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now, Billy Cunningham, the Great
America, and welcome this Monday afternoon the

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Tried State. The RNC is underway
in Milwaukee, the home of the Brewers

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and more plus Reds baseball off until
Friday. Tomorrow night's the All Star Games

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starting about eight oh five. Red
here on the Big One, Ladella,

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Cruise, Hunter, Green and Moore. But until then, there's so much

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going on. Joining you and I
are now live from Milwaukee is John Houston,

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who's the like governor, the vice
president, the lieutenant governor of the

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state of Ohio, and Lieutenant Governor
John Eustaed. Welcome again to the Bill

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Cunningham Show. And first of all, this Monday afternoon, can you kind

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of set the stage those living in
the Tristate about the excitement in Milwaukee for

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the RNC. Yeah, we were
with the Ohio delegation last night. Obviously

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there was a little bit of a
somber mood because of the shooting and loss

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of life with people at that studying
and the near loss of President Trump and

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one more inch and we would be
having a completely different conversation. But also

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a sense of resilience. They saw
him stand up, get to his feet,

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blood on his face, put his
fist up and ask them to fight.

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And you know what, this delegation
is ready to go do that.

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It was already at a fever pitch. I think now it's up to Butboni

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plague pitch as far as the excitement. And I'd like to think that that

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photo taken by the New York Times
photographers already won one pulitzer. Imagine that

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a second or two with blood on
his face, the American flag furled in

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the background against a blue sky,
and there's Donald Trump with his hand in

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the air saying fight, Fight Fight. Secret service on the left and right

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reminded me of Ewa Jima in which
the Marines were hoisting the flag after they

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conquered the island and Ewo GiMA at
a terrible price. And historically that's the

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photo and I would imagine that it
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Correct. Wow, yeah, it's
everywhere. We just had it up

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at our morning breakfast here. It
is. It's iconic. And you know

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what, Willie I, as soon
as I saw I was like, that's

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the defining iconic photo of the Trump
era, and it really defines him.

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He's a fighter, and it was
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He knew when he got to his
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sign of strength, not just for
himself, but to reassure that audience and

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to reassure America and the world that
no matter what happens to us, we

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will fight forward for what we believe
in the American way, and that will

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define his presidency. When I watched
some of the morning talk shows, fortunately

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Joe Scarborough and Zeka Brazinski were taken
off, and according to reporting, it's

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because they couldn't trust them with the
microphones and the camera to say something really

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stupid, and they had substitute hosts. But the smart money said jad Vance's

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moved up the ladder because of his
posting and social media about what happened with

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Donald Trump. And of course,
you know JD Vance quite well came out

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of nowhere in a sense. Eight
years ago I was doing events with him

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for Himbilly Elergy, and now he's
a heartbeat away from the presidency. We

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think, do you have any inside
scoop? Sometime later today or tomorrow is

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going to be announced. Is it
your view that JD. Vance is at

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the forefront of being the next vice
president? Well, I don't know anything

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more certain than anyone else does.
But if I was a betting man,

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Bill, I'd say JD. Vance
is going to be the nominee for vice

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president. That's what I believe based
on the conversations I've had and the things

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I've seen created. I think Donald
Trump is really taking a liking to him

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in the sense that JD is a
great articulate spokesperson for the MAGA agenda and

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that he is a great defender of
Donald Trump. He's been willing to go

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toe to toe with the national media
and anybody else. And you know,

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I know what it's like to be
a wingman, Willie, I'm lieutenant governor.

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I know you've got to look out
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JD. JD understands what it takes
to get that done. I think Donald

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Trump recognizes that. I think he
wants a smart, articulate spokesperson for the

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MAGA agenda, and I see JD
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And John Houston I said, this
can't be a four year movement because

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at the end of four years.
Who knows what the Democrats will do to

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that, to Trump in his second
term. But for this a mega movement

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to be successful, it needs to
be eight to twelve years. And Doug

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Bergham looks like a nice guy.
He's seventy years old, which is a

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bit old, and he may not
have the next eight to twelve years left

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in him. But JD. Vance
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when JD Vance posted the following after
the assassination quote today is not an isolated

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incident. The central premise of the
Biden campaign is that President Donald Trump is

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an authoritarian fascist who must be stopped
at all costs. That rhetoric led directly

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the President Trump's attempt at assassination quote
unquote. Do you agree with JD Vance?

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I think that's well said. I
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way that Donald Trump has been vilified, there is an attempt to encourage retribution.

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And that's why that rhetoric across the
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personal, never make it at a
person, never entry to cite violence.

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And I think that JD's the way
JD said that is spot on. And

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the other thing I noticed on politico
dot com about a week ago. Biden

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was one of those big time tech
fundraisers where the tech giants settle up and

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spend one hundreds of million dollars houndings
and millions of dollars on some sort of

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get out the vote campaign that President
Joe Biden said, Trump is the bull's

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eye. Trump is the bull's eye. How's that language look today? And

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this is from the president's own lifts
Joe Biden. Yeah, well it looks.

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It looks terrible, is how it
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Look, I'm I really hope that
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can't vilify an individual like that.
Look, you don't like what Donald Trump

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believes in, then you go use
your First Amendment rights to articulate why you

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don't think so, But don't try
to vilify the person to the extent that

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you're truly trying to incite someone out
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And let there be no mistake,
the rhetoric that's being used out there

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was the target and personally, and
it's led to these tragic events, and

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so let's all tone it down.
We do not need to resort to violence

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to solve our problems in America.
We know that there have been assassination attempts

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in the past, assaults on the
presidency and other elected officials in the country.

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You know what, say what you
want in terms of fighting against their

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ideas, but don't escalate it to
the point that you're encouraging violence. An

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issue that I raised last night is
that there's three branches of the federal government,

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the legislative, the judicial, and
the executive. The legislative branch was

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attacked by a left wing activist named
James Hoskinson on June fourteenth, twenty seventeen,

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in which he stalked and specifically prepared
for a political assassination eighteen members of

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the Congress. You might recall in
twenty seventeen, Don Hoskinson was an alcoholitte

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of Rachel madiw MSNBC and of Bernie
Trump's Bernie Sanders supporter, and he decided

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to decapitate the leadership of the House
of Representatives, and of course Steven Scalie

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was shot. Five others were shot. Congressman brad Winstrip basically saved the life.

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So rhetoric was of such a character
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of the legislature. And then a
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Senator Chuck Schumer is outside the US
Supreme Court building saying to Kavanaugh and the

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Gorsich, you'll never know what's going
to hit you. And then about three

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weeks later, a left wing activist
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home of Justice Kavanaugh, and but
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you could have had an assassinated Supreme
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And then Saturday night, the executive
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deranged leftist who wanted to kill the
president. So we have the legislative attacks,

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the judicial attacks, and the executive
branch attacks, all committed by left

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wing activists listening to the rhetoric of
the left is left the administrative state.

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I'm not so sure, And so
I see a pattern here of the legislature

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attacked by left wing activists, violence
and shooting of six people judicial in which

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Chuck Schumer should have a little more
common sense than stand in front of the

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West Supreme Court and tell two justices
if it won't rule the right way on

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an abortion case to Dobs case,
You'll never know what's going to hit you.

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And then a few weeks later,
the attempt at assassin shows up in

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front of Kavanaugh, and then we
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He shows up and they can't quite
get into his phone yet. I

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guess at some point they will.
And I bet you a dollar to a

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donut. There's some application of the
phone in which he was radicalized by left

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wing activists. And I would ask
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assassination attempt? To use the words
of CNN, was this mostly peaceful the

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assassination attempt to Donald Trump? Because
when cities burn, CNN will say,

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well, it's mostly peaceful. Do
you see a pattern here, John Eustad

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as a pattern? You articulated it
quite well. We can't have this.

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You can't use rhetoric. First of
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they try to intimidate you so that
you don't make the policies that they want

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to stop you from making. And
then they try to use the intimidation of

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the media and the courts and legal
proceedings to get you. And then additionally,

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the fiery rhetic literally is they're waiting
for someone in our three hundred plus

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million member society to take measures into
their own hands. That's what it insights.

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It's the politics of personal instruction.
It is rhetoric that leads to extremism.

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And the left wants to always accuse
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they are completely guilty of the thing
that they suggest that Donald Trump and others

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are the ones inciting. They are
the ones inciting it that have led to

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the issues that you just articulated very
well, Bill, and it's but let

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me just say that it's on all
of them. We got to lead by

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example. I will say this right
now. Nobody should ever attack another individual

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with violence to solve their political disagreements. There's no way to do it.

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It's not how we do it in
America. But we should not be surprised

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that things happen like this when essentially
the rhetoric that they're doing using our encouraging

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people when they say that Donald Trump
will end democracy, He'll end our nation

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as we know it, Well,
what is that inviting someone to do take

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to take justice into their own hands? And it's wrong. Well, the

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New Republic, which is a left
wing magazine and website has a photo of

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Donald Trump on its cover with the
Hitler mustache. And so I've said many

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times, I've asked many priests this
question. If you go back in time

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to the nineteen late nineteen twenties and
could put a bullet in Adolf Hitler's head,

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would you do it, knowing what's
coming into the future. And many

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say yes, thinking about Adolf Hitler
did. And when you compare Donald Trump,

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who had a great, successful four
year term as our president, and

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compare him to Adolf Hitler, who
massacred fifty million people, had the ovens

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ready for the Jews, and say
Donald Trump is Adolf Hitler, weak minded

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individuals respond Now, lastly, about
two hours ago, Judge Cannon and Florida

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tossed the document's case against Donald Trump
because Jack Smith's appointment was unconstitutional. And

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clearly it was unconstitutional. But many
times we allow on constitutional acts in this

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country if it's directed against Donald Trump. What's your initial impression of the federal

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cases against Donald Trump going up in
smoke. Well, it means that it's

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not going to proceed before the election, and we'll let the voters decide what

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they think of what should be done. Because if they elect Donald Trump president,

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this case goes away and the right
though the judge was right about this,

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it's the kangaroo court of injustice that
happens at the federal level when they

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try to criminalize political grievances, and
this judge put a stop to it.

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That's good. If Trump was not
a candidate, none of us would be

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happening. And if Trump was not
leading in the polls, none of this

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would have been happening. And sadly, I don't want it too many by

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calling it a mostly peaceful assassination attempt, because there's a fire chief who's dead

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because of the rhetoric of the left
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to be on a roof. Father, please, father tried to protect his

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children dead because the rhetoric incited this, This powered to do a treacherous thing

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by trying to take the life of
the former president and the bystanders who were

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there supporting him were killed and injured, traumatized. And there's no place for

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this in American society, and they
should stop it. They should stop this

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attack on Trump and inciting the kinds
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on Saturday night, and I think
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because he was looking forward, presenting
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And just as the bullet was being
Firedy turned to the right and the

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back of his head became the top
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the intervention of God Almighty, I
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I can't imagine this morning the RNC. I can't imagine what would happen.

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Well, that's the scary thing to
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would have changed the course of the
world. And today we would be sitting

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here in chaos of this country.
I mean, we would be an absolute

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chaos. If that bullet had been
an inch further towards Donald Trump's head,

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we would be the country would be
in civil war essentially from a political point

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of view over what had happened.
And thankfully, by the grace of God,

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we're not having that conversation today and
that we're hopefully and I will say

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this, I prayerfully say this,
Bill, Let's, you know, pull

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it back. Let's we do not
need to use the language that encourages violence.

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For using treachery to settle our political
differences. We are a civilized society,

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or if we want to live in
one, we've got to stop doing

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that. John Houston, a Lieutenant
governor, thank you very much, well

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said, and we'll continue and once
again have a great successful convention. I

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can't imagine Thursday night when Trump appears
on stage. I assume with bandages on

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his head, there might be a
thirty minute standing ovation. And reminds me

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of Ronald Reagan getting shot by Michael
Hinckley and how popular he was thereafter,

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and I and I would think the
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But I also want to point out
that there's a go fundme page Donald Trump

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is set up for the victims of
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None of them are rich people,
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fighting for their lives and one dead, and we can't forget them go fund

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me page, And John, maybe
in the Ohio delegation this afternoon you could

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pass that around to the delegate members
to make some contribution financially to help the

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victims of this assassination attempt in Butler
County, Pennsylvania. But John Houstead,

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we gotta go once again, thank
you for coming on The Bill Cunningham Show.

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Thank you, John, thank you, thank you very much. Right,

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