Ep. 2049 - After Attempted Assassination, Media Blame…Trump
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The left wing media, the legacy media, the Democrats, but I repeat myself because, of course, they're all one big Borg. They have decided that the real problem here is Donald Trump's rhetoric. So if somebody tried to assassinate Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, God forbid, the problem would be Donald Trump's rhetoric. And if somebody attempts to assassinate Donald Trump, the problem is also Donald Trump's rhetoric. And underlying all of this is a feeling that some on the left have actually sort of let slip.

which is that it would be much better if Donald Trump just went away, if something very, very bad happened to Donald Trump. Now, many people on the left are not going to say they want Donald Trump to get shot in the head or something as graphic as all that. There are a few who will sort of let that slip from time to time. But there's a feeling that Donald Trump is a uniquely dangerous figure, which is why you've seen every major Democratic politician say precisely that. They are always coming out and suggesting that Donald Trump is somehow a unique danger to the republic.

And for those who don't have an institutional memory of politics, because, of course, there was a politics before Donald Trump. Democrats used to say the same thing, believe it or not, about Mitt Romney and John McCain and George W. Bush. They've said it more with regard to Donald Trump because Donald Trump is out of the box and because Donald Trump defeated their chosen candidate in Hillary Clinton in 2016.

However, there's always this feeling there's almost an assassination mania among folks on the left when there is a right wing president. There's an entire movie that was made while George W. Bush was president of the United States called The Assassination of George W. Bush. And it's basically a fantasy.

So the question is why? And I think the answer has to do with the way the right sees the left and the way the left sees the right in this country. So it's been talked about a lot, but by polling data, conservatives tend not to see people on the left as evil. They tend to see them as misguided. And people on the left tend to see people on the right as evil, as actually morally deficient in some key respect. But people on the left also have another viewpoint that makes it hard for them to sustain that. People on the left believe that human beings are inherently good,

and that right-wingers are evil, which is kind of conflicting. If you're on the right, you tend to believe, typically speaking, human beings are capable of both good and evil. And because human beings are capable of both good and evil, many people who are doing bad things are not doing so because they're innately evil. They're doing so because they've made bad decisions.

Weirdly enough, a belief in the imperfectibility of mankind leads to a forgiveness oriented nature toward your fellow man. If you believe that human beings are not perfectible, if you believe that all human beings struggle with sin, that means you are actually significantly more likely to be forgiving with your neighbor because you struggle with the same problems. You also have trouble making decisions. Sometimes you have a problem discerning between what's good and what's bad.

However, for the left, the idea is that all human beings are created absolutely good, innocent and decent. And so they have a very difficult time understanding people who don't think like they do. Those people, there must be something defective about those people.

So what do they think about leaders? Well, if you are a conservative, you tend to think that leaders of left-wing movements have popular backing. And you don't find it all that hard to understand that that's generally true in a democracy, that people who disagree with you, they might be wrong, they might be misguided, the things they believe might be evil, but they have a popular movement behind them. And thus, when it comes to horrible things like assassination, removing a leader does not change the nature of the movement.

Nobody actually believes on the right side of the aisle, if God forbid something happened to Kamala Harris, natural or otherwise, if something, God forbid, were to happen along those lines, nobody believes on the right that the movement that backs Kamala Harris would just dissipate and go away. Nobody actually believes that. But the reverse is not true. Many people on the left believe that Donald Trump, as a quote unquote right wing leader,

Because people are naturally good and because Donald Trump is a moral defective leading people astray, that if somehow Donald Trump were removed from the scene, then that would mean that everything would go back to normal. That's something that there would be sort of a reversion back to the innate goodness of humanity. That's the only way I can find to sort of explain the tepid response to an attempted assassination against a political figure in the United States. Two in the space of eight weeks.

I would be absolutely livid and beside myself if somebody tried to assassinate a politician that I radically disagree with, like, for example, Joe Biden or Kamala Harris. That would be a grave act of evil. That person should be found. That person should be put on death row, obviously. And anybody who even attempted such a thing

That'd be a grave act of evil. And by the way, a useless act of evil, even from a politically conflicting perspective, because getting rid of somebody on the other side of the aisle doesn't change the nature of the political conflict in general. Human beings think differently. Human beings have flaws. Human beings disagree.

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On the left, there is this weird idea that if something happened to Donald Trump, the world would just be a better place. And it's unmistakable in their rhetoric. Now, again, they're not going to say out loud that they wish Donald Trump would get shot. Many of them are not going to say that out loud because I think that they would have a hard time facing up to the possibility that they actually believe, many of them, that the world would be better off if Donald Trump just disappeared.

But the reality is that the rhetoric that they are constantly expressing with regard to Donald Trump is not of like kind to the rhetoric expressed about Kamala Harris or Joe Biden by the right. It just isn't. People on the right, when we talk about Joe Biden or Kamala Harris, we say that he's a horrible president. She's a horrible vice president. They're doing terrible things for the country. But nobody actually believes that they are such single important figures

that there isn't a popular movement backing them. If Joe Biden were to pass away tomorrow, he may pass away during a debate. But if Joe Biden were actually to just disappear from the public scene, if you were to retire tomorrow, the movement behind him would be exactly the same. If Kamala Harris had not been the nominee, it would have been somebody else. Everybody sort of knows this inherently. The left does not believe this about Donald Trump. They believe that he is a single font of evil in the modern world.

And the corollary to that is if you keep saying over and over and over that Donald Trump is, in fact, not only the apex of evil, but a sort of weird evil magician who can whip people into a cult like frenzy around him, then removal of this figure would change the trajectory of history. And all it takes is one nut to take that message seriously, to pick up a gun and sit in a tree for 12 hours and wait for the president of the United States, former president, to reach where he is on a golf course and then shoot him.

By the way, that latter detail is apparently what happened. According to the Wall Street Journal, the gunman in this particular case, the suspected gunman, was hiding near the former president's Florida golf course for roughly 12 hours before a Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire. He was near the perimeter of Trump's golf course, according to cell phone records, from 2 a.m. until 1.31 p.m. So terrible job by whoever the security is over there. Like nobody is walking the perimeter. Nobody for 12 hours.

That, by the way, does answer the question as to how he knew Trump was going to be on the golf course. The answer is he didn't. He knew Trump was staying there. He assumed that Trump likes to golf when he goes to his hotels or his properties. And so if he waited long enough, Trump would show up. At about 1.31 p.m., the Secret Service agent noticed the barrel of a rifle poking out of the tree line and fired at least four shots.

The details revealed in the court document charging the alleged shooter with federal gun crimes suggest some level of advanced planning by the suspect who had a long history of criminal convictions, including possession of a weapon of mass destruction,

that would have barred him from owning a gun. So gun laws are not the problem here. The problem is, as always, criminality. In addition to charges of possessing a firearm, despite being a felon, he was also charged with having a firearm with wiped out serial number, a wrinkle that has made it difficult for law enforcement to determine how he acquired the gun in the first place. Investigators are trying to restore the serial number so they can trace it at this point.

Now, again, these are back-to-back assassination episodes. It is insane that the president of the United States has not authorized a full security detail for Donald Trump. What we do know about the alleged shooter is that he was a left-wing activist. We know this. He was a pro-Ukraine activist. He hated Trump, presumably because of that. He had said that he voted for Trump in 2016, but then by June 2020 was critical of him. And he said, quote, I and the world hope that President Trump would be different and better than the candidate. I will be glad when you are gone.

And then he wrote a book titled Ukraine's Unwinnable War, which he self-published in 2023. Zero copies sold. He elaborated he was furious that Trump had withdrawn from the nuclear deal with Iran. He's pro-Iran. Quote, I must take part of the blame for the retarded child that we elected for our next president that ended up being brainless. But I am man enough to say that I misjudged and made a terrible mistake. And Iran, I apologize. You are free to assassinate Trump as well as me for that error in judgment and the dismantling of the deal.

I mean, there is, I mean, he had a Biden Harris sticker on his truck. Okay, all the attempts to try and paint this person as some sort of political malcontent of neither party is not true. He was obviously a person who is mentally unstable, but this is a person with very clear politics. And in fact, it turns out the US authorities were warned about the suspected Trump gunman in advance. Apparently,

It was his time in Ukraine, according to the Wall Street Journal, where he traveled shortly after the Russian invasion of 2022, hoping to join the fight, where his tumultuous life, full of failures and brushes with the law, seemed to spiral further downward and to alarm those who came in contact with him. Chelsea Walsh, a nurse who had several encounters with the alleged shooter in Kiev, Ukraine in 2022, said his threats of violence worried her so much

that she conveyed her concerns to a Customs and Border Protection officer in an hour-long interview at Washington's Dulles Airport in June 2022. While she told the officer during the interview, which took place after she returned to the U.S., that this person was, quote, among the most dangerous Americans she met during her month-and-a-half-long stint in Ukraine. She showed the officer a notebook listing more than a dozen names of Americans and others whose actions had alarmed her. Under the heading, overall predatory behavior or antisocial traits were four names, and this person's was at the top.

When the officer noticed that there were a lot of names, she said, of all the people on there, this person is the number one. CBP did not immediately respond to inquiries about the meeting. And of course, this person's behavior had been flagged to the FBI before. A tipster told the FBI in 2019, this person had a firearm despite being a felon. One question further wouldn't verify providing the information. An FBI official said Monday, the Bureau passed the information on to authorities in Honolulu where this person was living at the time and closed the investigation.

This alleged shooter was well known among volunteer aid groups in Ukraine as a fraudster and kind of a whack job, according to Sarah Adams, former CIA officer who helped run a network linking 50 aid groups to share information, coordinating humanitarian and volunteer efforts in Ukraine. He claimed to be working with the Ukrainian government to recruit foreign fighters, but he wasn't actually doing that. And apparently Ukraine's International Legion had no ties with this person, didn't stop him from being interviewed by places like Newsweek or The New York Times.

So it is very clear this person was a radical. It is also very clear that, yes, raising the temperature of rhetoric, suggesting that Donald Trump is a unique outsized threat to the Republic of the United States and that his supporters are sort of duped and bewildered followers. They're sort of their orange shirts. You might call them that. That's really what this is. Of course, that's going to lead people who have a bizarre hero villain view of the universe like this person does.

to believe that he is the hero in his own story and go and try and take out the president of the United States. Again, you keep upping the rhetoric and this is what you get. Now, President Trump says this, of course, and the entire left denies it. While, by the way, maintaining that he is in fact an outsized threat to the republic,

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Then Kamala's political opponent, me, has taken politics in our country to a whole new level of hatred, abuse, and distrust. Because of this communist left rhetoric, the bullets are flying. It will only get worse. Allowing millions of people from places unknown to invade and take over our country is an unpardonable sin. Our borders must be closed and the terrorist criminals and mentally insane immediately removed from American cities and towns deported back to their countries of origin.

We want people to come into our country and they must love our nation and come in legally and through a system of merit. The world is laughing at us as fools. They are stealing our jobs and our wealth. We cannot let them laugh any longer. Make America great again. Trump had also blamed Vice President Harris and President Biden for the assassination attempts in a conversation with Fox News Digitals with Brooke Singman earlier in the day saying, quote, their rhetoric is causing me to be shot at. When I'm the one who's going to save the country, they are the ones destroying the country, both from the inside and out.

J.D. Vance gave a speech yesterday in which he specifically discussed the problems of rhetoric. Here he was yesterday at the Georgia Faith and Freedom Coalition talking about this. I do think that we should take this opportunity to call for a reduction in the ridiculous and inflammatory political rhetoric coming from too many corners of our politics.

Look, we can disagree with one another, we can debate one another, but we cannot tell the American people that one candidate is a fascist and if he's elected it is going to be the end of American democracy. We cannot as a

As a person affiliated with Kamala Harris has said that we need to, quote, eliminate Donald J. Trump. A New York Democratic congressman has said that in the past. If you tell the American people that this person is the end of democracy, if you tell the American people that this person needs to be eliminated, most of them, thank God, are going to ignore you, but some crazy person is going to take matters into their own hands and actually listen to the crazy rhetoric that you're putting out there.

Now, again, what's funny about what Vance is saying here is that the left has been saying this about the right for legitimately decades at this point. And they said this about Sarah Palin and Gabby Giffords. They suggested because Sarah Palin put out a map, this is now...

back in like 2008, that because Sarah Palin put out a map with targeted districts for a midterm election, and one of those districts was Gabby Giffords district, that that meant that a nut job had shot Gabby Giffords at a campaign rally. It turns out had nothing to do with Sarah Palin. Doesn't matter. The way that it works on the left is that if a right wing figure is attacked, it must be because of right wing rhetoric. And if a left wing figure is attacked, it must be because of right wing rhetoric.

That is the way this works. It is a ratchet that only works one way. So the entire media came to the defense of Biden-Harris. Nora O'Donnell, CBS News, she immediately suggested this has nothing to do with Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. Nothing at all.

Donald Trump is blaming Democrats for inflaming political rhetoric, but the former president's own words seem to be increasing the threat of political violence in Springfield, Ohio. That's where a false and ugly accusation against Haitians, thousands of whom are legal permanent residents, is impacting everyday life. Remember, the problem with bad rhetoric is Trump.

Always and forever, which again, keeps underscoring the idea that Trump is a unique threat to American democracy. That Trump is a unique threat to the American people, that he is the source of violent threat. Now, if you go all the way back to the 2016 race, there's a lot of talk about this, right? Trump would be at rallies and he'd say that if you beat somebody up in the rally crowd, then I'll pay your legal bills, right? He said that during, and this was a big deal. But the reality is the political violence in 2016 was almost entirely left on right, not right on left.

There were full-scale Trump rallies that got shut down because of violent left-wing agitators outside arenas trying to beat people up. The left's rhetoric, politically speaking, has caused insane levels of violence in the United States, not least among them the $2 billion in property damage and enormous human toll of the BLM riots of 2020. Or, for example, if you're going to link the scale of rhetoric to actual violent shooting events,

A Bernie Sanders fan shooting up a congressional baseball game. Or, for example, a Black Lives Matter fan shooting up Dallas police officers while Barack Obama was president ripping on the police. Now, as I've said consistently here, this does not mean that people speaking politically are responsible for those who then take those words and twist them or misinterpret them or use them as an excuse for violence. However, if you do keep ratcheting up the heat on the stove, it shouldn't be a shock when the water occasionally boils over.

But the way that this works for the left is everything bad they say about the right is totally justified. Everything bad they say about Donald Trump in particular is totally justified. Remember, it's not just words that they have about the right, generally speaking, or the right's political perspectives. They have decided that because Donald Trump is in himself a uniquely evil figure, they can say whatever the hell they want about him.

And it is totally justified. And not only that, he brings it on himself. So Norah O'Donnell says, it's not our rhetoric about Trump that causes people to want to shoot Trump. It's that Trump said this weird thing about they're eating cats and dogs in Springfield, Ohio. And that's the real danger. Or how about this? CNN's Dana Bash.

who did the same routine yesterday. This has nothing to do with Biden-Harris. I mean, nothing? The guy had a Biden-Harris bumper sticker on the back of his car. I have very serious doubts about whether Donna Bash would be saying the same thing. If somebody with a Trump-Vance sticker on his car tried to take a shot at Kamala Harris, I have a feeling that the conversation might be wildly different.

There's absolutely, again, no basis in fact that they were behind this at all. We don't know much about this guy yet at all other than he was somebody who was trying to find a way in his mid to late 50s go and serve on the front lines of Ukraine. And he obviously had some anti-Trump posts, but...

That has nothing to do with Kamala Harris and Joe Biden. It has to do with the fact that this is his political belief. And obviously, this is a very disturbed individual, this alleged suspect.

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In fact, right now, they're literally attempting to blame Donald Trump and J.D. Vance for hoax phone calls in Springfield, Ohio, because of the eating cats and dogs remark. So apparently, the rhetoric of Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is so all-fired powerful that when Donald Trump says in a debate they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs, this means you can directly blame him for bomb threats, hoax threats, very often coming from abroad, apparently. You can blame them for that sort of stuff happening in Springfield, Ohio. But when Donald Trump is shot at, the entire Democratic media complex

They bear no responsibility whatsoever for their own rhetoric. It really is incredible. So, for example, Joe Biden, yesterday he comes out, he says there's no place for political violence. And again, I would take this more seriously if your entire party hadn't sided with the Black Lives Matter rioters. And I also would take this more seriously if you hadn't repeatedly suggested that your political opponent is Hitlerian in intent. Here's Joe Biden yesterday.

There is no, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, those of you who know me, many of you do, no place in political violence for political violence in America. None. Zero. Never. I've always condemned political violence. I always will in America. In America, we resolve our differences peacefully. The ballot box, not at the end of a gun.

Okay, that's all fine, and that's all well, and that's all good. But in the same speech, you wouldn't say that we're in a battle for the soul of America. The implication being, of course, that if his favorite candidate, Kamala Harris, who forced him aside, loses, then apparently the soul of America is lost in some way. Well, it turns out that when you tell people that if your opponent is elected, the soul of America will be gone, maybe someone might take that seriously. Look, we're still in the battle. We're still in the battle for the very soul of America. In 2020...

I ran and I give you my word. This was the reason I ran to redeem the soul of America, restore decency and dignity to the office of president. Well, I mean, this kind of language, redeem the soul of America. The soul of America had been owned by Satan, Donald Trump. And then I came and I redeemed the soul of Joe Biden is your savior. He redeemed the soul of America. But now it's in danger of being lost again. And then again, you wonder why mentally unhinged people might take that seriously. MSNBC doing the same routine.

Here's MSNBC's Nicole Wallace yesterday saying political violence is antithetical to our republic unless you're burning down half the cities in America over George Floyd.

It's worth repeating political violence, regardless of any motive, any method or any target, is antithetical to our democracy, to a healthy and vibrant democracy anywhere on the planet. Full stop. Our system of government, our very way of life depends not on bullets, but on our political opinions being carried out and expressed at the ballot box and the ballot box exclusively.

Okay, but I don't believe you guys because here is the thing. You guys use language that is so unhinged and outside the norm that it's almost impossible to link it with total nonviolence. So, for example, Hillary Clinton, who has just become a morning drinker at this point, she appears on MSNBC with Rachel Maddow. She has another memoir out because you needed to know what she's been doing for the past few years. This is her fourth memoir.

Let me explain. There are there's no one alive who requires four memoirs. No one. No one requires four memoirs. I know Barack Obama's head, too. I know she's trying to outpace him. She has four. I feel like zero memoirs is the right number for most people, particularly in politics. But she has another her fourth memoir coming out. And she explains that Donald Trump is dangerous, dangerous. You know, it's kind of dangerous saying that over and over and over.

And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is. You know, the late great journalist, Harry Evans, you know, one time said that, you know, journalists should, you know, really try to achieve objectivity. And by that, he said, I mean, they should cover the object. Well, the object in this case is Donald Trump.

his demagoguery, his danger to our country and the world and stick with it. He's a danger to the country. He's a danger to the world. Don't worry. It's nonviolence that we seek. That's wild. You know who I would call a danger to the country and a danger to the world? The government of China, the government of Iran, Vladimir Putin.

terrorist groups like ISIS. You know who I don't think is a danger to the country and a danger to the world in the sense that she is talking about? Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. And I think they're awful. I think they'll do terrible things for the country. I think they'll undermine fundamental bases of the functioning of our republic. I think all of that is true. And also, I don't think they're very important political figures in and of themselves. I think what they stand for is quite important, but I don't think that they in themselves are like grave threats to the future coherence of the republic.

But that's what the left believes. That's what Hillary Clinton believes. And what that means is that anytime there's an attempt on, say, Donald Trump, it turns out it's his own fault. And listen, the leaders of the Democratic Party, it is not that they in their very personages are grave threats to the republic. It's that the movement that they represent thinks a lot of bad things.

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who used to be as, he used to characterize himself as a conservative. Now he writes for the Atlantic. He wrote yesterday, I'm not even joking. This is what he wrote, quote, Donald Trump is using another possible attempt on his life to inflame tensions in America, which is one more reason he should never be president again.

I mean, slow clap. Incredible stuff right there. Do you understand the logic there? Somebody tried to shoot Trump again, allegedly. And Tom Nichols says Donald Trump is using another possible attempt on his life to inflame tensions. He's inflaming the tensions. By what? Not being hit by the bullet. That's one more reason he should never be president again. The New York Times doing the same routine.

They have an entire news analysis piece, which they just call this opinion, but they can't do that anymore. So they call it news analysis. Quote, Trump outrage in the modern era of political violence. The latest apparent assassination attempt against the former president indicates how much the American political landscape has been shaped by anger stirred by him and against him.

Within days of former President Donald J. Trump vilifying immigrants on national TV with false stories about Haitian migrants eating pet dogs and cats in an Ohio town, someone began threatening to blow up schools, city hall, and other public buildings, forcing evacuations and prompting a wave of fear.

Days later, authorities said a man who described himself online as a disaffected former Trump supporter made his way with a semi-automatic rifle to the former president's Florida golf course, evidently looking to take a shot. He was thwarted only when an observant Secret Service agent spotted him and opened fire first. By the way, look at that horrific coverage there by The New York Times.

If you read that, you would only believe that this was some sort of right wing disaffected Republican. This guy is a nut job, career long left winger who the only indicator that he was Republican at all in any way, shape or form is that he said he voted for Trump in 2016. That's pretty much it. And then he had some weird tweet about how he wanted Vivek Ramaswamy and Nikki Haley to team up to stop Trump in the 2024 election. That's it. He's got a Biden Harris sticker on his damn truck.

He has an entire book he wrote in which he wishes for Donald Trump's death and prays for the government of Iran. Like, no, no New York Times. But according to the New York Times, quote, in the space of less than a week, the once and possibly future commander in chief was both a seeming inspiration and an apparent target of the political violence that has increasingly come to shape American politics in the modern era. Bomb threats and attempted assassinations now have become part of the landscape, shocking and horrific, and not so much that they've forced any real national reckoning. So it's all about it's all about Trump.

Obviously, it's really about Trump. In fact, Biden and Harris are the good guys in Peter Baker's narrative for The New York Times. Quote, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris both issued statements condemning the latest incident, but the campaign continued uninterrupted. Barely four hours after Mr. Trump was hustled into a motorcade away from the golf club for his protection, his finance team sent out an email to its fundraising list with a button to click to make a donation. My resolve is only stronger after another attempt on my life, Mr. Trump said in an email. Ms. Harris's fundraising emails continued as well.

So, again, the idea here is that Donald Trump is the cause of everything, which, again, lends itself to the very narrative used by would-be shooters. If Donald Trump is the locus of all evil, both against him and on his behalf, then removal. I mean, I don't know how you avoid the implication. I honestly don't know how you do.

So it's very difficult to make that narrative work, right? The narrative that Donald Trump's rhetoric somehow boomeranged on him. And that is why in the space of eight weeks, two separate people have tried to shoot him two separate times. Very difficult to explain how that narrative works, how it isn't in fact that the people who did this were driven by, you know, Donald Trump's opponents. And maybe it has more to do with people hating Trump and then radical whack jobs who hate Trump, listening to the people who hate Trump and then going and doing evil things.

So what do they do? They have to play up the situation in Springfield, Ohio. And they have to play up the eating the dogs and eating the cats thing. Now, here's what we know. Ohio Governor Mike DeWine came out yesterday and he said they've had something like 33 bomb threats. All of them have been hoaxes and many of them have been foreign. Here is the governor of Ohio, who, by the way, is no like great ally of President Trump yesterday in Springfield. Leased 33 separate bomb threats.

Each one of which has been responded to and each one of whom has been found as a hoax. So 33 threats, 33 hoax. I will make that very, very clear. None of these had any validity at all. OK, and he would go on to say that many of those hoaxes were driven by foreign sources, that the calls were actually coming from outside the country.

But according to the left, this is the worst thing happening in American politics today. Not the attempted assassination of one of the major candidates and the former president. The worst thing happening is that Donald Trump said a thing about the Haitian residents of Springfield, Ohio. Now, again, I've seen no evidence.

that the residents of Springfield, Ohio, who are Haitian, are eating the cats and eating the dogs. That evidence has not yet come to light. What I have seen is a lot of social problems in Springfield, Ohio. I'm not a big fan of trafficking in stories that are completely unverified or just based on anecdotal evidence. I tend not to take them super seriously until there's been some sort of confirming evidence. With that said, the idea that the big story of the week, after someone again tries to shoot Trump in the head allegedly,

That the big story of the week is that Trump and Vance said a thing about eating the cats and eating the dogs. And that that's the true source of American political violence is pretty wild. But that's exactly what the Democrats are trying to retail. So, for example, here is former Alabama Senator Doug Jones saying, you know, look what's happening to that poor town. That poor town, all because of Trump. There were no problems in Springfield, Ohio, until Trump and Vance made problems.

Look what is happening to that poor town up there, canceling events, canceling classes, shutting down classes in the university where they happen to go online. That's not the way people want to live. And that's exactly the way people will live at Donald Trump and and J.D. Vance get elected. MSNBC's Mark McKinnon. He says, you know, the political violence that Trump is talking about, it's coming. It's coming from him because of the eating the cats and the eating the dogs.

The Republicans want to get into a back and forth or check the record on who's raised the heat on the violent rhetoric more than the other party. I think they're in a bad position there. But to your point about creating stories, that's just a nice way of dressing it up. What they're saying is we lied about it. We lied about it in order to bring something that we think is a good political issue for us. And a consequence of that is what we're seeing now, which is just what you're talking about, violence. They're having bomb threats in schools now.

over a story that they, quote, created, that they lied about. So they're the ones, I mean, that's an exact example in Springfield right now of them raising the rhetoric, raising the heat on a false story, on a lie that's created a bomb threat at schools. So you don't have to look too far to see where the problems come and go. Now, again, what this comes down to is what I said at the very beginning of the show. For people on the left or people who hate Trump at this point,

Anybody who disagrees with them is an emissary of evil whose brain has probably been thwarted by Trump, which means your opposition to their policy agenda puts you in that camp. You know, talk about ramping up the rhetoric and creating massive divisions in American society. That's precisely how to do it.

I mean, look at Joe Biden. So yesterday, Joe Biden, who, believe it or not, is still the president of the United States. It is astonishing to me how the biggest story in the country is not that we have a senile man as president of the United States. The most powerful person on Earth does not have a functioning brain at this point. And everybody's just kind of going about their business. So I got to say, well done by the founders for constructing a system so uniquely durable that we can put somebody fully brain dead in the presidency and everything kind of keeps going anyway.

Joe Biden was speaking at the National Historically Black Colleges Conference, and he suggested that talking about what's going on in Springfield, Ohio, puts the values of DEI under attack. But today, affirmative action and the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion are under attack, like not long since I started as a young civil rights guy. Books are being banned. History is being erased. HBCUs have received bomb threats.

And right now, lies and hate are being spread about Haitian Americans in Ohio. It's wrong. It's simply wrong. And it must stop. It's all about DEI. It's part of a broader attack on our values, the soul of America. And it must be stopped.

The problem is if you keep saying that over and over and over, someone might take it seriously. But there is one type of rhetoric, of course, that the left really doesn't like, and that is pretty much anything they disagree with is now in the violent matrix that justifies any action on their part. Get to that in a moment. First, with the most crucial election of our lifetime just 48 days away, you need the truth.

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Rhetoric from the left, totally fine, no matter how violent, no matter how suggestive, all of that is totally fine. Rhetoric from the right, inherently bad, inherently evil, and probably requires some sort of government activity. So the other day, Elon Musk tweeted out after the second assassination attempt, he tweeted, and no one is even trying to assassinate Biden and Kamala. Now, it wasn't a call for an attempted assassination against Biden or Kamala. He was just pointing out that the perceived threat of Trump

is higher than the perceived threat of Biden and Kamala because they are a continuation of the status quo. That's obviously what he meant by the tweet. Obviously, he responded to one request to reconsider his comments saying no one has even tried to do so is the point I'm making and no one will. And then he responded to another request to delete and he said, fair enough, I don't want to do what they have done even in jest. I mean, again, it is very clear what he was attempting to say there. What he was basically saying is that

The reason that they are trying to kill Trump is because he's a threat to the system. Biden and Harris aren't a threat to the system, so no one's trying to kill them right now. That may or may not be true. That is what he is attempting to say. The White House immediately issues a statement on that. So the White House, which has been complicit in every attempt to link Donald Trump with violence, every attempt to treat Donald Trump as uniquely dangerous,

The White House, which is behind the messaging that Donald Trump is a threat to the very fabric and soul of the United States of America in a unique way, not as part of a broader movement that has different priorities, but as part of a broader movement that wishes to tear away the entirety of the United States, turn it into a tyrannical theocracy.

This White House, which is literally behind that effort, is very angry at Elon Musk. Quote, as President Biden and Vice President Harris said after yesterday's disturbing news, there is no place for political violence or for any violence ever in our country. We must all do our part to ensure this incident does not lead to more violence. Violence should only be condemned, not encouraged or joked about. This rhetoric is irresponsible.

Okay, so this prompted Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo, which is a relatively popular left-wing website, to write, quote, this man is a dangerous, degenerate influence within the American state. This is only a half step away from incitement to murder.

No, it isn't. Eventually, the U.S. will have to take the necessary steps to expropriate with fair market compensation the national security assets Musk has acquired through government contracts and subsidies or exercise oversight necessary to safeguard American national security. Too many examples of his using those assets to provide aid to adversary states. So Josh Marshall using this opportunity to suggest that the national government of the United States expropriate the property of Elon Musk for a tweet.

A tweet that is not calling for violence against Biden-Harris. It's pointing out that the levels of threat to Biden and Harris are lower than those against Trump for a reason. Again, the way that it works, if you are just non-left, Elon Musk is not a right winger in any traditional sense. He's just not left. The level of outrage and the justified level, then they believe, of action taking by the government is insane. It's wild. And yet that is the continued narrative from the left today.

How two attempted assassinations against the former presidents of the United States somehow turns into a referendum on the person who is the victim of the assassination attempts is beyond me. I mean, truly, you got to hand it to them. And it demonstrates what an insane bubble they live in the middle of. That that sounds reasonable to them. That that sounds like, okay, well, you know, that makes perfect sense. It has nothing to do with you. It has nothing to do with you, what you do every day. It has nothing to do with MSNBC going on air every single day and declaring that Donald Trump is basically Hitler without the mustache.

It has nothing to do with Joe Biden getting up there and giving speeches for years on end about how Donald Trump is the gravest threat to the American Republic. It has nothing to do with the suggestion that Donald Trump is a revolutionary insurrectionist who attempted to overthrow the government of the United States and came within a hair's breadth of doing so on January 6th, which is not actually what happened on January 6th. Donald Trump laid out a bunch of specious legal theories that were rejected in court. And then he laid out another specious legal theory that ended up being overridden by Republicans in Congress.

And yet somehow when Donald Trump, again, twice in eight weeks is victimized by attempted assassinations,

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Meanwhile, remember, Joe Biden is still the president and Kamala Harris is still the sitting vice president of the United States. It is unbelievable to me that her entire campaign is now about turning the page. In the words of Gwen Wells, turn the page. She's been tweeting out over and over and over that she is a change in the middle of this stream. There's only one problem. She's the sitting vice president of the United States. So let me just bring you a few events happening under the sitting vice president of the United States. One, the explosion of the federal debt, the massive explosion of the federal debt.

$35 trillion in federal debt. A decade ago, our federal debt was something like $18 trillion. We basically doubled it in the last decade. No plans to bring that down. Meanwhile, on the foreign front, Venezuela has now detained three Americans. Why shocker? It turns out that when you negotiate with terrorists and when you cut really bad prisoner swap deals, as the Biden administration has repeatedly done, you're incentivizing America's enemies to take Americans hostage, which is precisely what the government of Venezuela is now doing.

Quote, Wall Street Journal, after a prisoner swap with Venezuela's regime last year, Biden administration officials celebrated and said they had commitments from President Nicolas Maduro's regime not to detain more Americans. Nearly nine months later, Maduro's authoritarian government says it has locked up three U.S. citizens, including an active Navy serviceman, on allegations of coup plotting in a case highlighting the short-lived returns from last year's hostage exchange.

Over the weekend, Venezuelan Interior and Justice Minister Diosdado Cabello, in a news conference, said three Americans, two Spaniards, and a Czech national had been arrested for conspiring on behalf of American intelligence services. He identified the active U.S. sailor as a former Navy SEAL named Wilbert Castaneda and named two other Americans without providing more details. The U.S. denied the accusations. Cabello didn't offer any evidence for his assertions.

So look at that. Amazing. It turns out that America's enemies have now decided that because the Biden administration is weak, they're just going to willy nilly take American citizens hostage. So there's that going on. That's really exciting. Meanwhile, in more international news, Congo, which has had an ongoing civil war for years and years and years at this point, has become the victim of a massive rape epidemic caused by radical Muslim insurrectionist groups in Congo.

This receives pretty much zero attention ever, despite the fact that apparently in one area of the country, something like 80% of the women have been raped. They're attempting to go to areas where there are food. There's a camp around Goma that hosts about 500,000 displaced people. Apparently 80% of the women have been raped, including girls as young as eight. And they're being raped by Muslim radical groups.

This is not worth any sort of media attention. What is worth media attention, obviously, is Israel defending itself. That obviously is the thing that is worth media attention. It's the thing we all ought to have eyes on, is the supposed plight of the Gaza Strip. And I say supposed because it is at the hands of Hamas, not at the hands of Israel. So the United States right now is trying to warn Israel against escalating its fight with Hezbollah. Amos Hochstein, the U.S. envoy, has warned Israel over escalating its fight with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Well, I mean, if he's got any alternative ideas, I'm sure Israel is willing to hear them. The upper third of Israel is basically empty. It is empty because Hezbollah has been firing rockets every single night into northern Israel for almost a year at this point. And Israel's like, listen, at some point, we're going to have to actually, you know, make our territory livable for our citizens.

The U.S. message delivered in meetings, top Biden administration diplomat Amos Hochstein held with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Galant in Tel Aviv on Monday, reflects growing U.S. concern the conflict in Gaza could spread. Oh, you mean it could spread? I've noticed it spread already. And that's because you guys are cowards. And I mean, Amos Hochstein and the Biden administration. If they just said to Israel, go hog wild, do what you need to do to secure yourself. You'll have the support you need. This thing would have been over in February. It would have been over already.

Instead, they decided they were going to basically hold the leash on Israel and yank it every so often to prevent Israel from doing what it had to do to defend itself in the mistaken belief that if they didn't, then Iran was going to get involved in some sort of gigantic World War III, as opposed to the reality, which is that Iran is actually intimidated by the combined firepower of Israel and its allies. Doesn't matter. That's what the U.S. is focused in on, which presumably, again, would be one of the reasons that you have

foreign actors who are taking Americans hostage. Because why the hell not? Joe Biden is a soft touch and so is Kamala Harris. And meanwhile, we have some shocking news in the scientific community. It turns out that Nature magazine is once again endorsing Joe Biden. No, no. So if you wonder what the hell Nature magazine has to do with politics, you're not the only one, but they did this back in 2020. What it ended up doing was not actually moving votes toward Joe Biden. It just ended up making people believe that Nature is a politically motivated magazine, which of course it is.

Nature put out an entire statement saying, quote, we live in an era in which there are many attempts to politicize science. Some scientists are concerned such attempts will reduce both public confidence in science and people's willingness to rely on scientific information to manage a challenge such as a pandemic.

Nature was one of several prominent scientific publications to endorse Joe Biden in the 2020 U.S. presidential election. And now they're doing it again. Wow. You guys, well done, guys. That is awesome. And by the way, they did conduct a poll as to how that impacted how people view Nature magazine.

And it turned out that people don't like Nature magazine as much because they're like, wait, I thought you guys do nature, not politics. But unfortunately, the scientific community has engaged in politics more and more while ignoring some of the biggest issues on the planet. Only now, for example, are scientists beginning to investigate just how much crap there is in our bodies. Thanks to, for example, all of the wrapping materials that are used on all the foods that we eat.

According to the Washington Post, researchers from Switzerland and other countries have discovered that of the roughly 14,000 known chemicals in food packaging, 3,601 or about 25% have been found in the human body, whether in samples of blood, hair, or breast milk. Those chemicals include metals, volatile organic compounds, per and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS, phthalates, and many other materials known to disrupt the endocrine system and cause cancer or other diseases.

Apparently, all this stuff is unregulated. The chemicals leach out of the packaging.

According to Jane Monk, the chief scientific officer for the Food Packaging Forum. By the way, some of the worst things for food packaging, recycling paper, cardboard, or plastic for food packaging, apparently makes it much, much worse. It leaches much easier into all of the materials. Why is it that we are only finding about this now? Why is it that we all spent our entire life eating out of these sorts of packages? And only now has the scientific community decided to actually, you know, check it out. The truth is the scientific community has spent a very long time

doing politics instead of actual scientific exploration. We sat down a little bit earlier this week with my friend, Dr. Marty Makary, has a brand new book out called Blind Spots to talk about the scientific community, what they're ignoring, including issues of say food security. Here's what it sounded like. Joining us on the line is my friend, Dr. Marty Makary. He's a renowned surgeon and professor at Johns Hopkins University. Also, he's the author of the brand new book, Blind Spots, when medicine gets it wrong and what it means for our health. Marty, great to talk to you.

Great to see you, Ben. So let's talk about so many. There's so many blind spots in the American medical system. Why don't we start with one that RFK Jr. is constantly talking about, and that is chronic disease. He's been talking about this for a very long time. The increase in chronic disease, failures of nutrition. How bad is it in the United States? Well, it's epidemic and it's far worse than any other problem really facing this country. It's expensive. It's a national security issue.

And it's sad. We're one of the wealthiest countries in the world, and half of our nation's children are sick with overweight or obesity. The rate of autism goes up by 14% each year for the last 23 years. No one seems to be asking why. Fertility rates are going down. Sperm counts are down 50% over the last five decades. We have the earliest age of puberty than any other country years before puberty.

And no one has been talking about this epidemic. We can keep throwing good money after bad, after this problem. But we have a sick population with an epidemic of chronic diseases that no one has been talking about, only people.

The system is talking about medicating and operating on these conditions. So Marty, where is this coming from? When you look at these epidemics that didn't exist a while ago, is it our food supply? Is it how we're doing vaccination? What exactly are the problems?

Well, first of all, you're absolutely right. This is a brand new phenomenon. Two generations ago, these were rare conditions. Now a quarter of kids have fatty infiltration of the liver, which is a predisposing factor to liver cancer. My field of pancreatic cancer has...

Pancreatic cancer rates have doubled in the last two decades, and nobody is asking why. We've got to look at the food supply. We've poisoned our food supply. We've created ultra-processed foods. We've got dangerous ingredients that are really chemicals with the misnomer because they sound natural, like natural seed oils. This is a result of government subsidies to soybeans and corn. And so we create this cheap ingredient that then gets denatured

and turned into a chemical in the form of seed oils. And pesticides are ubiquitous now. We pour five to six billion gallons of pesticides on our food, on agriculture. And guess what? Pesticides have hormone-like binding properties. They have estrogen-like binding properties. And they're changing the microbiome, that is the gut health, the lining of bacteria that normally...

digest food and trains the immune system in our body, it's being altered by these chemicals in our food supply, by antibiotics that are given unnecessarily 60% of the time, by C-sections that are unnecessary 40% of the time.

So we've ignored these giant blind spots of health, and we've got to start talking about them. The NIH has not been funding this stuff. They're too busy funding bat coronavirus research in Wuhan and other things.

This is where we need our research funding. Actually, one of the questions that has come up sort of in our personal life, my wife got very into, she's a family physician, she got very into looking at the materials that people use to eat on, paper plates, the sort of plastic plates that you get at the grocery store or whatever. And she became very concerned about microplastics. There was a study recently that came out that suggested that microplastics are now becoming ubiquitous in American bodies, that actually a certain percentage of people

people's brain tissue is now microplastic. What's happening with that? Do we know what any of that means? Yeah. So there's a good study that shows that microplastics that are common in food and drink, they have estrogen-like binding properties. So we're doing something. We're changing the body's physiology in ways we don't appreciate. It may also change the microbiome in one's gut health

And what happens is, Ben, when you take in a foreign chemical, something that does not appear in nature, be it a derivative of seed oil, microplastic or a pesticide or a engineered food ingredient, the

The body rejects it because the gut has a immune system in its lining. It's a very strong immune system. So it responds and it's not a big acute inflammatory reaction. It's a low level reaction and it's chronic and it causes chronic inflammation throughout the body and it makes people feel sick. And we're puzzled why 40% of children will have a mental health diagnosis because

In some cases, we've been poisoning them and their bodies just feel blah. They feel sick from this reaction.

You know, Marty, this is such, it's so troubling to hear all of this, obviously, because you're talking about a decades-long entrenched problem at this point. And many of the figures who have been out there talking about this stuff, I mentioned again, RFK Jr. You know, I don't agree with a lot of RFK Jr.'s prescriptions for this, right? Obviously, he's been widely anti-vaccination, not just anti the mRNA vaccines. He's not just questioned the vaccine schedules. In many cases, he's gone further and suggested that, for example, the uptick in autism, massive uptick in autism is due to vaccinations.

a proposition that I see very little evidence of, but it becomes so difficult to distinguish what is true from what is false in this sphere because very few Americans have actually gone to medical school. Even the ones who have gone to medical school are apparently spewing kind of what they've been taught very often by a system that is promulgating these things. How is a normal person going about their daily life to actually determine what's healthy and what's not? And it's exhausting to think about, you know, going to the grocery store and having to think about like, what do I eat that doesn't poison me?

And to prioritize health health priorities, for example, is avoiding micro microplastics the most important thing. So I tell people eat organic foods, avoid these chemical pesticides, avoid ultra processed foods when possible. Cook with the avocado and olive oils and coconut oils, not with the cheap canola, sunflower vegetable oils.

And try to think about basic biblical principles of eating whole foods that grow in soil, clean meats,

fast, meditate. I mean, we're almost rediscovering the benefits of a lot of these basic principles of just simple living. But you're absolutely right. Like people need some guidance. And that's why a group of doctors and I have said, we're going to go directly to the public. And that's why I wrote the book Blind Spots to educate people that we have got it.

in medicine terribly wrong when it came to saying opioids were not addictive. We ignited the opioid crisis, the modern day peanut allergy epidemic. We ignited that by giving people bad advice and the food pyramid ignited the obesity epidemic. So ironically, sometimes medical establishment causes or hastens many of our modern day health crises through medical dogma.

Marty, one of the things you talk about in Blind Spots, and we've talked about a lot before, is you mentioned the NIH, you mentioned medical research. And when it comes to the medical research, medical research, you're always rewarded for saying something new. You're never rewarded for debunking something old. If there's a well-established body of medical opinion, and then you come along and you disrupt that, and you say, this is just not true, there's no reward structure in medicine for doing that. And there's certainly no reward structure in sort of the medical research field for saying,

even going back and trying to do a confirming study. So a huge number of studies that have been done are thrown out there. And then there is no mechanism for people, like why would you pay for somebody to duplicate a study? The study is just assumed to be good until further notice. And then it turns out 20 years later, it turns out the study was crap, but we based an entire field of medicine on it or something. We need good research on the microbiome. We need to repeat clinical trials that were only done once before we create entire guidelines.

Sometimes up to 40% of everything we do in medicine gets reversed when a second study eventually gets funded. But pharma is not interested in a second repeat study if the first study shows some marginal benefit. And the old guard dinosaur professors at the NIH are setting their ways. I mean, we saw a little glimpse of that during COVID, a group of doctors in their 70s and 80s deciding what

what's going to get research and what's not. And it turns out there was no research funding for natural immunity or vaccine complications or actually study the effectiveness of cloth masks or even require a clinical trial on COVID vaccine boosters. So they weaponized research and it's a much bigger problem beyond COVID. I don't talk about COVID much in the book. It's too tribal. People are sick of it. But this is a peek into a broader medical establishment. Maybe we need to talk about

treating more diabetes with cooking classes instead of just throwing insulin at people. Maybe we need to talk about school lunch programs, not just putting every kid on Ozempic. Maybe we need to talk about environmental exposures that cause cancer, not just the chemo to treat it. We need to talk about food as medicine and general body inflammation and the microbiome. Well, that's Dr. Marty McCary, his brand new book, Blind Spots, is available September 17th. Dr. McCary, great to talk to you as always. Great to see you. Thanks, Ben.

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