Ep. 2048 - BREAKING: SECOND ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT On Trump!
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So yesterday, President Trump's second assassination attempt in eight weeks. Just astonishing news. This is the first time that a president or presidential candidate, that there's been a second attempted assassination within a short period of time, probably since Gerald Ford. You have to go back quite a ways for that. We brought you real-time updates yesterday. We did a Ben React, put it up on YouTube as fast as humanly possible. Being able to react

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And this gunman showed up outside of Donald Trump's international golf course in West Palm Beach. Apparently, he was at the turn between the fifth and the sixth holes. President Trump was not quite at that point in the golf course yet. There's a couple of holes behind. Secret Service agents were advancing. There were a couple of holes ahead of President Trump. They saw the alleged shooter, the would-be alleged shooter, sitting behind the fence. The would-be shooter had apparently a pack of ceramics that were meant to block any sort of incoming shot from Secret Service. He

He had a rifle, an AK-47 with a scope. He also had a GoPro, so he was ready to film his attempted assassination on President Trump. It is unclear whether he got a shot off. It appears that he probably did not. Secret Service saw him in advance. They shot at him. He then proceeded to flee. And then a nearby bystander saw the license plate of the person, gave it to the cops, and this person was picked up by the police about 20 minutes later after fleeing the premises. According to the Wall Street Journal,

At least one agent, who was one or two holes ahead of Trump on the course, fired after spotting a man pointing a rifle through a fence, law enforcement officials said. A witness saw the man dart out of the bushes and take off in a black Nissan, which helped sheriff's deputies track and stop him while he was headed down I-95. The man, who, again, I don't do names of shooters.

The reason I don't do names of shooters as a general rule is because it incentivizes further shooters. They want the publicity. They want their cause publicized. So instead, I give you all the details that I can about the shooter without mentioning the name of the shooter because, again, I don't want to incentivize. This is probably the only good social science on mass shooters or assassins is that they want to be notorious. They want to be well-known. And depriving them of that is maybe the least I can do. It's like the only thing I can do as a member of the media not to incentivize.

increase the sort of publicity around people who would do something evil like try to shoot the former president of the United States. The would-be alleged shooter was detained and is facing criminal charges. Investigators said they didn't know if the gunman himself fired a shot during the encounter again. Authorities found an AK-style rifle with a scope, two backpacks, and a GoPro portable camera. He was about 400 yards away from the former president of the United States.

So the police pointed out that the man, in fact, was there for an assassination attempt. The first breaking news, it was unclear whether he was there. I don't know what else he would be there for. You don't normally just go to a golf course with a gun and point it through the fence. But here were the police yesterday announcing that the man arrested was there to assassinate. This is Sheriff Rick Bradshaw. 1.30 this afternoon, call came out, shots fired. That was called in by the Secret Service. Because we're in constant contact with them all the time,

We were notified of that and we had units here that immediately sealed off the area. In the bushes where this guy was is an AK-47 style rifle with a scope.

Two backpacks, which were hung on the fence that had a ceramic tile in them and a GoPro, which he was going to take pictures of. Again, the backpacks with the ceramic tile were presumably to provide some sort of false cover for him in case there would be an incoming shot from Secret Service, because ceramic is very often used as sort of a cheap substitute, for example, for Kevlar. The Secret Service representative revealed that the assassin was, in fact, quite close to the president. If you have a rifle with a scope on it, 400 yards is not all that far.

It was one or two holes behind. Because the bubble moves through the golf course. So our agents will get there first, clear it. He noticed that the

rifle was pointed out, our agents engaged. We are not sure right now if the individual was able to take a shot at our agents, but for sure our agents were able to engage. Sheriff Bradshaw did point out that Trump does not have full perimeter protection. So full perimeter protection is typically given to the sitting president of the United States, apparently, but not to presumably the

Republican nominee for the president of the United States or the former president. So he has Secret Service or sort of on him bodily, but not necessarily locking down all generalized areas. And again, part of the problem here in terms of security is that you would have to have either Congress itself shut off, which is a major thoroughfare, which is unlikely, or much more likely, you should have had Secret Service agents outside the fence when the

when the president was, in fact, going around the golf course. That would have been the obvious solution here. But, says Rick Bradshaw, they actually didn't have the staff available to even secure the exterior of the fence, which is where this person set up for the shot. Again, it's a chain-link fence, so it's not as though he had to sort of hop to get over the fence or anything like that. At this level that he is at right now, he's not the city president. If he was, we would have had this higher golf course around him.

Well, because he's not, the security is limited to the areas that the Secret Service deems possible. So I would imagine that the next time he comes at a golf course, there'll probably be a little more people around the perimeter.

But the Secret Service did exactly what they should have done. They provided exactly what the protection should have been. And their agent did a fantastic job. Well, it seems about time that the Secret Service be given full authority and staffing power to protect the former president of the United States,

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According to the New York Times, the Secret Service significantly bolstered Trump's protective detail after coming under intense criticism following an attempt on his life in Butler on July 13th. That beefed up detail, which includes additional agents and enhanced on-the-ground intelligence, might have played a role in the outcome this weekend, according to current and former officials. But the fact that a gunman was able to get a semi-automatic rifle with a telescopic sight so close to the former president underscored how many urgent problems exposed in Butler remain unresolved and how difficult it is for the Secret Service to respond to an unpredictable and increasingly violent political environment.

except for this is not super tough stuff. I feel like I, anyone could have possibly foreseen that if you have the president of the United States, former president of the United States, and again, right now a 50-50 shot to be the next president of the United States, the most controversial person in modern American history,

playing golf at a club that he owns, which he does fairly regularly, right? He has several golf courses in this area and he plays them fairly regularly. It seems like well within the possible purview of the Secret Service to, you know, actually secure a fence that is not all that far away from the golf course. I

Like what happened if the Secret Service had missed this guy hiding behind the bushes? Like, let's say this guy had not been a complete moron. And instead of hiding behind a couple of backpacks at the at the exterior of this fence, there had been some sort of obstruction that he was actually hiding behind. So they couldn't actually see him from inside the golf course. And then he had waited until President Trump had moved up a hole or two. He would have been right next to President Trump, almost right next to him.

I mean, as it turns out, the shooter is pretty clearly a left-wing oriented nutjob. This is a person who clearly has some sort of mental issues from his record. Also happens to be politically oriented to the left, as we'll get to in just one moment.

According to the New York Times, the biggest issues in Trump's protection seem to be involving securing the protective perimeter of a targeted site, even one they know as well as Trump's properties. The would-be shooter positioned himself in the bushes on the perimeter of the former president's golf club in West Palm Beach. A secret service agent was one hole ahead of Trump on the course and spotted the barrel of a gun, prompting agents to open fire on the man.

Again, right now, Joe Biden, the White House, need to authorize full Secret Service protective detail for the former president of the United States. Clearly and obviously, this should have been done after Butler. Maybe that's the head of the Secret Service who's at fault, again. Or perhaps the staffing levels that are being provided by the White House are not sufficient to meet the need when it comes to President Trump, who, again, has been targeted by everything up to and including bullets at this point. President Trump issued a statement saying,

almost immediately saying there were gunshots in my vicinity. But before rumors start spiraling out of control, I wanted you to hear this first. I am safe and well. Nothing will slow me down. I will never surrender. I will always love you for supporting me. And by the way, politically, his message here should be no bullet is going to stop the change. That should be the message right now. Kamala Harris, not to get political too early, but everything is political. It's a presidential election. President Trump should be making the case because she's making the case right now that she is a change agent when she clearly is not, as we'll talk about in a little while.

President Trump should be making the case. No bullet will stop the change. That's the thing he should be saying clearly, openly and honestly. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris put out a statement in which they said they are relieved to know that Donald Trump is safe. Apparently, according to the White House, the president and vice president have been briefed about the security incident at the Trump International Golf Course where former President Trump was golfing. They're relieved to know he's safe. They will be kept regularly updated by their team. Now, what about the shooter?

Well, we know that his son also happens to be a left-wing oriented nut. His son told the Daily Mail, quote, this is the first I heard about it. Was my father shot or injured? He then said that his father hates Trump as, quote, every reasonable person does. Clearly, everybody is perfectly sane and reasonable and rational. I don't like Trump either, the son added. But he said his dad is not a violent person and couldn't believe his father would target the president.

He's my dad. All he's had is a couple of traffic tickets. As far as I know, his son said, that's crazy. I know my dad and love my dad, but that's nothing like him. Well, I mean, that doesn't seem to be the case because we now have some information about his father's history. His father's history is pretty checkered. Politically, again, this is a person of the left. He had exclusively donated, according to the New York Post, to Democrats since 2019.

He had apparently tweeted out something about how he wanted like a Vivek Ramaswamy Nikki Haley ticket at one point during the last presidential cycle, during the primaries, which is again, because this person is obviously pretty crazy and pretty nuts. With that said, this person is left-wing oriented without a doubt. He claims in other social media posts that he had supported Trump in his first presidential campaign in 2016, but then said that he was greatly disappointed. However,

Apparently, he also backed Tulsi Gabbard during the 2020 Democratic primary, and then he posted in favor of Vivek Ramaswamy, so all over the place. But overall, this is a person of the left. Not only is he a person of the left, this person has spent an inordinate amount of time talking publicly about Ukraine. So, for example, back in 2013, he was actually directly quoted by The New York Times as

In a piece about how foreigners trying to fight in Ukraine, some of them were lying. There's a piece titled Stolen Valor, the U.S. volunteers in Ukraine who lie, waste, and bicker. And the would-be shooter is quoted about something called the Legion. The Legion is a foreign body that was created in order to allow foreigners to fight in Ukraine.

It says, quote, with Legion growth stalling, the shooter, a former construction worker from Greensboro, North Carolina, is seeking recruits from among Afghan soldiers who fled the Taliban. The shooter, who spent several months in Ukraine last year, said he planned to move them, in some cases illegally, from Pakistan and Iran to Ukraine. He said dozens had expressed interest. He said we can probably purchase some passports through Pakistan since it's such a corrupt country. And again, this is him talking to The New York Times.

We'll get to more coverage of the alleged attempted assassination of President Trump momentarily. First, we are now approaching the one-year anniversary of the October 7th terrorist attacks in Israel. It was a day that shook Western civilization to its core. It's a stark reminder of the evil that exists in the world and the importance of standing with our allies. Well, now the International Fellowship of Christians and Jews is giving us a chance to do just that with their Flags of Fellowship initiative. It's an opportunity for us all to remember the victims,

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Most of the Ukrainian authorities do not want these soldiers, said the would-be shooter. Again, this is back in 2023. Head of the International Volunteer Center in Ukraine, a private organization which helps foreigners seeking to assist the war effort connect with military units and aid groups. I've had partners meeting with Ukraine's Ministry of Defense every week and still have not been able to get them to agree to issue one single visa. So this person was obviously working in Ukraine, spent time in Ukraine, went to Ukraine to join the war, apparently.

And in fact, was interviewed by Newsweek about his work in Ukraine. This has been Newsweek Romania interviewing this person talking about Ukraine. So this is not a totally anonymous person. This person is extremely politically active, obviously invested in Ukraine, and also pretty obviously crazy. I mean, in this interview, the would-be shooter has dyed half of his head blue and half of it yellow in honor of Ukraine's flag. This person is pretty clearly nutty. Here we go. Please tell me who you are and why are you here?

I'm 56 from the US, from North Carolina originally. So I live in Hawaii now, so flew all the way from Hawaii here. So the question as far as why I'm here,

To me, you know, a lot of the other conflicts are gray, but this conflict is definitely black and white. This is about good versus evil. This is a storybook. You know, any movie we ever watch, this is definitely evil against good. Okay, so again, this person, very passionate about Ukraine, obviously. Also pretty obviously pretty crazy. And unfortunately,

His son is wrong. This person does have a fairly checkered criminal past. Quote, this Newsweek, the suspect has reportedly been arrested eight times, mostly for minor offenses. He was actually convicted in 2002 of possessing a weapon of mass destruction. That's not a nuke. Apparently, that was a fully automatic machine gun. A December 22 story by News and Record in Greensboro, North Carolina, said that a man with the same name was arrested after a three-hour standoff with police.

and was charged with carrying a concealed weapon and possessing a weapon of mass destruction, referring to a fully automatic machine gun. So again, all of this is indicative of a person who was unhinged, was unhinged on the left, particularly with regard to Ukraine. In March 2022, he wrote, quote, "'I am willing to fly to Krakow and go to the border of Ukraine to volunteer and fight and die. Can I be the example? We must win.'"

He, in June 2020, tagged Trump's account, said, I will be glad when you are gone. In April 2024, he tagged Elon Musk in an ex-post saying, I would like to buy a rocket from you. I wish to load it with a warhead for Putin's Black Sea mansion bunker to end him. Can you give me a price, please? So once more, many things can be true. One, of late, the people who have attempted to assassinate presidents of the United States,

are crazy. Two, this person was left-wing oriented on issues like Ukraine and had been interviewed by the mainstream media, by the legacy media on multiple occasions with regard to that. And three, the reality is that in an extraordinarily polarized political environment, when a presidential candidate is the victim of two separate attempted assassinations,

When that happens, there should be some questions raised about the temperature of our rhetoric. Now, again, the only person who's guilty of attempting to kill the former president of the United States and current front runner for the White House, the only person who is guilty of that thing is the attempted assassin, obviously. However, when you raise the temperature on the political rhetoric in a country,

What you are doing is you are turning up the heat beneath a pot of boiling water. And eventually, it starts to boil over. You see this all over the world. This is not unique to the United States. You see this in pretty much every democracy. As you increase the temperature of the political rhetoric, violence becomes a byproduct of that. We've been entering an increasingly violent era that is particularly true since Black Lives Matter summer, in which widespread political violence was greenlit by the legacy media.

We have now seen two separate assassination attempts against President Trump. I do not think that that is a massive coincidence. You have these free radicals who are roaming around. They can find each other on social media and find support. And not only that, they're being told day in and day out that Donald Trump is a deep and abiding threat to the republic.

Again, there is a difference between saying that you don't like Donald Trump's policies or you think that Donald Trump's policies are bad for the country. It is another thing to say, as the left has for years at this point, that Donald Trump as president of the United States would end elections in the United States, for example, that Donald Trump and his supporters are a threat to the very social fabric of the United States. That is a different thing. The same day that this assassin went out and attempted to shoot Donald Trump again, the Harris Walls campaign put out an ad by Bernie Sanders in which he said all of these things.

And we are two months out from the last attempted assassination when there was just a moment of respite when people said, hey, wait a second, maybe we ought to lower the temperature just a little bit. And they went right back to it. If you recall, President Joe Biden was barely alive at that point. He made a speech from the Oval Office talking about bringing down the rhetoric. And then within 24 hours, he was out there again suggesting that Donald Trump was a deep and abiding threat to the very Republic of the United States. Again, this is an ad that Bernie Sanders put out the same day somebody tried to shoot Donald Trump again.

Hi, this is Senator Bernie Sanders. There is clearly not a lot of time left in this election. So I'm asking everyone to pitch in to support Team Harris-Walls today. As I think you all know, this is the most consequential election in our lifetime. Donald Trump is extraordinarily dangerous. He is a threat to our democracy. He is, among many other characteristics, a pathological liar.

We together must do everything in our power to defeat Trump and his MAGA allies this November and elect Vice President Harris and Governor Walz as our next president and vice president. The bottom line is that we cannot win this election without a strong. So, again, he goes on, but extraordinarily dangerous, going to destroy America. These are the kinds of terms the left routinely uses about Donald Trump. He's a dictator in waiting. He's Hitler without the mustache.

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That's policygenius.com slash Shapiro. Democratic Representative Jasmine Crockett, literally the day of this alleged attempted assassination, said MAGA is a domestic terrorism threat. Here she was yesterday on MSNBC with Jen Psaki, former White House press secretary.

When I talk about MAGA, I talk about the fact that when we swore in finally in January that we swore to defend against those that are coming against us, whether they are domestic or international. And right now, I feel like MAGA in general, they are threats to us domestically. They are threats. They are full-on threats. Okay, you keep saying that sort of stuff over and over and over. It's not Jasmine Crockett's fault that some alleged attempted assassin tried to kill the president of the United States, apparently.

It is, however, her fault that the temperature keeps increasing. It keeps increasing. And the left refuses to turn it down. Turn down for what? They refuse to turn it down. In fact, the one thing they will say over and over is that Donald Trump needs to turn down the rhetoric. So Donald Trump is apparently the font head of all evil rhetoric and overstatement in the universe. They themselves are perfectly innocent.

Apparently, the great tragedy of somebody allegedly attempting to shoot Donald Trump again for the second time in two months, the great tragedy is that Donald Trump might say things. That's really the thing we ought to worry about. Here's MSNBC anchor Alex Witt wondering if Trump should tone down the rhetoric.

We do not know, again, the source of any gunshot or gunshots. We don't know who's responsible for this. The whole thing has yet to be 100% confirmed from start to finish how this all played out. But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence? Or would that be atypical of the former president? Again, for the media, the problem is always Trump.

Someone tries to allegedly shoot Trump and the problem is Trump. Always, forever. I mean, it's amazing. Meanwhile, NBC's Lester Holt saying the same thing. He says, the GOP, their rhetoric, man, they should really tone it down. Someone allegedly attempted to shoot Donald Trump in the head again. And the first reaction of the legacy media is, we're doing an amazing job. Everything we say about Donald Trump is 100% true and he should tone down the rhetoric.

Today's apparent assassination attempt comes amid increasingly fierce rhetoric on the campaign trail itself. Mr. Trump, his running mate J.D. Vance, continue to make baseless claims about Haitian immigrants in Ohio. This weekend, there were new bomb threats in that town. Our Maggie Vespa is in Columbus, Ohio, with more.

Lester, simply put, Springfield, Ohio, has been inundated by threats. Over the last several days, closing government buildings, schools, hospitals, today effectively closing a local university campus after administrators said someone threatened a mass shooting targeting Haitians. This in light of, officials say, a false online conspiracy theory alleging Haitian immigrants in that city are eating people's pets. Okay, so again,

They're going right back to the well. The well is always that Donald Trump is at fault, that J.D. Manse is at fault. Even when someone tries to shoot Donald Trump, allegedly, they are at fault. And by the way, just in case you thought that those moderators in the last presidential debate were unbiased, here is ABC's Lindsay Davis, who is anchoring her first Sunday edition of World News Tonight since the debate. She immediately moves from talking about the second Trump assassination attempt to talking about Trump's outsized rhetoric or Vance's outsized rhetoric.

Tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. Shots fired at Donald Trump's golf club in Florida as a former president was nearby. The Secret Service opening fire after spotting a man with an assault-style rifle. One suspect is now in custody. The former president is safe.

The details just coming in from West Palm Beach, the Secret Service, treating this as a threat against the former president. Agents have detained a suspect and have recovered a weapon. This comes two months after the former president survived an assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania. Pierre Thomas and Mary Alice Parks lead tonight's coverage. Also tonight, Springfield, Ohio, on edge. Local schools are being threatened with violence and a college shuts down activities after threats were made following the baseless rumors that Haitian immigrants have been eating pets.

Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance defends spreading those claims. The Ohio governor calls the rumors garbage and says the immigrants are here to work. Meanwhile, CNN's Juliette Kayyem, she's lamenting this might be used for political purposes. Remember, that's always the problem. It's the Republicans pouncing. That's the problem.

I really, you know, I don't care what you feel about him or who the or Harris. I mean, this is this is the expectation that he will be safe. And the reason why this is, you know, in some ways, you said how close the election is.

The problem is this is a safety issue that is being thrown into a very intense political environment in which the very fact of an assassination, a constitutional moment, because it could have impacted voters.

will be used for political purposes. And that to me is just not as exceptionally unfortunate because whatever your beliefs are, we do deserve to have campaigns that are not a part where violence isn't being used as either a sword or a shield. ♪

Amazing. David Frum, another sort of former never Trump Republican who's turned into a full scale Democrat in the style of the bulwark, for example. David Frum, who writes for The Atlantic, he tweeted, quote, Trump and his running mate have spent the past week successfully inciting violence in Springfield, Ohio. Today, they want to present themselves as near victims of violence. In this case, a violence completely unrelated to themselves and at a very safe distance from themselves.

Wait, what? A very safe distance from them, like, is 400 yards a very safe distance from Donald Trump? Because I feel like that is not, in fact, the case. And again, the sword only works one way. For the left, if something bad happens to a left winger, it is because of right wing rhetoric, whether or not it's because of right wing rhetoric. When a mass shooter hits Gabby Giffords in the head, shoots Gabby Giffords in the head, and it turns out it has nothing to do with Sarah Palin, it's still Sarah Palin's fault.

When somebody who is tangentially interested in Trumpian politics does anything remotely violence related, then, of course, it accrues directly to Donald Trump's demerit column. But if twice in two months, somebody tries to shoot Trump in the head, allegedly, if that happens twice in two months, then apparently the left has no responsibility for that whatsoever. None. None.

Bad things just never attach. So long as you say the right thing, so long as you are politically oriented correctly, if you are of the left, you can say whatever you want and nothing will ever touch you. There will never, ever be any responsibility for even increasing the temperature. Forget about the shootings. Increasing the temperature will never, ever be your fault because you're just speaking truth.

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Now, the reality is I think most people see through this. I think most Americans do not see Donald Trump as a grave threat. By the way, I don't even think that Joe Biden sees Donald Trump as a grave threat. It's all lies. It's all dishonest. We know it's dishonest because literally last week, Joe Biden put on a MAGA hat.

On September 11th, he was over in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, visiting firefighters, and they were all Trump supporters. And as a joke, he put on a MAGA hat. Now, everyone took that as sort of lighthearted, which it was. It is worth noting at this point that if Joe Biden really thought about Donald Trump, what he says he believes about Donald Trump, he would never have put on a MAGA hat. If Donald Trump really was the sort of Nazi threat to the republic that Joe Biden and the Democratic Party have made him out to be, nothing in the world could get him put on the MAGA hat.

He'd be the equivalent of putting on a Nazi hat or a Hamas hat or a Hezbollah hat. He wouldn't do it because according to them, Donald Trump is the gravest threat to the republic in the history of the United States. January 6th, caused by President Trump, was the worst thing for the American body politics since the Civil War. And yet there he was putting on the MAGA hat, which is weird because they don't actually believe it. They don't actually believe it. They just say it over and over and over for political, cynical reasons.

Meanwhile, the state of the race remains incredibly close. There's a poll out from Iowa that chose Donald Trump's Iowa lead shrinking significantly. The Seltzer poll, which is usually the best on poll in America, says that Donald Trump's Iowa lead has shrunk from 18 points over Joe Biden in late spring down to about four points in Iowa. Again, that demonstrates some renewed momentum, obviously, for Kamala Harris. With all of that said, the race remains insanely close.

Kamala Harris is within margin of error in seven different states, Arizona, Nevada, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. Nate Silver at this point is still suggesting that Donald Trump is the favorite in the election, despite the fact that Kamala Harris is ahead a little bit in the national polling. There's been movement toward her, but that movement toward her has not overcome the structural imbalances in the Electoral College.

According to Nate Silver right now, if you had to take a bet, the electoral college probability for Trump is about 60% to about 40% for Harris, which means it is effectively a toss-up election. We have yet to see any new state polling, really, since the debate. So we don't know the impact of the debate. I would suggest that this race is stagnant, that everybody is basically locked in at this point.

Which means, as I've said before, if Donald Trump can be meticulous in his attacks on Kamala Harris, then he will win. It really comes down to that. It's that simple. Kamala Harris is an undefined quantity. That debate did not define her better. It defined President Trump better, but everybody already had a very clear picture of Donald Trump. It marginally made Trump look worse than people already think he is. That's pretty much all that happened with Trump.

Trump was already a crisp photo and he got a little crisper. And then during that debate, Kamala Harris was a vague blob of an image. And she's still a vague blob of an image. And nobody knows what the hell she believes or what she thinks, which is why the attempt to vibe her all the way to the White House will fail so long as the Trump campaign can actually move to define her. And all the attempts to do otherwise, all the attempts to sort of gloss over the top with the vibes and the and the feelings and the brat and all that. I don't think that that is destined to succeed.

It's not going to stop the media from doing their damnedest to try. Brian Stelter, Mr. Potato Head, he was back on CNN after losing his job over there, saying that the most important things about Kamala Harris are the images surrounding her. That is not remotely true. Her policies will, in fact, come into question very, very soon.

She's so obviously visually not Joe Biden, right? She she is the hope and change and youthful energy in this race. To me, the images are more important than anything she's saying right now. When she keeps filling these rallies, that's probably more important than what she says out loud. It's the images. It's the images. That's all that matters, except that it doesn't.

I know that the Washington Post is running entire style section articles about dressing Kamala Harris. Harris seized the moment Saturday to speak to black lawmakers at a congressional Black Caucus Foundation event, and she used her dress to help her do it. Wow. She wore a long-sleeved, black sequined column dress by New York designer Laquan Smith.

Amazing. Just incredible. That's the important thing, except for it isn't. Except for she is going to actually at some point have to explain what it is she wants to do with the United States. And every time she does it, it gets worse. This is why a meticulous Trump campaign, I keep coming back to this. This election is in fact Donald Trump and J.D. Vance's election to lose. It is their election to lose. I say this as a Trump donor. I say this as somebody who wants Trump to win.

I say this is somebody who's going to go campaign with a series of Senate Republican candidates. I want Donald Trump to win. I want the Republicans to retain the House. I want them to increase their share of the Senate to a solid majority. Donald Trump needs to run a meticulous campaign. Yes, he is facing entrenched obstacles worse than any president of my lifetime. Yes, the media hate him more than they've ever hated anybody ever before. They hated George W. Bush an awful lot, but they hate Trump even more.

Yes, he is facing systemic obstacles in a wide variety of places, ranging from state laws in some of the swing states to the obviously media Democrat complex. With that said, he is still running neck and neck with a horrifically bad candidate.

And Kamala Harris proves it every time she goes out on the campaign trail. This is why it was such frustration that Donald Trump blew the opportunity in the debate to actually hold her accountable, instead getting distracted with various rabbit holes that he wished to run down about his own tariff plans or about his crowd size. In just one second, I'm going to bring you Kamala Harris uncut. And man, it is terrible. Kamala Harris uncut.

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It is an obligation, a moral obligation for the Trump vans campaign to just play clips of Kamala Harris over and over and over. Over the weekend, she had what ought to have been the interview of the year, like leading the news on every network because she has only done two interviews. Donald Trump has survived more assassination attempts this year than Kamala Harris has done solo interviews since becoming the nominee. I'm not even kidding.

Donald Trump was nearly shot on July 13th, and then he was apparently nearly assassinated over the weekend. Kamala Harris has done one solo interview since becoming the nominee. One. It happened over the weekend, and it was awful. Apparently, she did this interview with ABC6 Local, and she answered a grand total of five questions, which is really exciting stuff.

So this interview did not go well for Kamala Harris. Again, she went to ABC again because ABC are like her very, very best friends. One of the things that we actually found out over the weekend is that ABC News anchor, Lindsay Davis, who was one of the moderators in the debate, of course,

She admitted in a post-debate interview with the L.A. Times that she wanted to address concerns Trump's statements could be allowed to, quote, hang there unchallenged by his opponent or the moderators. And so she was preparing to fact check Trump, but didn't prepare to fact check, apparently, by omission, anything about Kamala Harris, which is why Kamala Harris was never fact checked. Apparently, she told the L.A. Times people were concerned that statements were just allowed to hang and not be disputed by the candidate Biden at the time or the moderators in the first debate.

So she prepped to fact-check Trump, but not fact-check him, of course. So Kamala went back to the well. She sat down with ABC6 Action News, a local affiliate of ABC News. And she answered a grand total of five questions from Action News 6 ABC anchor Brian Taff.

It began with him asking what she would specifically do to bring down prices as president of the United States. And here was her horrifyingly bad answer, because she's trash at this. I understand she's vibes and she's brat and she's cool and she's, oh man, she's just the feelings, oh, the joy, so much joy. She's awful at this. It's one of the things that is driving everyone nuts who watches politics, even sort of by way of fun, even if you are just tangentially associated with politics, if

If you've seen a tape of Kamala Harris in the past six years, she's awful at this. And we're told she's great at this. Here is her being awful at this. When we talk about bringing down prices and making life more affordable for people, what are one or two specific things you have in mind for that?

Well, I'll start with this. I grew up a middle class kid. What? My mother raised my sister and me. She worked very hard. She was able to finally save up enough money to buy our first house when I was a teenager. I grew up in a community of hardworking people. Construction workers and nurses and teachers. I try to explain to some people who may not have had the same experience, you know, if

a lot of people will relate to this, you know, I grew up in a neighborhood of folks who were very proud of their lawn. Well, I don't know lawn, you know. When I talk about building an opportunity economy, it is very much with the mind of investing in the ambitions and aspirations and the incredible work ethic of the American people and creating opportunity for people, for example, to start a small business. So we build a square, just help the government build a square.

It's like a lawn. And then we built a triangle to support the middle class. Okay, you might have noticed that the actual question was, can you name some specific ways to bring down inflation? She's like, I was born back in the 1960s. And let me tell you, when God first created Adam and Eve in the garden, there were trees. And in those trees were fruit. Some might say, you know, some people don't understand fruit. They don't understand.

They don't understand fruit. What are you talking about? What, what the, what, what the? Here's the thing. She was asked this specific question at the same debate. People wonder why I'm frustrated about the debate. I'm frustrated because it was such a blown opportunity, but she keeps doing it. So the opportunity is still there. The question was, how are you going to bring down inflation? And she's like, chapter one, I am born.

Like, well, what? No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. And then she continues like this. So she starts jabbering about the American dream. It's elusive. It's not attainable. You literally are a person who just said you grew up middle class to impoverished, according to you, despite being born to two Berkeley professors and growing up in Canada in an upper class neighborhood.

And then you suggest the American dream is elusive. Well, you seem to be the very embodiment of the American dream, given you have no redeeming qualities and yet are the presidential nominee for the Democratic Party and possible current front runner. Maybe that. Here we go. Look, we don't have enough housing in America. We have a housing supply shortage.

And what that means in particular for so many younger Americans, the American dream is elusive. It's just actually not attainable. It's elusive. She's maddening to watch. She's maddening. Just a series of bumper stickers searching the landscape in search of meaning. It's amazing. And then she's asked to name a difference between her and Biden. And she's like, well, I well, and then also and I'm and I'm well, I'm a black woman. Here we go.

And so I wonder if there are one or two spots, policy areas or approaches where you would say, I'm a different person. Well, I'm obviously not Joe Biden. Yes, you know, I offer a new generation of leadership. No. So, for example, thinking about developing and creating an opportunity economy where it's about diversity.

investing in areas that really need a lot of work. And maybe focusing on, again, the aspirations and the dreams, but also just recognizing that at this moment in time, some of the stuff we could take for granted years ago, we can't take for granted anymore.

Can you name why you're different? Name some policies where you're different from Joe Biden. Well, I'm obviously not the same human as Joe Biden. Wow. Wow. You answered that question. Congratulations. There are 8 billion of us on planet Earth. You're not like any of those other people either because you're a different person than those people. What? How are... Okay. If you lose to this, if you lose to this, you deserve to lose to this. I don't know how else to put it. You cannot lose to this. She's awful. She's awful in every possible way. It is possible to be awful. And she was asked about her support for the assault weapons ban. And here is her answer.

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I say we need universal background checks. The majority of NRA members support that. Okay, you literally are not even describing why your policy is in consonance with the Second Amendment at all. I mean, honestly, it's very easy to get exercised over all of this stupidity. And sometimes you just need to, you know, kind of vibe out, really vibe. And that's when you need one of these. Behold, this meditative candle.

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Finally, she finishes up with a pitch to Trump supporters. Do you feel convinced? As a Trump supporter, I can tell you, I remain unconvinced. What do you understand his appeal to be? And how do you speak to his voters? Or maybe people who just share his values but are open to something else? I...

Based on experience and a lived experience. A lived experience? No. In my heart, I know. In my soul, I know. Oh, in her heart and her soul. That the vast majority of us as Americans have so much more in common than what separates us. Oh, let's say a platitude. And I also believe that I am accurate in knowing. Accurate in knowing? That most Americans want a leader who brings us together as Americans. And not...

Someone who professes to be a leader who is trying to have us point our fingers at each other. Oh, my God. Why are you even pretending this person is good at this? She's awful at this. She's awful. There's a reason Joe Biden was like, I'd rather run than her because at least I have some brain cells. She's the emptiest vessel in the world. These are easy questions. Simple, predictable, easy questions. She's blowing every single one of them, which means.

But the Trump campaign needs to point that out over and over without being distracted by sillinesses. Kamala Harris isn't just incoherent. She's also a liar. You remember during the debate when she claimed that there were no American soldiers in active duty war zones, which is absolutely 100 percent untrue. Perhaps the funniest clip of the weekend came via members of the American military, who I believe are stationed in Jordan. Here is their reaction to Kamala Harris telling this insane lie.

Well, I'll tell you, I agree with President Biden's decision to pull out of Afghanistan. Four presidents said they would, and Joe Biden did. And as a result, America's taxpayers are not paying the $300 million a day we were paying for that endless war. And as of today, there is not one member of the United States military who is in active duty in a combat zone, in any war zone around the world. The first time this century...

But let's understand. So where the f*** are we right now? You can see all these guys being like, what, what now? What? Because she's a liar. Wes Moore, who's a sycophantic supporter of her campaign, he's a surrogate. He had to walk this one back on Face the Nation yesterday. Well, I think what was, what the intent was, was that this is not, you know, counter to the, to the, uh,

the Trump administration that somehow our world was safer under him or we had less people in conflict. That is just not true.

But I think the really important thing to remember is, is that we do have people who are in harm's way every single day. We have we have soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines, Coast Guardsmen who every single day are out there with our flag on their shoulder and who are defending our freedoms and defending our values. Yeah, well, I mean, maybe she should have said that as opposed to, you know, being a terrible liar.

And the thing about the Harris-Walls campaign, it's not just empty, it's false. But it is also really, really empty. So it turns out that her running mate, Tim Walls, who's a super-duper weirdo, I mean, I don't know how many times I have to point this out, the dude's a weirdo. Have you seen him come out at a rally? He looks like he just did a line in the back room. He comes out, he starts waving his arms like a nut job. He's pointing to people who don't exist. Shouting and screaming and ranting and raving.

And then there's his wife. Now, you remember his wife. His wife is the lady who's caught on tape during the Black Lives Matter riot saying that she left her windows open so she could she could smell burning tires because it made her feel better about her. Like she's she's OK, but she's also the worst substitute teacher you ever had. So here she was rallying with her crazy husband. Even her husband's embarrassed by her. Honest, just watch Tim Walls in the background. Even he's like, honey, you got to stop this.

she's at the podium and she starts talking about turning the page, but only by irritating the living crap out of everyone in a 300 mile radius. Wow. You would not want this lady in your homeroom. She showed up in your homeroom. You would dive out that glass window shards following you. Here we go. But I kind of liked it when she did this.

Turn the page. You like that? Okay, so I need you to be with me and practice with me. What are we going to do? We're going to turn the page. Oh, pretty good. Do it again. We're going to turn the page. You see he's doing the nervous hand motions. He starts clapping because he thinks she's done. Because when I see Wisconsin and I'm watching National Land TV because it's a pretty important place and Minnesota helped me practice with this.

You just show me this, turn the page. Right? Turn the page. And you know what else that looks like? Look at Tim. He's like, get her off there. Get her. Bye-bye. It looks like bye-bye. Bye, Donald Trump. We are turning. Oh, wait, wait, wait. Wait, are you, wait. What are you turning? Is it the page? Wait, wait. Can you do it again? Wait, again. Oh, thank you. Wait, wait, what are you? Bye, Donald Trump.

Oh my God. Are you ready for four years of that? Is this what you want? I swear the people involved in this campaign are the most irritating human beings on planet earth, on the planet.

I know people have reservations about Donald Trump. I know people think that he does crazy things and he does say some crazy things on social media. Like, for example, over the weekend, randomly, he decided to attack Taylor Swift. I don't know. I don't know why he did that. I don't see any reason for that. He literally put it out on Truth Social in all caps. I hate Taylor Swift. I don't understand. I mean, I also hate her music and think that she's kind of awful, but...

I'm not running for president. And it seems to me that you should focus on the things. But in terms of the irritating people in this campaign, let me just point out to you that the presidential candidate on the Democratic side of the aisle is Kamala Harris. And, you know, the meaning of the importance. And when you think about the context and Doug Emhoff, who, honest to God, of all the people in this campaign, Doug Emhoff drives me the most crazy.

As a Jew who takes his religion pretty seriously, Doug Emhoff makes me want to vomit nonstop. Nonstop. You know, he actually said over the weekend again that only by marrying Kamala Harris did he feel more safe in his Judaism. You're in Los Angeles, my dude, in like the entertainment industry. Can I just point out secular Jews in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles? They're not that uncommon. Doug Emhoff. What a joke he is. What an absolute...

Honest to goodness, everything Doug Emhoff pretends to be for the media is the opposite of what he is. Guys, he's an amazing husband who nails the nanny and then maybe pays for her abortion. He's also an amazing father who raises a pro-hamasnic daughter. But he's amazing at this. Also, he's just a submissive kind of beta who was like a partner to law, whatever. He's awful. And then you have Tim Walls, a complete hysterical nut job who ran his state into the ground. And his wife turned.

Turn. This is who you want. America. Is this who you want for four years or maybe eight? You want this? Are you serious right now? This is the thing that you are seeking out. That's putting aside their policy. Just as humans. They're so irritating. They're so if you're taken in by this, if you look at that and you're like, man, I feel vibes. I don't know what to tell you, man. Something going on with you. Whoo.

Meanwhile, good thing the Trump campaign is laser-like focused on the issues. So we have now entered week two of Catgate.

This is the argument of whether Haitian immigrants are eating cats in Springfield, Ohio. Now, as I mentioned last week, there are very serious issues regarding Springfield, Ohio. Issues about the impact of mass migration, about giving temporary protected status to tens of thousands of people without vetting them. Those are real issues. Creates massive social services burdens. It creates problems of cultural integration. It creates problems of

of crime, it creates all sorts of issues. When you take a town of 60,000 people and just add on 20,000 migrants from Haiti because you want to staff up the local factories as though you couldn't find anybody anywhere else in America to do any of that. Now, that's kind of a problem. However, it seems to me a distraction to be talking about whether they're eating the dogs and eating the cats. Now, remember, that started off as kind of a originally mentioned by J.D. Vance because some of his constituents had mentioned to him reports like that.

And then Donald Trump took that and ran with it during the debate and expanded it to not only eating the cats, but also the dogs and also apparently other household pets. And that, of course, became the living meme from the actual debate. There's a remix of the Trump eating the dogs, eating the cats song that absolutely slaps. My kids love it. I'm not even kidding. That's a real thing.

However, it would be about time right now for the Trump campaign to focus in on, you know, the fact that Kamala Harris is an awful candidate who believes terrible things and won't make clear any of her positions. It seems like it should be about that. The media have one job and one job only, and that is to turn this campaign into a referendum on Catgate. That is what this is all about. It's foolish. It makes no sense. The media have decided that this is a major issue that they're going to push over and over and over.

They're doing it largely as a distraction. So, for example, J.D. Vance yesterday was with Dana Bash. And Dana Bash, for like 17 minutes, asked him about the eating the cats and the dogs thing. And Vance just wrecked her. I mean, he really did. There's one point during this interview where he calls her out for just sycophantically presenting answers to Kamala Harris during the only other interview that she's done during this entire campaign cycle. Here he was.

Would you like to ask me questions and then let me answer them? Or would you like to debate me on these topics? I noticed that when you had Kamala Harris and Tim Walz, you gave them multiple choice answers to the questions that you asked and you allowed them to answer the questions. I'm happy to be here to talk about policy. But if you're going to interrupt me every single time that I open my mouth, then why am I even doing this? So that happened to be a really, really good point. But she wasn't there to ask him questions and get answers.

She was there to browbeat him. So the same day that somebody allegedly attempted to shoot Donald Trump again, Dana Bash spent 17 minutes implying that J.D. Vance was responsible for bomb threats in Springfield, Ohio, because of a cat gate.

Nobody is disputing that the town of Springfield, Ohio needs help. But you're not just a bystander. You're the senator from Ohio. So instead of saying things that are wrong and actually causing the hospitals, the schools, the government buildings to be evacuated because of bomb threats, because of the cats and dogs thing, why not actually...

be constructive in helping to better integrate them into the community. Dana, first of all, let me just respond to a couple things that you said, but I want to start with something you said, which I think is frankly disgusting and is more appropriate for a Democratic propagandist than it is for an American journalist. There is nothing that I have said

that has led to threats against these hospitals. These hospitals, the bomb threats and so forth, it's disgusting. You just accused me of inciting violence against the community when all that I've done is surface the complaints of my constituents, people who are suffering because of Kamala Harris's policies. Are we not allowed to talk about these problems because some psychopaths are threatening violence? In the middle of this interview with Dana Bash, the media attempt to swivel away from Dana Bash

having an awful interview with Kamala Harris and J.D. Vance calling her on it to focus on this clip. So in this clip, J.D. Vance says that his constituents have been complaining about the eating the cats thing, right? And that he has surfaced that and he has elevated that complaint as sort of the tip of the spear in order to put focus on the problems in Springfield, Ohio.

The way that the media decided to interpret this is that J.D. Vance made up out of whole cloth the claims about people eating cats in Springfield, Ohio, that he made up a story in order to get attention. That's not what he's saying. They're lying about what J.D. Vance said, and it's pretty obvious from what he said that they're lying about what he said.

I'm talking to my constituents and I'm hearing terrible things about what's going on in Springfield and Kamala Harris's open border policies have caused these problems. The American media totally ignored this stuff until Donald Trump and I started talking about cat memes.

If I have to create stories so that the American media actually pays attention to the suffering of the American people, then that's what I'm going to do, Dana, because you guys are completely letting Kamala Harris coast. I say that we're creating a story, meaning we're creating the American media focusing on it. I didn't create 20,000 illegal migrants coming into Springfield thanks to Kamala Harris's policies.

Okay, so he's not saying that he made up the cat story. He's saying his constituents are telling him this thing. He's elevating their complaints. And then he's, quote unquote, creating a story in the same way that the media create a story, meaning creates a narrative around a true story or a story that has been reported by his constituents. The media decided they were going to run with this idea that he made up the cat story out of whole cloth because what they want more than anything is to distract from the actual issues of the campaign. Here's Josh Shapiro, the person who was not picked for vice president of the United States by Kamala Harris because he happens to be a Jew.

on State of the Union doing his damnedest. The governor of Ohio, the mayor of that town in Ohio, has said this is all made up. These are all lies. There is no truth to it. And the United States senator from Ohio just came on your show and blamed his own constituents for his own lies.

This guy's so pathetic. But the thing is, it is dangerous. There is a causal connection between the BS that J.D. Vance and Donald Trump spew and the safety and security of the American people. And so, again, they're going to try and spin this into another Charlottesville hoax or into another bloodbath hoax. This is what they're going to try to do. It's nonsense. Don't fall for the propaganda. With that said.

Trump and J.D. Vance need to be focusing full time meticulously on Kamala Harris's record, on her switches of positions, on the fact that she is a liar, on the fact that, as Vivek Ramaswamy said on the show last week, she is the face of the machine. That is what they need to be focusing on. And if they do that, they will win. And they need to be focusing, obviously, on the hardcore ground game that Democrats are so good at. That's going to be the election.

But the bottom line is this. Today, I think we should all be once again thanking God that Donald Trump was not shot. I think today, once again, we should be recognizing that we are one bullet away from a vast cliff that no one knows what's going to happen if we fall off of it. I mean, I felt this way on July 13th. Thank God Donald Trump avoided that bullet. It was an act of God that he avoided that bullet July 13th. Yesterday, he avoided another assassin. This is a country that feels like it's on the precipice of something quite terrible.

And there are only a couple of things that can be done to prevent it. One is obviously better secret service. But the other is people need to stop proclaiming that people on the other side of the political aisle are going to full scale destroy the country and are hit layering in figures. They should not do that because the more you say that, the more you are making it real. And that is something that unfortunately the media seem to have no intention of ratcheting down. Okay. In just one second.

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