Verdict with Ted Cruz - THIRD Assassination Attempt on President Trump...while Democrats Rhetoric Fuels the Fire

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00:00:04.680 Welcome. It is Verdict with Senator Ted Cruz.

00:00:07.140 Ben Ferguson with you, Senator.

00:00:08.680 Obviously, we are on this show thankful that there was no innocent people that were shot or killed,

00:00:13.600 including the president and any of the targets of the Trump administration

00:00:17.240 that were named by this individual in the manifesto.

00:00:21.200 God bless our men and women in law enforcement for what they were able to do.

00:00:25.040 And I think the part that is so shocking to me, this is now our third show that you and I have done after an attempted assassination attempt against President Donald Trump.

00:00:36.080 And this is what the left has normalized.

00:00:38.720 You know, tragically, that is exactly right.

00:00:41.360 This is the third time that we have had an assassin, an armed assassin attempt to assassinate President Trump.

00:00:49.640 This keeps happening over and over and over again.

00:00:52.640 Now, thank God, and I hope everyone literally said a prayer of thanks to God, that President

00:01:00.440 Trump is unharmed, that the entire cabinet and administration is unharmed.

00:01:06.160 That is only because of the heroism of the Secret Service that stopped this shooter.

00:01:11.540 Had they not stopped this shooter, he came armed, and his stated manifesto was to kill

00:01:17.480 as many senior members of the Trump administration as possible, including and especially his target 0.89

00:01:24.160 was President Donald Trump. He was a leftist. He was indoctrinated. And the rhetoric from the

00:01:31.100 Democrats, the rhetoric from the media, when you keep calling Donald Trump Hitler, people listen 0.85

00:01:38.820 to you. People act based on this rhetoric. It is harmful. It is causing lunatics to hear what they

00:01:46.100 say, and to act out, and they are endangering people's lives. And I don't see a single Democrat

00:01:52.060 backing off from it. In fact, just this week, Hakeem Jeffries, the lead Democrat in the House,

00:02:00.280 did a press conference where he said the following, quote, we are in an era of maximum warfare

00:02:08.780 everywhere, all the time. 0.95

00:02:13.860 Hakeem Jeffries, this lunatic heard you. 0.97

00:02:16.920 This is not acceptable. 0.98

00:02:19.020 Political violence is not acceptable.

00:02:22.640 By the way, you mentioned Hakeem Jeffries.

00:02:24.620 I want to play for people how he said it

00:02:27.000 because he said it in such a calm

00:02:29.140 and I think calculated way.

00:02:31.400 This is not an accident.

00:02:33.040 This is their messaging.

00:02:35.280 This is what they are wanting to get out there.

00:02:37.460 This isn't an accident.

00:02:38.780 Listen to how calmly Hakeem Jeffries says this.

00:02:42.080 This was clearly pre-planned remarks by Hakeem Jeffries.

00:02:46.980 Here he is in his own words.

00:02:48.720 We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere all the time.

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00:05:13.920 Senator, that was obviously well thought out, well-planned messaging. 0.71

00:05:18.500 slow and concise.

00:05:21.260 He wanted that soundbite to hit the news.

00:05:24.000 If you work in politics, you know how to speak in soundbites.

00:05:28.280 You could tell in that press conference that Hakeem Jeffries wanted that point to make

00:05:33.820 it very clearly the American people.

00:05:36.480 He slowed down.

00:05:37.560 He paused.

00:05:38.860 He said it clearly and concisely.

00:05:40.800 When you're trying to sell a point in a press conference, that is how you do it.

00:05:44.920 It's how you sell the headline.

00:05:46.280 every democrat knows the impact of their rhetoric they're using it deliberately

00:05:52.020 maximum warfare everywhere all the time but but if you think well well that may be ambiguous

00:05:58.820 maybe he meant metaphorically i want you to listen to hassan piker the the left-wing

00:06:04.900 america hating lunatic listen to what hassan piker uh said give a listen if you cared about 0.98

00:06:11.000 medicare fraud or medicaid fraud you would kill rick scott okay you wouldn't make rick scott 0.99

00:06:17.860 former governor of florida rick scott you wouldn't make him the the uh current what is his current

00:06:24.100 office what is he he's the richard lynn scott is an american attorney business and politician navy

00:06:29.200 veteran serving as the senior united states senator from florida uh seat he has held since 2019 and

00:06:34.620 also i believe this past election cycle he was literally the the the head of the what was it

00:06:40.980 Was it like the Senate committee?

00:06:42.780 Senator, you listen to this individual, and this is normal rhetoric for anyone with a microphone on the left right now.

00:06:50.000 Well, there's nothing normal about this. 0.95

00:06:52.540 This lunatic, and he is an America-hating Marxist, explicitly said kill Rick Scott. 0.96

00:07:00.940 Not metaphorically, he was calling for the murder of a Republican senator because he is a Republican senator. 0.97

00:07:08.400 Now, you might say, well, this Hassan Piker guy, he's a fringe lefty. Well, you know what?

00:07:14.040 Just in the past two weeks, he was campaigning with Abdul El-Sayed, who is running for Senate

00:07:20.260 in Michigan and is one of the leading Democrats running for Senate, who is happy to embrace

00:07:25.820 someone. Look, if I end up serving with Abdul El-Sayed, I don't know how exactly he's going 0.96

00:07:33.280 to look Rick Scott in the eye, given that he's campaigned with someone who is calling to murder

00:07:39.140 Rick Scott. These Democrats know what they're doing, and it is wrong. And let's be clear,

00:07:45.120 I'm being unequivocal. Violence is wrong. I want no violence against anybody, whether I agree with

00:07:50.640 you or disagree with you. Political violence is always, always wrong. And for some reason,

00:07:57.300 the Democrats hate Donald Trump so much that that is a sentence that is very, very difficult for

00:08:02.860 them to get out of their mouths hassan also publicly advocated by the way for trump's

00:08:07.660 assassination as well that has now gone viral listen to what he had to say and also listen to

00:08:13.980 the crowd laugh uh as he talks about someone taking out donald trump and you actually wrote

00:08:21.180 about this and and uh it was a great video where you talked about you know someone has to do it

00:08:27.780 see when i say that everyone knows exactly what i mean that which which is i think that shows that

00:08:35.380 there's a lot of anger a lot of resentment and untapped potential uh untapped revolutionary

00:08:41.980 potential as a matter of fact and it's a great opportunity for for organizing i think in these

00:08:46.900 in these unprecedented times is how he said it so in other words you're justified because donald

00:08:53.100 Trump was reelected by the majority of the American people. You are justified because

00:08:57.940 we've declared that it is a unprecedented times to go kill Donald Trump or Rick Scott or anyone 0.96

00:09:04.200 else we put on the kill list that we say is in our way. Look, they're laughing and cheering 0.96

00:09:08.560 when he references murdering President Trump. He then says there's a lot of untapped potential

00:09:14.800 of angry leftists who could go murder President Trump. And by the way, you don't have to go to

00:09:20.260 this clown go to the the white house correspondence dinner listen to jimmy kimmel what he said this 0.71

00:09:27.060 week to melania trump our first lady melania is here look at more so beautiful mrs trump you have 0.97

00:09:33.880 a glow like an expectant widow this was just so everybody understands jimmy kimmel doing a fake

00:09:40.780 white house correspondence dinner they put up a picture of the first lady if you're not watching 0.86

00:09:46.140 us on YouTube right now. And the audience laughs, implying that she's ready for Donald Trump to be

00:09:53.320 assassinated. And Jimmy Kimmel hasn't apologized. Look, the leftists hear what they're saying. We 0.50

00:09:58.520 saw a deranged leftist fly from California to D.C. and go to Justice Brett Kavanaugh's house 0.96

00:10:04.640 to murder him. This is happening over and over and over again. It is not OK. And by the way, 0.94

00:10:13.240 if you want to look at the polling, the polling is deeply disturbing. If you look at polling,

00:10:19.820 according to the Washington Times, quote, Americans generally believe political violence to be wrong,

00:10:25.320 but liberals and younger Americans are more likely to say political violence can be justified to

00:10:32.660 achieve goals and to celebrate the death of a public figure. When split into partisan groups,

00:10:39.340 25 percent of those who identify as very liberal say violence can sometimes be justified

00:10:47.760 and 17 percent of those who identify as liberal nine percent of those who identify as moderate

00:10:56.860 six percent of those who identify as conservative and less than five percent of those who identify

00:11:03.700 as very conservative. 25% of self-described very liberals say violence can sometimes be justified.

00:11:11.140 These are the people laughing. These are the people making jokes about murdering President

00:11:15.400 Trump. You know, it's not funny. Three times lunatics have picked up guns and tried to do so.

00:11:21.460 And one lunatic succeeded in shooting President Trump, murdering someone else, standing behind 0.98

00:11:27.940 President Trump. This violence, it keeps happening over and over and over again. We saw it happen 0.99

00:11:33.080 with Charlie Kirk, where he was murdered. And the left keeps doing it. They do it deliberately.

00:11:40.640 They're campaigning with this lunatic Hassan Piker, who's calling for murdering Republicans. 0.94

00:11:46.700 The Democrats are happy to stand side by side and say, this is who we are. This is what we stand 0.96

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00:12:23.620 you know the president did a press conference after and i mean well it seemed like it was

00:12:29.860 minutes after this this next assassination attempt on him at the white house correspondence

00:12:34.220 and the shooting and he went to the white house and he addressed the nation and i got to tell you

00:12:39.360 senator i i was impressed by the lack of anger he led like a leader should lead i don't know if i

00:12:46.960 would have been able to do that he talked about us coming together he talked about unifying the press

00:12:51.820 He talked about unifying people in that room.

00:12:54.660 He talked about how we need to make sure that we do this event and we do it soon again.

00:12:59.740 He even did a sit-down interview with CBS News, Norah O'Donnell, for 60 Minutes to play on Sunday.

00:13:07.140 And this is after someone has tried to kill him again. 0.99

00:13:10.680 And even then, CBS News could not stop themselves from implying that Donald Trump is a pedophile and a rapist, 0.99

00:13:20.140 Which is exactly what makes these individuals in the manifesto, this is what the guy was talking about, the reason why he wanted to kill Trump and the others around him. 0.99

00:13:28.460 And I want you to listen to the president's response.

00:13:30.760 And I'm shocked he's set in the interview anymore.

00:13:33.320 I honestly am.

00:13:34.620 I would have probably walked out just because it's like, are you kidding me?

00:13:38.520 We're not even 20 hours after, 15 hours, 18, 14 hours afterwards.

00:13:43.180 And you're already putting this type of rhetoric out there.

00:13:46.180 Listen to what he said.

00:13:47.000 so-called manifesto is a stunning thing to read mr president he appears to reference a motive in it

00:13:54.200 he writes this quote administration officials they are targets and he also wrote this i'm 0.93

00:14:00.520 no longer willing to permit a pedophile rapist and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes 0.89

00:14:06.600 what's your reaction well i was waiting for you to read that because i knew you would because you're 1.00

00:14:10.920 you're you're horrible people horrible people yeah he did write that uh i'm i'm not a rapist 0.99

00:14:16.920 i didn't rape anybody uh i'm not a pedophile excuse me excuse me i'm not a pedophile you 1.00

00:14:24.120 read that crap from some sick person uh i got associated with all stuff that has nothing to 0.97

00:14:32.200 do with me i was totally exonerated your friends on the other side of the plate are the ones that 0.99

00:14:39.420 were involved with, let's say, Epstein or other things. But I said to myself, you know, I'll do

00:14:46.360 this interview and they'll probably I read the manifesto. You know, he's a sick person. But you 1.00

00:14:52.180 should be ashamed of yourself reading that because I'm not any of those things. Mr. President, I was

00:14:57.140 never. Excuse me. Excuse me. You shouldn't be reading that on 60 Minutes. You're a disgrace.

00:15:03.100 But go ahead. Let's finish the interview. I got to tell you, he showed restraint, in my opinion, 1.00

00:15:07.420 having to deal with oh someone trying to kill him and then oh by the way we're going to say well this

00:15:11.280 is justifiable let's put it back out there for these sick people to say see this is why we should 0.96

00:15:16.040 be able to kill any political leader we don't like look it is deranged and the leftist media 0.98

00:15:21.800 repeats these attacks over and over and over again democrats repeat these attacks over and over and 0.98

00:15:30.840 over again the hateful and false things that that that this deranged person wrote in his manifesto

00:15:37.000 You could find Democrats saying that on any given day, elected Democrats that, you know, ironically, one of the people who used language like that, deranged language like that, was Eric Swalwell.

00:15:48.500 He was one of the nastiest for going after President Trump.

00:15:52.380 He has now resigned in disgrace because it turns out that that conduct allegedly describes himself.

00:16:01.040 But this is deliberate.

00:16:04.040 They know what they're doing.

00:16:05.440 And it is really harmful. You know, you mentioned President Trump calling for us to come together. And I want to play actually what he said on that, because it's really important. And I appreciate his saying this. Give a listen.

00:16:21.500 But in light of this evening's events, I ask that all Americans recommit with their hearts and resolving our difference peacefully.

00:16:30.000 We have to we have to resolve our differences.

00:16:33.300 I will say you had Republicans, Democrats, independents, conservatives, liberals and progressives.

00:16:41.500 Those words are interchangeable, perhaps, but maybe they're not.

00:16:44.720 But yet everybody in that room, big crowd, record setting crowd.

00:16:48.260 There was a record-setting group of people, and there was a tremendous amount of love and coming together.

00:16:56.780 I watched, and I was very, very impressed by that.

00:17:01.960 But we were, First Lady and I were taken very well care of, very quickly, very quickly rushed off the stage.

00:17:10.840 Vice President J.D. Vance, who's here, was likewise beautifully done.

00:17:17.780 He was just saying how quickly everybody acted, law enforcement, Secret Service in particular in this case, but law enforcement.

00:17:24.480 Marco had the same thing.

00:17:26.300 Pete was there.

00:17:27.060 Pete didn't want any help.

00:17:28.140 He didn't want anybody to help.

00:17:29.880 He doesn't want anybody to help him, but he did get some, didn't you?

00:17:33.940 And I think you also said that it was very impressive.

00:17:37.620 So with that, I'd like to ask Todd Blanche to come up, say a few words, and tell you it's already underway.

00:17:44.920 the uh the man is has been captured uh they've they're going to his apartment i guess he lives

00:17:52.860 in california and he's a sick person a very sick person and we don't want things like this to

00:17:59.300 happen i think it's very important that i say though and i told the representatives of the

00:18:03.880 evening they did such a beautiful job with such a beautiful evening and again they're talking about

00:18:08.680 free speech in our constitution that's what it's all about not just uh white house correspondents

00:18:14.260 It's really it was really based on free speech in our Constitution.

00:18:18.000 But I said very importantly that we'll do it again within the next 30 days and we'll make it bigger and better and even nicer.

00:18:27.680 So I just want to thank everybody that was involved.

00:18:30.420 I also want to thank the press, the media.

00:18:33.120 You've been very responsible in your coverage.

00:18:35.380 I will say I've been seeing what's been out.

00:18:37.240 You've been very responsible.

00:18:38.300 I mean, Senator, you just talk about this is 1039 Eastern.

00:18:42.700 Yeah. 0.89

00:18:42.840 right after this happened the first ladies in the room all of his team and is in the room many of the

00:18:48.640 cabinet members are in the room and and and to even then say i'm trying to bring us together

00:18:54.480 that is one of the best biggest takeaways for me is just this is what leaders do after things like

00:19:01.200 this happen even though they're trying to kill him yeah look i i appreciate uh his saying i ask

00:19:07.200 all americans to recommit with their hearts in resolving our differences peacefully that that's

00:19:14.500 the right message and and i gotta say look this shooter is sick there's no doubt about it but as

00:19:22.340 at least as we're in the opening days after this attempted assassination there's no evidence that's

00:19:30.620 been on earth so far that that this person is dealing with significant mental illness uh

00:19:36.400 schizophrenic, anything like that. Now, look, at some level, anyone who tries to commit mass murder

00:19:41.500 is sick in the vernacular. But it appears the real sickness, and there may well be mental

00:19:48.080 illness. We'll find out more as this proceeds to trial. But the real sickness is ideology. It's

00:19:55.420 the ideology of hate. And it's important to note, this wasn't some character on the fringes of

00:20:03.240 society this was not a homeless guy sleeping on a bench who who is is this is teacher of the month

00:20:10.760 this is a teacher of the month this was a normal lefty who was radicalized by the leadership that

00:20:16.680 he believed in and this goes back i mean you you go back senator to to just some of the things he

00:20:22.760 said he gave money by the way the commas campaign in 2024 this is a guy who was obsessed with

00:20:28.580 january the 6th if you want to know when the radicalization really got started he called

00:20:32.460 president trump a traitor the same words the media and the left has been using democrats elected

00:20:36.600 and said that the president had direct connections of vladimir putin so he bought into all the 0.80

00:20:41.240 russian collusion lie this is why lies have major consequences and and it i mean he was you know

00:20:48.500 they talk about with isis and al-qaeda where you know you have these lone wolves that are

00:20:52.540 radicalized over the internet it's no different than what we're talking about right now this is

00:20:57.000 a guy that was radicalized by the democratic party but it is different in that the people

00:21:01.000 radicalizing are not clerics that are online that are fringe it is the leaders it is the elected

00:21:08.100 officials in the democrat party that keep using language like this when they know that deranged

00:21:15.700 ideological leftists will choose to act on that they know that and and look this guy was a graduate

00:21:23.620 of Caltech. The murderer who murdered the CEO of UnitedHealthcare was a graduate of Penn,

00:21:31.300 an Ivy League school. That's a great point. And by the way, he is lionized by many on the left. 1.00

00:21:39.920 You see idiots wearing t-shirts with him or even getting tattoos of him because he's a good-looking 1.00

00:21:46.240 guy. Yes, he committed cold-blooded murder, but you see people like Taylor Lorenz, the reporter 1.00

00:21:52.640 who's been at the Washington Post, describing the joy she felt when he murdered this CEO in

00:22:00.200 cold blood. There is a culture on the left of celebrating violence. We saw leftists all over

00:22:07.700 the country cheering on when Charlie Kirk was murdered. Celebrating violence, calling for

00:22:14.700 violence. And at some point, at some point, is there any Democrat who will take responsibility?

00:22:21.580 All right, let's start with this. Is there one member, one Democrat in the Senate who will call out this clown running for Senate in Michigan for campaigning with with this Piker guy who is calling for murdering President Trump and calling for murdering a sitting Republican senator? 0.95

00:22:39.640 Is there one Democrat senator outside of John Fetterman? No. 0.99

00:22:44.740 And by the way, there's there's rumor that Fetterman may run as an independent or Republican in his next election because he's so done with the Democratic Party.

00:22:50.440 Yeah, the Democrat Party hates John Fetterman. They are trying to chase him out of the party. They will do everything they can to defeat him in his next election. And you're right. I'm sure John Fetterman would condemn it. He may have condemned it already. I don't think there's another one.

00:23:05.820 Who would condemn? Look, and let's be clear what I'm saying. Are there some Democrats who would condemn what Piker said? Sure. What they won't condemn is the current leading Democrat running for office for Senate in Michigan campaigning alongside the guy. That they won't do anything that is criticizing a fellow Democrat, even as you're celebrating calls to murder.

00:23:34.040 Let me ask you another question on this, and this is, I know the answer, but I think the audience needs to know this.

00:23:39.980 The president was talking about how the Secret Service did an amazing job in making sure that this threat was neutralized.

00:23:50.860 Do those guys get paychecks right now that were at the White House Correspondence Center?

00:23:54.680 Look, DHS is shut down. It's been shut down for more than two months.

00:23:59.540 So they're not getting paid?

00:24:01.060 Well, some of them are getting paid because the president is reallocating money from other parts of the budget.

00:24:05.780 So some of them have gotten paychecks.

00:24:08.400 But the Democrats are saying they don't want them paid.

00:24:11.160 The Democrats have voted against funding the Secret Service, funding the Department of Homeland Security.

00:24:18.580 They voted against it 16 times.

00:24:21.860 And by the way, there were Democrats at that event.

00:24:25.680 that event. In fact, there were more Democrats in that room than there were Republicans because

00:24:29.240 it's mostly reporters and they're almost all either Democrats or further left. And the Secret

00:24:35.960 Service, look, when they stop this shooter, any one of them could be killed. You know, I don't

00:24:40.780 know if you're a Democrat, how you justify going and voting against paying for the Secret Service

00:24:46.660 when they may have quite literally saved your life the couple days before. But I have no doubt

00:24:53.960 that they would still vote against it right they would they would vote against it they would say

00:24:57.260 no no we're not going to fund them like they're unified on that that's i don't know what they're

00:25:00.980 going to do next uh i do know that they voted 16 times against it i'll also point out you know you

00:25:07.420 look at the litigation against the new ballroom that president trump is building and yes that

00:25:12.500 litigation a federal district judge enjoined construction of the of the ballroom ordered

00:25:18.080 that it be halted and and here was his reasoning i want you to listen to it because it it's

00:25:23.100 absurd on its face. Quote, the fact that the ballroom is planned to include security features

00:25:30.740 such as bulletproof windows and a drone-proof roof does not bring the structure within the

00:25:37.220 scope of the national security exception. While these features may well be beneficial,

00:25:43.540 defendants have not provided any national security justification for why these features must be

00:25:51.360 installed immediately, such that they should be excluded from the scope of the injunction.

00:25:58.200 I'm going to give you the technical legal definition of that segment of the district

00:26:04.480 court's ruling. That is stupid. It is stupid on its face. And now, thankfully, that injunction 1.00

00:26:13.020 was stayed by the court of the field, so it's not in effect. But the federal district judge

00:26:17.620 was saying why i see no national security justification three times wow in about a year

00:26:24.960 we have seen president trump attempted a year and a half attempted to be assassinated

00:26:32.040 and yet the judge is saying look if it were in the white house ballroom if you had the security

00:26:37.060 of the white house that would be a much safer place to minimize these kinds of threats and

00:26:42.080 Sadly, I think the odds are high this is not the last attempted assassination of President Trump.

00:26:50.320 There are leftists out there who are hearing Hakeem Jeffries' war all the time everywhere.

00:26:56.780 They're hearing Democrat after Democrat after Democrat using language that is not even a dog whistle.

00:27:05.060 It's not even a coded call to violence. 0.77

00:27:06.940 their lunatic supporters know exactly what they're saying you know you go back the ballroom

00:27:14.500 and the politics of this by the way it was made private funds came in to to pay for this as well

00:27:19.320 and there was democrats are obsessed with this ballroom they don't want it to happen because

00:27:24.180 donald trump's the one doing it um and the other thing i think it was interesting is the president

00:27:28.320 said in his interview on 60 minutes that this has been something that the that the secret service

00:27:32.200 and the military have been saying for like basically the last 100 years,

00:27:35.540 we need this because it's a way to have events in a safe manner.

00:27:39.380 You look at the hotel where the White House Correspondents Center was last night.

00:27:42.340 I've gone to countless events there.

00:27:43.900 I know you have.

00:27:44.600 I mean, how many events do you think you've been to that thing in your political lifetime?

00:27:47.660 Like almost every event is there because it's one of the bigger, closest places.

00:27:51.260 And the nickname that pretty much everyone in politics calls it is the Hinkley Hilton

00:27:56.440 because it is the hotel where John Hinkley shot President Reagan.

00:28:02.200 And it's just, I mean, you say, oh, we've got an event in Stinkley Hilton.

00:28:05.660 That's just what they call it.

00:28:08.100 Yeah, I mean, and this goes back to the Secret Service's obsession with safety is we do the best we can.

00:28:16.620 We have all this security.

00:28:17.840 It's still a hotel.

00:28:19.000 This guy was able to check in apparently on Friday.

00:28:21.320 It still operates like a hotel.

00:28:23.440 We're rushing people out the back.

00:28:25.180 I had friends at Fox News that were rushed through the back of the hotel through the kitchen to try to keep them safe after all this went down.

00:28:35.320 And as you mentioned, the nickname of the hotel goes directly back to Ronald Reagan, which, again, if any of these Democrats are against having a ballroom, which, by the way, will benefit Democrats in the White House.

00:28:45.740 There will be more Democrats in the White House, I believe, in our lifetimes.

00:28:49.180 That's the way politics works.

00:28:50.660 It will keep them safe as well, because I never want to see an American president assassinated.

00:28:56.080 I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat.

00:28:58.660 And this is the difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party.

00:29:01.220 As Democrats call for this type of violence and assassinations and celebrate when people like Charlie Kirk get shot.

00:29:06.800 And we on the right say we don't want anyone to die because of their political beliefs, even if they're against me.

00:29:12.900 You are absolutely right.

00:29:14.740 Violence is wrong, period.

00:29:16.640 I do think this attempted assassination, it is the fruits of a corrupted elite academic system.

00:29:27.620 Where did this kid get radicalized?

00:29:29.820 I think the odds are quite likely at Caltech being trained by leftists.

00:29:35.620 And look, he wrote his manifesto.

00:29:38.480 And I'm not interested in highlighting his deranged attacks on President Trump, but I actually do want to read a little bit of it because he put out a series of objections and rebuttals, and they show just how twisted the indoctrination is. 0.87

00:30:00.700 So he writes, objection one, as a Christian, you should turn the other cheek. 0.58

00:30:08.560 By the way, this guy calls himself a Christian.

00:30:10.820 He claims to be a Christian.

00:30:12.540 Rebuttal, turning the other cheek is for when you yourself are oppressed. 0.57

00:30:18.040 I'm not the person raped in a detention camp.

00:30:21.540 I'm not the fisherman executed without a trial.

00:30:25.080 I'm not a school kid blown up or a child starved or a teenage girl abused by the many criminals in this administration.

00:30:32.820 Turning the other cheek when someone else is oppressed is not Christian behavior.

00:30:37.840 It is complicity in the oppressor's crimes. 0.85

00:30:41.280 By the way, listen to that language.

00:30:43.420 Complicity in the oppressor's crimes.

00:30:45.660 That is Marxist language of oppressors and victims.

00:30:48.840 and and and he is repeating what what leftists have indoctrinated him in university

00:30:57.940 here was his next objection to this is not a convenient time for you to do this rebuttal

00:31:05.640 I need whoever thinks this way to take a couple of minutes and realize that the world isn't about

00:31:11.020 them do you think that when I see someone raped or murdered or abused I should walk on by because

00:31:16.640 it would be inconvenient for people who aren't the victim. This is the best timing and chance

00:31:22.740 of success I could come up with. Objection number three, you didn't get them all. So he believed he

00:31:30.480 was going to kill President Trump, multiple members of the cabinet, but he recognized someone 0.74

00:31:36.440 would live. The vice president, his rebuttal, gotta start somewhere. This is the consequence 0.82

00:31:46.540 of consistent radical indoctrination, an indoctrination that says that in Marxist

00:31:57.560 ideology, the oppressor oppresses the victim and violence is justified in overthrowing the

00:32:04.940 oppressor. This young man was taught that garbage. The young man who murdered the United 1.00

00:32:10.200 healthcare CEO was taught that garbage. And the people purveying this poison, they are doing 0.99

00:32:16.820 massive damage. The lunatic who tried to murder Brett Kavanaugh was taught that garbage. And when 1.00

00:32:23.720 you teach people violence is okay. And justified. And justified. Morally justified. You must act.

00:32:33.960 By the way, this lunatic was not at all worried about all the children who were raped by human 0.98

00:32:39.800 traffickers under the Democrats' open borders. Those crimes, he was not worried about the people 0.96

00:32:45.440 murdered by illegal alien criminals and gangbangers released. Those murders don't concern 0.89

00:32:50.420 him at all. It's kind of like the leftists who hate Israel and are constantly protesting

00:32:56.680 against Israel. And yet when Iran murders between 10 and 40,000 protesters, not a single leftist

00:33:04.440 utters a peep because they only care about the people they deem oppressors. And I really do hope 0.96

00:33:13.500 that some responsible Democrat office holders stand up and say, you know, the rhetoric that

00:33:22.100 my party is using is producing horrible results and we need to stop. But I got to say, other than

00:33:31.240 john fetterman i don't see anyone doing that no and and they don't seem to be doing it even when

00:33:36.400 they're in the room where they could have been an innocent bystander they could have been killed

00:33:40.480 it is truly shocking to me that that room last night yeah i think you and i can say this i had

00:33:46.680 more friends in that room than any other room where this could have happened i'm the number of

00:33:50.800 friends i had in that room last night and i i was invited i didn't go um and and honestly i look at

00:33:57.740 events now as a threat analysis. Is it really worth it? Do I really need to be there? There's

00:34:02.280 a reason why when I go on stage now, I wear a bulletproof vest. That is not normal. That is

00:34:07.160 where we are right now. I was CPAC. I was hugging friends and we were laughing because we're hugging

00:34:12.060 each other with bulletproof vests on. That is not normal. But that is where the political violence

00:34:17.480 has come to at this point. We're going to keep you updated on all week long. I can promise you

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Verdict with Ted Cruz - April 27, 2026

THIRD Assassination Attempt on President Trump...while Democrats Rhetoric Fuels the Fire

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