The story of the Trump Assassination Thickens, as the details of the plot to kill Donald Trump continue to emerge, we take a look at the Canadian connection to the plot, and why it could have implications for Canada and the United States.
00:04:01.900Some pretty dark questions arising through the Trump assassination plot.
00:04:05.860I think many people watching, listening right now will know of some of at least the major, really big questions.
00:04:15.660You know, why was a sniper's paradise nest 130 meters away from where Trump would be a stationary target at a podium, completely unsecured?
00:04:26.400Why did the Secret Service not respond to people screaming at them to do something about the man with the gun on the roof more than two minutes before Trump was shot, and many more shot at him?
00:04:44.400Why did the Secret Service detail actually allow him to stop them while he was still very potentially in harm's way, while he was on the stage?
00:04:53.400There's supposed to be a human shield, getting him out.
00:04:55.960Those are the questions we had before, but new questions have since arisen.
00:05:01.300One, it's either local or state police officer, says he confronted the assassin while he was walking around that area with a rangefinder.
00:05:11.860Now, there's not many things to use a rangefinder for.
00:05:15.540I use it for shooting, mostly archery.
00:05:19.400It's good for golf, but I don't imagine he had clubs over his shoulder.
00:05:22.040Yeah, yeah. I mean, maybe he was there to get into the weird golf grudge match between Biden and Trump. I mean, like, I suppose that might be better than some of the explanations we've had from the Secret Service so far. He was golfing. But yeah, I suppose you could use it for golf. I use it for archery. Some long range shooting, but not much. But you know, that's what you use it for.
00:05:42.680He had a rangefinder, and he reported this 28 minutes before the shooting took place to the Secret Service. Nothing. Nothing. The head of the Secret Service, we'll get into this in a bit, who's been decried by some Republicans as a DEI hire, another diversity hire there to check some boxes, not based on merit.
00:06:05.600But her excuse for why they hadn't secured that that roof, which is a sniper's paradise, was that it was too, quote, slopey.
00:06:14.740Now, you know, let's put some pictures up on the screen right now.
00:06:18.200The roof that was too slopey for the Secret Service, but not for the assassin.
00:06:22.820And let's compare that to the slope on the roof that had a Secret Service sniper on it.
00:06:28.700If you take a look, the sniper, the roof they actually had a sniper on was significantly slopier.
00:06:35.340He actually couldn't lay in prone position.
00:06:37.100His sniper rifle had to be up on a tripod to stand still.
00:06:42.500It had a much greater slope, but she says it was just too dangerous to put someone up on this slopey roof.
00:06:48.900I guess that's one of the new big ones that's come out, Dave.
00:06:55.240Every day we get more questions than answers.
00:06:59.260Where do you think this story is going?
00:07:03.340We've had some good stories. A retired senior Mountie today told our Lee Harding that it was, quote, a colossal cock-up.
00:07:13.460He says, the Mountie says he's been told that the Secret Service sniper did have the gunman in his sights, was told not to shoot.
00:07:23.120We're seeing some reports of that, that he had it for quite a while, told not to shoot.
00:07:26.600But, you know, things that aren't debatable, two minutes before the shots rang out, people were yelling at cops to alert them about this guy on the roof.
00:09:15.580We're still asking questions about that.
00:09:17.360Yeah. You know, the only thing I haven't heard on Trump is there was a grassy knoll. But this story is going to go on forever.
00:09:24.580Yeah. Corey, it's I mean, it is a meme heaven.
00:09:31.860There is a lot of good fun to it on a serious issue, but it's still, I mean, you can't help yourself.
00:09:38.460Yeah. Well, good fun from one side, another side wishing it actually happened.
00:09:43.000the other side kind of taking it in stride. Some people maybe taking it too far saying,
00:09:48.120oh, it's a plot from the Democrats. You don't know that yet. You can't fairly say that.
00:09:54.560But we can say there are some huge, they're not just holes in the story. Holes imply that there's
00:10:00.760something solid in the story. There's almost nothing solid. Nothing that happened makes any
00:10:04.660sense. And you know who's taking the biggest kicking in memes is that five foot four secret
00:10:09.840service officer well that's yeah who's a close protection officer from trump who can't even
00:10:15.080holster her gun problems speaking of speaking of her and memes we got to put up the great meme of
00:10:19.540her uh dei another day yes so i mean there was that there was outrage about her you know i guess
00:10:24.880she was trying to do the job to the best of her ability but if you notice the secret service
00:10:29.100around trump the following evening when he walked into the rnc every secret service guy was taller
00:10:36.400I mean, I'm still on the side of we're seeing mass incompetence and complacency. I'm just, I can believe that there'd be a person or two in there who would like to facilitate the assassination, but these conspiracies to pull them off with more than a person or two, it just, but I mean, the she, the one we're speaking of, the Secret Service one is, you know, five, whatever, and seeing the panic on her face.
00:11:01.480She can't even holster and unholster her guy and everything else. This was a deeply unqualified person in that role. I couldn't do it, but I wouldn't expect it. I would have panicked and been on the floor too. That's why I'm not there. You're supposed to train the best. Now, was she placed there because they wanted to surround her by incompetent Secret Service people to lead to a bad end? I don't know. I think the DEI talk kind of dominates things. We were there, well, we've got to make sure we got a number of women in there.
00:11:28.720and there hasn't been at least nothing we've heard of0.95
00:11:32.020an assassination attempt like this in a long time.
00:16:09.700But if he was going to shoot that close, like, less than an inch, and to just wound him enough to give him a little bit of blood for the picture, but not to kill him, and the way Trump moved his head, he would have to be the greatest sniper who has ever lived.
00:16:25.020He'd put Vasilius Eidsef to shame, put the American sniper guy to shame.
00:16:30.360So one theory, actually both theories require him to be a good sniper, on the other extreme ends.
00:16:37.520The Democrats planned the whole thing. He'd have to be at least a decent sniper because no one would recruit someone who's that bad. And then for the left wing conspiracy, he'd have to be the world's greatest sniper to just graze his ear and not kill him as he's turning his head. Obviously not possible.
00:16:54.520Yeah, the one thing I find strange about this is a 20-year-old kid, right?
00:16:58.940Zero social media presence, nothing on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram.
00:17:03.360I mean, do you know any 20-year-old who's not on social media in some way, shape, or form?
00:17:08.160And he's studying computers at university.
00:21:53.020Canada is Ohio's biggest trading partner.
00:21:57.200So I imagine that Mr. Vance will know Canada and Canadian government
00:22:03.680and export laws and all that sort of stuff very, very well.
00:22:07.460So if that helps Canada or hurts, you know, the U.S. likes protectionism, especially during election campaigns.
00:22:16.520A familiarity is good at least, you know, or a knowledge that it's a reciprocal relationship.
00:22:22.160Because, yeah, a protectionist comes from somewhere if they've had no interaction with Canada, they might underestimate, I mean, how important we are to each other.
00:22:28.800I mean, yes, we're tiny compared to the United States, but we're still pretty integral to their economy.
00:22:32.540No, and Trudeau has soured the relationship with Trump.
00:22:38.660So, you know, maybe a bridge there with Vance.
00:22:42.680I mean, I guess Trudeau called Trump shortly after he was shot.
00:22:47.140And I think poor man, so I've been through enough.
00:22:49.140I don't want to talk to that idiot and hung up the phone.
00:22:53.780But, yeah, I mean, I think it can only be good for Canada.
00:22:57.660Yeah, Corey, he and him being from Ohio, I think is particularly relevant. It's a hyper important swing state. You know, in Ohio, the math of getting to the presidency for either side is extremely difficult. Ohio is one of those pretty much must win states now.
00:23:15.660So it's, yeah, strategically and just on every level, Trump has really got this in the bag.
00:23:22.580I mean, what put him over the edge when he won back in 2016 was winning the working man's vote through Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Ohio, Michigan, you know, those areas where they felt set upon by woke administrations shutting down their industries, looking down on them as hillbillies.
00:23:41.460I mean, he's going to tie that right up now.
00:26:07.480So, yeah, I agree with Derek. I don't think there's any chance that anybody wants to replace him. I mean, if they can find a patsy, and I guess I shouldn't use that word either.
00:26:17.720But is it really? Yeah, because you have to, for them to change out Biden, he is the presumptive nominee. He has won the primaries overwhelmingly as the sitting president. Not surprisingly, he's got the delegates for him to not run. He must agree to step aside. And to for at this point, he does not want to step aside. Joe Biden does not want to step aside.
00:26:44.720You have to completely ruin the man beyond where he's already been humiliated to, to get him to want to step aside.
00:26:52.540That kind of bloodshed within a party leaves, or you know from internal, you said you haven't had a good hair day since 2010.
00:26:57.900When did you start getting involved in the Wild Rose Party?
00:27:24.160Yeah, focus the resources on those other races, those senatorial races, those Congress, you know, because you still maintain what you can if you've got a lost cause.
00:27:32.920Maybe talk about what you said it didn't have much of an effect on Canada.
00:27:36.040One way that it did was some of the disgusting reaction from the left wing.0.97
00:27:41.280Right. You've got a UBC medical professor lamenting the fact that the assassin missed.
00:27:51.420And other academics were basically tweeting the same thing.
00:27:54.980And, of course, Derek, as you know, they immediately locked down their accounts.
00:27:58.500But everybody, you know, I was watching Twitter in the States, everybody from firefighters to school guidance counselors to teachers who wrote stupid stuff, they're all getting fired.
00:28:08.380What's happening in Canadian academia?
00:28:11.280I mean, we are technically a different country. So it's a little bit of a different effect. But the point stands. Could you imagine if, say this had happened to Biden or to Obama? Damn right, you'd have been everyone be fired, even on the Canadian side of the border.
00:28:28.880Well, it's beyond the pale, celebrating an assassination. And part of it, I know some people, Adam Zeebo, who was a guest recently, was saying, I don't like this cancel culture swarm going on. I kind of agree, but there's some nuance going on with this. I mean, there's a Home Depot woman who got fired from her job. You know what? Some Home Depot clerk wants to put off their weird stuff, whatever. That's, I guess, between her and Home Depot.
00:28:48.900Well, the problem was it was reflecting at Home Depot, hurting the brand.
00:29:43.300So, I mean, but there's a difference between assassinating a terrorist leader in an enemy state and an attempted assassination of someone seeking elected office in the world's leading democracy.
00:30:09.460It reflects a lot of the language that's gone on for some years, too, though, when they had,
00:30:13.100we don't want to, in that case on X, it's not unusual, but saying, you know, he's going to
00:30:17.560kill millions if he becomes president again. He meant this, this guy, he really thinks,
00:30:21.760I mean, you know, that mental exercise people do sometimes, if you could go back in time and
00:30:25.400kill Hitler when he was, you know, still in Austria, would you do it? There's people, I mean,0.88
00:30:31.620they literally called him literally Hitler for eight solid years. Now, there's people who really
00:30:37.200think they might be saving millions by killing this man. And that's when if you believe that
00:30:42.760really disturbed, then it kind of legitimizes it. Yes, they think that it would be a worthwhile
00:30:47.680action for humanity. As you said, if we feel morally justified in bombing an Iranian dictator1.00
00:30:52.820or Gaddafi, you know, others like that, then they in their mind feel this, you know, so that's a
00:30:59.560scary place. I think what you're talking about, those people are sitting in their underwear in
00:31:04.500mom's basement. When you're a professor of medicine at UBC, you should know better.
00:31:08.980No, absolutely. And you have an audience of people that are supposed to take you seriously.
00:31:13.140Let's talk about another reaction in Canada, a very different reaction that received a very
00:31:19.540different reception from the Canadian establishment. Pierre Polyev's reaction, happy the assassin's dead.
00:31:26.500You know, I know a lot of our viewers and stuff are not the biggest fans of Andrew Coyne.
00:31:30.520I mean, I think he's pretty off the reservation sometimes, but overall, like, more than 50% of the time, he's at least a rational voice.
00:31:39.260But Andrew Coyne, kind of speaking for, I think, a lot in the Canadian media establishment, you know, calling it more or less unbecoming of him, you know, we might be thinking it, but we shouldn't say it.
00:31:48.680No, of course we should say we're happy that the assassin is dead.
00:31:51.940And then the Liberal Party condemning Pierre Paglia for saying he's happy the assassin's dead.
00:31:57.940There's only one reason, two potential reasons you should not be happy if the assassin's dead.
00:32:21.180I'm doubtful he was actually answering to anybody because he's, as I said before,
00:32:25.140You know, if I was planning a presidential assassination, I would get someone who's been to the range for more than five minutes in their life.
00:32:32.140This guy was pretty, pretty bad shot. But even people just from either of you, just this bizarre Canadian establishment, political and media establishment squeamishness to say we're happy that a man who tried to murder the likely next president United States is dead.
00:32:53.180And after this left-wing outrage, Paulie went on, I believe it was a Toronto radio station the next morning, and doubled down.
00:33:00.360He said, what do people expect me to say?
00:34:47.920So we're going to flow one topic to another, but they're going to blend nicely. Is D-E-I about to D-I-E, diversity, equity, inclusion, which is essentially the new, you know, it's the more technical world that the woke guys use for programs to help people that they think are in special need of help because they can't help themselves.
00:35:13.420I don't know if I put that fairly or not, but that's as fair as I can think I can put it.
00:36:05.500There was an online campaign started against them only a week ago.
00:36:10.660for their diversity and their funding of lgbtq plus uh events and all that uh s s q r t l m n o p
00:36:24.260so obviously the pressure got to them and they came out today they issued a statement saying
00:36:28.340we're going to get back to doing uh the tractor business concentrating on that concentrating on
00:36:33.620on growing the business and uh you know they've completely put dei in the uh in the toilet
00:36:40.660Question is, I think for me, is it just internet pressure? Or is it shareholder pressure?
00:36:46.900Well, I actually think this, if I really go back to what's the big first corporation to fall
00:36:53.540from D.I.E. Budweiser or Anheuser-Busch started the dominoes that started it, they just what was
00:37:02.260the name of Dylan Mulvaney, they got into playing trans politics and stuff.
00:37:10.100you know and none of this is just about like you know accept people which we do we don't
00:37:16.260we just don't care uh it's it's just pushing in your face and and just being overly obnoxious
00:37:21.860about it and companies trying to drape themselves in whatever color the flag is now
00:37:26.260um and just annoying people and and anheuser-busch uh budweiser got crushed for it they're still
00:37:33.620feeling it and they not only canceled the dilemma of anything they more or less just backed out
00:37:38.020We're not just we're not in the business anymore. We're forgetting the D.I.E. stuff. Sorry. D.E.I. Sorry. Billions of dollars poor. Yeah. Billions for like real costs. We were just talking about we talked a bit about how D.E.I. seemingly infected the Secret Service.
00:37:57.560I mean, if there's anything that should be 100% merit based, it's the bloody secret service, which had had until a few days ago, an impeccable reputation for hyper competence, hyper merit.
00:38:11.140Biden had put in place what appears to be a diversity hire with very predictable outcomes.
00:38:17.800We got to put that meme up again, DEI another day.
00:38:22.240And then a real cost, not this time to a company, but to taxpayers of the tax base. Elon Musk moving SpaceX and Twitter or X, whatever you want to call it. Twitter X. I'm calling it Twitter X. Moving Twitter X and SpaceX from California to Texas. I think it's literally called Spaceport, Texas. I guess it's his home private town or something.
00:38:50.240And the last straw for Musk was Gavin Newsom passing a law that said teachers don't have to tell parents when their kids want to be transgendered.
00:39:00.940Exactly the opposite of what Albert has done and New Brunswick's done.
00:39:04.620And then he said he's tired of Twitter because staff were tired of stepping over zombies laying on the street.
00:43:07.480Don't worry that Canada doesn't have an Army, Navy, and Air Force anymore because Canada's got a carbon tax because climate change is our biggest security issue.
00:45:46.520It's only $10 a month or $100 a year to get you unlimited access to all Western Standard content.
00:45:52.580And very importantly, you get to be one of the people in Canada supporting one of less than five, I think, significant, non-government-controlled and funded media in Canada.