still don't seem to know we have to station everybody on rooftops.
00:26:56.000I mean, it is bizarre to me that there would be an open rooftop, that there wasn't, you 130 yards away.
00:30:30.000Dan Goldman has blood on his hands for what he said earlier.
00:30:33.000I mean, we were all railing on him when he said that.
00:30:36.000They know damn well what they're doing.
00:30:37.000They are putting out the political permission slip, the dog whistle for their lunatic lefties, to carry out the wishes of their masters, and one person did it.
00:30:44.000And they did it in 2020, they did it in 2016, or not 2016, but do you remember when Maxine Waters told people to go confront Trump officials and Trump admin people wherever they were and tell them they're not welcome?
00:30:56.000Sarah Huckabee Sanders got pushed out of a Waffle House.
00:31:00.000I'm gonna try to be a little bit principled here.
00:31:01.000I don't think that Dan Goldman has blood on his hands.
00:31:05.000I don't think this rhetoric is even that inflammatory.
00:31:08.000I mean, I think we hear much more inflammatory things pretty regularly, and I don't think this is what led that guy to do what he did.
00:31:15.000And if it were, I mean, I still think his actions speak for themselves.
00:31:19.000Not rhetoric like this, because if we held that standard across the board, I'm sure we could pretty quickly find stuff that, you know, we could attach a lot of I have complained about people who come on the show and make allusions to violence.
00:32:01.000If AOC says we're gonna get out there and fight, we know what it means.
00:32:03.000And I'm not even that concerned necessarily about Maxine Waters saying get out there and confront people.
00:32:07.000It's like, you're getting a little close on the line.
00:32:10.000Joe Biden saying, put him in a bullseye, okay, is the line, okay?
00:32:14.000I can understand where it's like, there may be some rhetoric there, turn a phrase, but you cannot have Joe Biden, you cannot have George Takei, who just came out, and all these Democrats saying things like he needs to be eliminated, he's an existential threat, he's a threat to democracy, he's Hitler, etc., etc., and not expect people who engaged in the worst riots in 50 years to do something like this.
00:32:34.000Now, this man, who took the shot at Donald Trump, is 20 years old.
00:32:39.000Since he was 12, he has been inundated with a constant barrage of these media personalities and Democrats saying Donald Trump is Hitler.
00:32:47.000What is a young person developing in their mind?
00:33:01.000First, I wanted to come out and say I admire and commend you for trying to help tone down the rhetoric with many of your guests that come on and have a line in the sand.
00:33:09.000I do think some of Joe Biden's and some of the Democrats, and I'm sure it's not limited to them, I'm sure there's many Republicans who use aggressive rhetoric, definitely contribute to a Political climate that is hotter and more likely to have something boil over.
00:33:21.000But I think it strips the person of his agency if we're just saying, you know, this is what caused him to do it.
00:33:26.000I don't think this is a direct call for violence, brings up the temperature, but I think it's a dangerous standard to hold them to.
00:33:32.000I think at this point we should reference J.D.
00:33:35.000He was the one who said afterwards, this wasn't an isolated incident, the Biden-Harris campaign has been pushing this idea that there will be political violence for a long time.
00:33:43.000I don't know that there's one tweet that sent someone off, again, unless we get some sort of manifesto or diary entry that says this is exactly it with a citation, but it is a culture that has definitely been pushed that there is tension coming and everyone needs to be And I would respectfully push back too, because I think when you hear those heated clips coming from right-wing media, I'm sure Steve Bannon probably has a lot of those moments that they are always taking out of context, we are always very precise and particular with how you channel that energy.
00:34:09.000And you always hear right-wing commentators telling people to get involved on the grassroots level and to make that change happen within the political system.
00:34:16.000In contrast, when you have people like this go on there and say things like, put him in a bullseye, put him in the
00:34:22.000crosshairs, not even sure that that's that much better.
00:34:24.000Or just year after year, media cycle after media cycle, just getting this pent up anger,
00:35:09.000And now, here we are, with the rhetoric has not stopped, and even after this, George Takei tweeted, Donald Trump is an existential threat, but we'll defeat him with ballots, not bullets.
00:35:21.000I'm sorry, but that rhetoric does not make sense.
00:35:26.000An existential threat means we will cease to exist if he succeeds.
00:35:31.000And what that message sends, whether it's intentional or not, and I don't care what his intention is, what I'm concerned about is, someone just tried and nearly killed Donald Trump, which would rip this country asunder.
00:35:43.000And now this man is saying, if we don't win, we won't exist anymore.
00:35:48.000What is the response to that statement?
00:35:49.000Well, George Takei should be deplatformed.
00:35:51.000I'm not an anti-free speech person whatsoever.
00:36:52.000I mean, those are the things that they try to impeach him for saying, for having said, because that incited violence.
00:36:56.000So it's not only that the right doesn't do it.
00:36:58.000When the right even comes close and skirts the line, they get raked over the coals by the media.
00:37:03.000These people, they know exactly what they're doing.
00:37:05.000Goldman knows exactly what he's doing, and they do have blood on their hands.
00:37:08.000Well, and I think to, you know, to give some leeway to Elad's argument here, I just don't think Joe Biden wrote this, right?
00:37:12.000That's a loose standard for blood on his hands, I feel like, respectfully.
00:37:15.000No, no, but I happen to believe these are dog whistles, they know damn well what they're doing, and when we say, we gotta beat them at the ballot box, not with bullets, They know exactly what they're saying, and they're giving a political permission slip for any lunatic who goes and does it.
00:37:28.000Is that to say you think this rhetoric should be illegal?
00:38:40.000Even Trump said, they're not after me, they're after you, I'm just in the way.
00:38:44.000In this instance, when the bullet did miss Trump, it still hit several good people who were just at an event to hear what he had to say.
00:38:53.000And so, in the broader sense, the man didn't miss, he hit several people who he hated.
00:38:58.000Now, that being said, The failure to stop Donald Trump.
00:39:02.000Frank Luntz, he's a famous pollster, said he was asked by numerous media outlets what this means and he said, every Trump supporter is now a Trump voter.
00:39:25.000And what that means is, we have to have equality under the law.
00:39:29.000We have to have Donald Trump prove to the American people there is a law that exists, and you must adhere to it.
00:39:34.000Because what makes me angry, what drives me and makes me want Trump to win, is the abuse of the system by Democrats.
00:39:43.000With the most egregious so far being that Steve Bannon has gone to prison and Merrick Garland has skirted the law and the Democrats are laughing about it.
00:39:52.000They called Ana Paulina stupid for trying to uphold the law because Merrick Garland broke the law.
00:39:59.000And I am furious that We cannot get that justice, and I hope that what we see with Donald Trump, and I'm not even convinced we'll get it, is that he simply appoints a good DOJ, and they say, we are going to reaffirm our commitment to justice, to the legal process and the law, and hold those accountable who have skirted the law and broken the rules.
00:40:50.000Biden and his ilk are the enemy in a political sense.
00:40:53.000But there will be unity among the people that is going to have the impact of defeating those people.
00:40:57.000I think what we're seeing already, the gas has been removed from the uniparty machine.
00:41:03.000Because regular people are scared of violence.
00:41:06.000They do not want this and they are correct in not wanting this.
00:41:09.000The far left and many of the more, I don't know, wacky Democrats who have been advocating for violence or saying things like they're sad that the guy missed.
00:41:18.000Kyle Gass of THSD on stage saying he wished the guy wouldn't miss or something to that effect.
00:41:26.000But the mainstream media knows it, and that's why they pulled Morning Joe, right?
00:41:29.000CNN was breaking that they, what is it, for at least for the next week, that Morning Joe, we call it Morning Mika on The War Room, is off air, and it really is funny.
00:41:37.000I watched some of MSNBC's coverage this morning.
00:41:40.000The title of it is, like, the most drab thing you could get.
00:41:42.000It's, like, emergency coverage of assassination attempt, and they have two of the most, like, low-energy-looking journalists that I've ever seen hosting the show, and they keep bringing on historians as guests. They're like obviously not trying to
00:41:55.000touch it with a ten-foot pole, right? They're trying to keep it very
00:41:58.000apolitical in their coverage because they know that they even know that they
00:42:02.000can't put any other guests on without creating some viral you know soundbiter clip of them probably calling for
00:42:21.000During Sunday's episode of ABC's This Week, Stephanopoulos and Chief Global Affairs Anchor Martha Raddatz discussed the current political environment.
00:42:28.000Raditz discussed conspiracy theories that President Biden caused the horrific attack and noted a tweet from J.D.
00:42:33.000Vance that Biden's rhetoric led to the attack.
00:42:35.000Quote, Of course, President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric as well, Stephanopoulos said, blaming Donald Trump.
00:43:08.000That one guy, I can't remember which guy, I think it was a Disney employee, I'm not sure, could be wrong, posted a picture of a wood chipper Reza Aslan said that he insinuated he wanted to punch the kid in the face, the kid had a punchable face.
00:43:23.000And then, some people on the right, some, sometimes, say negative things, but it's inversion.
00:43:29.000Most prominent right personalities say, no violence, stop, we don't want this, we can't have this.
00:43:35.000I think it's even beyond talking about online.
00:43:37.000I mean, who attacked the congressional baseball game?
00:44:20.000They've talked about political violence.
00:44:22.000They keep showing clips of things they think went wrong in the past.
00:44:25.000They use fear to try and inspire their voters.
00:44:28.000It's not a peaceful party, and I think you see that demonstrated more than we really acknowledge because, again, we sort of are numb to it.
00:44:35.000I think it's important to see, while some Democrats are trying to moderate some of their language, I think it's important to remember that I actually do believe that, I don't know if it's just Democrats, but many in the far left, many at the base of the party, actually do hate Donald Trump to the core of his soul, and do believe that he is a genocidal, fascist, Hitler-esque figure that does need to be taken out, and unfortunately it's not an uncommon thought to think like, That these people are unhappy that the shots missed Donald Trump.
00:45:03.000I was actually interviewing some people today on the March on the RNC who specifically said it's a shame that the person missed.
00:45:10.000I don't think that's uncommon and it's important to recognize the vitriol and deep-seated hate these people have for many on the right.
00:45:18.000What does everybody on the right said about Joe Biden?
00:45:34.000But also, aren't the ones on the left, aren't the ones, the leftists are always the ones saying that the right is engaging in stochastic terror, right?
00:46:28.000I think that that's sort of an interesting thread to pull.
00:46:30.000If you look at how, for the last, what is it, since 2016, like almost 10 years, they really have gone to lengths to define domestic extremism as basically MAGA supporters and January 6th type rioters and again, who knows, incompetence, intentional.
00:46:46.000Something funky happened at that rally, but when you look at the, I mean, billions, probably when you add it up, it's probably trillions of dollars that have been poured into these, you
00:46:56.000know, anti-domestic extremism efforts and the way that that word has been reformulated to really
00:47:01.000just be synonymous and analogous with Trump supporters. No wonder why this guy would slip through
00:47:06.000the cracks, right? Because he doesn't really fit their definition of what it means to be a
00:47:11.000domestic extremist in the sense that he wasn't someone who was, you know, walking around a Joe Biden rally
00:47:18.000holding up Trump signs. And I'm not saying that they missed him, but I think that that's an, if
00:47:22.000you look at a cultural systemic shift that has been happening inside these, you know,
00:47:26.000Secret Service operates under the auspices of DHS, the very same DHS that behind closed doors is
00:47:32.000weaponizing against MAGA, is holding secret meetings with, you know, social media companies to
00:47:38.000They don't think people who are shooting at Trump are, that doesn't really fit their domestic terrorism narrative, right?
00:47:44.000They're not posting on Twitter, this guy wasn't, so I guess he wasn't on the list.
00:47:47.000Domestic terrorists can't donate to ActBlue, they just would never.
00:47:49.000He wouldn't set off any of their radars because they have made domestic terrorism, domestic extremism, something that is wholly different from what it should be.
00:47:58.000I've had this, it's a recent theory that I have is that, you know, we grew up with the term liberalism is a mental disorder.
00:48:04.000I've always heard it as a kid, never fully understood it until now.
00:48:07.000But I look at the Democrat Party and they have no qualms and a total propensity to exploiting the mentally vulnerable, the mentally ill for political profit, like they did with Greta Thunberg, like they did with Fetterman.
00:48:21.000Just anybody, it doesn't even matter if he's mentally unwell, just get him in there.
00:48:28.000They will exploit the fragile, the infirmed for political profit and they use the mentally ill and the mentally unwell as their strong arm, as their thugs on the street to promote and push and instill terror for those who don't follow their politics.
00:48:42.000And so the left's propensity and the Democrats with a capital D to use people who are clearly mentally unwell I saw the counter-protest.
00:48:50.000Anybody saying, I wished he wasn't off target, has a mental problem.
00:48:55.000And I mean, probably a diagnosable one.
00:48:57.000And they use them as tools for political profit, and we're seeing it now.
00:49:00.000They accuse others of what they are doing themselves.
00:49:06.000It's Nazi propaganda going back to Goebbels.
00:49:09.000You made a point a while ago, Viva, that if Donald Trump were to have been hit, it's world war.
00:49:14.000They don't know the hell they are ushering in, because it would be the most... Not demoralizing.
00:49:21.000The JFK assassination was graphic, and this was broad daylight, live-streamed, real-time, HD.
00:49:28.000There would have been... I mean, I won't use the word.
00:49:32.000It would have been a not-America the day after.
00:49:35.000But for the grace of God, it looks like people are going to actually be unified as opposed to all hell breaking loose.
00:49:40.000The political instability likely would have resulted in... Thousand percent.
00:49:46.000The moves we'd end up seeing from Russia, from China, would be drastic.
00:49:52.000And it would lead to a chain of events that I think would create massive international instability.
00:49:56.000And I highlight this point you made because these people who are online, they're young people.
00:50:01.000One video was a guy screaming at the top of his lungs saying, how could you miss?
00:50:08.000Now, we can say that's a mental disorder.
00:50:11.000But I also think the problem is, it is a failed generation.
00:50:14.000It is not that these people's brains are not functioning, like, you know, 1 plus 2 equals 3 exists in there.
00:50:20.000It's that the neural pathways were not constructed in their brains so they can understand the structure of the planet and what happens to them after the fact.
00:50:32.000This is behavioral sync to an extreme degree, if those of you who are familiar with the rat utopia experiment.
00:50:40.000They want for things that result in their own death, which leads to the destruction of a species.
00:50:46.000Because I still buy the current story out that it was just a lone wolf shooter.
00:50:51.000It is really unsettling, and how much more political violence I unfortunately foresee this leading to.
00:50:58.000Shinzo Abe, the former Prime Minister of Japan, was assassinated not too long ago, and again, there's a short list of people on the Secret Service.
00:51:06.000Most reps and senators and governors are accessible compared to the way Trump was, so...
00:51:13.000One motivated person could do so much damage to our fragile democracy.
00:53:43.000And they had supported, I mean, they came out a couple weeks ago on Trump's side.
00:53:47.000I mean, it is fascinating to see that this is becoming an issue that's bigger than just, oh, elites in the cities vote this way and rural people vote this way.
00:55:00.000Seems to have them with lots of people.
00:55:03.000It isn't orthodox conservatism, so to speak.
00:55:07.000And it does seem like it is his values and worldview starting to align with the things that people are saying If we can only take certain things forward into the future with us, these are what they want them to be.
00:55:20.000We want them to be free speech, we want them to be securities, and we want them to be a certain level of honesty from all of these pillars of society.
00:55:45.000He's putting himself where his mouth is.
00:55:48.000He's putting his seed where his mouth is, which is... I don't know.
00:55:51.000I don't want to keep going with that one.
00:55:53.000He's personally going to turn around our birthday, but the reality is that was a conversation people weren't open to having, not even because they were against it, because they were like, that's so weird and abstract.
00:56:01.000Like, when Elon Musk gets behind something, you know it's actually leading you in an interesting and probably, you know, important direction.
00:56:11.000He doesn't talk about things just because You know, he's feeling like it.
00:56:14.000He talks about them because he feels as though they are going to have a major impact.
00:58:55.000It's obvious to me that all of this is something that the Biden campaign was Both not prepared for and also are completely out of control.
00:59:04.000What I wonder what will happen when the polls come out is how far down he will fall.
00:59:07.000It's not just that Trump will surge, it's that Biden will become more unpopular because they cannot figure out how to get their narrative back on track.
00:59:15.000I just want to say one thing because I know Tim's sensitive to it and as am I. Anybody calling for retaliatory whatever is Fed or Fed adjacent, disown them, disavow them and get the hell away from them because there's no need for it.
00:59:28.000And it would never be the right thing in the first place, because you do not defeat the monster by becoming the monster, you've just replaced the monster.
00:59:42.000But Trump is 2 to 1 the favorite right now in the predicted betting market.
00:59:46.000Speaking of feds, something I thought was interesting, I watched Joe Biden's address yesterday.
00:59:51.000And when he was like rattling off the various other acts of political violence, of course, not missing the opportunity to condemn the spread of misinformation and insist that foreign actors were trying to meddle in our democracy.
01:00:04.000I don't know about you, but I noticed he didn't bring up the Michigan kidnapping hoax.
01:00:13.000There were a lot of events that I would have thought that he would have brought up, but they sort of hammered in, no pun intended, on certain events that he purposely didn't mention.
01:00:57.000And so you were mentioning earlier, like the concept.
01:00:59.000Or the potential for it to be dog whistles.
01:01:01.000I mean, that would be an internal staffing issue, right?
01:01:05.000That would mean whoever's in charge of putting these tweets out is saying, like, I'm going to give some spicy language.
01:01:09.000It would further indicate that Biden is not in control of the ship he's theoretically captaining.
01:01:15.000And it's to the detriment of the country.
01:01:17.000I also think that's sometimes why he comes off so discombobulated.
01:01:20.000Obviously, part of it is the cognitive decline.
01:01:23.000But, you know, Trump speaks for himself, right?
01:01:25.000Trump is best when he is unfettered, pure, raw Trump.
01:01:28.000And Biden is, I feel like, this weird collection of just a bunch of different advisors and, like, weird staffers who probably deep down all have very Different political leanings right and it comes out in this weird amalgamation that is like a Joe Biden speech So he has probably all these voices right in his head of different people advising him and that's why he's like Well, I didn't mean bullseye.
01:01:48.000I meant crosshair, you know It's like it's competing Voices telling him what to say whereas Trump can be so on message and so direct because he thinks for himself, right?
01:01:57.000He can make his own picks with Joe Biden.
01:01:58.000It's like a little bit of this Trump was at the rally before he got shot.
01:02:01.000He was saying, I'm gonna go off-prompter.
01:02:03.000They hate it when I do it, but these prompters are so boring!
01:02:08.000gook as Steve would say. Trump was at the rally before he got shot he was saying
01:02:14.000I'm gonna go off-prompter do you mind something like I do you mind like they
01:02:17.000hate it when I do it but these prompters are so boring and he just talked to the
01:02:20.000crowd and he's he's funny. Yeah I mean that's that's his biggest asset of all.
01:02:23.000I mean, even the fact that there was a prop on stage and he's gesticulating.
01:02:27.000I mean, you know, we can never say, but some of these things seem to have played into what saved his life.
01:02:32.000And I think that there's there's just there was always sort of a very clear contrast between Trump and Biden.
01:02:39.000You know, no one was mistaking them for each other.
01:02:41.000They aren't two politicians who are polished and poised in the same way.
01:02:45.000It really feels like now it's even more pronounced, in part because Trump is rallying the country forward and Biden is slowly disintegrating in front of us.
01:02:55.000Yeah, and one of the crazy things, and again about this, obviously every part of this is really crazy, but before the shooting, before the attempted assassination, it was just a regular Trump rally.
01:04:00.000I mean, it was definitely interesting being on staff because our executive editor, Chris Card, reached out to me being like, can you jump on your laptop?
01:04:13.000And then I saw, I happened to open my phone and the last tweet you'd put up or what was coming to my feed was like something from Joe Biden's thing.
01:04:41.000Well, just add, appreciate that Biden's live speech last night, and I'll put it in quotes because I don't know what evidence we have that it was live.
01:04:58.000And it was supposed to be Biden saying, this is a terrible tragedy.
01:05:01.000This is the result of Trump's terrible words.
01:05:04.000And we must unify as a nation right now.
01:05:06.000And then they would have chalked it up to the fact that, oh, well, the Secret Service and FBI was all split because we happen to have planned an event in the same state, a corrupt state, the same day that Trump is there.
01:05:21.000I would say that what I saw from Biden, without jumping to the tin hat thing, what I saw from Biden was an attempt to take the reins of leadership, which clearly had been ceded on Saturday afternoon to Donald Trump, Donald Trump looked like a leader.
01:05:45.000He has spent this whole time trying to get the spotlight back on himself or his team has been trying to do that.
01:05:51.000I don't know if Biden is aware of what's going on necessarily, but he's been trying to make himself paint himself as the leader of this nation.
01:05:59.000When what we saw on Saturday afternoon is that he is not the leader of the United States.
01:06:05.000I like all the various ways the White House has tried to depict Biden as, like, leading what is ever happening at the White House.
01:06:12.000I remember, it was probably a year ago, Politico had put out that big story where they were saying, Joe Biden is yelling at everyone in the West Wing.
01:06:20.000He's going on tirade, screaming at people, you know, putting them in their place.
01:06:24.000I think there was a report like that this weekend before everything happened.
01:06:27.000And it's just, it's so interesting, like, the information warfare side of things, how they try to go about depicting him as this, for lack of a better word, like, alpha male who's, you know, running around the White House, running the show, and we know nothing could be further from the case.
01:06:39.000Before I jump to the next story, I just gotta say, um...
01:06:42.000Props to Libby for that excellent slide ribbing at Viva.
01:06:48.000Libby, you remind me, I gotta give credit to Robert Barnes for a lot of the theorizing that I've absorbed through osmosis.
01:06:55.000And last night we're doing our show and Barnes is talking like, they picked Pennsylvania, like the most corrupt state in which for this to happen.
01:07:02.000And now the FBI is going to go investigate themselves.
01:07:54.000Between the debate performance, obviously surviving the assassination attempt defiantly, In the fashion that he did.
01:08:02.000With resolve and hope and optimism for the American people.
01:08:05.000I feel like we didn't linger and talk enough about how you couldn't have written it better when he came back up, was willing to yell, fight, not scared, pumping his fist.
01:08:16.000If Hollywood was honest, there'd be a film in the making already.
01:08:20.000And now that you know they came for the king with so many different shots and none have hit.
01:08:38.000It's supposed to be a parody of superheroes, so they're just making fun of superheroes.
01:08:44.000Homelander is supposed to be Superman.
01:08:47.000And initially, he wasn't Trump, but now, into season three, they decided to make it Trump versus Hillary or something, and so they're all just allusions to modern American politics.
01:08:59.000They outright say things like QAnon and make references to it.
01:09:56.000So in that movie, spoiler alert for anybody who hasn't seen it, it's a great movie, but it's an applauded assassination against a politician.
01:10:03.000The guy takes out a gun and the politician picks up a baby and uses it as a shield.
01:10:12.000His career was done after that, and the guy who could see the future, Christopher Walken, you know, dies knowing that he foiled World War whatever three.
01:10:20.000Trump's response, it makes me want to cry.
01:10:48.000I don't want to say imagine if it was another politician, but you can imagine someone saying, get me out of here and cover me, you a-holes.
01:10:55.000To resist your own secret service who are like, we are leaving the stage, and he's like, no, and they can't make him, right?
01:11:42.000I also think that this is a wake up call for independence, right?
01:11:47.000I mean, this is not a thing that you can just be on the fence about anymore.
01:11:51.000And I think as the days play out, as you see the contrasting administration and the responses, it is something that you can't really say, this didn't have an effect on me.
01:12:00.000I didn't I didn't look at Donald Trump with blood on his face, standing up and as this crowd chants, USA, USA, and think, I'm just not going to go to the polls like Everyone had a reaction to this.
01:12:11.000I know we've been ragging on the Secret Service a lot, and a lot of people have been saying, like, oh, DEI, and they've been infiltrated by this ideology, but we need to be thankful that they're actually women's Secret Service, allowing for that photo to look so iconic, with him not being covered by these six foot six men.
01:12:31.000He was like, you know, he was overshadowing this small female officer, like barely coming up to his waist, like holding on to him.
01:12:39.000So we have to thank the Secret Service, the DEI.
01:12:43.000But just to go back to the topic at hand, Donald Trump's victory in the classified documents case, now there is a suggestion that they could bring the charges back, but the lawfare that they're waging against Trump When the view the Washington Post has of this, okay, that Trump's argument succeeded, that Jack Smith was improperly appointed, an argument that many people made a while ago, they're framing it as though it shouldn't have happened, it's an odd thing, the judge shouldn't have done this.
01:13:14.000When we look at what they did to Trump in New York, they created a new law that would allow someone to sue Donald Trump for sexual impropriety.
01:13:24.000They accused him of civil fraud, even though his lender said he didn't defraud us, he gave us the warnings outright, and we like doing business with him.
01:13:34.000We call it out, they say we're lying, we're conspiracy theorists.
01:13:37.000When Donald Trump actually succeeds and the judge says, he's right, this guy was improperly appointed, the media's like, well that's strange, that shouldn't happen, and the charges will probably come back anyway.
01:13:46.000It's funny how they'll come back, they already know.
01:13:49.000It might be too late to make this trend, but it's White Pill Monday, and this is just the third in the hat-trick J.D.
01:13:56.000Vance this, but the one being he survived by a millimeter.
01:14:01.000The corruption is catching up with them in real time, because all of this was corrupt from day one, and E. Jean Carroll lobbying to change that law so that she could sue within the window of opportunity, and she's guana crazy.
01:14:38.000Yeah. He said he had it in his decision in the Supreme Court.
01:14:41.000In this case, the attorney general purported to appoint a private citizen, a special counsel
01:14:45.000to prosecute a former president on behalf of the United States, said Thomas.
01:14:49.000But I am not sure that any office for the special counsel has been established by law as the Constitution requires.
01:14:56.000By requiring that Congress create federal offices by law, the Constitution imposes an important check against the president.
01:15:02.000He cannot create offices at his pleasure.
01:15:05.000By establishing if there is if there is no law establishing the office that the special counsel occupies, then he cannot proceed with this prosecution.
01:15:14.000A private citizen cannot criminally prosecute anyone, let alone a former president.
01:15:18.000Let's go back to the iron law of woke projection.
01:15:20.000They accused Trump of acting like a king.
01:15:58.000And now they're going to call for the impeachment of Eileen.
01:16:01.000But if these people really wanted unity, I mean, they would they would drop all these cases.
01:16:05.000And frankly, you can see that unity isn't really in the core of their being when they're already in meltdown right over this case getting dismissed.
01:16:13.000And right now, because President Trump's not in office, they're obviously going the lawfare route.
01:16:16.000But when he was in office, right, they impeached him twice.
01:16:19.000That's not very unity inspired, if you ask me.
01:16:22.000Clarence Thomas will be the judge for the appeal, or how does that work?
01:16:26.000You're Canadian, but maybe... No, no, Clarence Thomas, it would have to get it back to the Supreme Court.
01:16:31.000This will go to the, I don't know what, Fifth Circuit or Eleventh Circuit.
01:17:12.000I'm not sure how it works, but something to the effect of, like, each justice oversees a certain district for when appeals are filed.
01:17:19.000And someone said Clarence Thomas is in this jurisdiction.
01:17:21.000I'm trying to pull up the jurisdictions right now, but you're right.
01:17:24.000I mean, it's divided, and that's why occasionally you'll see, oh, you know, Alito has stopped this thing, this person has signed off on whatever.
01:17:31.000It would be funny if it was Clarence Thomas.
01:17:33.000Let's jump to the big story of the day.
01:17:41.000Vance, this is actually, we got advanced warning because I guess government vehicles showed up at his house the other day, and then people tried... Motorcade, special motorcade.
01:17:48.000Yeah, and people tried playing it off like, you know, it's not gonna be him, that was something else, and it's like...
01:17:54.000Donald Trump faces an assassination attempt, and the U.S.
01:18:10.000I do want to mention this, because we were at the RNC earlier today, and we're hanging out at one of the little pub eateries in the big complex where they're doing everything.
01:18:18.000And I'm like, well, we're gonna stick around because Trump's supposed to make his announcement at some point and we're assuming he's gonna come here and someone's gonna come on stage.
01:18:44.000Vance is such an interesting pick, partially because so many Americans know him because of Hillbilly Elegy, which I just think had...
01:18:52.000You know, publishing is sort of a dying industry in the day and age of social media, but that book had such a profound impact on the American public.
01:19:00.000And this was before he was in the Senate.
01:19:02.000It's about his, I'm sure all of you know, but it's about his life growing up in Ohio and Kentucky.
01:19:06.000It's about his family, this function that was there, you know, the influence of opioids and alcohol and his rise through, you know, the, you know, The challenging circumstances he was in, into the Marine Corps, to Ohio State, to Yale Law, to Silicon Valley, working with Pierre de Gaulle, I mean, now, you know, Senate VP pick.
01:21:35.000Vance is a populist, he's good for food freedom, he's good for medical freedom, and he would not be any more of a pleasant substitute for Trump to the presidency, and there's a reason why the worst people on earth right now are freaking out over J.D.
01:21:49.000How do you justify his past comments being another Trump?
01:21:52.000Who gives a sweet bugger all what he said in 2016?
01:21:54.000Well, it means he wasn't loyal from the beginning, and it means that he could have And it means he could have just looked at the political trends of the time and, like, I'm just gonna follow in Trump's footsteps.
01:22:04.000Or it means he's got a half-functioning brain and has seen that the world today is not the same world that it was in 2016.
01:22:08.000Well, he spoke about this tonight when he was talking to Sean Hannity, and he said, um, I was certainly skeptical of Donald Trump in 2016, but President Trump was a great president, and he changed my mind, and I think he changed the minds of a lot of Americans because, again, he delivered that peace and prosperity.
01:23:00.000And then late in 2020, when he released his second term agenda, I had a real conversation with some friends about it.
01:23:07.000I had been reporting on what was going on with them, and I said, I can't look at what's going on with Wokeness, D.E.I., see Donald Trump attempting to stop it, and argue I would vote against it.
01:23:17.000I can't see what he did with getting our troops out of Syria, trying to at least, and trying to get a timeline for getting out of Afghanistan, and argue against it.
01:23:23.000In fact, when you look at his four years, I had been saying the whole time, he's crass, he's crude, he lacks decorum, I wouldn't vote for the guy, and then I saw what he did in North Korea.
01:23:33.000And then I saw what he did with the Abraham Accords, and I was like, this guy needs four more years.
01:23:39.000Now he needs four more years, I'll say right now.
01:23:40.000I also think that JD Vance is like, look, I am always hesitant when people have ever uttered the words, never Trump.
01:23:46.000I think we have like PTSD from so many people who have stabbed Trump.
01:23:50.000But I do think it's funny that you bring up Steve Bannon.
01:23:53.000I would totally co-sign on Steve as VP.
01:23:55.000But I think there are actually some interesting similarities between Steve and JD Vance.
01:24:00.000And what I mean by that is that if you look at their background, right, they came from, you know, family situations that are working class or in JD's case, a little bit less than that, right?
01:24:13.000They had the nice, cushy, you know, venture capitalist investment banking jobs.
01:24:17.000But in many ways, they're class traitors in the sense that they left that world to become true, I think, to their core fire-breathing populist types.
01:24:25.000And I think that men who are willing to walk away from that and kind of return back and fight for the common man, the American people, I think that that speaks volumes.
01:24:35.000And I think that you see it in his actions.
01:24:37.000And frankly, I hope that President Trump has J.D.
01:24:41.000Vance, you know, tackle and focus on issues like immigration, like ending what's going on in Ukraine.
01:24:49.000Vance wants to have a political future, and he knows that he will not if he doesn't Administer and get that border under control.
01:24:55.000If he doesn't stop the continuous flow of US taxpayer dollars to Ukraine, I think that there's sort of an interesting, I think, chance with him to really make sure that he adheres to the MAGA base.
01:25:09.000And frankly, I think it's better to have some, I mean, yeah, it'd be great to have someone who's, you know, just like Trump and copies everything that he does.
01:25:18.000But you have someone who has to prove themselves.
01:25:20.000And I think that you can maybe in some ways find a silver lining there.
01:25:23.000because I think he's going to work in lockstep and he's not going to be a traitor like Pence was.
01:25:27.000I think he really speaks to the theme that is common in some parts of the right of redemption.
01:25:33.000It's obviously a Christian theme, but people love that on the right. And J.D. Vance is having that
01:25:39.000opportunity at redemption and Trump supporters are embracing him. And it's good for him. One
01:25:44.000of the other key things here that I think we might be overlooking too soon, this informally makes J.D.
01:25:49.000Vance the successor to the MAGA movement as Trump's VP. In a term where Trump will be termed out,
01:25:57.000but informally, for now, he has the mantle more than anybody else on the right as, you know,
01:26:03.000the MAGA successor, which will be significant in a post-Trump landscape.
01:26:06.000I know we're getting ahead of ourselves.
01:26:07.000Well, I think that they're, you know, you're right.
01:26:10.000It does put him at the forefront of the circle, but it still leaves room for a ton of people to do interesting things.
01:26:14.000I mean, the governorships, the state, the senators, the congressional roles that are Trump picked me to be his second in case anything happened to me.
01:26:27.000I mean, that's part of the nice thing about populism, right?
01:26:29.000Like, we don't have to look for the federal government for everything.
01:26:32.000And I think the criticism of JD Vance's past comments are important.
01:26:35.000I think this is one of the things that we now Are in a position to do as people who if you're thinking about if you think of yourself as an American first person if you think yourself as someone who?
01:26:43.000Wants this more this this worldview to kind of spread and grow is to say What are we willing to do in terms of redemption?
01:26:51.000and also what are our standards for the people who are saying,
01:28:00.000I heard people on the internet floating the idea that it was going to be Barron as the VP.
01:28:04.000Suddenly the US will be Trump and son.
01:28:08.000The quote here, put it on a mug, is you can penalize hypocrisy, but you can't penalize evolution, because if you do, you're basically forcing people to stubbornly stick to their views that they no longer hold.
01:28:18.000And so I reward evolution if it's sincere, and I will penalize hypocrisy if they bounce around like a broken apple.
01:28:28.000I think there are a lot of people who are incredibly talented, who have been loyal to Trump since 2016, and who are vocal in this.
01:28:34.000But if Pence was the selection to win the evangelical vote, maybe having someone to win the never-Trump vote to say, look, you guys can always return home.
01:28:42.000He's such an anti-never-Trumper too now, J.D., I think, in my estimation.
01:28:46.000Look, people who convert are always the most devout and most open about it.
01:28:50.000Is everyone else also in love with J.D.' 's eyes?
01:28:52.000Because he's got beautiful, deep blue eyes.
01:29:07.000Before we go to Super Chats, I want to circle back just to this post from Colin Rugg.
01:29:12.000He tweeted about 40 minutes ago, a police counter-sniper team was inside the building that Thomas Crooks shot from during the shooting, according to the New York Post.
01:29:21.000According to sources who spoke at the Post, Crooks was literally climbing on top of the building where the watch post for the snipers was located.
01:29:28.000The building, the AGR International, Inc.
01:29:30.000factory in Butler, Pennsylvania, was being used by local police as a watch post for snipers to scan for the threats as the former president spoke on stage only 130 yards away, the Post reported.
01:29:40.000Crooks was reportedly spotted at the building 26 minutes before the incident.
01:29:45.000This sounds exactly like the plot to the movie Shooter.
01:29:55.000They didn't identify him as a citizen.
01:29:58.000They thought he was one of the crew and so they let him be.
01:30:00.000This is the explanation as to why the reason why the Secret Service on top of the barn that everyone saw didn't take action.
01:30:07.000The official statement was that they thought it was law enforcement where law enforcement was supposed to be.
01:30:13.000But that doesn't explain how 26 minutes went by with them taking a picture and reporting.
01:30:18.000I mean, I suppose... I steel-manned it.
01:30:22.000I don't believe it, but I can steel-man that argument.
01:30:24.000I suppose the idea that Donald Trump, but for a few millimeters, survived is an astronomical insanity.
01:30:31.000I can accept, fair argument, it was an all-around astronomical absurdity that happened today.
01:30:37.000If you want to believe that Trump getting missed was the grace of God, then perhaps you can argue the entire circumstance was an act of God to bolster Trump and save his election or something.
01:30:46.000Well, I would go less personal than Trump, but this will really redirect American trajectory in terms of where it was going versus where it looks like it's going to go now.
01:30:56.000The only, you know, the biggest problem in calling this an act of God or divine intervention is that the gentleman died.
01:31:02.000And, you know, you can't always prevent evil, but you can have something of a divine intervention to mitigate the consequences of that evil, and I believe that we just really saved the course of American future by what happened.
01:31:14.000What was the name of the victim who was shot Colin?
01:31:20.000I believe he has a GoFundMe, obviously.
01:31:22.000Because of last night, it had over $750,000 raised, which is incredible.
01:31:25.000I mean, people really want to rally around this family, and if you read his daughter's statement, I mean... So sad and moving.
01:31:31.000It's moving and sad, and it's terrible to have loss in your family, and I appreciate that they are willing to speak openly about what's going on, because I think a lot of people have questions and want to act.
01:31:40.000Like, the fact that you could give to their family and say, like, we are sorry this happened to you, we want to...
01:32:16.000And head over to TimCast.com, click join us, become a member.
01:32:19.000That uncensored show, member call-in show, will be coming up in about a half an hour at TimCast.com, so you don't want to miss that, and you as members help make this show possible, so again, TimCast.com.
01:32:53.000If you want to donate to the family of Corey Compratore, doing so directly would make more money go to that family, and I didn't want to do... If I was like, oh yeah, super chat us and we'll donate the money, it just gives YouTube a piece of that donation.
01:33:08.000You should go to the Families Go Fund Me, you can search for it, and give directly, and I think that's better.
01:33:14.000However, that being said, all the Super Chat revenue so far, we will give, I will donate to the family, but I want to stress, if you do Super Chat right now, YouTube's getting 35% of that, you're better off giving the money directly to the family.
01:33:26.000I thought it would be a fun thing to do, but, you know, after, I was reminded, like, yeah, but YouTube's going to take a huge portion, I'm like, ooh, that would, that would kind of suck.
01:33:35.000Give the money to us, and then we'll give it to them, and then YouTube slices a chunk off.
01:33:38.000And I would say I think it's meaningful to the family.
01:33:40.000I can imagine, you know, seeing all of those donations come in.
01:33:43.000I mean, you know, every $5 donation, every $20 donation is someone reaching out to them, and I just can imagine that that is, again, a reminder of how many people are praying for and thinking of their family.
01:33:54.000I read a report that said Trump might be going to the funeral.
01:36:32.000And then you have people on the internet rejoicing in this and saying he shouldn't have missed and that's what you get for going to a Trump rally.
01:36:38.000There are sick people out there who get... It's pretty horrifying.
01:36:40.000It's hard but they've been conditioned, when I say like mental illness, this is like social media conditioning to say awful, awful insidious stuff and you get rewarded with clicks.
01:36:47.000They've been conditioned to think that them hating other people is a good thing and that it makes them morally superior.
01:36:56.000All right, Paige Holland says he was shot twice.
01:36:58.000The first shot, Trump puts his hand on his ear.
01:37:01.000Second shot, he pulls his arm to his side.
01:37:04.000Slow the video, you can see what looks like a hole in his jacket.
01:37:49.000We gotta go back and ask President Trump directly.
01:37:51.000Well, so again, I think we would have known that also if it had, like, hit a bulletproof vest type thing like that, but no, we know... Right.
01:37:57.000Can you imagine it hit his... Like you say, it's like doing a... I'd like to know what caliber of bullet it was.
01:38:06.000From what I understand, you'll know this more than me, it was a .223 from an AR-15 type rifle, but I don't know... That's what's been reported, Mike.
01:38:14.000Okay, I'm pretty sure .223s are high-velocity rounds.
01:38:17.000I mean, they don't have the same power as a .556.
01:38:20.000But what- I'm- I- I suppose 223 would make sense.
01:38:53.000So, as it was explained to me at the store when I was picking up ammo for my 17 Super Mag, I think that's what it's called, and they're very small, and they said they're small, high-velocity rounds that are intended for, you know, getting rid of, like, dangerous pests in the yard or whatever or in your fields.
01:39:09.000He's like, but understand, this thing's high velocity, so a mist will emerge, like, it cavitates, it vaporizes them.
01:39:17.000Well, also, once you appreciate that rabies is contracted by inhaling fluids, I mean, you might want to be well away from any animal that you're vaporizing.
01:39:26.000So, there's a lot of people are saying 2, 2, 3, and 5, 5, 6 are the same.
01:40:09.000I think that's, yeah, that might be what I have.
01:40:13.000You know, we just, we just, we just, a lot of people on the left don't understand, I shouldn't say on the left, but liberals, they just think bullets go pew.
01:40:19.000And I watched like some video, one of the videos of the people criticizing the shooter
01:40:25.000called when he had a shotgun and miss and I'm just like, you ain't hitting the broad
01:40:30.000side of a barn from that distance with a shotgun.
01:40:51.000And he was saying that, you know, although people complain, like, how could he miss the
01:40:54.000shot that any trained sniper or anyone trained with firearms would be hitting a target of
01:41:00.000that size from three times the distance.
01:41:02.000So the fact that he did miss from as short as 1.4, 1.5 football fields, Well, what some people were saying was that he clearly was training on an indoor range because he didn't account for wind.
01:41:14.000And my understanding is that your average person with a long gun, sighted properly and all that, can make a shot at that distance.
01:41:23.000However, considering wind, that explanation seems to make sense.
01:41:28.000It looked like he was aiming for Trump's head, too.
01:41:30.000He wasn't aiming for a center of mass.
01:41:33.000So, I don't know, going for this ridiculous Hollywood freaking shot?
01:42:55.000And I mean, one of the most impactful things that came out to me within the first couple hours was that the CBS Reporter's interview with the emergency room doctor who rushed the aid of, I believe, the fallen firefighter.
01:43:09.000It is interesting to see, like, the heroic acts taken in times of crisis.
01:43:13.000Now, he's, of course, an emergency room physician.
01:43:15.000He has probably seen a lot of terrible things.
01:43:17.000But that idea that it was like, I'm going to run to you and offer you aid and support, that's the culture I want to be in.
01:43:35.000This morning, people asked if we would give all the superchats, and I was like, yeah, absolutely, of course, and we'll try and do some kind of matching thing.
01:43:41.000And then when we talked about it, it's like, yeah, but you're telling people to donate to you, and then YouTube's taking 35%.
01:43:47.000So, like, they should just give the money to the family.
01:43:50.000And we did this with Sound of Freedom, and we matched the donations, but it is kind of... I don't want YouTube to just take... I think people should donate directly to the families, to the GoFundMe, otherwise it just gets muddy.
01:44:03.000And then I'm worried, like, someone's gonna come and be like, Tim was doing that, and then YouTube was taking the money, and it's hurting the fam... I don't wanna... You just donate to the families, guys.
01:46:30.000That also struck me when seeing all the footage of this.
01:46:33.000Prinzi says, WGN interviewed a former Secret Service agent, Tim McCarthy, who said that JFK was the only assassination not committed by a lone gunman.
01:46:43.000There was a witness report right away of a second shooter.
01:46:47.000We tend to get these, don't know what it means, you know, the stuff you get on the scene is usually different how they report it later.
01:46:54.000You hear the sniper go off too, that's, somebody could perceive that as a second shooter, just, yeah.
01:46:59.000Well, and I had heard that people thought the gunfire was fireworks, and then afterwards, because there was smoke and stuff, people were like, well, maybe it's to cover up something that's going on.
01:47:06.000I mean, I'm sure in that situation, it's terrifying.
01:47:09.000And also from some of the recordings it sounds like they're being fired in pairs and I thought it was, I asked why is the guy firing pop pop pop pop and I was told that that's the pop and the echo so what you're hearing is one shot with an echo.
01:47:20.000But in RFK's assassination, in Robert F. Kennedy's assassination, I believe there were more than one gunman.
01:47:38.000His dad's assassination is the reason that the government began extending Secret Service protection to major political candidates during the final 120 days before an election.
01:47:47.000I'm channeling Barnes, Robert Barnes right now.
01:47:50.000Biden wants his political adversaries to no longer be alive.
01:48:56.000That's like my friend who, years ago, when I was trying to start exercising, which I was loathe to ever do, a friend of mine who was doing Pilates and stuff, she was like, just do it for 10 minutes.
01:49:06.000And even if you don't exercise, even if you just lay on your yoga mat for 10 minutes, that's progress.
01:49:11.000And I was like, Oh, I can lay on a yoga mat for ten minutes, but after two minutes you feel dumb, so you start doing exercise.
01:51:51.000And I told this to Dickie when he rejected the mandates, got fired from his job and stood up for all that.
01:51:55.000I was like, it's funny after, you know, 30 some odd years you were tested and you passed.
01:51:59.000And so I say for Corey Compertor and his family, he exemplified exactly what every man hopes they could be if they have to.
01:52:08.000And I don't know for sure, but I know that wherever he is now, he is even here on this earth and on the other side, wherever that may be, he is celebrated because he did what he had to do.
01:52:54.000SA Federali says, anyone remember how Joe basically had all dogs that were trained to
01:52:58.000attack and he left them all with Secret Service agents?
01:53:01.000Or how we all thought that keeping the JFK file secret was to protect the CIA?
01:53:05.000Maybe it was to protect the Secret Service.
01:53:07.000Maybe all the Secret Service started quitting after they kept getting bitten by Joe Biden's
01:53:12.000That was one of the early lies of the administration, too, was that they kept lying about the dogs.
01:53:17.000And it was a lefty reporter who got up in the press room and asked Jen Psaki, like, you know, how many times has there been attacks by the dogs?
01:53:25.000And then finally, he was like, what else have you lied about?
01:54:32.000Oh sorry, I could feel that one, but I'm sorry to interrupt you.
01:54:34.000I was going to say, if you're a communist, but you also have defended and advocated for free speech across the board, and think that in your utopia, free speech is paramount and you defend rights, then I'm going to defend your right to free speech.
01:54:46.000If you're a communist who gloats and says, too bad that you got banned, sorry, then I'm going to be like, well, you get the world that you asked for.
01:54:52.000These people that are cheering for what happened to these individuals, they cheer for censorship.
01:54:57.000Why would I come out now and be like, oh no, how could you ban them?
01:55:01.000I'd be like, they got exactly what they've been asking for.
01:55:04.000They're begging these companies to ban people.
01:55:06.000The company said, okay, and banned them.
01:55:10.000Well, I'll say nobody's trying to make their stupidity illegal.
01:55:14.000And I'm not going to go with it's not cancel culture, but consequence culture.
01:55:17.000It is not cancel culture to say when you make statements that are fundamentally incompatible with your job, that you then suffer consequences for it.
01:55:24.000But they have to be fundamentally incompatible with your job.
01:55:27.000And a nurse who says- Like teachers who do drag shows for toddlers, that's fundamentally- And firefighters and nurses who say they wanted bad things to happen, they should not have that job.
01:55:37.000Like a pilot saying, I support certain very bad- Plane crashes.
01:56:18.000So you did not know how to navigate the system.
01:56:22.000The idea for Cancel Culture, initially, was Sarah Silverman, who I think is atrocious, got fired from a job because ten years prior she did blackface.
01:56:36.000If we said, right now, guys, we're kinda over the blackface thing, please don't do it, and she came out and said, oh yeah, and then did it, I'd be like, well I can understand why people got offended by her and fired her, she's coming out now to intentionally insult and berate people.
01:56:48.000That's a bit different from, hey we found out you did a joke 10 years ago and everyone thought it was acceptable and now she's losing her job.
01:56:54.000Or the race car driver who got dropped from his sponsor because his dad said a racial slur in the 80s.
01:57:00.000Cancel culture to me was things that were, we are going to take away your job for things that you didn't know were wrong in the first place and you have no opportunity to correct for.
01:57:08.000What if there are things that, okay, so you said cancel culture is, we're going to take away your job for, you know, things that you didn't know were wrong and you transgressed and you didn't know were wrong.
01:57:20.000So what if, what if, what about something where you make a statement that you fully believe in and then the people who, you know, are in charge of keeping you hired say, we don't like your statement that you made in your free time, so you should get fired.
01:57:35.000So, like, Amy Eileen Hamm put up a billboard in Vancouver, and it said, I heart J.K.
01:57:40.000Rowling, and she was dragged before the Human Rights Tribunal for transphobia, and she lost her entire... Well, a Human Rights Tribunal is very different.
01:57:47.000She was dragged before it by the College of Nurses and Midwives.
01:58:45.000You then go outside and scream something shockingly offensive, costing that company business.
01:58:50.000The boss comes to you and says, we are losing customers because of what you were doing.
01:58:53.000I think it's reasonable for me to ask you, please don't do that.
01:58:57.000It's incompatible with how our business operates, and if we lose money, we can't operate, and other people lose their jobs because of the actions you're taking are offending people.
01:59:05.000If they then said, I don't care, I can say whatever I want, I have free speech, you're gonna be like, that's true and a fair point, maybe this isn't the right place for you, I have no problem with that.
01:59:13.000So that's basically what happened to Amy.
01:59:15.000If you buy a billboard that says, I hired JK Rowling, and you should be allowed to do it, and they went to her and said, People are getting really mad.
01:59:23.000A billboard is a serious endeavor to make, and it's putting a lot of heat on us.
01:59:28.000If you want to take serious public action at this level, which will damage us, maybe you should resign.
01:59:35.000I also don't have a problem with that.
01:59:37.000The fact that they pulled it before a human rights tribunal is very different.
01:59:40.000So, you've got to understand the balance of reasonableness between a private employer's rights and cancel culture.
02:00:00.000Even if there's nothing fundamentally offensive about that, but set that aside.
02:00:04.000There's certainly nothing incompatible with a nurse's obligation and duties.
02:00:07.000If she said, I hate filling the ethnic minority and put that up as a sign, As a nurse, I might question her ability to treat people of that ethnic minority, and therefore she can get fired.
02:01:32.000So there have been a lot of online campaigns... And so the difference between cancel culture and someone getting fired for saying things is... And it's like, hey employer, do you know that your employee said this on Facebook?
02:01:50.000Why would it necessarily be detrimental if someone has a political view?
02:01:53.000Are you suggesting that there's literally no circumstance where an employee could damage a business and they should be allowed to keep working there forever?
02:01:58.000I'm playing devil's advocate over here.
02:02:00.000Right, so I don't understand what you're missing.
02:02:05.000In some circumstances, it is reasonable to fire a person for damaging your business, and in other, it's cancel culture, because it's not.
02:02:11.000I actually happen to think you guys are saying the exact same thing, but in a different way.
02:02:15.000What's going on in Canada is ridiculous, because it's weaponizing politics.
02:02:21.000The cancel culture concept has been abused, or the term has been abused, to be diluted from what it was.
02:02:27.000What it was was pulling up absolutely irrelevant things that were highly politicized, usually exceeding the useful shelf life to be used as a pretext to go after people for political reasons.
02:02:39.000If someone who worked at Timcast was reaching out to members and telling them to cancel their membership and to stop supporting us, I don't understand why I would have them keep working here.
02:03:00.000Yeah, like I hire someone for transing their kid.
02:03:03.000Well, that's more of a difficult position.
02:03:07.000Well, no, that would involve, the question would be, would that person be taking a public position that I've done this to my kid, therefore?
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