July 16, 2024 • 56 mins
Tonight on Battleground LIVE:
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Trump makes his entrance at the RNC
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America is in desperate need of leadership right now
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The aftermath of the assassination attempt
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Tactical failures are beyond simple incompetence
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Biden is doubling down on insane rhetoric
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
That morning, you're about to enter the arena and join
the Battle to save America with your host, Sean Carnell.
Good evening, America. Welcome to the battle crew, from sea
to Shining Sea and everybody in between.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome patriots. It's great to have you here, folks.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Listen. I have been really, really struggling, not in like, oh,
I can't handle what happened that day. No, not like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Been struggling with what happened on Saturday for a lot
of different reasons. One, it's absolutely consuming me. I can't
wrap my mind around how something like that could possibly happen.
If in the heat of the moment, trying to find
out where the shooters are, where the fire was coming from,
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wife on the ground next to me, trying to use
my body to shield her, because I knew that the
rounds were coming from an elevated position and likely could
have a plunging effect, what you call in the military
plunging fire. In other words, rounds that are fired from
an elevated position and fall, so even if you're taking cover,
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even if you're laying flat on the ground, the rounds
can still land on top of you. And I knew
in order for a shooter, even an amateur shooter, to
make that shot, they had to be coming from an
elevated position. I simply don't know how something like this
was possible. I have been in more firefights than I
(01:44):
care to count.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have been.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
In more fire It's just like you have been shot
at so many times it's unbelievable. I've been in some
real crazy, crazy freaking situations. I mean where shit hit
the fan and things did not go right. I've even
had artillery fired scene. I've seen artillery fired on friendly
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troops just simply by accident. Sometimes bad things happen, and
when you're in combat, you have to fight against complacency
because sometimes people just get used to their environment and
they do dumb stuff. You know. For example, when I
say dumb stuff, I'm not talking about insanely crazy negligent stuff.
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I'm talking about dumb stuff that could get people killed,
but not super negligent stuff that's just mind blowing. I mean,
there were times where, you know, I've seen soldiers take
off their helmets while on patrol. I've seen soldiers take
off their ipro while on patrol, or take their fire
retarded gloves off while they're on patrol, and of course
(02:53):
it was my job as a leader, is uncomfortable and
hot as it was.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
At the time, to say no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And you got to get that shit back on there,
because it's when you least expect it that bad things happen.
And so Murphy's law right, sometimes shit just happens. But
I cannot, for the life of me, understand or wrap
my mind around how what happened on Saturday was actually
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allowed to happen. And the reason why I'm struggling with
it is because we lost people in Pennsylvania. These are
my people. I love the people I love. I love
the American people, but Pennsylvania is my state. People are
One person is dead, another person is critically injured. My
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wife could have been killed. We were indirectly in the
line of fire where the shooter was shot right over
our position. I heard the rounds myself. She could have died.
We aren't getting any answers from our government. This is
what really pisses me off. You know, in the military,
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after something like this happens, you do what's called an
after action report. But before you even get into the
official writing of that report, everybody that was on patrol
or in a firefight or involved in an incident, sits
around a circle and they recount what happened. Mean, I
mean that happens instantaneously, because if that doesn't happen, people's
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memories change, people forget things, and all the while you've
got somebody there writing, writing, writing, just to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Make sure it's recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's so important that that happens, so for it to
never happen again, so that if we did something wrong,
and we always wanted to know if we did something wrong,
we could adjust our tactics so that in the future
we didn't encounter a similar problem. And ultimately the hope
was is that lives would be saved. But it's clear
(04:57):
to me that that's not happening. In fact, the director
of the Secret Service said that there's no way they've
could have put a sniper team on the roof of
where the shooter was would be assassin was located, because
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the slope on the roof was just too steep and
it could have been dangerous. And when I heard that,
I gotta tell you, I have out lost my shit
because i'ven't placed snipers, sniper teams, and designated marksmen in combat.
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I've put them on the down slope of mountains in
the Himalayas, and you're telling me the director of the
Secret Service is telling me that the reason we didn't
occupy that building by force with boots on the ground
is because the roof was too steep, and oh, by
the way, it wasn't. So what that tells me is
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that not only I mean she's already said she's not
stepping down, but not only will there not be a
transparent investigation, we likely will never know and she's already
committed to bullshit and lies. And that just makes me
so mad. And that's why that's why I'm struggling with
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all this. And so before we're gonna get into the
weeds on the tactical failures of the United States Secret
Service and all that stuff. Before we get into all that,
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So I'm so so grateful for that. You all are
(07:05):
the best audience in world. So thank you. Let me
let me quickly do just a couple of news stories
off the top. So today Bob Menendez was found guilty
on all counts in his bribery trial. The charges include
accepting bribes paid in cash, gold, luxury car.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Following the verdict, you got Chucky Schumer.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Remember the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday at
getting back at you. Yeah, that Chuck Schumer has called
on Bob and Endez to resign from his positions so
that he wouldn't be expelled. What does this mean politically
for everybody? Well, I mean it means that they're gonna
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have to like, there's gonna be a weak senator from
New Jersey that's going to be up very very soon.
And with Trump in office and on the ballot, we've
clearly got New Jersey within the margin of er and
I think you know, even states like New Hampshire, even
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states like Virginia, they're all now in play, so we're
gonna get to that in a second here as well.
But also Adam Schiff, I don't know if you heard this,
but he told a bunch of rich Democrats that a
private fundraiser that with Biden on the ticket, the Democrats
are done. And the reason why this is, like I
find this fascinating to me, is that the Democrats must
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be seeing something in their own data that says that's going.
They are going to get their asses whooped, not just
at the top of the ticket with Biden, but both
in the Senate and the House as well. They would
not be calling for Joe Biden to step aside even now.
They would not be doing it if they did not
see something in their internal data that just showed them
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getting their asses kicked. Believe me, replacing Joe Biden at
the top of the ticket has absolutely positively nothing to
do with that guy being cognitively gone has nothing to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And if you don't believe me, ask yourself this question.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
If Joe Biden was annihilating Donald Trump at the polls,
do you think this conversation about removing him would be happening.
The answer is, of course no, they would go right
back into the media saying that Joe Biden's the sharpest
ever and if you don't believe me, if you man like,
that's what they would do. And so the Democrats, the
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group of Democrats, are actually circulating a letter now trying
to stop the Democrat National Committee from nominating Biden, because
you remember they were talking about nominating him early to
remove any talk of actually replacing him at the top
of the ticket. Well, now Democrats are out there saying, hey,
whoa woe, slow your role, let's wait on nominating this guy.
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So there's still an internal war within the Democrat party
as to whether or not to replace Joe Biden. And
I have to tell you again, it's a glory thing
to see. I love when my political foes attack each other.
It's great that also have to tell you that I
feel I feel sheepish even talking to you all about this,
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because it just feels like it kind of feels cheap
to talk about every day mundane politics. I even feel
cheap watching the Republican National Convention and watching these speeches.
You know, I was twenty feet away from President Trump
when he was almost shot to death by an assassin.
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That's all that matters to me right now. It's all
I can think about is our country at this moment,
that the most important political figure of my life, certainly
going back all the way to Ronald Reagan, certainly I've
never seen a man like Donald Trump with a movement
like he has behind him, when I've the tendency to
say he's the most electrifying political figure in the history
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of certainly my lifetime, and I think many of yours
as well, And that man almost lost his life, but
there were people directly behind it from my state that
did lose their life. No one, no one has held
accountab before it. I'm sure that you've now heard that
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there was an Iranian plan to assassinate President Trump, and
apparently the United States Secret Service knew that going into
the rally and actually plussed up his security detail. Didn't
seem that plused up to me, trust me, I was there,
And again I've heard from people on the ground, sources,
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my buddies within the Secret Service saying that many of
the agents that were there with President Trump that they
actually weren't Secret Service agents. They were augmentees from the
Department of Homeland Security, which by the way, probably pretty
good at their job. But guess what, they're not United
States Secret Service agents. And so here we have a
situation where President Trump just survived in assassination attempt. Now
(12:04):
I have foreign nations out there threatening to assassinate President Trump,
but the.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Man is unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
He just did the way that he reacted in that moment.
And again I didn't learn what happened in the moment.
I was busy trying to figure out where the guy,
where the shooter was. I was busy trying to figure
out how I could help local law enforcement. They were
clearly overwhelmed trying to figure out how we could get
thirty thousand people out of there who had just been
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most of them just been shot at. For the first time,
I had ninety five year old right next to me,
Missus Fogel, prior to the rally. I don't think I've
talked about this yet, but Mark Vogel was a teacher
here in western Pennsylvania who has been held hostage by
the Russians for three years in a ghullog in Siberia. Now,
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the Biden administration moved heaven and earth to get Britney grind,
the lesbian WNBA, hardcore leftists who hates America out of
a Russian prison, and they traded some pretty terrible terrorists
to get her, which, okay, listen, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We'll kill the terrorists later, right.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm fine with doing everything you can, regardless of politics,
to bring Americans back here. Okay. But the Biden administration
has let Mark Foegel again, who was confined by the
Russians for a medical marijuana prescription. It was prescribed for
a medical condition, like MS was a real medical condition,
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and they put this guy in prison. He's been there
for three years since twenty twenty one. Backstage, prior to
meeting President Trump, I actually got a chance to talk
to Missus Fogel. But I told the Trump team like
Biden has completely ignored this family. Despite repeated attempts from
this family to reach out to the Biden administration, the
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Biden administration has ignored her, ignored Missus Fogel, ignored Mark Fogel,
not released one single statement. And I said to the
Trump team, I said, listen, leadership is about leading, especially
when people aren't looking. It's about doing the right thing
all the time, using the power that you have and
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investing it back into the people. To help them to serve.
So this is a great opportunity to show support for
a cause that is right and righteous and also separate
yourself from the animated corpse that is Joe Biden even
more in Pennsylvania by supporting this woman, her family and
her son who's being unjustly held by Russia. And the
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Trump team freaking amazing as they are, they got it done.
They had Missus Fogel at this rally. I mean, this
is what I'm t talking about with Trump. The guy
is a freaking leader, Like I said at the rally
during a speech, like I don't give a da hey
people around the world, world leaders, by the way, who
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gives a shit right about what they think?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's about taking care of Americans first.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But you know, if you can be liked, great, But
who cares if these people don't like you. They all
respected him, even if they didn't like Trump, they all
respected him because the guy gets shit done. And so
he has missus Spogel there in this ninety five she's
ninety five years old, and she is with it, and
I'm talking to her and she sees me, and I
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talked to her about I said, you know, hey, I'm
so glad you're here. What's happening to your son is
a travesty, you know. I said, if I have I
don't know if this is going to be anything, if
this offer will ever come, but I said, if I
have a role at all at all in the next
Trump administration, I will be that I will make it
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my top priority to get your son home. And she
was so happy just to have somebody listen to her,
just to have somebody be there for her. And she
let me listen to a phone call from her son, Mark,
who again is in effing Siberia. Let me listen to
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a phone call from her son saying that he loves her,
he misses being home. He's hoping there'll be a movement
in action soon, but the Biden by the Biden administration,
but he's just not hopeful. But that he's also not
going to last much longer. And so I got a
chance to meet with President Trump personally, both Melanie and I.
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Commander Melanie and I both did. Missus Fogel did as well,
and President Trump told Missus Fogel, when I win, I'm
going to get your son back. This is a side
of President Trump that the media will never show you.
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This is a side of President Trump that even other
politicians won't show you. The man has a deep, abiding
compassion for people who are struggling. And he showed that
to missus Fogel by making himself available and taking time
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to meet with her, not just meet with her, saying
he said, when I win, I will get your son back.
And she came out of that tent, and I'm telling you, listen,
she comes out of that tent because you know, with
you meet with President Trump, the Secret Service walks you
back and you sit that back down in your like
little chairs. And Melanie and I walked out and sat down,
and I watched missus Fogel come out and American Badass
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by kid Rock heavy some like heavy metal type song
on the loud speakers playing, and Missus Fogel, ninety five
years old, you won't hear these stories anywhere else. Ninety
five years old is coming out of that speech and
coming out of meeting with President Trump, and she's dancing.
She got this little cane and she was so happy
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because when Trump speaks, people listen. Words matter as a leader,
and Trump made it very clear that he was going
to be there for her, so she sits down. President
Trump comes out on stage. He walks down the little
his little like red carpet walkway, and he's stopping, pointing
to people. He comes and looks at me and Melanie.
He points right at us, and he gives us the
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thumbs up, and he's waving to people. Walks a little
bit more, stops he's waving to people. And this is
why I posted a picture on X. If you haven't
seen it, go look at it. Posted a picture on
X of Trump walking out on that walkway. The picture
is from behind him and Trump is looking to the
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left of the red piece of construction equipment and just
sort of right in the middle between this light pole
and this red piece of construction equipment and then the
upper left hand corner of the video you can see
a portion of the building that the sniper that would
be assassin was on. And people are like, oh, it's
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not the same, but no, listen, there's the build. There's
a tall portion of the building and there's a lower
portion of the building. It's connected, right. Do you remember
if you remember the satellite imagery from the ladders, Uh,
the ladder was on a piece that connected the top
part of the building to the lower part of the building.
What was visible was the top part of the building,
and the building actually went behind the tractor as well,
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and the sniper was somewhere on that roof, and so
people were like, oh, it's not the right building with Okay,
so the building that the sniper was on was actually
closer than I mean, I'm correct, But the building that
the actual sniper would be assassin was on was actually
closer than right. So it doesn't matter if the exact
location of the of where the sniper was on the rooftop,
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that's irrelevant. The point is is that nobody was on
that roof. In fact, not only was nobody on that roof,
there's reports now that it was a sniper staging point
for the Secret Service and the local law enforcement officers
who were there, So, in other words, they were inside
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the building when this kid, this twenty something kid, who
by the way, i'm hearing reports of just now that
he walked to the objective carrying ammunition, a ladder an
ar Nobody sees him, climbs up on the building, nobody
sees him, sets in the prone people start pointing, hey, hey,
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there's somebody up there. The reports now that said twenty
six minutes prior to the first shots being fired, people knew,
police knew. Why was Trump on the stage If you
knew the shooter was up there and you were suspicious
about something, why was Trump on the stage.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
For good?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Say, until the threat is newzed. You don't have the
guy walk out there and then he walks out there.
Go look on locals, Go look on locals. That pictures
supposed to there. Go look at my X feed supposed
to there. You can see how close the building was.
You can see it is a layup shot. And yeah, people,
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he's twenty something year old kid. People were saying, oh,
he wasn't a good shot. Listen. I mean, maybe he's
not a Special Forces sniper. But the only reason why
Trump is alive is because he went off script. He
ditched a teleprompter and was gesturing two signs behind him
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that had an immigration graphic on it. He looked once,
turned back, addressed the crowd, looked twice. Shots fired as
he looked around hit his ear. So make the argument
that the kid's a shitty shot, but he hit his
freaking target on the first try. The only reason that
Trump survived is because he turned his head. And so
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when I tell you that there was something in the
air that night, the flag getting tied up into what
looked like an angel to what looked like Christ on
the cross, feeling that same sensation that I felt at
the rally in Afghanistan during a near death experience. It's real, folks,
It's real. But as I think about this more, and
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I've been unpacking the situation here, I am talking about, Hey,
there's something in the air that saved Trump's life. But
how callous am I for saying that? Because I imagine
that Corey's family doesn't feel that way. And I imagine
that the man who was the sixty year old Democrat
who was shot in the abdomen and the stands there
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to support Trump don't feel that there was something in
the air looking out for them. So you see how
after your ends a firefight, you unpack things from thirty
different angles. Right, I'm pissed off for these people because
it feels like, and I'm just going to go out
on a limb here. It feels like this is going
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to be one of these bullshit things that happens in Washington.
That Secret Service director says she's not going to resign.
She absolutely should. She's an incompetent moron, and incompetent morons
and tactical places where lives are on the line can
cost lives. Saw that on Saturday. But we're in a
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place where she's not going to resign, and there'll be
twelve eighteen months of investigation in Congress, a report will
be issued and by then she'll probably already be retired
or there'll be no action taken. And that is not
acceptable to me because I am on ear muffs for
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these kids. Okay, seriously, I'm giving you fair warning. And yeah,
I'm an infantry guy, so forgive me for being a
knuckle dragger. You can take the man out of the infantry,
but you can't take the infantry out of the man.
I'm fucking angry because that is not an acceptable outcome.
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A president almost died. Somebody did die. We're not one
hundred percent sure that the person who was shot in
the abdomen is going to make it. I saw it.
It was a horrible injury. And he's an older gentleman,
a Democrat. By the way, people that were at that
rally will remember it for the rest of their lives.
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Some people were traumatized. Yeah, I've been checking in on
people who were there and helping with Kazavak and helping
treat the wounded. I'm not gonna lie to you and
say that they're doing great. Most of these people who
have never been in a combat situation, they just rose
to the moment.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So let me tell you, I am not satisfied.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And the slightest with Let's do an investigation for twelve
months and no accountability.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm efing tired of no accountability.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There was no accountability in Afghanistan when thirteen soldiers died,
and that ask clown that we have a president checks's watch.
Five embassies have fallen under the Biden administration. There's never
any accountability for anything. The Secretary of Defense up and
went missing and nobody knew where the hell he was.
No accountability there either. In fact, the opposite is usually
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the case. Oh, the surrender in Afghanistan, it was an
extraordinary success, F you. That's not acceptable secret Service coming
out the director of the Secret Service and saying, hey,
well look it was successful, the president was protected.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
F you.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It was a catastrophic failure. Never in my life have
I ever seen in competence or Neglice Lejens on the
scale that was demonstrated by the United States Secret Service
that I did at that rally. How you don't have
that building secure is simply beyond me, and it leads
me to think that something else is at play here.
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And you can think whatever you want about me, but
I didn't put myself in this position to think this way.
Their actions did. And who do I mean by they?
I mean our intelligence community. I mean these damn Democrats
who are in Congress who have lied to us for
ten years. The media who's lied to us for ten years. Oh,
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President Trump is a Russian agent. They got half the
damned country, including some stupid ass Republicans, to actually believe
that it's swayed control of the United States House of
Representatives in twenty eighteen. If you can tell I'm pissed,
it's because I am. The media convinced people that that
was real, and then they dug even deeper with this
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Mueller probe and all this bullshit impeachment hoaxes. And then
we're talking with fifty one intelligence officials, and we're not
talking low level, mouth breathing foot soldiers. We're talking about
former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency signed this letter
a month before the twenty twenty election and said that
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Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian discopher. Me give me a break,
And how about all the lies told to us during COVID,
How about all the lies told to us during the
twenty twenty election? How about the lies told to us
and hoaxes that they're pushing right now. So forgive me
if I don't believe the official story of what's being
put out there, because guess what, the director of the
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Secret Service cheetle, she's already lying about it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, well, we couldn't put snipers on that roof because
it's just too slippery and slopey.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
What that tells me right there? It tells me right
there that we aren't gonna get anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
On this investigation.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And of course I'm hearing now that investigators believe that
Thomas Crooks may have planned on blowing up his car
as a distraction so he could assassinate President Trump. So
if any of you all were with me on that
day at the rally, and I know my wife was,
but if you know other people were with me that
day too. If you're listening or watching, do you remember
what I was saying was likely the threat of improvised
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explosive devices, and the fact that if you have one
entrance in one exit to a location and thousands of
people and even in probably thousand cars trying to get
out one location, that the threat of improvised explosive devices.
If this was a pre planned attack, then it stands
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the reason that threat could be exceedingly high and that
we should be on the lookout for that. Well, now,
investigators saying that they found a metal box of explosives
connected by wires to a receiver that was found in
his car, which could be detonated by a remote control
on his body. And guess what, folks, that explains. That
explains why our cell phone service was shoddy on the
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day of, because they were clearly using some form of
electronic countermeasure. It just things this don't make sense. And
when the government doesn't make sense, when the government isn't transparent,
well they're not honest. It makes people ask questions because
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the word that keeps coming to my mind about this
is just incomprehensible. It's simply incomprehensible that something like this
could happen. It's negligent negligence doesn't even do it justice.
There's not a freaking word in the English language that
does this justice. I mean, my eleven year old was like,
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how does somebody get on a building so close to
President's Trump? Exactly exactly, He's eleven kids that play Fortnite
have more tactical acumen than the people who were making decisions.
And oh, by the way, the Secret Service, now as
if they'll add insult to injury, is blaming local law enforcement?
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Are you freaking kidding me? When have you ever when
have you ever heard of a situation where the FEDS
come in to an area and relinquish full tactical command
of a mission to local law enforcement. It never, ever,
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ever happens if the Feds are involved. You got some
from the FBI. Hey, I'm fulling with the FBI. I'm sorry,
mister sheriff, or I'm sorry mister local police officer, but
we got it from here. You know, that's always the dynamic. Always.
It makes me so furious. It's a lie. That's the
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thing that bothers me. It's a lie. And if we're
to get justice for what happened, not just to President Trump,
but how about the people who lost their lives or
might not walk out of there alive. Were These are
real people who might want one never get to hug
their father again, might not to get the one guy
who was shot in the abdomen again a Democrat. Sixty
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year old Democrat me post pictures online on Facebook of
just him hanging out with his grandkids. These people are
Americans or Pennsylvanians. They deserve justice too, and to lie
in this moment just makes me absolutely furious. And it's
not just me saying. Corey Mills, a sitting United States
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Member of Congress, said this on CNN Today. Listen for
yourself all.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Of these things.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
And I look at different videos where an assailant will
pull a firearm on a law enforcement officer, and the
first thing they do is they immediately pull and draw
and mitigate the threat and the risk. You know, I
ask why the local law enforcement officer did not do so.
The other thing is is that when you set up
an advanced team. I keep hearing this about the perimeter elements.
You know, the perimeter is actually established by your threats.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
That are in the area.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So if I don't have any threats outside of one
hundred yards, okay, fine, I can court on off a
certain area, but if I have a building one hundred
and sixty yards perfectly adjacent to the stage, that's an
obvious threat, especially in an elevated position that has overwatching.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
That's a sniper's paradise.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
And you know we talk about ecosts, you also have
which no one talks about, but the water tower.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So what I'm hearing for you is it's not a
failure on the ground, for sure, but ultimate failure in advance.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I think it's a failure in advance.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think it's listen, look at that graphic he's talking
about the water tower. If you were within close proximity
of me that day, I was screaming, building, water tower,
building watertow. How these two things could not be secured
is simply stunning to me. And Corey Mills is saying
it's a failure of advance, of course it is, but listen.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Failure to have the kind of snipers to be able
to establish their range fit of their sketch maps.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I also heard there also, we've also learned that local
snipers were stationed inside that building.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I haven't heard that piece of it yet, but that
doesn't necessarily make since unless they were actually in a
window which was backed off, because a lot of.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Times you will get yourself in there.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Sometimes you expose your rifle in a way to trying
to a force protection or a show of force that
actually stops things. Others are actually more tactical where they'll
sit back.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
A little bit, but so you understand what he's saying there.
If there was a swat team inside the building that
that kid was on, it makes sense in that scenario.
If you've got two counter sniper teams in Overwatch looking
out over the crowd, maybe it makes sense to have
a show of force to actually show yourself with a
rifle outside of the window. So you know, if a
twenty year old kid comes out of the woods with
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a rifle, ammunition and a ladder, maybe he thinks twice
of going in that building.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Sniper for the law enforcement's only trained to shoot about
seventy five yards, unlike your kunter sniper teams that are
on so on set. But here's my problem in having
done this for so long. They always say the adage
of ignorance is blissed, and I think that's true.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I've done thousands of advances.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I've done thousands of counter sniper operations with our teams
or Iraq and Afghanistan, et cetera. The amounts of negligence,
the amount of mistakes that was made here. I have
a very difficult time not meaning myself towards this was
intentional as opposed to fecklessness.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Well, wait, talk to me about that. I actually heard
you say this right the day after which I wanted
to ask you about what do you mean intentional? You know,
I mean an intentional failure on the part of No.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I wouldn't say an intentional failure on the part of
but I kind of just a And.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
By the way, I agree. I don't think that the
local police. I know that the local police and the
Secret Service agents who are on the ground. I'm telling
you right now, I think they were. My thought is
I don't know what happened, but they did the best
that they could. Let's just say this, I think with
a very very shitty situation. Keep listening.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
You know, I sit here and I scratch my head,
and you don't want to be the conspiracist.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
You don't want to be there.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I'm telling you, because that's what that's what it's leaning
to you.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, I know and that's the issues that you walk
this fine balance of you're not trying to be a conspiracist,
but you look as you go how could this have gone?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
So? But it's one thing if someone on the streets
has it. It's not that I mean you Cormill's member
of Congress, former sniper you saying it, I mean it
makes my eyebrows go up. What wohlden you say? You're
walking the line on this intentional what you know?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
It only seems to me and I think that an
investigation is necessary at this point within Congress, not just
the FBI, not just others.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You know, I look back at.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
And I'm thinking, all right, you know, for an individual,
if you looked at the escalatorations and how they are
trying to approach him, let's just say that it was like, okay,
first we want to sensor in silence you.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Then we want to indict and imprison you. We are
attempting to kill you.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
You. Let's slow down. I'm hearing two things from you.
I don't want to jump ahead of things, but I'm
also hearing you jumping ahead of things.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Well, actually, I'm just looking at all the different possible capabilities,
and you know, one of the things as a military
remember one of the things We'll wait, But one of
the things is a person who's running the special operations
commutee before one of the people who's actually done this
is that you look at all potential analysis.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Right that Donald Trump and his team have said, do
not no, I agree, dial it back, do not blame
this all right.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Listen what she's saying there disallows any questions at all.
Putting military commander hat on. It is our job. As
I'm just we're wired like this as former military, and
many of you all who are former military know exactly
(36:57):
what I'm talking about. But you ask questions about an operation,
especially an operation that went wrong, nothing is off the table. Nothing,
even if it's crazy and absurd. It's on the table
until you can rule it out. If it never goes
(37:18):
on the table in the first place, then how do
you ever rule it out? This idea that after a
president was almost assassinated through an unbelievable negligence, that we're
not even allowed to ask a single solitary question. And
when Corey Mills says, well, god, I'm paraphrasing here, he
(37:40):
is more eloquent than me, Well, look at all the
stuff that they've done, try to, you know, destroy the
guy's name, all these hoaxes, and then try to take
his business, his legacy, to throw him in jail. Hey,
none of that's work in lawfairs crumbling. So hey, next
step is that's logical thinking. And he's sitting there saying, hey,
(38:06):
it doesn't Hey look like it's a possibility. Let's do
an investigation. But CNN's like, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, We're getting dangerously close.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
To well, there's just no evidence.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
I mean, there's no evidence that the twenty twenty election.
No evidence I see nothing like the media. These people
are just the absolute worst on the face of the planet.
If you are expecting the media to ask tough questions
or real substance of questions about what was something that
I mean I hope never happens again to any other president,
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Democrat or a Republican in my life. We can't even
ask basic questions about what the hell happened and leave
everything on the table until we roll it out. Then
I don't know how the hell we ever get to
the bottom of it. And it's especially irrelevant when the
Secret Service, the Director of Secret Service, is already lying
to us, So she's already lying to us. Then it
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stands the reason why do I trust her about anything,
which is why it's so important to ask questions. As
Corey Mills is pointing out, folks simply incomprehensible to me
that things went down the way that they did. It
just is. But I want to show you Donald Trump's
(39:28):
entrance to the Republican National Convention last night. I saw
it and it just was inspirational to me because of
what this man has just been through. You know, his
reaction in the aftermath of the assassination attempt was to
(39:49):
rise up and show the people that he was fine,
raising his fist and just simply saying fight. That will
become undoubtedly one of the most iconic images of our time.
There's no doubt, absolutely no doubt about it. When people
in that crowd were scared and conservative Republicans and frankly
Americans all across the country, I mean, outside of the
(40:13):
demented Trump deranged left. Of course, those are life losers
when don't give a shit what they think. But outside
of them, Trump showed the good people of America that
some things are worth fighting for, that America itself is
worth fighting for and in that moment where the rubber
met the road and bullets were flying, Trump faced a test.
(40:38):
He rose to the occasion, and he passed the test.
Not only that, not only that he chose to lead
in that moment. The guy's just unstoppable. And so he
shows up at the Republican National Convention last night and
walks out just like this.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
The things were I worked for all my life and
I had to start again.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Just my children.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
Bang my lucky stars today because there's flags to the
stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
And a proud to be an American war.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And he's done.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Seen Trump walk out pumping the fist handed none of
the ear. You can see that Trump is emotional ground all.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Of it, which is rare because there down I.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Love singing God bless.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Trump is emotional walking out. You can see it on
his face.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I've said before, long before this assassination attempt happened, that
this man I don't know of anybody else who could
go through what he went through and unjustly prosecuted. I
don't know of anybody else on the face of the
planet that could do it. I just I mean that, Yes,
(42:32):
I'm a partisan. Yes, I'm a Trump guy, have been
since the beginning. But I don't know not just of
any other Republican, but of any other human living that
could handle what he does and endure, not just endure,
but seemingly come out on top. And when you look
(42:57):
at what happened and that rally in him, I saw
it with my own two eyes him turn his head
at the last second, just as bullets cracked by his head.
I watched the President grab his ear and fall to
the ground. And I know when I talked to Melanie,
we've been talking about this a lot. I looked at
her face, and she's got these like big blue eyes,
(43:20):
and she's very expressive what she wants to be. But
when she was laying on the ground and the prone
I could see her eyes were so wide. She was afraid,
not for herself, not for herself, but for President Trump,
the people at that rally, and this country, which, by
(43:42):
the way, frankly says a lot about her. And she
handled herself like a pro under fire. She was incredible.
But that image will be forever etched on my consciousness
of my wife in a position like that, made possible
by these evil psychopath Dems. And look, you might be
(44:04):
uncomfortable with me saying that, or maybe you won't. I
don't know. I guarantee you there are gonna because some
conservatives who are out there pearl clutching when I say this.
But I'm telling you that I am very, very, very
tired that every time some left wing psychopath tries to
kill one of us, and they've done it in the past,
whether it's just try to go after Steve Scalisian, shoot
(44:25):
him up, attack Ram Paul in his house, slandering us
with every name in the book, and then trying to
assassinate our president every member of the left wing media.
Oh well, we just need to turn down the temperature
and just come together. It's like, but God forbid on
(44:47):
the rare rare circumstance. And I do mean rare. And
when I say rare, I almost mean never. I mean
I mean never. Go in a Republican or a right
winger guy does something, it's like they've got to be
eradicated by the full power of the government Department of
Homeland Security. I'm telling you I'm done. I'm done being
(45:10):
the party of gentlemen losers. I refuse to play the
bullshit let's come together game. Why because it's disingenuous, freaking
Joe Biden has already cycled back in to the same
(45:32):
hoax ridden bullshit that got us into this situation. If
you don't believe me, just listen why I don't believe it.
I'm not gonna parlay with them, No peace, no alive branch,
because the peace will be temporary and they'll be right
back in to the hateful rhetoric forty eight hours in fact,
by Narady is listen to this.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Well, let's talk about the conversation this has started, and
it's really about language, what we say out loud, and
the consequences of those You called your opponent an existential threat.
On a call a week ago, you said it's time
to put Trump in the bullseye. There's some dispute about
the context, but I think you appreciate.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
I say crosshairs.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
I was talking about focus on Look, the truth of
the matter was, well, I guess I was talking about
as the time was, there was very little focus on
Trump's agenda.
Speaker 8 (46:21):
Yeah, the term is bullseye was a mistake.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
To youse word. I didn't I didn't say crosshairs, bulls.
I'm mean to focus on him, Focus on what he's doing,
Focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies
he told in the debate, focus on I mean, there's
there's a whole range of things that Look, I'm not
the guy that said I want to be a dictator
on day one. I'm not the guy that refused to
(46:45):
accept the outcome of the election. I'm not the guy
who said that one accept the outcome of this election automatically.
You can't only love your country when you win. And
so the focus was on what he's saying, and I
mean the idea.
Speaker 8 (47:01):
But have you taken a step back and done a
little soul searching on things that you may have said
that could incite people who are not balanced?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Well, I don't think.
Speaker 9 (47:15):
Look, how do you talk about the threat to democracy,
which is real? When a president says things like he says,
do you just not say anything? He's a man insite somebody. Look,
I have not engaged in that rhetoric. Now my opponent's
engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about to be a
(47:36):
bloodbat if he loses, talking about how he's going to
forgive all the Actually, I guess suspend the sentences of
all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to
jail because of what happened in the Capitol. I'm not
out there making fun of like women.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
This man, less than forty eight hours after an assassination
attempt on President Trump shows no humility and trots out hoaxes,
the bloodbath hoax? Really the dictator on day one? Hoax?
(48:19):
Are you no olive branch with these assholes until we
defeat them, No quarter with these people until we defeat them. Politically,
the Democrats, when they're people, do terrible things to others,
(48:42):
and they've done it, and they've got a track record.
I mean, God, I just ran Paul Steve Scalise, Now
Donald Trump. But how about Antifa in the Summer of
Love burning down American cities, no one held accountable. Try
to burn down Saint John's's Church, surrounded the White House, battered, bloodied,
wound did uniform members of the Secret Service laid seeds
(49:03):
to the White House? No accountability. I'm done with this
fake Lets unite because I know that forty eight hours
later Biden's gonna be right back to this hateful, divisive
bullshit that got us.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Into this position in the first place.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
So Donald Trump was doing I'm sorry. Donald Trump Junior
did an interview yesterday, and I just find all this
stuff fascinating because you don't often get to see this
side of the Trumps. I've seen it before. They're just
unbelievable people that I told you about Trump and how
he was with Missus Fogel ninety five years old. But
(49:46):
Don and Eric just freaking awesome guys. You don't get
to see this out of them. But listen to this
interview of Don when he's asked about how he was
feeling and what happened, how did he find out about
the potential assassination attempt on his father?
Speaker 2 (50:04):
It's compelling.
Speaker 10 (50:04):
Listen here with us today is Donald Trump Junior less
than forty eight hours after an assassin tried to kill
your father. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 11 (50:13):
It's my pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (50:14):
So I wanted to ask you, you know you, I
am sure this was a horrific moment for you when
you found out that someone had attempted to take your
father's life. What was your first conversation with our former
president like after this shooting?
Speaker 11 (50:26):
Actually took a while. I was you know, it's a
Saturday evening. I was with my kids July summer and
I got a call. You know, your father's been shot.
But that's it, like, no no details like is he alive?
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Is he not? Is he? Is he? Okay? Is he?
Speaker 11 (50:41):
Took about ninety minutes to actually get through, I guess,
you know, with that they had them all locked down
and whatever it may be and mobile trauma units or
and so you know, I didn't even know ninety minutes. Yeah,
an hour and a half for me to not know
what was going on. And strangely enough, during that time,
I was just trying to get all my kids together.
Didn't know if there was further stuff going on or
if there was you know, uh, and so you know,
(51:02):
stayed relatively calmon that you know, got got to finally,
you know, speak to him, and uh, you know, by
then I had already seen some of the videos, so
I was like, Okay. Then finally got the phone call
and it was you know, me, my brother and Laura
Kim and my daughter and my ex wife were all
there on sort of speakerphone talking, uh, talking to my dad,
and you know, he was just surprisingly upbeat and uh,
(51:23):
you know, obviously a somber moment right, but uh but
you know surprisingly there that you know, we even even
got in a hair joke.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I was like, gu's the hair? Okay?
Speaker 11 (51:30):
After with all that blood is we we sort.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Of had some fun with it.
Speaker 11 (51:34):
I think probably all needed a little uh Trump style
icebreaker just to kind of, you know, get through some
of the gravitas of of everything that went on. And
you know, then you sort of sit down and that's
when it all hits you and it's like, man, that's
a it was a pretty pretty crazy moment, right, And I'm.
Speaker 10 (51:51):
Sure you you felt so strongly. What how did this
change how you look at your father?
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (51:56):
I told him the first thing I got, I go,
you know, I saw the picture that sort of defined
and you know, fist pump, you know, after five seconds
after getting shot, and you know, I guess we live
in an era where everyone sort of thinks they're a
badass because they're on the internet and not really upfront.
But he just got shot and he comes out, you know,
sort of defiant, ready to fight for a country. And
I just said, Hey, you're the biggest badass I've ever met.
(52:16):
And I probably could not have been legitimately more proud. Ever,
you know, as a son to have that kind of approach,
because again, everyone thinks they're going to act that way.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
I find that to be amazing. And my hope is
that I could only be so lucky that my kids
will talk like that about me, you know, I mean
that as a as a father. That's the goal. That
is the goal, And it just tells you a lot
about the kind of person that Donald Trump really is.
(52:49):
His children love and respect this guy. They love him.
They're dedicated to him. You saw it and you heard
it in Don's voice there. All right, folks, listen before
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(53:31):
I refuse to forget. I refuse to let it go.
I'm going to talk about this until there is accountability
and not just justice. For President Trump, but justice for
the people who were wounded, killed, psychologically maimed by what happened. Sickening,
absolutely sickening what happened, And we cannot relent until we
(53:55):
know the truth. And right now, you folks, it's crazy,
but I feel like I know less now than I
did in the moment, because more information has come out
that just paints what happened is just beyond negligent to
the point of where you think it might there might
(54:17):
be some level of intentionality. And I'm not trying to
sound conspiratorial, I'm not, but what happened was so negligent
and so incomprehensible, and it cannot be blamed simply on incompetence.
I mean, at least until I'm shown otherwise. Why should
(54:38):
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(55:46):
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Speaker 2 (55:54):
This is just a crazy time that we live in.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
But let's let's let those people know that we love
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Speaker 2 (56:06):
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Speaker 1 (56:14):
God bless you all, and God bless this exceptional nation
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Speaker 2 (56:19):
Take care, good night, and I will see you tomorrow
That morning, you're about to enter the arena and join
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Good evening, America. Welcome to the battle crew, from sea
to Shining Sea and everybody in between.
Speaker 2 (00:21):
Welcome patriots. It's great to have you here, folks.
Speaker 1 (00:25):
Listen. I have been really, really struggling, not in like, oh,
I can't handle what happened that day. No, not like that.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Been struggling with what happened on Saturday for a lot
of different reasons. One, it's absolutely consuming me. I can't
wrap my mind around how something like that could possibly happen.
If in the heat of the moment, trying to find
out where the shooters are, where the fire was coming from,
(01:00):
wife on the ground next to me, trying to use
my body to shield her, because I knew that the
rounds were coming from an elevated position and likely could
have a plunging effect, what you call in the military
plunging fire. In other words, rounds that are fired from
an elevated position and fall, so even if you're taking cover,
(01:22):
even if you're laying flat on the ground, the rounds
can still land on top of you. And I knew
in order for a shooter, even an amateur shooter, to
make that shot, they had to be coming from an
elevated position. I simply don't know how something like this
was possible. I have been in more firefights than I
(01:44):
care to count.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I have been.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
In more fire It's just like you have been shot
at so many times it's unbelievable. I've been in some
real crazy, crazy freaking situations. I mean where shit hit
the fan and things did not go right. I've even
had artillery fired scene. I've seen artillery fired on friendly
(02:10):
troops just simply by accident. Sometimes bad things happen, and
when you're in combat, you have to fight against complacency
because sometimes people just get used to their environment and
they do dumb stuff. You know. For example, when I
say dumb stuff, I'm not talking about insanely crazy negligent stuff.
(02:32):
I'm talking about dumb stuff that could get people killed,
but not super negligent stuff that's just mind blowing. I mean,
there were times where, you know, I've seen soldiers take
off their helmets while on patrol. I've seen soldiers take
off their ipro while on patrol, or take their fire
retarded gloves off while they're on patrol, and of course
(02:53):
it was my job as a leader, is uncomfortable and
hot as it was.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
At the time, to say no.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
And you got to get that shit back on there,
because it's when you least expect it that bad things happen.
And so Murphy's law right, sometimes shit just happens. But
I cannot, for the life of me, understand or wrap
my mind around how what happened on Saturday was actually
(03:22):
allowed to happen. And the reason why I'm struggling with
it is because we lost people in Pennsylvania. These are
my people. I love the people I love. I love
the American people, but Pennsylvania is my state. People are
One person is dead, another person is critically injured. My
(03:45):
wife could have been killed. We were indirectly in the
line of fire where the shooter was shot right over
our position. I heard the rounds myself. She could have died.
We aren't getting any answers from our government. This is
what really pisses me off. You know, in the military,
(04:06):
after something like this happens, you do what's called an
after action report. But before you even get into the
official writing of that report, everybody that was on patrol
or in a firefight or involved in an incident, sits
around a circle and they recount what happened. Mean, I
mean that happens instantaneously, because if that doesn't happen, people's
(04:27):
memories change, people forget things, and all the while you've
got somebody there writing, writing, writing, just to.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
Make sure it's recorded.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
It's so important that that happens, so for it to
never happen again, so that if we did something wrong,
and we always wanted to know if we did something wrong,
we could adjust our tactics so that in the future
we didn't encounter a similar problem. And ultimately the hope
was is that lives would be saved. But it's clear
(04:57):
to me that that's not happening. In fact, the director
of the Secret Service said that there's no way they've
could have put a sniper team on the roof of
where the shooter was would be assassin was located, because
(05:18):
the slope on the roof was just too steep and
it could have been dangerous. And when I heard that,
I gotta tell you, I have out lost my shit
because i'ven't placed snipers, sniper teams, and designated marksmen in combat.
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I've put them on the down slope of mountains in
the Himalayas, and you're telling me the director of the
Secret Service is telling me that the reason we didn't
occupy that building by force with boots on the ground
is because the roof was too steep, and oh, by
the way, it wasn't. So what that tells me is
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that not only I mean she's already said she's not
stepping down, but not only will there not be a
transparent investigation, we likely will never know and she's already
committed to bullshit and lies. And that just makes me
so mad. And that's why that's why I'm struggling with
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all this. And so before we're gonna get into the
weeds on the tactical failures of the United States Secret
Service and all that stuff. Before we get into all that,
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the best audience in world. So thank you. Let me
let me quickly do just a couple of news stories
off the top. So today Bob Menendez was found guilty
on all counts in his bribery trial. The charges include
accepting bribes paid in cash, gold, luxury car.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Following the verdict, you got Chucky Schumer.
Speaker 1 (07:29):
Remember the intelligence community has six ways from Sunday at
getting back at you. Yeah, that Chuck Schumer has called
on Bob and Endez to resign from his positions so
that he wouldn't be expelled. What does this mean politically
for everybody? Well, I mean it means that they're gonna
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have to like, there's gonna be a weak senator from
New Jersey that's going to be up very very soon.
And with Trump in office and on the ballot, we've
clearly got New Jersey within the margin of er and
I think you know, even states like New Hampshire, even
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states like Virginia, they're all now in play, so we're
gonna get to that in a second here as well.
But also Adam Schiff, I don't know if you heard this,
but he told a bunch of rich Democrats that a
private fundraiser that with Biden on the ticket, the Democrats
are done. And the reason why this is, like I
find this fascinating to me, is that the Democrats must
(08:35):
be seeing something in their own data that says that's going.
They are going to get their asses whooped, not just
at the top of the ticket with Biden, but both
in the Senate and the House as well. They would
not be calling for Joe Biden to step aside even now.
They would not be doing it if they did not
see something in their internal data that just showed them
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getting their asses kicked. Believe me, replacing Joe Biden at
the top of the ticket has absolutely positively nothing to
do with that guy being cognitively gone has nothing to
do with it.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
And if you don't believe me, ask yourself this question.
Speaker 1 (09:11):
If Joe Biden was annihilating Donald Trump at the polls,
do you think this conversation about removing him would be happening.
The answer is, of course no, they would go right
back into the media saying that Joe Biden's the sharpest
ever and if you don't believe me, if you man like,
that's what they would do. And so the Democrats, the
(09:32):
group of Democrats, are actually circulating a letter now trying
to stop the Democrat National Committee from nominating Biden, because
you remember they were talking about nominating him early to
remove any talk of actually replacing him at the top
of the ticket. Well, now Democrats are out there saying, hey,
whoa woe, slow your role, let's wait on nominating this guy.
(09:52):
So there's still an internal war within the Democrat party
as to whether or not to replace Joe Biden. And
I have to tell you again, it's a glory thing
to see. I love when my political foes attack each other.
It's great that also have to tell you that I
feel I feel sheepish even talking to you all about this,
(10:13):
because it just feels like it kind of feels cheap
to talk about every day mundane politics. I even feel
cheap watching the Republican National Convention and watching these speeches.
You know, I was twenty feet away from President Trump
when he was almost shot to death by an assassin.
(10:37):
That's all that matters to me right now. It's all
I can think about is our country at this moment,
that the most important political figure of my life, certainly
going back all the way to Ronald Reagan, certainly I've
never seen a man like Donald Trump with a movement
like he has behind him, when I've the tendency to
say he's the most electrifying political figure in the history
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of certainly my lifetime, and I think many of yours
as well, And that man almost lost his life, but
there were people directly behind it from my state that
did lose their life. No one, no one has held
accountab before it. I'm sure that you've now heard that
(11:22):
there was an Iranian plan to assassinate President Trump, and
apparently the United States Secret Service knew that going into
the rally and actually plussed up his security detail. Didn't
seem that plused up to me, trust me, I was there,
And again I've heard from people on the ground, sources,
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my buddies within the Secret Service saying that many of
the agents that were there with President Trump that they
actually weren't Secret Service agents. They were augmentees from the
Department of Homeland Security, which by the way, probably pretty
good at their job. But guess what, they're not United
States Secret Service agents. And so here we have a
situation where President Trump just survived in assassination attempt. Now
(12:04):
I have foreign nations out there threatening to assassinate President Trump,
but the.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
Man is unstoppable.
Speaker 1 (12:12):
He just did the way that he reacted in that moment.
And again I didn't learn what happened in the moment.
I was busy trying to figure out where the guy,
where the shooter was. I was busy trying to figure
out how I could help local law enforcement. They were
clearly overwhelmed trying to figure out how we could get
thirty thousand people out of there who had just been
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most of them just been shot at. For the first time,
I had ninety five year old right next to me,
Missus Fogel, prior to the rally. I don't think I've
talked about this yet, but Mark Vogel was a teacher
here in western Pennsylvania who has been held hostage by
the Russians for three years in a ghullog in Siberia. Now,
(12:55):
the Biden administration moved heaven and earth to get Britney grind,
the lesbian WNBA, hardcore leftists who hates America out of
a Russian prison, and they traded some pretty terrible terrorists
to get her, which, okay, listen, I'm fine with that.
Speaker 2 (13:12):
We'll kill the terrorists later, right.
Speaker 1 (13:14):
I'm fine with doing everything you can, regardless of politics,
to bring Americans back here. Okay. But the Biden administration
has let Mark Foegel again, who was confined by the
Russians for a medical marijuana prescription. It was prescribed for
a medical condition, like MS was a real medical condition,
(13:38):
and they put this guy in prison. He's been there
for three years since twenty twenty one. Backstage, prior to
meeting President Trump, I actually got a chance to talk
to Missus Fogel. But I told the Trump team like
Biden has completely ignored this family. Despite repeated attempts from
this family to reach out to the Biden administration, the
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Biden administration has ignored her, ignored Missus Fogel, ignored Mark Fogel,
not released one single statement. And I said to the
Trump team, I said, listen, leadership is about leading, especially
when people aren't looking. It's about doing the right thing
all the time, using the power that you have and
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investing it back into the people. To help them to serve.
So this is a great opportunity to show support for
a cause that is right and righteous and also separate
yourself from the animated corpse that is Joe Biden even
more in Pennsylvania by supporting this woman, her family and
her son who's being unjustly held by Russia. And the
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Trump team freaking amazing as they are, they got it done.
They had Missus Fogel at this rally. I mean, this
is what I'm t talking about with Trump. The guy
is a freaking leader, Like I said at the rally
during a speech, like I don't give a da hey
people around the world, world leaders, by the way, who
(15:10):
gives a shit right about what they think?
Speaker 2 (15:12):
It's about taking care of Americans first.
Speaker 1 (15:14):
But you know, if you can be liked, great, But
who cares if these people don't like you. They all
respected him, even if they didn't like Trump, they all
respected him because the guy gets shit done. And so
he has missus Spogel there in this ninety five she's
ninety five years old, and she is with it, and
I'm talking to her and she sees me, and I
(15:35):
talked to her about I said, you know, hey, I'm
so glad you're here. What's happening to your son is
a travesty, you know. I said, if I have I
don't know if this is going to be anything, if
this offer will ever come, but I said, if I
have a role at all at all in the next
Trump administration, I will be that I will make it
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my top priority to get your son home. And she
was so happy just to have somebody listen to her,
just to have somebody be there for her. And she
let me listen to a phone call from her son, Mark,
who again is in effing Siberia. Let me listen to
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a phone call from her son saying that he loves her,
he misses being home. He's hoping there'll be a movement
in action soon, but the Biden by the Biden administration,
but he's just not hopeful. But that he's also not
going to last much longer. And so I got a
chance to meet with President Trump personally, both Melanie and I.
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Commander Melanie and I both did. Missus Fogel did as well,
and President Trump told Missus Fogel, when I win, I'm
going to get your son back. This is a side
of President Trump that the media will never show you.
(16:58):
This is a side of President Trump that even other
politicians won't show you. The man has a deep, abiding
compassion for people who are struggling. And he showed that
to missus Fogel by making himself available and taking time
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to meet with her, not just meet with her, saying
he said, when I win, I will get your son back.
And she came out of that tent, and I'm telling you, listen,
she comes out of that tent because you know, with
you meet with President Trump, the Secret Service walks you
back and you sit that back down in your like
little chairs. And Melanie and I walked out and sat down,
and I watched missus Fogel come out and American Badass
(17:42):
by kid Rock heavy some like heavy metal type song
on the loud speakers playing, and Missus Fogel, ninety five
years old, you won't hear these stories anywhere else. Ninety
five years old is coming out of that speech and
coming out of meeting with President Trump, and she's dancing.
She got this little cane and she was so happy
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because when Trump speaks, people listen. Words matter as a leader,
and Trump made it very clear that he was going
to be there for her, so she sits down. President
Trump comes out on stage. He walks down the little
his little like red carpet walkway, and he's stopping, pointing
to people. He comes and looks at me and Melanie.
He points right at us, and he gives us the
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thumbs up, and he's waving to people. Walks a little
bit more, stops he's waving to people. And this is
why I posted a picture on X. If you haven't
seen it, go look at it. Posted a picture on
X of Trump walking out on that walkway. The picture
is from behind him and Trump is looking to the
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left of the red piece of construction equipment and just
sort of right in the middle between this light pole
and this red piece of construction equipment and then the
upper left hand corner of the video you can see
a portion of the building that the sniper that would
be assassin was on. And people are like, oh, it's
(19:08):
not the same, but no, listen, there's the build. There's
a tall portion of the building and there's a lower
portion of the building. It's connected, right. Do you remember
if you remember the satellite imagery from the ladders, Uh,
the ladder was on a piece that connected the top
part of the building to the lower part of the building.
What was visible was the top part of the building,
and the building actually went behind the tractor as well,
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and the sniper was somewhere on that roof, and so
people were like, oh, it's not the right building with Okay,
so the building that the sniper was on was actually
closer than I mean, I'm correct, But the building that
the actual sniper would be assassin was on was actually
closer than right. So it doesn't matter if the exact
location of the of where the sniper was on the rooftop,
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that's irrelevant. The point is is that nobody was on
that roof. In fact, not only was nobody on that roof,
there's reports now that it was a sniper staging point
for the Secret Service and the local law enforcement officers
who were there, So, in other words, they were inside
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the building when this kid, this twenty something kid, who
by the way, i'm hearing reports of just now that
he walked to the objective carrying ammunition, a ladder an
ar Nobody sees him, climbs up on the building, nobody
sees him, sets in the prone people start pointing, hey, hey,
(20:36):
there's somebody up there. The reports now that said twenty
six minutes prior to the first shots being fired, people knew,
police knew. Why was Trump on the stage If you
knew the shooter was up there and you were suspicious
about something, why was Trump on the stage.
Speaker 4 (20:57):
For good?
Speaker 1 (20:58):
Say, until the threat is newzed. You don't have the
guy walk out there and then he walks out there.
Go look on locals, Go look on locals. That pictures
supposed to there. Go look at my X feed supposed
to there. You can see how close the building was.
You can see it is a layup shot. And yeah, people,
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he's twenty something year old kid. People were saying, oh,
he wasn't a good shot. Listen. I mean, maybe he's
not a Special Forces sniper. But the only reason why
Trump is alive is because he went off script. He
ditched a teleprompter and was gesturing two signs behind him
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that had an immigration graphic on it. He looked once,
turned back, addressed the crowd, looked twice. Shots fired as
he looked around hit his ear. So make the argument
that the kid's a shitty shot, but he hit his
freaking target on the first try. The only reason that
Trump survived is because he turned his head. And so
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when I tell you that there was something in the
air that night, the flag getting tied up into what
looked like an angel to what looked like Christ on
the cross, feeling that same sensation that I felt at
the rally in Afghanistan during a near death experience. It's real, folks,
It's real. But as I think about this more, and
(22:29):
I've been unpacking the situation here, I am talking about, Hey,
there's something in the air that saved Trump's life. But
how callous am I for saying that? Because I imagine
that Corey's family doesn't feel that way. And I imagine
that the man who was the sixty year old Democrat
who was shot in the abdomen and the stands there
(22:49):
to support Trump don't feel that there was something in
the air looking out for them. So you see how
after your ends a firefight, you unpack things from thirty
different angles. Right, I'm pissed off for these people because
it feels like, and I'm just going to go out
on a limb here. It feels like this is going
(23:12):
to be one of these bullshit things that happens in Washington.
That Secret Service director says she's not going to resign.
She absolutely should. She's an incompetent moron, and incompetent morons
and tactical places where lives are on the line can
cost lives. Saw that on Saturday. But we're in a
(23:34):
place where she's not going to resign, and there'll be
twelve eighteen months of investigation in Congress, a report will
be issued and by then she'll probably already be retired
or there'll be no action taken. And that is not
acceptable to me because I am on ear muffs for
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these kids. Okay, seriously, I'm giving you fair warning. And yeah,
I'm an infantry guy, so forgive me for being a
knuckle dragger. You can take the man out of the infantry,
but you can't take the infantry out of the man.
I'm fucking angry because that is not an acceptable outcome.
(24:18):
A president almost died. Somebody did die. We're not one
hundred percent sure that the person who was shot in
the abdomen is going to make it. I saw it.
It was a horrible injury. And he's an older gentleman,
a Democrat. By the way, people that were at that
rally will remember it for the rest of their lives.
(24:39):
Some people were traumatized. Yeah, I've been checking in on
people who were there and helping with Kazavak and helping
treat the wounded. I'm not gonna lie to you and
say that they're doing great. Most of these people who
have never been in a combat situation, they just rose
to the moment.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
So let me tell you, I am not satisfied.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
And the slightest with Let's do an investigation for twelve
months and no accountability.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
I'm efing tired of no accountability.
Speaker 1 (25:08):
There was no accountability in Afghanistan when thirteen soldiers died,
and that ask clown that we have a president checks's watch.
Five embassies have fallen under the Biden administration. There's never
any accountability for anything. The Secretary of Defense up and
went missing and nobody knew where the hell he was.
No accountability there either. In fact, the opposite is usually
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the case. Oh, the surrender in Afghanistan, it was an
extraordinary success, F you. That's not acceptable secret Service coming
out the director of the Secret Service and saying, hey,
well look it was successful, the president was protected.
Speaker 3 (25:50):
F you.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
It was a catastrophic failure. Never in my life have
I ever seen in competence or Neglice Lejens on the
scale that was demonstrated by the United States Secret Service
that I did at that rally. How you don't have
that building secure is simply beyond me, and it leads
me to think that something else is at play here.
(26:13):
And you can think whatever you want about me, but
I didn't put myself in this position to think this way.
Their actions did. And who do I mean by they?
I mean our intelligence community. I mean these damn Democrats
who are in Congress who have lied to us for
ten years. The media who's lied to us for ten years. Oh,
(26:37):
President Trump is a Russian agent. They got half the
damned country, including some stupid ass Republicans, to actually believe
that it's swayed control of the United States House of
Representatives in twenty eighteen. If you can tell I'm pissed,
it's because I am. The media convinced people that that
was real, and then they dug even deeper with this
(27:01):
Mueller probe and all this bullshit impeachment hoaxes. And then
we're talking with fifty one intelligence officials, and we're not
talking low level, mouth breathing foot soldiers. We're talking about
former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency signed this letter
a month before the twenty twenty election and said that
(27:25):
Hunter Biden's laptop is Russian discopher. Me give me a break,
And how about all the lies told to us during COVID,
How about all the lies told to us during the
twenty twenty election? How about the lies told to us
and hoaxes that they're pushing right now. So forgive me
if I don't believe the official story of what's being
put out there, because guess what, the director of the
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Secret Service cheetle, she's already lying about it.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
Well, well, we couldn't put snipers on that roof because
it's just too slippery and slopey.
Speaker 1 (27:59):
What that tells me right there? It tells me right
there that we aren't gonna get anywhere.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
On this investigation.
Speaker 1 (28:14):
And of course I'm hearing now that investigators believe that
Thomas Crooks may have planned on blowing up his car
as a distraction so he could assassinate President Trump. So
if any of you all were with me on that
day at the rally, and I know my wife was,
but if you know other people were with me that
day too. If you're listening or watching, do you remember
what I was saying was likely the threat of improvised
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explosive devices, and the fact that if you have one
entrance in one exit to a location and thousands of
people and even in probably thousand cars trying to get
out one location, that the threat of improvised explosive devices.
If this was a pre planned attack, then it stands
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the reason that threat could be exceedingly high and that
we should be on the lookout for that. Well, now,
investigators saying that they found a metal box of explosives
connected by wires to a receiver that was found in
his car, which could be detonated by a remote control
on his body. And guess what, folks, that explains. That
explains why our cell phone service was shoddy on the
(29:19):
day of, because they were clearly using some form of
electronic countermeasure. It just things this don't make sense. And
when the government doesn't make sense, when the government isn't transparent,
well they're not honest. It makes people ask questions because
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the word that keeps coming to my mind about this
is just incomprehensible. It's simply incomprehensible that something like this
could happen. It's negligent negligence doesn't even do it justice.
There's not a freaking word in the English language that
does this justice. I mean, my eleven year old was like,
(30:05):
how does somebody get on a building so close to
President's Trump? Exactly exactly, He's eleven kids that play Fortnite
have more tactical acumen than the people who were making decisions.
And oh, by the way, the Secret Service, now as
if they'll add insult to injury, is blaming local law enforcement?
(30:29):
Are you freaking kidding me? When have you ever when
have you ever heard of a situation where the FEDS
come in to an area and relinquish full tactical command
of a mission to local law enforcement. It never, ever,
(30:54):
ever happens if the Feds are involved. You got some
from the FBI. Hey, I'm fulling with the FBI. I'm sorry,
mister sheriff, or I'm sorry mister local police officer, but
we got it from here. You know, that's always the dynamic. Always.
It makes me so furious. It's a lie. That's the
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thing that bothers me. It's a lie. And if we're
to get justice for what happened, not just to President Trump,
but how about the people who lost their lives or
might not walk out of there alive. Were These are
real people who might want one never get to hug
their father again, might not to get the one guy
who was shot in the abdomen again a Democrat. Sixty
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year old Democrat me post pictures online on Facebook of
just him hanging out with his grandkids. These people are
Americans or Pennsylvanians. They deserve justice too, and to lie
in this moment just makes me absolutely furious. And it's
not just me saying. Corey Mills, a sitting United States
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Member of Congress, said this on CNN Today. Listen for
yourself all.
Speaker 3 (32:08):
Of these things.
Speaker 5 (32:09):
And I look at different videos where an assailant will
pull a firearm on a law enforcement officer, and the
first thing they do is they immediately pull and draw
and mitigate the threat and the risk. You know, I
ask why the local law enforcement officer did not do so.
The other thing is is that when you set up
an advanced team. I keep hearing this about the perimeter elements.
You know, the perimeter is actually established by your threats.
Speaker 3 (32:28):
That are in the area.
Speaker 5 (32:29):
So if I don't have any threats outside of one
hundred yards, okay, fine, I can court on off a
certain area, but if I have a building one hundred
and sixty yards perfectly adjacent to the stage, that's an
obvious threat, especially in an elevated position that has overwatching.
Speaker 3 (32:43):
That's a sniper's paradise.
Speaker 5 (32:45):
And you know we talk about ecosts, you also have
which no one talks about, but the water tower.
Speaker 6 (32:49):
So what I'm hearing for you is it's not a
failure on the ground, for sure, but ultimate failure in advance.
Speaker 3 (32:54):
I think it's a failure in advance.
Speaker 1 (32:55):
I think it's listen, look at that graphic he's talking
about the water tower. If you were within close proximity
of me that day, I was screaming, building, water tower,
building watertow. How these two things could not be secured
is simply stunning to me. And Corey Mills is saying
it's a failure of advance, of course it is, but listen.
Speaker 5 (33:19):
Failure to have the kind of snipers to be able
to establish their range fit of their sketch maps.
Speaker 6 (33:23):
I also heard there also, we've also learned that local
snipers were stationed inside that building.
Speaker 5 (33:31):
I haven't heard that piece of it yet, but that
doesn't necessarily make since unless they were actually in a
window which was backed off, because a lot of.
Speaker 3 (33:37):
Times you will get yourself in there.
Speaker 5 (33:38):
Sometimes you expose your rifle in a way to trying
to a force protection or a show of force that
actually stops things. Others are actually more tactical where they'll
sit back.
Speaker 1 (33:46):
A little bit, but so you understand what he's saying there.
If there was a swat team inside the building that
that kid was on, it makes sense in that scenario.
If you've got two counter sniper teams in Overwatch looking
out over the crowd, maybe it makes sense to have
a show of force to actually show yourself with a
rifle outside of the window. So you know, if a
twenty year old kid comes out of the woods with
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a rifle, ammunition and a ladder, maybe he thinks twice
of going in that building.
Speaker 5 (34:14):
Sniper for the law enforcement's only trained to shoot about
seventy five yards, unlike your kunter sniper teams that are
on so on set. But here's my problem in having
done this for so long. They always say the adage
of ignorance is blissed, and I think that's true.
Speaker 3 (34:26):
I've done thousands of advances.
Speaker 5 (34:28):
I've done thousands of counter sniper operations with our teams
or Iraq and Afghanistan, et cetera. The amounts of negligence,
the amount of mistakes that was made here. I have
a very difficult time not meaning myself towards this was
intentional as opposed to fecklessness.
Speaker 6 (34:44):
Well, wait, talk to me about that. I actually heard
you say this right the day after which I wanted
to ask you about what do you mean intentional? You know,
I mean an intentional failure on the part of No.
Speaker 5 (34:56):
I wouldn't say an intentional failure on the part of
but I kind of just a And.
Speaker 1 (35:00):
By the way, I agree. I don't think that the
local police. I know that the local police and the
Secret Service agents who are on the ground. I'm telling
you right now, I think they were. My thought is
I don't know what happened, but they did the best
that they could. Let's just say this, I think with
a very very shitty situation. Keep listening.
Speaker 5 (35:21):
You know, I sit here and I scratch my head,
and you don't want to be the conspiracist.
Speaker 3 (35:24):
You don't want to be there.
Speaker 6 (35:25):
I'm telling you, because that's what that's what it's leaning
to you.
Speaker 5 (35:27):
No, I know and that's the issues that you walk
this fine balance of you're not trying to be a conspiracist,
but you look as you go how could this have gone?
Speaker 6 (35:35):
So? But it's one thing if someone on the streets
has it. It's not that I mean you Cormill's member
of Congress, former sniper you saying it, I mean it
makes my eyebrows go up. What wohlden you say? You're
walking the line on this intentional what you know?
Speaker 5 (35:49):
It only seems to me and I think that an
investigation is necessary at this point within Congress, not just
the FBI, not just others.
Speaker 3 (35:55):
You know, I look back at.
Speaker 5 (35:56):
And I'm thinking, all right, you know, for an individual,
if you looked at the escalatorations and how they are
trying to approach him, let's just say that it was like, okay,
first we want to sensor in silence you.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Then we want to indict and imprison you. We are
attempting to kill you.
Speaker 6 (36:09):
You. Let's slow down. I'm hearing two things from you.
I don't want to jump ahead of things, but I'm
also hearing you jumping ahead of things.
Speaker 5 (36:16):
Well, actually, I'm just looking at all the different possible capabilities,
and you know, one of the things as a military
remember one of the things We'll wait, But one of
the things is a person who's running the special operations
commutee before one of the people who's actually done this
is that you look at all potential analysis.
Speaker 6 (36:29):
Right that Donald Trump and his team have said, do
not no, I agree, dial it back, do not blame
this all right.
Speaker 1 (36:35):
Listen what she's saying there disallows any questions at all.
Putting military commander hat on. It is our job. As
I'm just we're wired like this as former military, and
many of you all who are former military know exactly
(36:57):
what I'm talking about. But you ask questions about an operation,
especially an operation that went wrong, nothing is off the table. Nothing,
even if it's crazy and absurd. It's on the table
until you can rule it out. If it never goes
(37:18):
on the table in the first place, then how do
you ever rule it out? This idea that after a
president was almost assassinated through an unbelievable negligence, that we're
not even allowed to ask a single solitary question. And
when Corey Mills says, well, god, I'm paraphrasing here, he
(37:40):
is more eloquent than me, Well, look at all the
stuff that they've done, try to, you know, destroy the
guy's name, all these hoaxes, and then try to take
his business, his legacy, to throw him in jail. Hey,
none of that's work in lawfairs crumbling. So hey, next
step is that's logical thinking. And he's sitting there saying, hey,
(38:06):
it doesn't Hey look like it's a possibility. Let's do
an investigation. But CNN's like, no, no, no, no, no,
no no, We're getting dangerously close.
Speaker 2 (38:15):
To well, there's just no evidence.
Speaker 1 (38:18):
I mean, there's no evidence that the twenty twenty election.
No evidence I see nothing like the media. These people
are just the absolute worst on the face of the planet.
If you are expecting the media to ask tough questions
or real substance of questions about what was something that
I mean I hope never happens again to any other president,
(38:42):
Democrat or a Republican in my life. We can't even
ask basic questions about what the hell happened and leave
everything on the table until we roll it out. Then
I don't know how the hell we ever get to
the bottom of it. And it's especially irrelevant when the
Secret Service, the Director of Secret Service, is already lying
to us, So she's already lying to us. Then it
(39:07):
stands the reason why do I trust her about anything,
which is why it's so important to ask questions. As
Corey Mills is pointing out, folks simply incomprehensible to me
that things went down the way that they did. It
just is. But I want to show you Donald Trump's
(39:28):
entrance to the Republican National Convention last night. I saw
it and it just was inspirational to me because of
what this man has just been through. You know, his
reaction in the aftermath of the assassination attempt was to
(39:49):
rise up and show the people that he was fine,
raising his fist and just simply saying fight. That will
become undoubtedly one of the most iconic images of our time.
There's no doubt, absolutely no doubt about it. When people
in that crowd were scared and conservative Republicans and frankly
Americans all across the country, I mean, outside of the
(40:13):
demented Trump deranged left. Of course, those are life losers
when don't give a shit what they think. But outside
of them, Trump showed the good people of America that
some things are worth fighting for, that America itself is
worth fighting for and in that moment where the rubber
met the road and bullets were flying, Trump faced a test.
(40:38):
He rose to the occasion, and he passed the test.
Not only that, not only that he chose to lead
in that moment. The guy's just unstoppable. And so he
shows up at the Republican National Convention last night and
walks out just like this.
Speaker 7 (41:00):
The things were I worked for all my life and
I had to start again.
Speaker 1 (41:08):
Just my children.
Speaker 7 (41:12):
Bang my lucky stars today because there's flags to the
stands for freedom and they can't take that away.
Speaker 1 (41:28):
And a proud to be an American war.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
And he's done.
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Seen Trump walk out pumping the fist handed none of
the ear. You can see that Trump is emotional ground all.
Speaker 7 (41:45):
Of it, which is rare because there down I.
Speaker 4 (41:50):
Love singing God bless.
Speaker 2 (42:03):
Trump is emotional walking out. You can see it on
his face.
Speaker 1 (42:09):
I've said before, long before this assassination attempt happened, that
this man I don't know of anybody else who could
go through what he went through and unjustly prosecuted. I
don't know of anybody else on the face of the
planet that could do it. I just I mean that, Yes,
(42:32):
I'm a partisan. Yes, I'm a Trump guy, have been
since the beginning. But I don't know not just of
any other Republican, but of any other human living that
could handle what he does and endure, not just endure,
but seemingly come out on top. And when you look
(42:57):
at what happened and that rally in him, I saw
it with my own two eyes him turn his head
at the last second, just as bullets cracked by his head.
I watched the President grab his ear and fall to
the ground. And I know when I talked to Melanie,
we've been talking about this a lot. I looked at
her face, and she's got these like big blue eyes,
(43:20):
and she's very expressive what she wants to be. But
when she was laying on the ground and the prone
I could see her eyes were so wide. She was afraid,
not for herself, not for herself, but for President Trump,
the people at that rally, and this country, which, by
(43:42):
the way, frankly says a lot about her. And she
handled herself like a pro under fire. She was incredible.
But that image will be forever etched on my consciousness
of my wife in a position like that, made possible
by these evil psychopath Dems. And look, you might be
(44:04):
uncomfortable with me saying that, or maybe you won't. I
don't know. I guarantee you there are gonna because some
conservatives who are out there pearl clutching when I say this.
But I'm telling you that I am very, very, very
tired that every time some left wing psychopath tries to
kill one of us, and they've done it in the past,
whether it's just try to go after Steve Scalisian, shoot
(44:25):
him up, attack Ram Paul in his house, slandering us
with every name in the book, and then trying to
assassinate our president every member of the left wing media.
Oh well, we just need to turn down the temperature
and just come together. It's like, but God forbid on
(44:47):
the rare rare circumstance. And I do mean rare. And
when I say rare, I almost mean never. I mean
I mean never. Go in a Republican or a right
winger guy does something, it's like they've got to be
eradicated by the full power of the government Department of
Homeland Security. I'm telling you I'm done. I'm done being
(45:10):
the party of gentlemen losers. I refuse to play the
bullshit let's come together game. Why because it's disingenuous, freaking
Joe Biden has already cycled back in to the same
(45:32):
hoax ridden bullshit that got us into this situation. If
you don't believe me, just listen why I don't believe it.
I'm not gonna parlay with them, No peace, no alive branch,
because the peace will be temporary and they'll be right
back in to the hateful rhetoric forty eight hours in fact,
by Narady is listen to this.
Speaker 8 (45:52):
Well, let's talk about the conversation this has started, and
it's really about language, what we say out loud, and
the consequences of those You called your opponent an existential threat.
On a call a week ago, you said it's time
to put Trump in the bullseye. There's some dispute about
the context, but I think you appreciate.
Speaker 3 (46:10):
I say crosshairs.
Speaker 9 (46:11):
I was talking about focus on Look, the truth of
the matter was, well, I guess I was talking about
as the time was, there was very little focus on
Trump's agenda.
Speaker 8 (46:21):
Yeah, the term is bullseye was a mistake.
Speaker 9 (46:24):
To youse word. I didn't I didn't say crosshairs, bulls.
I'm mean to focus on him, Focus on what he's doing,
Focus on his policies, focus on the number of lies
he told in the debate, focus on I mean, there's
there's a whole range of things that Look, I'm not
the guy that said I want to be a dictator
on day one. I'm not the guy that refused to
(46:45):
accept the outcome of the election. I'm not the guy
who said that one accept the outcome of this election automatically.
You can't only love your country when you win. And
so the focus was on what he's saying, and I
mean the idea.
Speaker 8 (47:01):
But have you taken a step back and done a
little soul searching on things that you may have said
that could incite people who are not balanced?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
Well, I don't think.
Speaker 9 (47:15):
Look, how do you talk about the threat to democracy,
which is real? When a president says things like he says,
do you just not say anything? He's a man insite somebody. Look,
I have not engaged in that rhetoric. Now my opponent's
engaged in that rhetoric. He talks about to be a
(47:36):
bloodbat if he loses, talking about how he's going to
forgive all the Actually, I guess suspend the sentences of
all those who were arrested and sentenced to go to
jail because of what happened in the Capitol. I'm not
out there making fun of like women.
Speaker 1 (47:58):
This man, less than forty eight hours after an assassination
attempt on President Trump shows no humility and trots out hoaxes,
the bloodbath hoax? Really the dictator on day one? Hoax?
(48:19):
Are you no olive branch with these assholes until we
defeat them, No quarter with these people until we defeat them. Politically,
the Democrats, when they're people, do terrible things to others,
(48:42):
and they've done it, and they've got a track record.
I mean, God, I just ran Paul Steve Scalise, Now
Donald Trump. But how about Antifa in the Summer of
Love burning down American cities, no one held accountable. Try
to burn down Saint John's's Church, surrounded the White House, battered, bloodied,
wound did uniform members of the Secret Service laid seeds
(49:03):
to the White House? No accountability. I'm done with this
fake Lets unite because I know that forty eight hours
later Biden's gonna be right back to this hateful, divisive
bullshit that got us.
Speaker 2 (49:18):
Into this position in the first place.
Speaker 1 (49:24):
So Donald Trump was doing I'm sorry. Donald Trump Junior
did an interview yesterday, and I just find all this
stuff fascinating because you don't often get to see this
side of the Trumps. I've seen it before. They're just
unbelievable people that I told you about Trump and how
he was with Missus Fogel ninety five years old. But
(49:46):
Don and Eric just freaking awesome guys. You don't get
to see this out of them. But listen to this
interview of Don when he's asked about how he was
feeling and what happened, how did he find out about
the potential assassination attempt on his father?
Speaker 2 (50:04):
It's compelling.
Speaker 10 (50:04):
Listen here with us today is Donald Trump Junior less
than forty eight hours after an assassin tried to kill
your father. Thank you so much for being here.
Speaker 11 (50:13):
It's my pleasure. Thank you.
Speaker 10 (50:14):
So I wanted to ask you, you know you, I
am sure this was a horrific moment for you when
you found out that someone had attempted to take your
father's life. What was your first conversation with our former
president like after this shooting?
Speaker 11 (50:26):
Actually took a while. I was you know, it's a
Saturday evening. I was with my kids July summer and
I got a call. You know, your father's been shot.
But that's it, like, no no details like is he alive?
Speaker 1 (50:38):
Is he not? Is he? Is he? Okay? Is he?
Speaker 11 (50:41):
Took about ninety minutes to actually get through, I guess,
you know, with that they had them all locked down
and whatever it may be and mobile trauma units or
and so you know, I didn't even know ninety minutes. Yeah,
an hour and a half for me to not know
what was going on. And strangely enough, during that time,
I was just trying to get all my kids together.
Didn't know if there was further stuff going on or
if there was you know, uh, and so you know,
(51:02):
stayed relatively calmon that you know, got got to finally,
you know, speak to him, and uh, you know, by
then I had already seen some of the videos, so
I was like, Okay. Then finally got the phone call
and it was you know, me, my brother and Laura
Kim and my daughter and my ex wife were all
there on sort of speakerphone talking, uh, talking to my dad,
and you know, he was just surprisingly upbeat and uh,
(51:23):
you know, obviously a somber moment right, but uh but
you know surprisingly there that you know, we even even
got in a hair joke.
Speaker 1 (51:29):
I was like, gu's the hair? Okay?
Speaker 11 (51:30):
After with all that blood is we we sort.
Speaker 1 (51:33):
Of had some fun with it.
Speaker 11 (51:34):
I think probably all needed a little uh Trump style
icebreaker just to kind of, you know, get through some
of the gravitas of of everything that went on. And
you know, then you sort of sit down and that's
when it all hits you and it's like, man, that's
a it was a pretty pretty crazy moment, right, And I'm.
Speaker 10 (51:51):
Sure you you felt so strongly. What how did this
change how you look at your father?
Speaker 1 (51:56):
Oh?
Speaker 11 (51:56):
I told him the first thing I got, I go,
you know, I saw the picture that sort of defined
and you know, fist pump, you know, after five seconds
after getting shot, and you know, I guess we live
in an era where everyone sort of thinks they're a
badass because they're on the internet and not really upfront.
But he just got shot and he comes out, you know,
sort of defiant, ready to fight for a country. And
I just said, Hey, you're the biggest badass I've ever met.
(52:16):
And I probably could not have been legitimately more proud. Ever,
you know, as a son to have that kind of approach,
because again, everyone thinks they're going to act that way.
Speaker 1 (52:28):
I find that to be amazing. And my hope is
that I could only be so lucky that my kids
will talk like that about me, you know, I mean
that as a as a father. That's the goal. That
is the goal, And it just tells you a lot
about the kind of person that Donald Trump really is.
(52:49):
His children love and respect this guy. They love him.
They're dedicated to him. You saw it and you heard
it in Don's voice there. All right, folks, listen before
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(53:10):
a testament to you. This show's growing like gangbusters again
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this stuff. I refuse to back off of what happened
on Saturday. I refuse to forget. The media cycle is
already starting to move on. They're desperate to move on.
(53:31):
I refuse to forget. I refuse to let it go.
I'm going to talk about this until there is accountability
and not just justice. For President Trump, but justice for
the people who were wounded, killed, psychologically maimed by what happened. Sickening,
absolutely sickening what happened, And we cannot relent until we
(53:55):
know the truth. And right now, you folks, it's crazy,
but I feel like I know less now than I
did in the moment, because more information has come out
that just paints what happened is just beyond negligent to
the point of where you think it might there might
(54:17):
be some level of intentionality. And I'm not trying to
sound conspiratorial, I'm not, but what happened was so negligent
and so incomprehensible, and it cannot be blamed simply on incompetence.
I mean, at least until I'm shown otherwise. Why should
(54:38):
I believe it? The government has done nothing but lie
to us, Why should I believe it? Anyways, Folks, don't
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a prayer for this country. Say a prayer for President
Trump his family. Say a prayer for the wounded, and
(55:46):
say a prayer for the Pennsylvania family that was forever
changed because they lost a loved one. Pray for all
those people. Folks.
Speaker 2 (55:54):
This is just a crazy time that we live in.
Speaker 1 (55:59):
But let's let's let those people know that we love
and we support them, and that we're not going to
forget this anytime soon.
Speaker 2 (56:06):
And so with that, folks, God bless you all. Keep
the faith. The best is yet to come. The tide
is turning.
Speaker 1 (56:14):
God bless you all, and God bless this exceptional nation
that we call home.
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