Verdict with Ted Cruz - July 15, 2024


How the Hell did the Trump Assassination Attempt Happen？ Catastrophic Security Failures-What went wrong？


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51 minutes

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170.4658

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8,772

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617

Misogynist Sentences

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Hate Speech Sentences

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00:00:05.400 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you.
00:00:09.240 And Senator, the big question I think everyone in this country is asking themselves right now
00:00:14.900 and talking about is, how did this happen? What went wrong?
00:00:19.200 Well, we're a day and a half removed from the first presidential assassination attempt since 1981,
00:00:24.780 since the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan. A day and a half ago, Donald Trump was shot by a
00:00:32.540 crazed assassin. And I got to say, what millions of Americans are thinking is, how in the hell
00:00:40.120 did this happen? What went wrong? Why did Secret Service not stop this? Why was there not additional
00:00:47.520 security? Why was this guy able to get on a damn roof and fire a rifle at the president?
00:00:54.060 And where were the security protocols to prevent that? We're going to break that down.
00:00:59.160 And we're also going to talk about the incessant, violent, hateful, horrifying rhetoric from Democrats
00:01:08.440 that pressed and pressed and pressed and pressed until this happened. And right now they're acting
00:01:16.080 like they're utterly innocent. They have no idea why anyone would look to them as playing a role
00:01:22.000 causing this horrific assassination attempt. We're going to talk about that too.
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00:02:47.100 BlackoutCoffee.com slash verdict. Senator, the question that everybody is asking is, and you
00:02:53.920 mentioned it, how did this happen? And not only that, but there's these eyewitness accounts
00:02:59.860 that have come out that lend to that question becoming even more of an outrage. Like, how
00:03:06.100 the hell did this happen? Yeah. No, no, no. It's infuriating. And I want to start by a BBC
00:03:13.380 interview with a gentleman who was at the rally. He was standing outside the rally, but he witnessed
00:03:19.600 the shooter before the shooting, and he was desperately trying to point him out to law
00:03:23.840 enforcement. And it's just, this came out within minutes of the shooting happening, and it really
00:03:33.160 just defies, defies words. Give a listen.
00:03:38.120 You weren't inside the event, but you were just outside. Tell us what you saw.
00:03:43.300 So, so we had a party here all day. You can see behind us, the Brinkels Farming Greenhouse
00:03:48.820 here. We had a party. And we all decided, hey, you know, when we hear Trump up there,
00:03:54.420 we're going to walk up through the field, stand by the trees out there under the shade,
00:03:59.040 and watch the rain, and listen to the rally, right? We couldn't see him, but we could hear
00:04:03.140 him. So we walked up, and probably five to seven minutes of Trump speaking, I'm estimating
00:04:10.920 here, I have no idea, you know, but we noticed a guy crawling, you know, bear crawling up the
00:04:19.880 roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us. So we're standing there, you know,
00:04:26.500 we're pointing, we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof.
00:04:29.560 And he had a gun, right?
00:04:30.520 He had a rifle. We could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely. We're pointing at him,
00:04:36.480 the police are down there running around on the ground. We're like, hey, man, there's
00:04:40.720 a guy on the roof with a rifle. And the police are like, huh, what? You know, like, like,
00:04:45.380 they didn't know what was going on. You know, we're like, hey, right here on the roof,
00:04:48.540 we can see him from right here. We see him, you know, he's, he's crawling. And next thing
00:04:54.480 you know, I'm like, I'm thinking to myself, I'm like, why is Trump still speaking? Why
00:04:58.020 have they not pulled him off the stage? I'm standing there pointing at him for, you know,
00:05:02.720 two or three minutes. Secret Service is looking at us from the top of the barn. I'm pointing
00:05:07.200 at that roof, just standing there like this. And next thing you know, five shots ran out.
00:05:13.380 So you're, you're certain that the shots came from that guy on the roof?
00:05:16.880 A hundred percent. A hundred percent.
00:05:19.120 And he, he was up there for a couple of minutes. He was up there.
00:05:21.760 Three to four minutes for a couple of minutes. Absolutely. At least three to four minutes.
00:05:24.580 And you were telling the police and the Secret Service. We were telling the police,
00:05:27.960 we were pointing at him for the Secret Service who were looking at us from the top of the barn.
00:05:32.060 They were looking at us the whole time when we were standing by that tree.
00:05:34.440 Did they see him?
00:05:34.880 The binoculars.
00:05:35.900 Did they see him?
00:05:36.760 Probably not because the roof, the way the slope went, he was behind where they could see.
00:05:42.120 But, but why is there not Secret Service on all of these roofs here? I mean, this is not a big place.
00:05:47.400 Did you see, I mean, obviously everyone, when the shooting started, everyone was very panicked.
00:05:52.900 Did you see what happened to him at all?
00:05:54.940 Oh yeah, it blew his head off.
00:05:56.400 Okay, sorry.
00:05:57.340 Secret Service blew his head off.
00:05:58.560 Okay, just be careful because we don't know quite who's watching.
00:06:01.440 But you're pretty sure they, they, they shot the guy?
00:06:03.620 Absolutely. A hundred percent.
00:06:04.660 Okay.
00:06:04.940 Yep.
00:06:05.360 You saw that happen?
00:06:06.500 Yep.
00:06:07.000 Yep.
00:06:07.400 Okay.
00:06:08.020 Yep.
00:06:08.200 And did you see them go up to him afterwards or?
00:06:11.480 They, yeah, they crawled up on the roof.
00:06:13.400 They had their guns pointed at him, make sure he was dead.
00:06:16.020 He was dead.
00:06:16.920 And that was it.
00:06:17.580 It was over.
00:06:19.040 That's incredibly shocking.
00:06:20.180 The guy was on the roof right there.
00:06:21.840 You could see the white roof right there.
00:06:24.060 Did you get a look at him?
00:06:24.980 Could you?
00:06:25.620 I, I, no, other than he was in muted colors, tan type clothing.
00:06:32.240 We saw the rifle flinging around as he was trying to crawl.
00:06:35.560 I mean, we saw the rifle, a hundred percent.
00:06:37.220 I mean, do you know about guns?
00:06:38.540 Do you know what kind of weapon it was?
00:06:39.920 Oh, absolutely know about guns, for sure.
00:06:41.540 You know what I mean?
00:06:42.080 It was a rifle of some sort.
00:06:43.440 I wouldn't know, you know, I wasn't close enough to read the label on it.
00:06:46.920 I'm not sure, but it was a rifle of some sort.
00:06:49.940 Yeah, absolutely.
00:06:51.680 So what are you, how do you process what you've just seen?
00:06:56.740 I don't know what to say, man.
00:06:58.840 I'll tell you is, you know, if I, if I walked up close to there with anything that secret servers
00:07:06.960 considered a problem, I wouldn't be standing here talking to you right now, but I don't
00:07:11.940 know why a guy who we're standing there pointing now to police and secret service is crawling
00:07:17.340 up the roof.
00:07:18.160 Are you outside of the security terminal?
00:07:20.000 Yes, right there by that tree.
00:07:22.620 We were outside the security terminal.
00:07:24.620 But my question is, there's only a few buildings around here.
00:07:29.360 Why is secret service not on every building here?
00:07:32.420 There's a whole bunch of questions, I think, that are going to come.
00:07:34.940 There's a whole bunch of questions.
00:07:36.820 Yeah.
00:07:37.240 You listen to this guy.
00:07:38.860 He's a concerned citizen.
00:07:40.780 Yeah.
00:07:41.340 He says, we're, we're, we're yelling.
00:07:43.360 There's a guy on the roof.
00:07:44.240 And, and I, and I do think it's important because there's been a lot of people that have
00:07:47.300 been critical of the, of the, the snipers that took him out saying, how did they not
00:07:51.300 see him?
00:07:51.780 You notice he said, I'm sure they couldn't see him on the back part of the roof.
00:07:55.160 Right.
00:07:55.300 It was slanted.
00:07:55.900 It was slanted away from them.
00:07:57.300 And I think that's important that those guys did their job when they saw him from what
00:08:02.440 we understand.
00:08:03.300 And this guy saying, look, they couldn't see him where he was.
00:08:07.420 Well, and, and that really goes to, to the preparation.
00:08:10.960 Of secret service for the event and for the manpower that, that, that it certainly appears
00:08:17.180 there was woefully insufficient manpower to make that rally safe.
00:08:21.700 The snipers on the other side of, of, of the roof from everything, it appears, couldn't
00:08:26.160 see him because the roof was sloped away that where the sniper was, was 164 yards away from
00:08:33.740 president Trump.
00:08:34.420 That is not very far.
00:08:35.680 It's certainly not far with, with a rifle, with a scope, 164 yards.
00:08:40.260 By the way, it's, I talked today to someone that is in secret service and he said, that
00:08:45.840 is 20% of the range that they train to look for.
00:08:51.820 Yeah.
00:08:52.440 Yeah.
00:08:52.620 Just to put it in perspective.
00:08:53.660 So this would be, if you were laying out, okay, that's 10% away of what we train for.
00:08:57.920 This guy was within 20% of what they train for to look for snipers.
00:09:01.920 Well, and, and, uh, a story that also broke the associated pet press, uh, reported yesterday,
00:09:07.940 uh, quote, a local law enforcement officer climbed to the roof and found crooks.
00:09:13.800 The, the gunman who pointed the rifle at the officer, the officer retreated down the ladder
00:09:21.060 and the gunman quickly fired towards Trump.
00:09:24.020 The official said that's when us secret service gunman shot him.
00:09:28.040 The official said, so that's really astonishing.
00:09:31.360 That means law enforcement saw him before he fired the shots, came up the ladder.
00:09:35.620 The guy pointed the rifle at him.
00:09:37.640 Now, presumably we don't know the answer to this right now, but presumably that law enforcement
00:09:41.560 was not in contact with the secret service.
00:09:44.800 Not in the same frequency, which reminds me so much.
00:09:47.840 And my next question, he was going to be about what we saw after 9-11.
00:09:51.280 And after 9-11, what we realized was, is that there were too many government agencies that
00:09:57.920 weren't able to talk to one another that weren't talking to one another.
00:10:00.720 It was FBI over here, uh, secret service over here, uh, and then the CIA over here,
00:10:07.520 and they weren't sharing information the way that they needed to.
00:10:10.720 Is it possible that in 2024, we have everyone at this event, but they're not able to speak
00:10:17.360 to one another for whatever reason?
00:10:19.140 It is astonishing and, and, and look at the timing of this.
00:10:23.020 So you've got this guy on the roof, a police officer comes up the ladder.
00:10:27.020 He turns around, points the gun at the police officer.
00:10:29.300 Look, I don't fault the police officer for ducking back down when you get a rifle pointed
00:10:33.400 at you, but it takes a little bit of time for a gunman to turn around then and aim and
00:10:41.020 sight up and fire the shots and fire them close enough, uh, that they hit the president's
00:10:47.780 ear.
00:10:49.780 That takes a little bit of time.
00:10:50.660 That doesn't happen in five seconds.
00:10:54.660 Presumably, if they're on the same frequency, the instant the officer sees him in your microphone,
00:11:01.200 you're yelling gun, gun, gun, and the snipers can immediately train on him.
00:11:06.180 So when the guy pokes his head over to shoot, they can take him out right then.
00:11:10.400 If, if they were talking to each other.
00:11:12.600 Well, and not even that, if you, if you went through it and they said, shooter, shooter,
00:11:15.840 shooter, you would immediately grab the president and pull him to the ground or rush him off
00:11:19.820 the stage.
00:11:20.560 Absolutely.
00:11:21.500 That's true.
00:11:22.120 You don't even, you can take it.
00:11:24.360 They didn't pull him down.
00:11:25.500 And, and, and that's what that, that observer was saying.
00:11:28.480 He's like, why is Trump still on the stage?
00:11:30.400 Why is he still talking?
00:11:31.840 This guy's there with a rifle.
00:11:33.260 Like, like he's, he's frustrated out of his mind.
00:11:36.900 And, and, and let me just pause and say, thank God.
00:11:40.900 I believe God's protection was on Donald Trump.
00:11:43.780 Amen.
00:11:44.280 That day.
00:11:45.100 Thank God.
00:11:45.880 He turned his head, had that bullet been an inch or even a half an inch to the left,
00:11:53.200 we could be dealing with a very different show right now, with a completed assassination.
00:12:02.940 Yeah.
00:12:03.640 Like, and I do believe it was God's providence that, that, that, that made that bullet miss.
00:12:12.020 But we need to ask, and I want you to listen also.
00:12:16.000 So Dan Bongino was on Fox and friends and, and you and I are both friends with Dan.
00:12:21.420 He's a terrific guy, but former secret service agent for people that may not know that for
00:12:25.860 15 years.
00:12:26.840 So what Dan did before he got into radio and began commenting is he was a secret service
00:12:32.340 agent.
00:12:32.760 So he, he knows secret service, presidential protection at a level, frankly, that unless
00:12:39.080 you've been done it service for, for a decade or more, you don't know it.
00:12:42.440 I want you to listen to this interview because it really does highlight the massive, massive
00:12:50.580 security failures that day.
00:12:53.500 Your thoughts on this, Dan, just, just continue where you left off on the reaction here.
00:12:57.660 So again, open security questions right now.
00:13:02.460 And this is why, again, I think the secret service, uh, the, the PR Anthony Guglielmi has
00:13:07.160 to be very careful about what they put out.
00:13:09.240 You know, he says in his, in his, in his ex post, and you can read it yourself.
00:13:13.020 You don't need to hear it from me that they deployed these extra resources and technology.
00:13:18.040 Okay.
00:13:18.460 Well, which ones you're telling me the best technology you have was deployed and you missed, uh, a
00:13:25.080 shooter, 130 yards, say it was 200 yards, the secret service CS team, Pete, the counter
00:13:30.880 sniper team.
00:13:31.820 And I'm not sure those two guys are secret service.
00:13:34.380 We have to remember that we don't always, when we go to New York, sometimes with high
00:13:38.380 level protectees, we'll use NYPD ESU counter sniper.
00:13:41.940 So I'm not really sure they either way, they'd still be briefed in.
00:13:45.140 The question we have to ask is if that's the best technology we have.
00:13:48.980 And we had a CS team up there with a shooter that, you know, we're trained out to a thousand
00:13:53.200 yards in the secret service with the counter sniper team.
00:13:55.820 How did they miss someone, uh, at, at, at most, you know, one fifth of the way there?
00:14:01.140 It doesn't make any sense.
00:14:02.380 And, and, and even worse, it's broad daylight on a white roof.
00:14:05.280 So again, open questions here.
00:14:07.400 Was there forward looking inter infrared deployed?
00:14:10.500 Was there aerial support, drones, helicopters?
00:14:14.080 Uh, you know, something happened to, if you go back and listen to the audio, I want you
00:14:17.420 to listen to this, um, after I get off here.
00:14:19.420 When Donald Trump, after this tragic thing happens, you'll see the secret service agents.
00:14:23.880 And by the way, I know some of those guys personally, I want, it takes a lot to run into bullets
00:14:28.820 divorcing the security failure.
00:14:31.300 So at least they did that part, you know, correctly.
00:14:34.080 And they knew what they were doing, uh, after the security absolutely failed, but you're going
00:14:38.340 to hear something.
00:14:39.040 If you listen closely, the, the guys mentions Hawkeye on the scene.
00:14:42.860 He's talking about those two, uh, the black BDU with the tactical gear cat element, that
00:14:49.180 two man cat element that stands for counter assault team.
00:14:51.680 That's a secret service special weapons team, equivalent to our SWAT.
00:14:56.080 So they're there.
00:14:57.140 They all deployed the bunting around the front of the stage is probably armor.
00:15:02.040 Donald Trump knew to duck.
00:15:04.000 I mean, most, most people would, he saved his own life.
00:15:07.360 That that's just a fact.
00:15:08.740 The evacuation did not go right.
00:15:10.840 I mean, the rule with the secret service is cover the protectee and evacuate.
00:15:14.600 The other rule is maximum to the protectee minimum to the problem.
00:15:19.260 Why minimum to the problem?
00:15:20.960 Because you don't know.
00:15:22.080 That's the only problem.
00:15:23.460 It could be a distraction.
00:15:25.240 There could be another person in the crowd.
00:15:27.320 So if you don't jump on the protectee, you could be looking at multiple shooters.
00:15:31.760 So at least that part, the guys there, you know, stepped up there, but the failure here
00:15:37.580 is absolutely catastrophic.
00:15:39.560 And I got to tell you, the secret service should be very careful.
00:15:42.820 I can tell you and absolutely confirm from the horse's mouth, from multiple people, not
00:15:48.720 just one.
00:15:49.360 And I saw Congressman Waltz text this out before on X.
00:15:52.880 There have been repeated requests to increase the security footprint around not just the
00:15:58.060 residences of Donald Trump, but the body itself.
00:16:01.400 They have been rebuffed.
00:16:02.820 Like I said, I can tell you actual quotes.
00:16:05.260 The secret service directors completely failed and candidly should resign today.
00:16:10.040 Kim Cheadle has failed Donald Trump and honestly failed Joe Biden, too.
00:16:14.380 He's the president right now.
00:16:15.860 Where's the DHS secretary?
00:16:17.980 I mean, this is you're blaming it on manpower.
00:16:20.700 So just to be clear, we're a four trillion dollar United States government and we can't fork
00:16:26.500 over enough money to keep our people alive.
00:16:29.440 And then you're sending out tweets like, oh, this is the best technology we have really
00:16:33.420 to let a sniper one hundred fifty yards away from the potential next president shoot a piece
00:16:39.120 of his ear off.
00:16:40.860 That's your victory lap.
00:16:42.360 Give me a break, man.
00:16:44.000 Let me just stop there.
00:16:45.180 And I want to ask you this because it was the question that I was asked and I was I was
00:16:50.760 sitting today at lunch with a guy that has taken out some of the worst terrorists literally
00:16:57.040 in the world.
00:16:58.300 And the question that I was asking him was like, how does this even get happened?
00:17:04.320 He said, number one, Ben, he goes, they didn't have enough people.
00:17:07.740 Clearly didn't have enough coverage.
00:17:09.420 He said, I don't know how with the budget that they have, how they didn't have enough
00:17:13.780 money to pay for enough people to cover the president of the United States of America.
00:17:17.540 And I think that's a very valid point that many Americans are asking themselves right
00:17:20.940 now.
00:17:21.540 Forget if you're Republican or Democrat, Senator, we pay a lot of money in taxes.
00:17:27.260 We have trillions of dollars in debt.
00:17:30.280 You're telling me that we're but we're we got a line item here that we're really worried
00:17:34.300 about and a budget here on Secret Service to protect the president.
00:17:37.440 The United States of America, whether it's a former or current.
00:17:41.560 Well, as Dan Bongino rightly said, there were clearly catastrophic security failures.
00:17:47.580 And I want to draw a distinction between the individual Secret Service agents.
00:17:52.580 Amen.
00:17:52.920 And I want to praise their heritage.
00:17:54.500 Amen.
00:17:55.160 They put their bodies in front of Donald Trump.
00:17:58.120 They stood up and surrounded him and were there to block a bullet.
00:18:02.300 And they risked their lives to do that.
00:18:04.600 And and and and and so the criticism is not of those individual agents who did everything
00:18:11.100 they could.
00:18:12.260 But it is of the leadership of Secret Service.
00:18:16.020 And it is ultimately of the political leadership.
00:18:18.820 It is Alejandro Mayorkas who is completely AWOL on this.
00:18:23.480 Yeah.
00:18:23.620 Where is he?
00:18:24.200 How is he not in front of a camera?
00:18:25.580 And listen, Bongino is exactly right that the head of the Secret Service should resign over
00:18:34.220 this.
00:18:34.580 I was going to ask you, you believe that the Secret Service, the head should resign?
00:18:37.960 Yes.
00:18:38.380 And I also believe so.
00:18:40.220 I joined with a number of other senators calling on Dick Durbin, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary
00:18:45.180 Committee, to hold an emergency hearing, bringing together the head of the Secret Service and
00:18:51.440 the Secretary of Homeland Security and Chris Wray, the director of the FBI, for a hearing to
00:18:57.260 ask them what the hell went wrong?
00:19:00.860 How did this how did this happen?
00:19:02.940 And it, it's clear, you didn't have manpower on the other roofs.
00:19:12.860 You didn't have enough agents.
00:19:14.840 You didn't scope out.
00:19:16.260 And you know, one of the interesting things, every other security detail, if you have a security
00:19:22.640 detail that is Capitol Police, if you have security detail that is with a governor or with
00:19:28.580 a mayor, generally speaking, they can't control their environment.
00:19:33.620 So they go into whatever the environment is and the officers there are trying to protect
00:19:37.700 the protectee, but they can't control their environment.
00:19:41.260 Secret Service is different.
00:19:42.340 When they come in, they control the environment.
00:19:44.800 They set up magnetometers at the event.
00:19:46.660 They take over buildings.
00:19:48.080 They move people out.
00:19:49.680 They have the ability to come in and look at the environment and say, OK, if there's a
00:19:55.620 vulnerability, who would exploit it?
00:19:57.800 And by the way, you don't have to get crazy hypothetical about a high powered rifle with
00:20:02.960 a scope because that's how JFK was shot.
00:20:06.080 Yeah.
00:20:06.260 I mean, we're aware that is one of the principal ways that an assassin will look to take out
00:20:12.140 a president.
00:20:12.820 And I'll tell you that there was another story that broke today, which was sent out by Real
00:20:23.600 Clear Politics that says, and I want to read this from Susan Crabtree from Real Clear Politics.
00:20:34.600 Here's what she sent out.
00:20:35.600 Quote, this is the problem that my secret sources have cited.
00:20:40.100 Secret Service's resources were diverted to Jill Biden's event and away from Trump's because
00:20:48.660 they followed agency protocol applying to Trump as a former president, according to two sources
00:20:55.980 within the Secret Service community.
00:20:58.060 There were also many supplemental agents from different field officers, not Trump's regular
00:21:04.260 detail, providing security at the rally because Trump's regular detail has been overworked.
00:21:10.100 Some working seven days straight and only two counter snipers.
00:21:15.740 But Trump is not just a former president.
00:21:19.940 He is the first in modern history to have run for president again.
00:21:24.660 And he has been the focus of several prosecutions and controversies under statement intentional.
00:21:31.260 Who made the decision to divert the resources to Jill Biden's event?
00:21:39.240 First lady, Dr. Jill Biden and former president Donald Trump campaigning in Pittsburgh today.
00:21:45.080 So the reporting is they pulled Secret Service resources away from Trump's rally to the event
00:21:50.660 with the first lady.
00:21:51.400 Now, look, the first lady needs to be protected.
00:21:52.980 But to what extent is Secret Service treating Trump simply as another former president rather
00:22:03.100 than right now the leading candidate to be president of the United States and someone who has been
00:22:08.980 targeted with vitriol?
00:22:10.120 And we're going to get into this more.
00:22:11.100 But but it's targeted with vitriol such that there is a threat level against him that any
00:22:17.060 moron should be aware of.
00:22:19.780 Canadian women are looking for more, more out of themselves, their businesses, their elected
00:22:24.120 leaders and the world around them.
00:22:25.900 And that's why we're thrilled to introduce the Honest Talk podcast.
00:22:29.180 I would love to know the threat assessment, and I hope that you guys in Congress get this,
00:22:54.960 because I would want to know how many threats are coming in against Donald Trump, even
00:22:59.060 compared to Joe Biden, even are compared to Barack Obama or compared to George W.
00:23:03.840 Bush.
00:23:04.200 I mean, the number has got to be staggering of legitimate threats coming in.
00:23:09.180 And it's not just I hate him on Twitter.
00:23:11.260 I want to kill him.
00:23:11.860 Like, we're talking about actual threats.
00:23:13.820 We're talking about a significant number of active threats.
00:23:18.680 You got to take that into consideration.
00:23:20.900 You would assume if you're doing your job the right way.
00:23:23.840 Look, that's exactly right.
00:23:25.440 Real and serious threats.
00:23:26.960 We apparently didn't have drone surveillance.
00:23:30.300 We didn't have helicopters.
00:23:31.280 We didn't have aerial because you would spot a guy getting on a white roof, putting up a
00:23:35.760 ladder, apparently, if you had any aerial surveillance.
00:23:38.600 So I'm assuming they did not play the rest of Dan Bongino.
00:23:41.200 And look, this is a long interview, but his expertise is is unusual.
00:23:45.960 And so I want to play the rest of what he had to say.
00:23:51.020 Dan, I mean, you bring up so many amazing points and I just don't even know where to
00:23:56.020 begin, except to ask you, why would the Secret Service not beef up more security for the man
00:24:01.280 who is most likely to be assassinated in the entire world?
00:24:04.060 Why would they not deploy more resources?
00:24:06.160 Why weren't there drones over?
00:24:07.520 Is it that this woman, Kimberly Cheadle, the director, is incompetent?
00:24:12.280 Could there be something else there?
00:24:13.920 What is happening?
00:24:15.180 Is it DEI?
00:24:16.600 What's what's going on?
00:24:19.440 Well, you know, Rachel, it's my job if I'm going to give an opinion to back it up.
00:24:23.500 You know, opinions are like holes, right?
00:24:25.300 Everybody has one.
00:24:26.760 The difference between one opinion over the other in a courtroom and anywhere else is can
00:24:30.200 you back it up?
00:24:30.840 I want everyone at home going on your phone or computer now, and I want you to look up
00:24:35.300 U.S. Secret Service red ties, Donald Trump.
00:24:38.300 There, read it.
00:24:39.480 The Secret Service was more concerned about protective agents around Donald Trump.
00:24:44.360 If you think I'm making this up, go to your face, go to a left wing search engine if you
00:24:48.400 think I'm biased.
00:24:49.120 Go to go to Scroogle and put it.
00:24:50.900 Oh, you're reading a story right now.
00:24:52.820 They were more concerned about the color of the Secret Service agents ties around Donald
00:24:57.040 Trump, given the perception that a red tie was somehow.
00:25:00.360 I've got red ties.
00:25:01.820 I'm a Republican.
00:25:02.580 There's nothing to do with it.
00:25:03.440 I just like red ties.
00:25:04.740 They go nice with white shirts.
00:25:06.760 That was that's an actual.
00:25:08.140 So you see, you see it right now.
00:25:09.520 I'm not crazy.
00:25:10.620 This is what the Secret Service was concerned about.
00:25:13.040 They put out, you know, a thousand tweets about all of this DEI stuff.
00:25:17.700 Do I know that's related here?
00:25:19.040 I don't.
00:25:19.760 I'm just saying, like, you have one job and only one job.
00:25:24.600 Your job is keep the body alive, no matter what.
00:25:28.420 Donald Trump, Joe Biden, Jill Biden, the president of DeJabuti.
00:25:32.780 It doesn't matter.
00:25:34.220 That is your job.
00:25:35.840 They absolutely, resolutely, 100% fail.
00:25:40.600 Not a single excuse should be made.
00:25:43.040 Not a single excuse should be attempted.
00:25:45.020 This should be the subject of congressional hearings and investigations, because if they
00:25:50.360 can't do this and this is the best technology you had, then, folks, there's no purpose anymore.
00:25:57.000 This isn't the agency I grew up in.
00:25:59.280 It's not.
00:25:59.740 I spent 12 years of my life there.
00:26:01.520 And I'm telling you, I know some of those guys personally.
00:26:04.520 These are good men and women.
00:26:06.020 But this this was an apocalyptic security failure.
00:26:10.080 And don't ever forget, an uneventful failure is never a success.
00:26:14.520 And the fact that Donald Trump didn't die yesterday is no reason for anybody to take some kind of victory lap.
00:26:20.400 And before we start sending out plaudits, we better look and do a hot wash on this and find out exactly how abysmal this security plan was.
00:26:28.140 Well, you listen to Dan there, and there's so many things that he brings up that I think Americans deserve to get an answer to.
00:26:37.200 And I want to bring up the DEI part of this.
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00:27:47.640 Senator, let's talk about the DEI, the PC-ness, the bureaucracy aspect of Joe Biden's administration.
00:27:57.200 The Secret Service director, a few months ago, went on a PR campaign.
00:28:05.860 They were seeking out press.
00:28:08.700 And they went on, CBS is one of the things that they did,
00:28:12.340 and they deliberately spoke about focusing on hiring more women to be more diverse.
00:28:17.840 It was all about diversity.
00:28:19.560 They have a classic plan that, right, the left loves, 30% female recruits by 2030.
00:28:26.560 This is what it sounded like a few months ago.
00:28:28.660 They were asking for this press.
00:28:31.020 To expand hiring, they're aiming to have 30% women recruits by 2030,
00:28:36.080 and even allowed YouTube influencer, Michelle Carey, to train with ages.
00:28:40.700 But I'm very conscious as I sit in this chair now of making sure that we need to attract diverse candidates
00:28:49.880 and ensure that we are developing and giving opportunities to everybody in our workforce, and particularly women.
00:28:56.400 That workforce will be pivotal for the 2024 campaign season,
00:29:00.840 which for the first time includes a former president who already has lifetime protection.
00:29:05.900 Agents were there when Donald Trump was arraigned in New York.
00:29:10.580 We were able to work out the details ahead of time of how that particular day was going to go,
00:29:15.880 but we will always ensure the safety of all of our protectees that we have.
00:29:19.720 The service has a zero-fail mission.
00:29:22.580 A mission officers are training to uphold,
00:29:25.040 pretending this field is the most famous address in America.
00:29:28.780 To be clear, I don't care if a woman is the person protecting the president,
00:29:38.000 as long as she's the best person to protect the president.
00:29:42.360 I don't care if you're a man or a woman.
00:29:44.920 I want the best.
00:29:46.300 But when you listen to that,
00:29:48.120 and you look at the Secret Service,
00:29:49.960 and what they were beating their chest about,
00:29:51.880 for the last several months about diversity and hiring,
00:29:56.340 you've got to ask yourself,
00:29:57.720 do we have the best,
00:29:59.920 or are we filling quotas?
00:30:01.820 And if there's any place I don't want a quota to be filled,
00:30:04.380 it would be protecting the president of the United States of America,
00:30:07.220 whether that's Joe Biden or Donald Trump.
00:30:09.600 And it shouldn't be a study in society,
00:30:13.220 like some sort of university,
00:30:15.780 hey, all right, we're going to grab 17 people that are this color,
00:30:18.320 and 15 that are this color,
00:30:19.420 and 23 that identify as this sex.
00:30:22.180 That's not what the Secret Service should be.
00:30:24.060 Am I wrong?
00:30:24.940 Well, this is yet another manifestation
00:30:26.800 of what we've seen throughout the Biden administration,
00:30:28.940 which is an obsessive focus on bean counting,
00:30:32.820 on quotas, on DEI,
00:30:35.040 at the expense of the mission.
00:30:36.600 Look, we've covered in this podcast before,
00:30:38.500 the CIA doing this.
00:30:40.000 And instead of focusing on,
00:30:41.900 for example,
00:30:43.260 getting intelligence on Hamas to prevent October 7th,
00:30:46.260 they're focused on pushing the language police,
00:30:50.680 on ferreting out what they deem insufficiently inclusive language.
00:30:55.800 You just heard Dan Bongino talking about the damn red ties,
00:30:58.760 that they're worried about,
00:30:59.660 uh-oh, uh-oh, if you wear a red tie,
00:31:01.400 it looks like you may support Donald Trump,
00:31:03.400 so no red ties.
00:31:04.820 And it's losing the mission,
00:31:08.560 and the mission should be front and center focused
00:31:12.800 on protecting the protectee.
00:31:16.440 And when you fail,
00:31:18.580 and to be clear,
00:31:19.480 this weekend was not just a mild failure,
00:31:22.100 it was a catastrophic failure.
00:31:24.820 The consequences far too often are catastrophic.
00:31:29.540 And listen,
00:31:31.400 one person lost his life.
00:31:35.680 Corey Comparatory.
00:31:36.660 The fire chief.
00:31:38.940 And I want to read,
00:31:40.220 read the Facebook post.
00:31:43.600 From his daughter.
00:31:44.560 That his daughter put up.
00:31:45.420 Ugh.
00:31:46.100 Because this is really powerful.
00:31:48.240 So here's what she put up.
00:31:50.540 This is from Allison Comparatory.
00:31:54.480 Yesterday time stopped.
00:31:56.960 And when it started again,
00:31:58.740 my family and I started living a real life nightmare.
00:32:02.640 What was supposed to be an exciting day
00:32:04.820 that we had all looked forward to,
00:32:06.700 especially my dad,
00:32:08.440 turned into the most traumatizing experiences
00:32:11.140 someone could imagine.
00:32:13.620 I know the media will cover this event.
00:32:16.460 And I'm going to try my best
00:32:17.760 to stay away from looking at everything,
00:32:20.180 especially because I've already seen
00:32:21.800 and lived through it in real time.
00:32:24.300 But I want everyone to know
00:32:25.960 what the media will not cover
00:32:27.940 and will not say about him.
00:32:30.040 He was the best dad
00:32:32.380 a girl could ever ask for.
00:32:35.060 My sister and I never needed for anything.
00:32:38.500 You call,
00:32:39.760 he would answer.
00:32:40.880 And he would do whatever it is you needed.
00:32:44.000 And if he didn't know how,
00:32:45.260 he would figure out how.
00:32:46.960 He could talk
00:32:47.960 and make friends with anyone.
00:32:49.920 Which he was doing all day yesterday
00:32:53.720 and loved every minute of it.
00:32:56.260 He was a man of God.
00:32:57.920 Loved Jesus fiercely.
00:33:00.000 and also looked after our church
00:33:02.820 and our members as family.
00:33:06.320 The media will not tell you
00:33:08.020 that he died
00:33:08.920 a real life superhero.
00:33:12.460 They're not going to tell you
00:33:13.840 how quickly he threw my mom and I
00:33:16.040 to the ground.
00:33:17.640 They're not going to tell you
00:33:18.860 that he shielded my body
00:33:20.600 from the bullet that came at us.
00:33:23.400 He loved his family.
00:33:25.500 He truly loved us enough
00:33:27.320 to take a real bullet for us.
00:33:30.920 And I want nothing more
00:33:32.340 than to cry on him
00:33:34.280 and tell him thank you.
00:33:36.500 I want nothing more
00:33:37.720 than to wake up
00:33:38.560 and for this not to be reality
00:33:40.580 for me and my family.
00:33:42.440 We lost a selfless, loving
00:33:45.540 husband,
00:33:48.220 father,
00:33:50.020 brother.
00:33:52.280 You hear that
00:33:53.540 and I read that
00:33:54.880 on my show earlier
00:33:56.080 and I barely could get through it
00:33:57.360 because I can't imagine
00:33:58.860 knowing that's what your dad did
00:34:00.500 at the end of his life
00:34:01.360 which was to keep you safe.
00:34:02.800 It's real
00:34:03.560 and it is.
00:34:04.960 Look,
00:34:05.360 the Bible tells us
00:34:06.480 greater love has no man
00:34:07.560 than he lays down his life
00:34:08.520 for another.
00:34:10.040 And Corey Comparatore
00:34:11.380 literally gave his life
00:34:14.040 to save his wife and daughter.
00:34:16.280 Now,
00:34:16.980 if the Secret Service leadership
00:34:20.260 had done their damn job,
00:34:22.680 Chief Comparatore
00:34:24.160 would be home
00:34:25.120 with his family instead.
00:34:27.500 Yeah,
00:34:27.760 it has consequences
00:34:29.100 when actions have consequences.
00:34:32.340 Bad decisions
00:34:33.220 have even bigger consequences.
00:34:35.080 And I go back
00:34:35.900 to something
00:34:36.220 that was said today.
00:34:36.840 I try to surround myself
00:34:38.340 when there's things like this
00:34:39.160 that happen with people
00:34:40.020 that know it
00:34:40.760 better than I do.
00:34:42.120 It's why I had lunch today
00:34:43.760 with a special operator
00:34:45.260 and I had a million questions.
00:34:47.240 There was one comment
00:34:49.840 though that was made
00:34:50.940 that stuck with me
00:34:52.080 when I left
00:34:52.800 and that was
00:34:54.300 it is astounding
00:34:55.680 that we are sending
00:34:58.000 blank checks to Ukraine
00:34:59.720 for drones to be used
00:35:02.560 to find Russian soldiers
00:35:04.920 but we didn't have drones
00:35:06.680 being used apparently
00:35:08.160 in a major way
00:35:09.180 to protect Donald Trump.
00:35:11.840 Listen,
00:35:12.240 I don't know this for a fact
00:35:13.620 but I have a very strong suspicion
00:35:16.200 that politics played
00:35:17.520 a real role in this.
00:35:18.640 Well,
00:35:18.780 and that was my next question.
00:35:19.960 And the reason I say that
00:35:21.760 is because politics
00:35:22.680 plays a role
00:35:23.320 in everything
00:35:24.000 this damn administration does.
00:35:25.960 And by the way,
00:35:27.080 this is the same administration,
00:35:28.620 this is the same Joe Biden,
00:35:29.900 this is the same Alejandro Mayorkas
00:35:31.840 that still won't give
00:35:33.240 a Secret Service detail
00:35:34.480 to Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
00:35:36.480 Which you called for
00:35:37.340 six,
00:35:38.020 I don't even know
00:35:38.500 how many months ago,
00:35:39.140 seven, eight months ago.
00:35:40.040 On this podcast,
00:35:41.380 RFK Jr.'s father,
00:35:44.020 was murdered by an assassin.
00:35:45.860 His uncle,
00:35:47.360 the sitting president,
00:35:48.400 was murdered by an assassin.
00:35:50.320 And yet,
00:35:50.940 this administration,
00:35:52.120 Joe Biden,
00:35:52.640 doesn't want anyone to know
00:35:53.700 that Bobby Kennedy's
00:35:54.880 on the ballot
00:35:55.360 and if he gave him
00:35:55.920 Secret Service,
00:35:56.600 well,
00:35:56.820 that could legitimize him.
00:35:58.160 So,
00:35:58.420 nope,
00:35:59.080 no Secret Service for you.
00:36:00.380 And so,
00:36:01.740 my very strong suspicion
00:36:03.420 is there's a reason
00:36:05.880 they just treat Trump
00:36:07.060 as a former president
00:36:08.160 and not as
00:36:09.740 the leading candidate
00:36:11.480 for president
00:36:12.200 right now today
00:36:13.500 because it is political.
00:36:16.320 And so,
00:36:17.160 the decisions,
00:36:18.020 look,
00:36:18.220 one of the things
00:36:18.900 that we've seen
00:36:19.880 multiple reports of
00:36:20.960 is that there have been
00:36:21.540 repeated requests
00:36:23.120 for additional security
00:36:24.420 coverage for Trump.
00:36:25.460 And given the magnitude
00:36:26.360 of the threats,
00:36:27.020 I believe that.
00:36:28.940 That's why we need
00:36:29.740 to have a hearing
00:36:30.460 in the Senate Judiciary Committee.
00:36:32.000 We need to have it
00:36:32.840 very rapidly
00:36:34.580 and we need to know
00:36:35.600 how many threats were there,
00:36:36.880 how many requests
00:36:37.640 for extra coverage were there,
00:36:38.780 how many of them
00:36:39.700 were denied,
00:36:40.620 who denied them,
00:36:41.660 who made the decision,
00:36:42.640 who made the decision
00:36:43.540 to move agents
00:36:44.900 from the Trump rally
00:36:46.080 to the First Lady.
00:36:48.360 Was that a political appointee?
00:36:50.120 What were the factors
00:36:50.940 in that decision?
00:36:51.960 And what were the teams?
00:36:52.960 Was it a drone team?
00:36:53.980 Was it another sniper team?
00:36:55.180 Was it just bodies?
00:36:56.380 And are you telling me
00:36:57.500 in the United States government
00:36:58.660 they don't have
00:36:59.260 any more drones?
00:37:00.000 You're telling me
00:37:00.560 there are no helicopters
00:37:01.480 in the United States government?
00:37:02.940 You're telling me
00:37:03.920 that you don't have
00:37:05.300 additional counter snipers?
00:37:06.660 There were not that many rooftops
00:37:08.740 surrounding that.
00:37:10.180 Why did they not have
00:37:11.820 adequate personnel?
00:37:13.020 Now that again,
00:37:14.200 I want to underscore this,
00:37:16.020 that's not the fault
00:37:17.300 of the Secret Service agents
00:37:19.000 who were risking their lives
00:37:20.680 to protect the president.
00:37:22.200 That is the fault
00:37:23.100 of leadership.
00:37:24.300 That is the fault
00:37:25.200 of the bureaucrats
00:37:26.240 making the decision.
00:37:28.200 And I think we should get,
00:37:30.260 we should have a real urgency
00:37:32.140 to get to the bottom of
00:37:33.840 did partisan politics
00:37:35.360 play a role
00:37:36.600 in saying,
00:37:37.560 no,
00:37:37.940 we're not going
00:37:38.660 to protect you.
00:37:40.520 And I think
00:37:41.700 Congress needs
00:37:42.760 to get to the bottom of it.
00:37:43.660 I think the American people
00:37:44.540 deserve to know
00:37:45.100 the answer to that.
00:37:45.960 To back up
00:37:46.520 what you're saying,
00:37:47.620 and I think facts matter now,
00:37:50.460 Democrats actively called
00:37:53.260 members of Congress
00:37:54.540 so that no one thinks
00:37:56.380 it's a conspiracy theory
00:37:57.760 for Donald Trump
00:37:59.640 to lose Secret Service protection
00:38:01.760 if he was convicted
00:38:03.880 of a felony.
00:38:05.320 One of those
00:38:05.980 was my former congressman,
00:38:07.340 Steve Cohen.
00:38:08.980 He and several other people
00:38:11.180 in Congress
00:38:11.900 said that they should
00:38:13.220 pull Secret Service protection
00:38:15.320 of Donald Trump,
00:38:16.040 which goes back
00:38:16.700 to what you said
00:38:17.280 about it being political.
00:38:19.040 They didn't care
00:38:20.220 if Donald Trump
00:38:21.020 got killed.
00:38:21.720 In fact,
00:38:22.160 they advocated
00:38:22.820 for taking away
00:38:23.360 the safety
00:38:23.980 that protects a president
00:38:25.500 from being killed,
00:38:26.940 and those are members
00:38:28.140 of Congress.
00:38:28.700 And it's amazing to me
00:38:30.860 that virtually no,
00:38:32.820 not virtually,
00:38:33.680 literally no one
00:38:34.580 in the media
00:38:34.940 has brought that point up
00:38:36.200 that just months ago
00:38:37.740 we had active Democrats
00:38:39.460 in Congress,
00:38:40.520 not fringe people,
00:38:42.640 okay,
00:38:42.980 these are elected officials
00:38:44.520 who are demanding
00:38:46.080 that Donald Trump
00:38:46.820 lose his Secret Service protection
00:38:48.200 if he was convicted
00:38:49.180 of these,
00:38:49.920 I'm sorry,
00:38:50.820 hoax,
00:38:51.240 you know,
00:38:51.800 crimes against him.
00:38:52.760 They tried to go after him
00:38:53.760 for it to imprison him.
00:38:55.620 Well,
00:38:55.820 and this was legislation
00:38:56.940 that was filed
00:38:58.000 by Congressman Benny Thompson,
00:39:00.420 who is the top Democrat
00:39:02.140 on the Homeland Security Committee.
00:39:04.120 So he's actually...
00:39:04.920 Can you just say that again
00:39:05.820 so you understand
00:39:06.340 how important that job is
00:39:07.520 and then to understand
00:39:08.560 that Homeland Security,
00:39:09.580 how much they have to do
00:39:10.100 with the Secret Service?
00:39:11.040 So,
00:39:11.760 they are the Committee
00:39:12.740 of Jurisdiction.
00:39:14.200 They have authority
00:39:15.420 over the Department
00:39:17.100 of Homeland Security,
00:39:18.360 and Benny Thompson
00:39:19.160 is the senior Democrat.
00:39:20.500 He's called the ranking member,
00:39:21.860 and he filed the legislation.
00:39:23.740 He's the author
00:39:24.480 of the legislation
00:39:26.000 to say,
00:39:28.660 let's pull the Secret Service coverage
00:39:30.420 from Donald Trump entirely
00:39:31.960 if he's convicted.
00:39:33.280 And by the way,
00:39:33.860 it's a complete partisan conviction
00:39:35.240 that is designed
00:39:37.480 to subvert democracy.
00:39:40.020 But let's be clear.
00:39:42.060 If you were to put
00:39:43.160 any former president
00:39:44.580 into general population
00:39:47.160 in a prison,
00:39:48.000 they would die.
00:39:49.240 Yes.
00:39:50.160 And so he's literally
00:39:51.940 effectively calling
00:39:53.340 for a death sentence.
00:39:54.020 And by the way,
00:39:55.540 Benny Thompson
00:39:56.060 also had a staffer
00:39:57.580 who in the wake of this
00:39:59.800 posted on X
00:40:01.680 saying that she wishes
00:40:03.980 the shooter
00:40:04.620 had taken shooting lessons
00:40:06.380 and that he wouldn't miss
00:40:07.740 next time.
00:40:08.860 Now,
00:40:08.980 Benny Thompson
00:40:09.440 fired that staffer.
00:40:11.280 He put out a statement,
00:40:12.220 I was made aware of a post
00:40:13.600 made by a staff member,
00:40:15.040 and she is no longer
00:40:16.100 in my employment.
00:40:17.240 But you know what?
00:40:18.420 Staff reflects the member.
00:40:19.900 Yep.
00:40:20.180 And it reflects the culture
00:40:21.660 that her first reaction
00:40:23.820 is to be angry
00:40:25.420 that this would-be assassin
00:40:27.540 did not,
00:40:28.260 in fact,
00:40:28.740 kill Donald Trump.
00:40:30.220 That's what she wanted.
00:40:31.240 And from his legislation,
00:40:34.260 and it was joined
00:40:35.120 by multiple other Democrats,
00:40:37.160 that legislation,
00:40:38.440 if it actually had become law,
00:40:40.560 and if Trump had gone to prison,
00:40:42.120 would have led directly
00:40:43.260 to the death of Donald Trump.
00:40:44.800 And now they're suddenly saying,
00:40:46.440 oh,
00:40:46.700 well,
00:40:46.840 we're very dismayed
00:40:48.220 that there was any violence towards it.
00:40:50.380 Well,
00:40:50.520 let's talk about the rewriting
00:40:51.460 of history
00:40:52.020 and move also
00:40:53.520 to the press conference
00:40:54.620 Sunday night
00:40:55.140 that Joe Biden had.
00:40:57.020 He opened,
00:40:58.460 it wasn't a press conference,
00:40:59.220 more of a statement
00:40:59.920 from the Oval Office,
00:41:00.740 I should say,
00:41:01.780 because there was no questions.
00:41:04.060 And what he said,
00:41:05.100 his address to the nation
00:41:06.520 when he opened
00:41:07.720 was certainly
00:41:09.320 rewriting of history.
00:41:11.320 Here he is
00:41:11.780 in his own words.
00:41:13.280 I want to speak to you tonight
00:41:14.480 about the need
00:41:15.380 for us to lower
00:41:16.220 the temperature
00:41:16.780 in our politics.
00:41:18.400 And to remember,
00:41:19.780 or we may disagree,
00:41:21.040 we are not enemies.
00:41:22.680 We're neighbors.
00:41:23.900 We're friends,
00:41:25.200 co-workers,
00:41:25.960 citizens,
00:41:26.620 and most importantly,
00:41:27.720 we're our fellow Americans.
00:41:29.880 Sounds great.
00:41:31.240 The problem is,
00:41:32.620 if you go and read
00:41:33.760 the president's own words
00:41:35.960 in the days leading up
00:41:37.980 to this moment,
00:41:38.760 that is not what he was saying
00:41:41.120 at all.
00:41:41.480 He didn't say,
00:41:42.060 hey,
00:41:42.300 I need to tone it down as well.
00:41:44.300 Joe Biden's own tweet was,
00:41:46.120 quote,
00:41:46.240 Donald Trump is the greatest threat
00:41:48.360 to our democracy.
00:41:50.560 He tweeted out again,
00:41:52.540 Donald Trump is a genuine threat
00:41:55.220 to this nation.
00:41:57.280 Another tweet,
00:41:58.320 he meaning Trump
00:42:00.500 is a threat
00:42:01.340 to our freedom.
00:42:02.860 He is a threat
00:42:04.460 to our democracy.
00:42:06.040 He's literally,
00:42:07.620 this is Joe Biden's words
00:42:09.360 on Twitter,
00:42:10.620 on X,
00:42:11.400 he's literally referring to Trump
00:42:13.580 a threat
00:42:14.300 to everything
00:42:15.480 America stands for.
00:42:17.580 He also said,
00:42:19.060 Donald Trump is a threat
00:42:20.000 to our democracy
00:42:20.760 and we cannot let him win.
00:42:22.280 I'm in Madison,
00:42:24.660 Wisconsin,
00:42:25.160 talking to the folks
00:42:26.480 about what's at stake
00:42:27.920 in this election.
00:42:28.680 We cannot let him win.
00:42:30.700 He also tweeted out,
00:42:32.020 Trump poses many threats
00:42:33.780 to our country.
00:42:35.680 The right to choose,
00:42:36.800 civil rights,
00:42:37.460 voting rights,
00:42:38.040 and Americans,
00:42:39.080 and America's city
00:42:39.740 and the world.
00:42:40.500 But the greatest threat
00:42:41.860 he poses
00:42:42.320 is to our democracy.
00:42:44.100 If we lose that,
00:42:45.120 we lose everything.
00:42:46.160 If I read those
00:42:49.880 and I'm a crazy
00:42:51.620 20-year-old lunatic
00:42:52.820 and you tell me
00:42:54.680 as the President
00:42:55.240 of the United States of America
00:42:56.140 that Donald Trump,
00:42:57.420 and I'm quoting again,
00:42:58.200 is a threat
00:42:58.720 to our democracy,
00:43:00.220 quote,
00:43:00.480 he's literally a threat
00:43:01.380 to everything
00:43:01.920 America stands for,
00:43:03.720 well then it's not crazy
00:43:05.000 to think that that person
00:43:06.020 would say,
00:43:06.240 well then we have to stop him
00:43:07.400 at all means
00:43:07.920 because we've already
00:43:08.540 tried to impeach him,
00:43:09.460 that didn't work.
00:43:10.140 We tried to bankrupt him,
00:43:11.440 that didn't work.
00:43:12.180 We tried to lock him up,
00:43:13.500 that didn't work.
00:43:14.380 What's left?
00:43:16.160 Well,
00:43:16.800 and you're right
00:43:18.020 and there's some irony
00:43:19.660 with Joe Biden
00:43:20.720 suggesting,
00:43:21.700 you know,
00:43:21.940 we need to tamp down
00:43:22.900 the rhetoric.
00:43:23.420 Look,
00:43:23.580 I'd like to see
00:43:24.440 the rhetoric tamped down,
00:43:25.960 but then taking
00:43:26.920 no responsibility.
00:43:28.560 Listen,
00:43:28.800 it is Democrats
00:43:29.500 for a decade
00:43:30.780 who have been calling
00:43:32.880 Donald Trump
00:43:33.760 Adolf Hitler.
00:43:35.100 Yeah.
00:43:35.940 And the media too.
00:43:37.900 And the media too.
00:43:38.900 Well,
00:43:39.420 I said Democrats
00:43:40.160 and they're one in the same.
00:43:41.980 The corporate media
00:43:43.200 is the left wing
00:43:44.340 of the Democrat Party.
00:43:45.320 That is their role
00:43:46.580 and they call him
00:43:47.340 that over and over
00:43:48.720 and over again.
00:43:50.900 Here,
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00:43:54.020 This is Democrats
00:43:55.220 repeatedly calling
00:43:56.760 for political violence.
00:43:57.920 It starts with Nancy Pelosi.
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00:45:05.440 Here is Nancy Pelosi,
00:45:07.100 as you mentioned,
00:45:07.760 Senator,
00:45:08.420 in her own words
00:45:09.640 and many in the media
00:45:10.680 and other elected officials
00:45:12.280 explicitly calling
00:45:13.600 for political violence
00:45:14.860 against conservatives.
00:45:16.440 I just don't even know
00:45:17.820 why there aren't uprisings
00:45:19.060 all over the country
00:45:19.920 and maybe there will be.
00:45:21.360 People need to start
00:45:22.380 taking to the streets.
00:45:23.620 This is a dictator.
00:45:25.400 You know,
00:45:25.620 there needs to be unrest
00:45:26.660 in the streets
00:45:27.180 for as long as there's
00:45:28.020 unrest in our lives.
00:45:29.460 Enemies of the state.
00:45:31.200 Show me where it says
00:45:32.080 that protests
00:45:32.680 are supposed to be polite
00:45:33.840 and peaceful.
00:45:35.440 Do something
00:45:36.180 about your dad's
00:45:37.220 immigration practices,
00:45:38.600 you feckless.
00:45:39.200 They go low,
00:45:40.280 we kill them.
00:45:40.860 How do you resist
00:45:41.860 the temptation
00:45:42.440 to run up
00:45:43.000 and wring her neck?
00:45:43.880 Biggest terror threat
00:45:44.840 in this country
00:45:46.280 is white men,
00:45:48.340 most of them radicalized
00:45:49.800 right up to the right.
00:45:50.920 I thought he should have
00:45:51.600 punched him in the face.
00:45:52.400 I said,
00:45:52.580 even if you lost,
00:45:53.400 he insulted your wife.
00:45:54.380 Yes.
00:45:54.580 He came down the escalator
00:45:55.500 and called Mexicans
00:45:56.200 rapists and murders.
00:45:57.160 He said,
00:45:57.380 well,
00:45:57.460 what do you think
00:45:57.740 I should have done?
00:45:58.180 I said,
00:45:58.320 I think you should have
00:45:58.700 punched him in the face
00:45:59.400 and then gotten out of the race.
00:46:00.260 You would have been a hero.
00:46:01.640 I'd like to punch him
00:46:02.540 in the face.
00:46:03.400 I said,
00:46:03.780 if we were in high school,
00:46:04.480 I'd take him behind the gym
00:46:05.440 and beat the hell out of him.
00:46:06.900 Punch some people
00:46:08.340 in the face!
00:46:09.380 When was the last time
00:46:10.540 an actor assassinated
00:46:12.100 a president?
00:46:12.980 They're still going to have
00:46:13.780 to go out and put a bullet
00:46:14.640 in Donald Trump
00:46:15.300 and that's a fact.
00:46:16.160 Look as his character
00:46:20.460 is stabbed to death.
00:46:22.340 Where is John Wilkes Booth
00:46:24.380 when you need him?
00:46:25.300 This way.
00:46:27.100 That's it right there.
00:46:28.120 Pull it up.
00:46:28.720 I have thought
00:46:29.700 an awful lot
00:46:31.220 about blowing up
00:46:32.680 the White House.
00:46:34.220 A Missouri state senator
00:46:35.580 is under investigation
00:46:36.920 by the Secret Service
00:46:38.400 after saying she hopes
00:46:39.780 President Trump
00:46:40.680 is assassinated.
00:46:41.700 I will go
00:46:42.820 and take Trump
00:46:43.780 out tonight.
00:46:44.760 And if you see anybody,
00:46:46.160 from that cabinet
00:46:47.460 in a restaurant,
00:46:49.080 in a department store,
00:46:51.480 at a gasoline station,
00:46:53.460 you get out
00:46:54.300 and you create a crowd.
00:46:56.280 And you push back on them.
00:46:58.580 And you tell them
00:46:59.800 they're not welcome
00:47:01.080 anymore, anywhere.
00:47:03.700 And sadly,
00:47:04.640 the domestic enemies
00:47:05.800 to our voting system
00:47:07.180 and our honoring
00:47:08.320 our Constitution
00:47:09.320 are right at
00:47:11.120 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
00:47:13.320 They're not going to stop
00:47:14.140 before Election Day
00:47:15.100 in November
00:47:15.560 and they're not
00:47:16.160 going to stop
00:47:16.600 after Election Day.
00:47:18.000 And that should be,
00:47:18.980 everyone should take note
00:47:20.060 of that
00:47:20.440 on both levels.
00:47:21.700 That this isn't,
00:47:22.600 they're not going to let up
00:47:23.480 and they should not.
00:47:24.600 If you think
00:47:25.360 we're rallying now,
00:47:26.480 you ain't seen nothing yet.
00:47:33.880 That's what
00:47:34.600 Donald Trump
00:47:35.560 dealt with
00:47:36.140 while he was president
00:47:37.280 and after
00:47:39.000 being the president.
00:47:40.200 look,
00:47:41.860 the radical left,
00:47:43.640 Donald Trump
00:47:44.640 melted their minds.
00:47:47.400 They hate him
00:47:48.840 and they have spewed
00:47:50.240 invective and hate
00:47:51.740 for years.
00:47:54.140 And,
00:47:54.240 and
00:47:54.540 listen,
00:47:56.320 there's invective
00:47:57.060 on both sides.
00:47:58.640 I would like to see
00:48:00.260 the political temperature
00:48:01.880 taken down.
00:48:04.160 but the Democrats
00:48:06.000 intend to go
00:48:06.680 right back to this.
00:48:07.560 This is a brief
00:48:08.540 little pause
00:48:09.900 for about
00:48:11.640 12 seconds
00:48:12.480 and by,
00:48:15.380 I don't know,
00:48:16.420 next week
00:48:16.820 or the week after,
00:48:17.760 they're going to go back
00:48:18.460 to calling him Hitler
00:48:19.200 because
00:48:20.620 the rage
00:48:23.660 and fury,
00:48:24.860 look,
00:48:25.120 the number of leftists
00:48:26.100 on Twitter
00:48:26.620 who were lamenting
00:48:27.720 that they were sad
00:48:29.260 that the assassinated
00:48:30.500 wasn't good at it.
00:48:31.280 Yeah,
00:48:31.460 they're basically saying
00:48:32.020 this,
00:48:32.440 if any,
00:48:32.940 and there were people
00:48:33.640 who were literally
00:48:34.020 tweeting out there
00:48:34.820 like,
00:48:35.240 hey,
00:48:35.420 this guy,
00:48:36.060 next time take lessons,
00:48:37.300 next time actually
00:48:38.120 do a good job.
00:48:39.560 And let me be clear,
00:48:40.820 as you and I talked about,
00:48:42.160 we did a podcast
00:48:42.780 immediately
00:48:43.460 in the moments
00:48:45.280 after this
00:48:46.140 assassination attempt,
00:48:47.640 I pray for Joe Biden.
00:48:50.580 I don't wish
00:48:51.240 political violence
00:48:52.180 on Democrats
00:48:53.620 or anyone else.
00:48:55.200 Now,
00:48:55.360 I want Joe Biden
00:48:56.240 defeated at the ballot box.
00:48:57.820 That,
00:48:58.600 I believe his policies
00:49:00.260 are harmful.
00:49:01.560 But there's a difference
00:49:02.500 between saying
00:49:03.220 his policies are harmful
00:49:04.660 and saying he's Hitler,
00:49:06.860 saying he's Mussolini,
00:49:08.800 which is what,
00:49:09.820 saying he's the devil,
00:49:11.300 which is what
00:49:11.980 the Democrats
00:49:13.200 have been doing
00:49:14.180 literally for a decade
00:49:15.700 and it's what the media
00:49:16.580 has been doing too.
00:49:17.640 I said today,
00:49:18.840 how many cities
00:49:19.980 have Republicans
00:49:20.780 tried to destroy
00:49:21.480 after their candidate
00:49:22.280 was almost assassinated?
00:49:23.480 Just so we're clear,
00:49:24.600 zero.
00:49:25.680 What did Republicans
00:49:26.440 say today?
00:49:27.020 They said pray,
00:49:28.220 go to church.
00:49:29.400 Yes.
00:49:30.280 And pray for the family
00:49:32.100 of those who lost loved ones.
00:49:33.720 There's been no violence.
00:49:35.300 I never want to hear again
00:49:36.680 from the left,
00:49:37.260 oh,
00:49:37.460 it's the Republicans
00:49:38.440 or the extremists here.
00:49:40.100 There has been nothing
00:49:40.940 but love and compassion.
00:49:42.580 There's anger.
00:49:43.820 And we also need
00:49:45.900 to fix the damn problem.
00:49:48.520 We need to make sure
00:49:49.400 that there is
00:49:50.280 adequate protection
00:49:52.680 for Donald Trump
00:49:55.120 and for others
00:49:56.620 targeted by violence
00:49:57.840 because this was
00:50:00.060 a catastrophic failure
00:50:02.300 and we got to make sure
00:50:03.740 it doesn't happen again.
00:50:04.860 We're going to keep you
00:50:05.620 updated on this.
00:50:06.500 I can promise you,
00:50:07.840 especially as Congress
00:50:09.280 looks on this
00:50:09.860 as you've called
00:50:10.460 for these emergency meetings.
00:50:11.880 We are also going to be
00:50:13.500 at the Republican convention
00:50:15.480 this week
00:50:16.360 with several shows.
00:50:18.280 We will be on
00:50:19.300 more than normal
00:50:20.300 from the convention.
00:50:21.980 It's going to be
00:50:22.620 a very big,
00:50:23.320 important week
00:50:23.980 and we pray
00:50:25.200 for the safety
00:50:25.940 of the president
00:50:26.520 and everyone
00:50:27.120 in attendance there,
00:50:28.220 obviously.
00:50:29.180 But we will be back
00:50:30.200 with you
00:50:30.660 from Milwaukee
00:50:31.920 at the Republican convention
00:50:33.620 as well.
00:50:34.440 Don't forget,
00:50:35.220 share this show.
00:50:36.060 We covered a lot
00:50:37.040 in this show
00:50:37.540 that the media
00:50:37.940 is not covering.
00:50:38.740 Make sure you share
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00:50:42.600 On those in-between days,
00:50:43.640 I'll keep you updated
00:50:44.360 on the latest breaking news.
00:50:45.460 Download my podcast
00:50:46.500 as well.
00:50:47.420 The Ben Ferguson podcast.
00:50:48.660 I'll keep you up to date.
00:50:50.480 And this, Senator,
00:50:50.940 I will see you
00:50:51.560 from Milwaukee
00:50:52.300 later this week.
00:50:54.220 This is an iHeart podcast.
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