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You're listening to Bill Handle on demand
from KFI AM six forty, And this

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is kf I AM six forty Bill
Handle here on a very busy Monday morning,

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July fifteenth. News. That's just
breaking right now. As Amy just

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said, the classified documents case in
Florida and Federal court has just been dismissed

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by Aileen Cannon, the judge or
Aleen Cannon. No surprise none. She

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is a Trump appointee who has been
so biased in favor of Trump. I'm

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surprised it took this long. That
was it going to be appealed? Probably

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will the appeals court reinstate, who
knows, But we'll see what happens on

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that one. And by the way, it goes both sides. Merchant,

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who was the judge, the county
judge in New York when it came to

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the cases of the last case.
Oh God, just forgot what the New

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York case was about. Amy,
remind me of the New York case was

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about. I just was about falsifying
business falsifying. Thank you very much.

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That just there's so many How do
you keep track? Well, I just

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had a Biden moment and so no
longer are they Seenior moments, by the

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way, and the judge there mershand
was as anti Trump, although Trump did

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go out of his way to piss
him off, calling him all kinds of

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names, and so they didn't do
that in the trial in Florida, didn't

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have to. So anyway, that
just came in. And of course the

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assassination attempt that happened on Saturday.
So let me give you a timeline before

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I dive into it and talk about
the Secret Service, big problems with the

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Secret Service. I'll do that next
segment. So here we go, Saturday

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evening six oh five. Trump steps
onto that outdoor stage and it was at

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a Pennsylvania farm. And of course
when you see it's kind of interesting because

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now you get to see what they
do whenever there is a rally of a

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presidential candidate, especially a former president, the kind of secret Service, the

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kind of the just the planning that
goes on the stage has to be built,

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the American flag on those construction cranes, the suv. I think it

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was a Lincoln Navigator. As a
matter of fact, I was talking to

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someone and right next to the stage
and doctors there. So anyway, shots

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ring out literally eight minutes into his
speech that everybody who was there had been

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screened. I had gone through a
magnomometer, whatever the hell they call it,

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one of those machines that you walk
through metal detect detectors. There were

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snipers, counter snipers on the roof. You could see those with the big

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tripods and the big long weapons.
And he's eight minutes into the speech.

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He's pointed to his huge chart,
talks about immigration, and then he says,

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take a look at that chart,
take a look at the arrow at

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the bottom, and he's pointing out
how horrible immigration is under Joe Biden.

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And he says, and then the
worst president in the history of our country

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took over, and look what happened
to our country. He's pointing to the

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chart and just as he said,
probably twenty million people obviously referring to how

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many illegal aliens are were but it
didn't go beyond that. And all of

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a sudden, popping sounds are heard, shots being fired, and one of

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the attendees yelling he's got a gun, pointing up to the roof of a

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building four hundred and fifty feet away. He's on the roof, he's got

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a gun. And the shots rang
out and everybody panicked as you would think,

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and dove for the tarmac or certainly
go for cover Trump. You see

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him clutching his right ear and just
going straight down, ducking behind the podium.

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And it was a mess, and
a couple of things happened. At

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that point. A Secret Service agent
swarmed over to cover Trump, yelling get

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down, get down. That was
three agents. We're now finding out the

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shooter, twenty year old kid,
fired as many as eight rounds from his

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AR fifteen. He was perched on
that rooftop four hundred and fifty feet away,

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and as soon as the rounds,
the eight rounds went off, they

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went off that quickly. The counter
snipers on the roof over the event just

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took him down. I mean,
there was just no issue. One of

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the spectators sitting behind the president was
hit. A firefighter was killed as he

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was just covered his wife. He'd
Dovober's wife to protect her and being hailed

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the hero. And it's pretty impressive. I mean, the guy gave up

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his life and he should not clearly
have been shot. And Secret Service agents

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then swiftly escort Trump off the stage
and then onto that Lincoln, that big

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navig that was parked right there at
the stage. You could see blood on

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Trump's right ear and then what he
did, and this is and this was

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not thought out. It shows you, I think, the kind of personality

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that Trump does, that he's such
a fighter. As he is being let

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off the stage, he is pumping
his fist, putting it in the air

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and pumping it three times and showing
everybody I'm okay, I'm still fighting.

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And it was I thought a brilliant
move, which by the way, was

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not planned at all. As I
said, I think this is just this

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kind of guy. He is a
fighter from minute one and so off he

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goes to Butler Memorial Hospital eleven miles
away. The Secret Service detail right after

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that, six forty two, within
half an hour not even issues a statement

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saying that he was safe. Trump
is fine, being checked out at a

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local hospital. Joe Biden came back
and a couple of hours later night,

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even hour and a half later,
said Jill and I are grateful of the

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Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of

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violence in America. We must unite, I mean the normal conversation and for

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a moment all politics were off and
right now all politics are off except for

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the crazies that are on the internet
and the conspiracy theorists on both sides going

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out of their mind. Eight forty
two, about the same time on truth

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Social he confirms he was shot a
bullet piercing the upper part of his my

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right ear, he said, He
goes, I knew immediately something was wrong.

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I heard a whizzing sound right by
my ear. Whoa, and realize

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what was happening. And he thanked
the Secret Service for their fine actions and

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great response. Yeah really, yeah, yeah, great job. So the

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first question is, hang on a
minute, how is the Secret Service allow

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a shooter on a roof four hundred
and fifty feet from that stage. Well,

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I'll tell you. I'll tell you
how that works. And that is

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the way the Secret Service works on
these rallies. Is our three perimeters inside

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middle, outside perimeter, inside the
perimeter. The closest one, Number one

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is the Secret Service right around the
president. You saw them jump up and

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tackle him bring him to the ground. Two is the ones in the crowd.

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You see that all the time with
the sunglasses and they're looking around away

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from the President, at the crowd, and they're looking at any for any

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furtive move for any possible signs that
there is someone who has a weapon or

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an explosive or whatever. And then
the third perimeter, and this is where

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this building was that is left for
local law enforcement. There were four counter

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snipers on the roof of the buildings
over the president, over the rally.

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Two secret service to local And so
the argument's going to be this is the

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way we do business, and it
was local law enforcement that should have gone

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on the roof, should have checked
it out because this was line of sight

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from four hundred and fifty feet away. I was talking to Dane, our

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security guy, last night and he
does security for John and cannon for me

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whenever we do our crazy events.
And he was on a swat team when

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he was in the police department.
This is what he trained for. And

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he said, this was a complete
screw up. And at four hundred and

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fifty feet you know, anybody who
knows how to shoot line of sight,

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well, obviously it has to be
line of sight. That was not a

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hard shot, and soon of the
shots were heard. The guy poked his

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head up, shot eight times immediately
and was taken down almost instantly. So

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now the question is, wow,
how can they the Secret Service not have

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secured that building. That is a
big question that has to be answered.

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The other thing is the Secret Service
detail around the president. If you notice

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that I did almost immediately, is
they jumped up and were protecting the president.

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Remember this as an overhead shot,
and instead of cramming the president down

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and covering him from the top with
their arms, et cetera, that didn't

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happen. He was able to pump
his fist, show his face while being

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shuffled off to the car. And
I'm thinking, what the hell is going

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on? How can they not protect
him like that? How can they have

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his head exposed after a shot?
You can see the bleeding on his ear.

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And there were times as he was
being moved to the car, his

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big SUV that was waiting there,
and that's where he went to the hospital

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in that vehicle. And here is
my misogyny. Half of those Secret Service

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agents were women who are a lot
shorter than Mendent. Former President Trump is

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six foot three. You would think
they would have all of the Secret Service,

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all of them in that first perimeter, tall enough to cover the president.

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How do you let someone a foot
shorter guard a president when you know

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there's gonna be or you suspect.
And in this case it turned out that

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a risk is from an overhead shot. And as he was being dragged off,

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you could see some of the Secret
Service put their arms up in the

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air over his head. But there
were times when he clear shot if someone

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had not been taken down and was
a good shot. There it is right

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again, a clear shot to the
president. And I would think, and

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again I'm not in Secret Service at
all. I would think that you just

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dive on top of the president and
you cover him up, and if he

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tries to raise his head, the
Secret Service smashes his head down and screams

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say stay down, stay down.
You know the Secret Service doesn't pay attention

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to the president. I don't want
to be guarded too bad. I don't

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want you that close too bad.
Our duty is beyond you ordering it.

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Our duty is to protect the President
of the United States, which you happen

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to be. So I was wondering
why that happened when Ronald Ray was shot

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in Washington, d c. By
Hinckley, and Hinckley had just come up

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to him at point blank range fired
into Ronald Reagan. If you look at

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the Secret Service, they grab him, and I mean they shove him into

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awaiting SUV. I mean this guy
was shoved hard. I mean he didn't

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have a chance to say or do
anything. That's how the Secret Service acts.

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And I'm surprised that there were Secret
Service agents that were a foot shorter

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than the president. What are they
doing? Well, I'll tell you what's

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going to happen. I think you're
not going to see that again. Now.

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If there are some tall women,
I think that's going to be fine.

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But six foot three that's who we
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taller people, I think now.
Now I'm just extrapolating. Now that's my

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take on it. And you're going
to see no longer ever, ever again

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third level three perimeter where there is
a line of sight and the possibility of

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shooting the president from a building that
the Secret Service is now changing its tactic.

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We will make sure it's not gonna
be law enforcement, local law enforcement.

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Maybe there is in addition to Secret
Service, like the counter ciphers that

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were up in the buildings above the
president and above the rally. All right,

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the Trump shooting and of course instantly
you have the beams and the response

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on the internet coming up at eight
twenty. I'm gonna get into specifics of

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what's going around, but let's talk
about some of the big players that are

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out there who have responded. And
it's not necessarily part of the crazy conspiracy

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crowds, although you could argue it
is. And Culter are conve commentators and

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Coulter Eric Ericson absolutely a big time
players and guess what they were right out

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there blaming Trump's political critics. Ericson
wrote on a daily basis, MSNBC tells

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its audience that Trump is a threat
to democracy and authoritarian in waiting, would

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be a dictator if no one stops
him. What do they think is happening?

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Jd Vance Senator jd Vance a Trump
supporter of biblical proportions. He's he's

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on the short list for people on
the short list for vice president, and

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he said that rhetoric anti Trump rhetoric
is referring to led directly to President Trump's

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attempted assassination. The Republican DA in
Butler County, Pennsylvania, where this happened,

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should immediately file charges against Joseph BI
for inciting an assassination straight out that

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was GOP Representative Mike Collins, a
member of Congress, wants to indict Biden

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for inciting an assassination. Directly Biden
ordered the assassination and said, let someone

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go out there and assassinate him.
Now, that's in reference to what Trump

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said, let's go down to the
Capitol building and stop Mike Pence from certifying

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the election, which, by the
way, I think is a charge that

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makes no sense. Trump never said
overrun the Capitol. He never said for

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that crowd to beat up policemen.
He said, let's go down there and

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show them. And the argument is
and can be made. I don't care

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what his motives are, but the
argument can be made that he just said

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go down there and demonstrate. That's
it. And so this is even crazier.

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Now most of the rage and blame
is coming from the president, former

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president's fans. At the same time, you've got the other side. You've

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got a former Republican supporter, Bruce
Bartlett went online and invoked the Rice Dad

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the Reichstag Fire. What was the
Reichstag fire. This is where when Adolph

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Hitler took power, became chancellor within
months of him taking power, basically the

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president of Germany, much like as
this parliamentary system he instigated created and there's

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no issue the fire at the Reichstag, their capitol building, and then claimed

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or then proclaimed martial law to catch
the perpetrators, and they got somebody,

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some student, and it was totally
trumped up. I mean, they just

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grabbed someone and they executed him.
But that enabled Adolf Hitler to take complete

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control of the government. Of course
he never looked back. You're seeing the

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same thing happening now among trunk Trump
opponents. This was set up by Trump

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and his followers because look, he
just got his ear just grazed. I

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mean, look at this assassination attempt. He was shot at and he just

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was grazed. So therefore this thing
was staged. That's what you're looking at.

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I mean, just crazy, typical
an ex user. And the only

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reason I bring up this user who
said this is the most stage crap except

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not using the word crap I've ever
seen an active shooter and Secret Service just

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allows him to stand back and allow
this effing fist up come on. Really,

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by the way, the reason I
bring that up is this post that

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this has been viewed ten million times
now, the vast majority of people responding

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did so with horror. Also grace
President Biden a lot of grace stopped politically

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he had to do this, stopped
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Trump, and in the course of
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to stop. And did you see
the video of those bone heads that weren't

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looking at the stage, We're looking
at the cameras flipping the birds, screaming

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f you, f you at the
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he had one guy who looked like
he came from you know, Alligator Land,

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the swamp people, you know,
the long beard, sort of straggly,

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kind of looked well, do I
want to get racist here? Yeah?

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Yeah, yeah. He looked like
he had just come from hunt with

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forty six guns in the back of
his pickup truck and screaming I mean,

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f you, flipping the bird and
his wife presumably also, I mean,

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pretty crazy stuff going on. Okay, now, let's look at America's history

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of presidential assassination attempts. We think
that it's all third world stuff where you

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have presidents assassinated the Philippines, where
else you had in Africa. It's you

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know, it happens, is left, right, and center the United States

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for a first world country. We've
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three of them, one, two, three, now four. I

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have been alive and remember every moment, and I will talk about that.

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Let's go back to well one of
them, famous one attempt, and this

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is where a president was wounded grievously
and I remember this like it was yesterday,

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and most of us do, who
are around. We go back to

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nineteen eighty one, Ronald Reagan as
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He had just addressed the crowd inside
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White House. And you have a
guess who. John Hinckley, twenty five

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years old, crazy guy, the
son of an energy executive, stops steps

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out from the crowd and takes his
six shooter and unloads it at the president.

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And he was well, he was
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that hit him, and it was
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chest and went within millimeters of his
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And in a story related to what
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what did the Secret Service do?
Did they cover him up? Did?

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And we had I talked about how
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shorter than Donald Trump by a long
shot, were covering him and allowed his

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head to come out an easy shot
and do the fist up. They shows

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his fists, punches the air with
his fists, and of course everybody went

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wild. I mean he acted,
I thought he And by the way,

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this wasn't planned. This goes to
show you who Donald Trump is. Acted

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like, no one is going to
stop me. A very moving moment.

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So John Hinckley, who was impressed
with a pressed obsessed with Jodie Foster,

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he strikes three people. Brady who
got hit in the head. Brady was

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the press secretary. And what the
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the video, they didn't hesitate.
They took Ronald Reagan. Now the door

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was open to is I think it
was either limousine or the suv, and

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they threw him into the car,
I mean literally threw him and then the

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door closing off. He went to
the hospital where he had surgery and he

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came very close to dying. We
didn't know that. So Reagan in nineteen

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eighty one was the latest among politician
cultural figures who had been victims of this

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whole strain of violence in American history
going back one hundred and fifty years,

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because I just remember that there have
been fifteen direct assaults on US presidents,

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presidents elect presidential candidates. Five of
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the first one being Abraham Lincoln.
The first attempted presidential assassination came in eighteen

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thirty five, and this was against
President Andrew Johnson. A very troubled,

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unemployed house painter, actually armed with
two pistols, was hiding behind a pillar

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in the US Capital to ambush President
Jackson. Jackson was attending a funeral.

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As he approached he's inside or right
outside the Capitol. The painter points a

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single shot derringer at the President's heart, pulls the trigger, and the gun

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goes off with a bang, a
cloud of smoke. But the gun had

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misfired. The bullet didn't fly out
of the weapon. So Jackson, who

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was a pretty physical guy, he
reacted. He was very Donald Trump in

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the way he reacts. You attack
him, boy, does he attack you?

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So he starts hitting this guy with
a cane. Lawrence, the house

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painter pulls a second pistol and squeezes
the trigger that misfires. By the way,

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he was later judged insane. There
would be a whole lot more attempts

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on the lives of US presidents.
Four assassinations Abraham Lincoln eighteen sixty five,

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as we all, of course all
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William McKinley in nineteen oh one,
and that's what brought Teddy Roosevelt to

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the presidency. And he was shot
also, and I'll go into that in

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just a moment. I am reading
a biography of Teddy Roosevelt now and it

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is absolutely fascinating. Teddy Roosevelt,
and this is just an aside, was

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one of the most extraordinary people.
Forget about presidents. He was one of

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the extraordinary people of the last century, maybe this century. And if I

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should, I should actually do a
segment on Teddy Roosevelt, because he is

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that extraordinary. And maybe I'll do
that on the podcast. By the way,

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the podcast is out already. We're
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We have gone to the other platforms
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I've already dropped two segments. Tomorrow
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