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is kf I AM six forty Bill Handle here on a very busy Monday morning,
July fifteenth. News. That's just breaking right now. As Amy just
said, the classified documents case in Florida and Federal court has just been dismissed
by Aileen Cannon, the judge or Aleen Cannon. No surprise none. She
is a Trump appointee who has been so biased in favor of Trump. I'm
surprised it took this long. That was it going to be appealed? Probably
will the appeals court reinstate, who knows, But we'll see what happens on
that one. And by the way, it goes both sides. Merchant,
who was the judge, the county judge in New York when it came to
the cases of the last case. Oh God, just forgot what the New
York case was about. Amy, remind me of the New York case was
about. I just was about falsifying business falsifying. Thank you very much.
That just there's so many How do you keep track? Well, I just
had a Biden moment and so no longer are they Seenior moments, by the
way, and the judge there mershand was as anti Trump, although Trump did
go out of his way to piss him off, calling him all kinds of
names, and so they didn't do that in the trial in Florida, didn't
have to. So anyway, that just came in. And of course the
assassination attempt that happened on Saturday. So let me give you a timeline before
I dive into it and talk about the Secret Service, big problems with the
Secret Service. I'll do that next segment. So here we go, Saturday
evening six oh five. Trump steps onto that outdoor stage and it was at
a Pennsylvania farm. And of course when you see it's kind of interesting because
now you get to see what they do whenever there is a rally of a
presidential candidate, especially a former president, the kind of secret Service, the
kind of the just the planning that goes on the stage has to be built,
the American flag on those construction cranes, the suv. I think it
was a Lincoln Navigator. As a matter of fact, I was talking to
someone and right next to the stage and doctors there. So anyway, shots
ring out literally eight minutes into his speech that everybody who was there had been
screened. I had gone through a magnomometer, whatever the hell they call it,
one of those machines that you walk through metal detect detectors. There were
snipers, counter snipers on the roof. You could see those with the big
tripods and the big long weapons. And he's eight minutes into the speech.
He's pointed to his huge chart, talks about immigration, and then he says,
take a look at that chart, take a look at the arrow at
the bottom, and he's pointing out how horrible immigration is under Joe Biden.
And he says, and then the worst president in the history of our country
took over, and look what happened to our country. He's pointing to the
chart and just as he said, probably twenty million people obviously referring to how
many illegal aliens are were but it didn't go beyond that. And all of
a sudden, popping sounds are heard, shots being fired, and one of
the attendees yelling he's got a gun, pointing up to the roof of a
building four hundred and fifty feet away. He's on the roof, he's got
a gun. And the shots rang out and everybody panicked as you would think,
and dove for the tarmac or certainly go for cover Trump. You see
him clutching his right ear and just going straight down, ducking behind the podium.
And it was a mess, and a couple of things happened. At
that point. A Secret Service agent swarmed over to cover Trump, yelling get
down, get down. That was three agents. We're now finding out the
shooter, twenty year old kid, fired as many as eight rounds from his
AR fifteen. He was perched on that rooftop four hundred and fifty feet away,
and as soon as the rounds, the eight rounds went off, they
went off that quickly. The counter snipers on the roof over the event just
took him down. I mean, there was just no issue. One of
the spectators sitting behind the president was hit. A firefighter was killed as he
was just covered his wife. He'd Dovober's wife to protect her and being hailed
the hero. And it's pretty impressive. I mean, the guy gave up
his life and he should not clearly have been shot. And Secret Service agents
then swiftly escort Trump off the stage and then onto that Lincoln, that big
navig that was parked right there at the stage. You could see blood on
Trump's right ear and then what he did, and this is and this was
not thought out. It shows you, I think, the kind of personality
that Trump does, that he's such a fighter. As he is being let
off the stage, he is pumping his fist, putting it in the air
and pumping it three times and showing everybody I'm okay, I'm still fighting.
And it was I thought a brilliant move, which by the way, was
not planned at all. As I said, I think this is just this
kind of guy. He is a fighter from minute one and so off he
goes to Butler Memorial Hospital eleven miles away. The Secret Service detail right after
that, six forty two, within half an hour not even issues a statement
saying that he was safe. Trump is fine, being checked out at a
local hospital. Joe Biden came back and a couple of hours later night,
even hour and a half later, said Jill and I are grateful of the
Secret Service for getting him to safety. There's no place for this kind of
violence in America. We must unite, I mean the normal conversation and for
a moment all politics were off and right now all politics are off except for
the crazies that are on the internet and the conspiracy theorists on both sides going
out of their mind. Eight forty two, about the same time on truth
Social he confirms he was shot a bullet piercing the upper part of his my
right ear, he said, He goes, I knew immediately something was wrong.
I heard a whizzing sound right by my ear. Whoa, and realize
what was happening. And he thanked the Secret Service for their fine actions and
great response. Yeah really, yeah, yeah, great job. So the
first question is, hang on a minute, how is the Secret Service allow
a shooter on a roof four hundred and fifty feet from that stage. Well,
I'll tell you. I'll tell you how that works. And that is
the way the Secret Service works on these rallies. Is our three perimeters inside
middle, outside perimeter, inside the perimeter. The closest one, Number one
is the Secret Service right around the president. You saw them jump up and
tackle him bring him to the ground. Two is the ones in the crowd.
You see that all the time with the sunglasses and they're looking around away
from the President, at the crowd, and they're looking at any for any
furtive move for any possible signs that there is someone who has a weapon or
an explosive or whatever. And then the third perimeter, and this is where
this building was that is left for local law enforcement. There were four counter
snipers on the roof of the buildings over the president, over the rally.
Two secret service to local And so the argument's going to be this is the
way we do business, and it was local law enforcement that should have gone
on the roof, should have checked it out because this was line of sight
from four hundred and fifty feet away. I was talking to Dane, our
security guy, last night and he does security for John and cannon for me
whenever we do our crazy events. And he was on a swat team when
he was in the police department. This is what he trained for. And
he said, this was a complete screw up. And at four hundred and
fifty feet you know, anybody who knows how to shoot line of sight,
well, obviously it has to be line of sight. That was not a
hard shot, and soon of the shots were heard. The guy poked his
head up, shot eight times immediately and was taken down almost instantly. So
now the question is, wow, how can they the Secret Service not have
secured that building. That is a big question that has to be answered.
The other thing is the Secret Service detail around the president. If you notice
that I did almost immediately, is they jumped up and were protecting the president.
Remember this as an overhead shot, and instead of cramming the president down
and covering him from the top with their arms, et cetera, that didn't
happen. He was able to pump his fist, show his face while being
shuffled off to the car. And I'm thinking, what the hell is going
on? How can they not protect him like that? How can they have
his head exposed after a shot? You can see the bleeding on his ear.
And there were times as he was being moved to the car, his
big SUV that was waiting there, and that's where he went to the hospital
in that vehicle. And here is my misogyny. Half of those Secret Service
agents were women who are a lot shorter than Mendent. Former President Trump is
six foot three. You would think they would have all of the Secret Service,
all of them in that first perimeter, tall enough to cover the president.
How do you let someone a foot shorter guard a president when you know
there's gonna be or you suspect. And in this case it turned out that
a risk is from an overhead shot. And as he was being dragged off,
you could see some of the Secret Service put their arms up in the
air over his head. But there were times when he clear shot if someone
had not been taken down and was a good shot. There it is right
again, a clear shot to the president. And I would think, and
again I'm not in Secret Service at all. I would think that you just
dive on top of the president and you cover him up, and if he
tries to raise his head, the Secret Service smashes his head down and screams
say stay down, stay down. You know the Secret Service doesn't pay attention
to the president. I don't want to be guarded too bad. I don't
want you that close too bad. Our duty is beyond you ordering it.
Our duty is to protect the President of the United States, which you happen
to be. So I was wondering why that happened when Ronald Ray was shot
in Washington, d c. By Hinckley, and Hinckley had just come up
to him at point blank range fired into Ronald Reagan. If you look at
the Secret Service, they grab him, and I mean they shove him into
awaiting SUV. I mean this guy was shoved hard. I mean he didn't
have a chance to say or do anything. That's how the Secret Service acts.
And I'm surprised that there were Secret Service agents that were a foot shorter
than the president. What are they doing? Well, I'll tell you what's
going to happen. I think you're not going to see that again. Now.
If there are some tall women, I think that's going to be fine.
But six foot three that's who we have as president. We're gonna have
taller people, I think now. Now I'm just extrapolating. Now that's my
take on it. And you're going to see no longer ever, ever again
third level three perimeter where there is a line of sight and the possibility of
shooting the president from a building that the Secret Service is now changing its tactic.
We will make sure it's not gonna be law enforcement, local law enforcement.
Maybe there is in addition to Secret Service, like the counter ciphers that
were up in the buildings above the president and above the rally. All right,
the Trump shooting and of course instantly you have the beams and the response
on the internet coming up at eight twenty. I'm gonna get into specifics of
what's going around, but let's talk about some of the big players that are
out there who have responded. And it's not necessarily part of the crazy conspiracy
crowds, although you could argue it is. And Culter are conve commentators and
Coulter Eric Ericson absolutely a big time players and guess what they were right out
there blaming Trump's political critics. Ericson wrote on a daily basis, MSNBC tells
its audience that Trump is a threat to democracy and authoritarian in waiting, would
be a dictator if no one stops him. What do they think is happening?
Jd Vance Senator jd Vance a Trump supporter of biblical proportions. He's he's
on the short list for people on the short list for vice president, and
he said that rhetoric anti Trump rhetoric is referring to led directly to President Trump's
attempted assassination. The Republican DA in Butler County, Pennsylvania, where this happened,
should immediately file charges against Joseph BI for inciting an assassination straight out that
was GOP Representative Mike Collins, a member of Congress, wants to indict Biden
for inciting an assassination. Directly Biden ordered the assassination and said, let someone
go out there and assassinate him. Now, that's in reference to what Trump
said, let's go down to the Capitol building and stop Mike Pence from certifying
the election, which, by the way, I think is a charge that
makes no sense. Trump never said overrun the Capitol. He never said for
that crowd to beat up policemen. He said, let's go down there and
show them. And the argument is and can be made. I don't care
what his motives are, but the argument can be made that he just said
go down there and demonstrate. That's it. And so this is even crazier.
Now most of the rage and blame is coming from the president, former
president's fans. At the same time, you've got the other side. You've
got a former Republican supporter, Bruce Bartlett went online and invoked the Rice Dad
the Reichstag Fire. What was the Reichstag fire. This is where when Adolph
Hitler took power, became chancellor within months of him taking power, basically the
president of Germany, much like as this parliamentary system he instigated created and there's
no issue the fire at the Reichstag, their capitol building, and then claimed
or then proclaimed martial law to catch the perpetrators, and they got somebody,
some student, and it was totally trumped up. I mean, they just
grabbed someone and they executed him. But that enabled Adolf Hitler to take complete
control of the government. Of course he never looked back. You're seeing the
same thing happening now among trunk Trump opponents. This was set up by Trump
and his followers because look, he just got his ear just grazed. I
mean, look at this assassination attempt. He was shot at and he just
was grazed. So therefore this thing was staged. That's what you're looking at.
I mean, just crazy, typical an ex user. And the only
reason I bring up this user who said this is the most stage crap except
not using the word crap I've ever seen an active shooter and Secret Service just
allows him to stand back and allow this effing fist up come on. Really,
by the way, the reason I bring that up is this post that
this has been viewed ten million times now, the vast majority of people responding
did so with horror. Also grace President Biden a lot of grace stopped politically
he had to do this, stopped all the advertisement because it was all anti
Trump, and in the course of a day or two after the assassination has
to stop. And did you see the video of those bone heads that weren't
looking at the stage, We're looking at the cameras flipping the birds, screaming
f you, f you at the top of their lungs. I mean,
he had one guy who looked like he came from you know, Alligator Land,
the swamp people, you know, the long beard, sort of straggly,
kind of looked well, do I want to get racist here? Yeah?
Yeah, yeah. He looked like he had just come from hunt with
forty six guns in the back of his pickup truck and screaming I mean,
f you, flipping the bird and his wife presumably also, I mean,
pretty crazy stuff going on. Okay, now, let's look at America's history
of presidential assassination attempts. We think that it's all third world stuff where you
have presidents assassinated the Philippines, where else you had in Africa. It's you
know, it happens, is left, right, and center the United States
for a first world country. We've had our share and more than our share,
three of them, one, two, three, now four. I
have been alive and remember every moment, and I will talk about that.
Let's go back to well one of them, famous one attempt, and this
is where a president was wounded grievously and I remember this like it was yesterday,
and most of us do, who are around. We go back to
nineteen eighty one, Ronald Reagan as president walking out of the Washington Hilton Hotel.
He had just addressed the crowd inside and he's on his way to the
White House. And you have a guess who. John Hinckley, twenty five
years old, crazy guy, the son of an energy executive, stops steps
out from the crowd and takes his six shooter and unloads it at the president.
And he was well, he was hit. It was a ricochet bullet
that hit him, and it was a twenty two and hit him in the
chest and went within millimeters of his heart. He would have been dead.
And in a story related to what happened, and I talked about this earlier,
what did the Secret Service do? Did they cover him up? Did?
And we had I talked about how you had Secret Service agents that were
shorter than Donald Trump by a long shot, were covering him and allowed his
head to come out an easy shot and do the fist up. They shows
his fists, punches the air with his fists, and of course everybody went
wild. I mean he acted, I thought he And by the way,
this wasn't planned. This goes to show you who Donald Trump is. Acted
like, no one is going to stop me. A very moving moment.
So John Hinckley, who was impressed with a pressed obsessed with Jodie Foster,
he strikes three people. Brady who got hit in the head. Brady was
the press secretary. And what the Secret Service did, if you look at
the video, they didn't hesitate. They took Ronald Reagan. Now the door
was open to is I think it was either limousine or the suv, and
they threw him into the car, I mean literally threw him and then the
door closing off. He went to the hospital where he had surgery and he
came very close to dying. We didn't know that. So Reagan in nineteen
eighty one was the latest among politician cultural figures who had been victims of this
whole strain of violence in American history going back one hundred and fifty years,
because I just remember that there have been fifteen direct assaults on US presidents,
presidents elect presidential candidates. Five of them resulted in death, of course,
the first one being Abraham Lincoln. The first attempted presidential assassination came in eighteen
thirty five, and this was against President Andrew Johnson. A very troubled,
unemployed house painter, actually armed with two pistols, was hiding behind a pillar
in the US Capital to ambush President Jackson. Jackson was attending a funeral.
As he approached he's inside or right outside the Capitol. The painter points a
single shot derringer at the President's heart, pulls the trigger, and the gun
goes off with a bang, a cloud of smoke. But the gun had
misfired. The bullet didn't fly out of the weapon. So Jackson, who
was a pretty physical guy, he reacted. He was very Donald Trump in
the way he reacts. You attack him, boy, does he attack you?
So he starts hitting this guy with a cane. Lawrence, the house
painter pulls a second pistol and squeezes the trigger that misfires. By the way,
he was later judged insane. There would be a whole lot more attempts
on the lives of US presidents. Four assassinations Abraham Lincoln eighteen sixty five,
as we all, of course all know, James Garfield and eighteen eighty one,
William McKinley in nineteen oh one, and that's what brought Teddy Roosevelt to
the presidency. And he was shot also, and I'll go into that in
just a moment. I am reading a biography of Teddy Roosevelt now and it
is absolutely fascinating. Teddy Roosevelt, and this is just an aside, was
one of the most extraordinary people. Forget about presidents. He was one of
the extraordinary people of the last century, maybe this century. And if I
should, I should actually do a segment on Teddy Roosevelt, because he is
that extraordinary. And maybe I'll do that on the podcast. By the way,
the podcast is out already. We're on the iHeartRadio app right now.
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