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Failed assassination attempt raises serious questions about heated rhetoric · Cultural Wars | America Out Loud News

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  You're listening to The Hidden Lightness on America Out Loud Talk Radio.
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  I'm your host, Jimmy Hinton.
• 0:15
  Well, what an eventful weekend, wasn't it?
• 0:18
  Oh my goodness.
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  We have deranged people shooting at President Trump again.
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  This is wild.
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  This is absolutely insane.
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  And I've got a lot to talk about for this show because this is just nuts.
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  And the left's reaction to this tells us everything that we need to know about who they are.
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  At least the elites from the left.
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  And I uh I gotta say, what a tremendous job that the Secret Service did.
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  What a tremendous job that uh all the people there uh did in taking cover and giving cover, and uh it just it was really incredible.
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  And there are a lot of a lot of criticisms, and people are like, Well, how did this guy not have his shirt on?
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  Didn't they see a guy coming with no shirt?
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  And of course, there are all of the internet experts who are forcing their opinions and telling the the uh Secret Service how to do their job, and uh, of course, it's the Facebook warriors who are doing that, the TikTok warriors and the uh the ex-warriors and so forth.
• 1:37
  Uh they're telling the the Secret Service how to do their job and what all they did wrong, and and how how big of buffoons they are.
• 1:48
  And I want to point out just the very obvious right now that these people attempting to assassinate President Trump.
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  Uh, I don't know if we've I need to look this up.
• 2:02
  I don't know if we've ever had so many assassination attempts on one singular president in the history of America.
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  And it's really interesting to me because people are like, oh, the the you know, President Trump, he's the he's divisive and listen to the words that he says, and uh, yeah, he's he's not exactly classy, uh definitely not classy in the way that he uh presents things.
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  He name calls, he he does a lot of that stuff just to get her eyes out of people.
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  Uh, but one thing that we can be sure of, he's not a violent man.
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  And this is the picture that the left really wants to paint.
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  That he's he's violent.
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  The violence is coming from the right.
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  That it's the Republicans who are they're they're they're making us do it.
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  Right?
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  That's that's the argument.
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  They're making us get angry, they're making us burn the cities down, they're making us protest and throw rocks at police officers.
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  They're making us do that.
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  If they weren't so racist, we wouldn't have to do these things.
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  We wouldn't have to attempt to assassinate the president, right?
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  I mean, it's just so crazy.
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  It's just absolutely crazy.
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  But I do want to point out the obvious fact that these are no longer like really mentally deranged lunatics who are doing this stuff.
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  Well, they are.
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  I mean, anybody who attempts to assassinate somebody, a president.
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  Uh, but what I mean is, this was an educated teacher.
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  This is a guy who's teaching, as Rush Limbaugh used to say, young skulls full of mush.
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  Now, I don't know if he's a professor or a teacher.
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  Uh the the all the articles that I read just said that he's a teacher.
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  And that's pretty wild to me that uh that they don't specify whether he's a college professor or whether he's teaching high school, elementary school.
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  Uh I don't know.
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  I can look up real quick.
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  That's try to multitask and look this up.
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  Okay, so the NPR has an article.
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  Details emerge of alleged shooter at White House Correspondents Dinner.
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  Uh, there's nothing uh alleged about this.
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  He shot.
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  He was a gunman.
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  He walked in and began to shoot.
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  He began to open fire.
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  Now, how he walked away with his life is beyond me.
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  Uh, but anyway, here's an article, and I've not read this, so bear with me here.
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  Hours after a gunman attempted to breach the White House correspondence dinner, details are slowly emerging about who he is.
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  The alleged gunman has been identified as Cole Allen, according to two sources familiar with the matter.
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  The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly.
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  He is believed to have been targeting administration officials as acting attorney general Todd Blanch told NBC's meet the press Sunday morning.
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  The incident brought America's commonplace gun violence just feet away from a room full of lawmakers, top officials, and journalists.
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  It also may add to a string of troubling political violence in the U.S.
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  that includes two assassination attempts on President Trump.
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  It also injects more chaos into what was already a turbulent time for the Trump administration, which is attempting to negotiate an end to the war in Iran that the U.S.
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  started at the end of February.
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  Alan had written what a White House source characterized Sunday morning as a manifesto.
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  And Alan's brother notified the new London Connecticut police of that writing just minutes before the incident at the dinner.
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  Good on his brother.
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  Alan's sister spoke to Secret Service and Montgomery County, Maryland Police, saying her brother, quote, had a tendency to make radical statements and his rhetoric constantly referenced a plan to do, quote, something to fix the issues with today's world.
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  Now, this is the problem that uh that I have with violent rhetoric.
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  Now, people can disagree with people and uh whatever, like poking fun at people, uh picking on people, uh, whatever.
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  But when you start inciting violence, and you start talking crazy talk, you're gonna fix the world's problems.
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  Inciting violence.
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  And you start talking crazy talk.
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  You're going to fix the world's problems.
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  And by the way, uh, he also went out and bought two handguns and a shotgun, storing them at his parents' home without the parents' knowledge.
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  And by the way, he also went out and bought two handguns and a shotgun, storing them at his parents' home without the parents' knowledge.
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  Um craziness.
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  Craziness.
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  You know, this is this.
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  You know, this is this is why violent rhetoric and violence in general should have no place in our society.
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  These people need to be shut down.
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  They need to be stopped.
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  They need to be reported.
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  And I know a lot of times reporting them doesn't really do anything.
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  And it's it's sad that that's the case of our situation here in America, but I've reported violent people before multiple times.
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  And those violent people acted out.
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  In one case, it involved a violent rape.
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  I had reported this guy repeatedly and said this guy is a problem.
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  He's causing problems, he's a loudmouth.
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  Residents in this in this uh apartment complex are scared of the guy.
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  He's not right.
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  He keeps making derogatory statements towards women, he's a misogynist, he's a piece of crap, and you guys need to shut him down.
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  And the police didn't do anything about it.
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  And to, you know, in all fairness, because none of the residents were reporting it, because they were all terrified, none of the residents were reporting it, so it was basically my word against his, and I was not an eyewitness.
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  I didn't hear him say those things.
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  I didn't even know who the guy was.
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  I had a name and a description, but I didn't know who he was, and lo and behold, he forced himself into a woman's apartment, and a violent and gruesome scene unfolded.
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  And it's so frustrating, and I get it.
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  It is very, very frustrating.
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  I've been there, I've been there several times, and I've lost a lot of sleep over this.
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  But that is not a reason for us to not report.
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  We report anyway.
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  And here's kind of my rule of thumb.
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  Not that we always catch the bad guys, right?
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  Because a lot of times we don't.
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  It's a lot of times.
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  I just I just uh listened to episode number two of the Chasing Evil podcast, and that's the story that I told where I worked with the U.S.
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  Marshals to find fugitive kidnapper Melody Bannister and her four kids, whom were kidnapped.
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  She kidnapped her four kids and was on the run for eight months, and that was a big win.
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  Right?
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  Uh that was a tremendous payoff because the kids' lives were in immediate danger.
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  Finding those kids literally meant life and death.
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  Very literally.
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  It meant life and death.
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  That was a win.
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  We don't always get wins.
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  I have other cases that I've worked on.
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  I had another case that I worked on with the Marshalls, and uh I was basically the link to find information for a missing woman.
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  It was a it was a single single person missing case.
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  And uh I was able to get authorities in contact with the last person who saw her live, and unfortunately, she lost her life.
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  And uh eventually that there was a homicide case that was opened up in that.
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  To me, that was a tremendous loss.
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  Tremendous loss.
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  Uh we don't always have information available at our fingertips.
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  We don't always get things right.
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  We don't always uh police officers and law enforcement are not always able to respond to information because of the way the laws are set up, the way the laws are designed.
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  So it's it's complicated.
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  But when you have a lunatic like this, who's an educated person, he's a school teacher, and he's ranting and raving about how Trump is such a scumbag and he's gonna fix, he's gonna fix the problems that he goes out and he buys a few guns.
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  Yeah, you should probably report that.
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  And so again, good on his brother for picking up the phone and calling police.
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  Uh, this NPR article goes on just minutes into the dinner, attendees in the ballroom heard muffled popping noises and saw the president, first lady, and top officials hurried away from the head table, where journalists representing the White House Correspondence Association were also seated.
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  Other attendees throughout the room, including lawmakers, cabinet officials, and hundreds of journalists, fell to the floor as they awaited in an all clear from law enforcement.
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  Law enforcement uh later revealed that the alleged gunman was apprehended right outside the ballroom after he attempted to charge past a security checkpoint.
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  You can see that on the on the video.
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  He doesn't just run, he sprints.
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  And I mean, the second he gets by them, uh, the the one uh I assume he's seeker service, uh, one seeker service guy already has his weapon drawn, and he he's ready.
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  Umid the confusion after the incident, White House Correspondence Association president Jang announced to the room that the program would continue.
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  And Trump signaled on social media that he wanted the dinner to continue.
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  Only later, on the advice of law enforcement, did Trump say he wanted the dinner to be postponed.
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  And Zhang confirmed that it would be.
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  Now, there was a lot of uh flack that President Trump got for this.
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  People were saying uh there's all the conspiracies, right?
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  Oh, it was staged.
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  There's no way that there would be an attempt on his life, and see, he wanted to, he wanted to have the dinner anyway.
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  And it's just so absurd and so maddening because I see educated people who once were respectable people, who once I considered really brilliant minds who have absolutely fallen into this Trump derangement syndrome trap, and and I don't like using that term, but it's very true.
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  And it's just so absurd and so maddening because I see educated people who once were respectable people, who once I considered really brilliant minds, who have absolutely fallen into this Trump derangement syndrome trap.
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  And and I don't like using that term.
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  But it's very true.
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  They've gotten into this deranged system where everything's a consistent.
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  They've gotten into this deranged system where everything's a conspiracy.
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  And do you remember when Trump said about the the election, how the election was stolen.
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  That the left, they went absolutely bananas about that.
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  And he is a conspiracy theorist, and he's he's a whack job, and he needs to be, he needs to be impeached, he needs to be arrested, he needs to spend the rest of his life behind bars.
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  He's trying to throw the election, you know, on and on and on.
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  And now, if you look at where the conspiracy conspiracies are coming from, it's coming from the left.
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  It's pretty bad when an MS now host has to call out the left wing theories.
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  Former White House Correspondence Association president Eugene Daniels recounts the event that abruptly happened after shots were fired Saturday night.
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  MS now hosts called out disturbing conspiracy theories spread by left wing commentators, claiming that the White House correspondence dinner shooting was a false flag.
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  MS now host Eugene Daniels said one thing that I'm disturbed by as we woke up this morning is seeing folks on the internet say that this is a false flag that we're basically all in cahoots to do to say that this was staged.
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  I mean, this is this is how far they've come.
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  This is where the Democratic Party is right now.
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  That these people want so badly to catch Trump in a scandal, any scandal, doesn't matter if it's manufactured or not.
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  They just want so badly to catch him in a scandal that they're literally gonna try anything.
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  They're showing video of somebody who supposedly was signaling right before the the shots were fired.
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  They did this with uh the other assassination attempts as well.
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  The left, they're still saying that it was staged, that there's no evidence that Trump was shot in the ear, that it was fake blood, that it was all staged, and again, these are educated people.
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  Some of these people are like master's degrees and PhDs.
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  And that's scary to me.
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  They're the ones pushing these narratives.
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  Trump, uh, his life was uh attempted to be taken over the weekend.
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  Again, this is the third assassination attempt on the president uh just in this term, uh, which is absolutely crazy.
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  I mean, he's what, a little over a year in.
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  And the first one was uh right before he was voted president.
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  He was at a uh a rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on my side of the state, the uh the good side, the West side of the state, the Pittsburgh side, uh, and that event immediately drew criticism from the left, and they still are painting these bizarre conspiracy theories that they captured the wrong guy, that uh the details don't add up, that you know, you know who it sounds like, you know who they really sound like.
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  The left has turned into Alex Jones with all the strange conspiracies and everything is everything can't just be black and white, it all has to be shrouded in conspiracy.
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  And what's interesting, and Candace Owens is going down the same path.
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  She's just oh my goodness, is she just so bizarre, so desperate to get to get likes and attention.
• 20:52
  And Dan Bangino was pointing this out, who, by the way, headed up the FBI, and I think he probably has a pretty good sense of how the FBI investigates things, but he pointed out that Candace Owens that it's always like he played a montage of audio clips, and for like months.
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  Probably has a pretty good sense of how the FBI investigates things, but he pointed out that Candace Owens it's always like he played a montage of audio clips, and for like months.
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  It was like over the course of seven months.
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  It was like over the course of seven months, she's like, any day now it's gonna be revealed.
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  She's like, any day now it's going to be revealed.
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  Any day, we're getting closer, folks.
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  Any day, we're getting closer, folks.
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  Any day now, we're gonna find out who the real shooter was of Charlie Kirk.
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  Any day now, we're going to find out who the real shooter was of Charlie Kirk.
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  Any day now, any day.
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  Any day now, any day.
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  And it just
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  And just on and on and on.
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  And he was like, boy, this uh this moment that's right on the verge.
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  He's like, it's gonna happen any day, isn't it, folks?
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  And Bon Gino, he made a really good point.
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  He said, when somebody presents themselves as the only enlightened person who has the inside scoop of what's really happening, he's like, they're full of crap.
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  They're completely full of crap, and you should disregard them.
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  Because when people investigate these crimes, they work as a team.
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  And these conspiracies, that the government's covering all this up, that they're doing these fake assassination attempts.
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  And there were even people saying that this was a fake assassination attempt to draw attention to the ballroom so that they can get more funding.
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  That came from President Trump had made a post, and he was like, We need to get that ballroom done ASAP because if this were hosted in the new ballroom, security's so tight, and they're they're less entry points, and like he was kind of explaining that if it was held in in the new ballroom, the security is going to be like extremely tight.
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  And uh people took that as well.
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  See, he planned this fake attack.
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  This was a fake attack.
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  It was all it was an inside job, and uh they're kind of doing smoke and mirrors to pull your attention away from the war in Iran, and he really wants to get the ballroom finished, and that's why he did it.
• 23:18
  I'm like, have you ever for one second listened to President Trump?
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  Do you think he cares what people think about him?
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  Do you think he needs to do some kind of distraction?
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  He's he's gonna flip the script every single time and turn it into something like it could be the worst monstrosity, and he's gonna flip it and be like, this is the biggest most beautiful thing in the world.
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  Like, he does not care what other people think.
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  He doesn't need to build distractions, and certainly not fake assassination attempts.
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  That is absolute lunacy that people are saying this was this was a faked inside job.
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  It's crazy.
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  So MS now the hosts are calling out the disturbing conspiracy theories, which I mean, good on them, but at the same time, like a little bit hypocritical, right?
• 24:24
  Because the way the left-wing media paints everything, it's always a conspiracy.
• 24:33
  Trump voters are always out to get people.
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  They're like the 1950s and 60s deep south, where they're chasing black people down with with their vehicles, and uh, you know, trying to they're just so racist that they're they're just trying to get after them and and uh they're trying to sabotage everybody's life, and they're trying to uh they're trying to round up all of the homosexuals and and uh destroy them somehow, and it's just it's crazy, it's absolutely crazy.
• 25:14
  Uh because there is not this nationwide racism within the Republican Party, it just doesn't exist.
• 25:22
  And I I really appreciate more and more John Fetterman because he points this out.
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  He's like, look, I he repeatedly points it out.
• 25:31
  He's like, look, the the bad rhetoric, the dangerous rhetoric, is coming from my own party.
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  It's not coming.
• 25:37
  He's like, I don't get threats from Republicans, but I sure do from Democrats.
• 25:46
  And he's talking about phone calls to his office, threatening letters that he gets, death threats, those sorts of things.
• 26:00
  Hate to burst your bubble, but it's not coming from them, it's coming from the left.
• 26:06
  And he's been very vocal about that, and I really do appreciate that because I I think we need to be honest about this, and we need to be as objective as possible.
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  And no matter where the where the bad rhetoric is coming from, we need to point it out.
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  If it's coming from the right, then we will point that out all day long.
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  If it's coming from the left, then we need to point that out.
• 26:35
  But there is no mistaking that these assassination attempts come from pure hatred for Donald J.
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  Trump, and where's that hatred coming from?
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  How is that the people have so much hatred in their heart?
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  Why is it now that there are more assassination attempts?
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  I mean, darn near successful, too.
• 27:02
  That's frightening.
• 27:05
  Because the Secret Service is, my goodness, they keep a really tight reign on the president.
• 27:13
  And uh it's it's getting bad, folks.
• 27:17
  But where does that rhetoric come from?
• 27:19
  Well, here's another article.
• 27:22
  Jimmy Kimmel calls Melania Melania Trump an expectant widow before the White House correspondence dinner shooting.
• 27:35
  I have no idea where this rhetoric comes from.
• 27:40
  I'm being sarcastic.
• 27:43
  These people laugh about it.
• 27:46
  Do you remember Kathy Griffin in 2017?
• 27:51
  That wasn't that long ago.
• 27:54
  In 2017, she participated in a photo shoot with photographer Tyler Shields, and she held up a mask that resembled the severed, bloodied head of then President Donald Trump.
• 28:00
  And she held up a mask that resembled the severed, bloodied head of then President Donald Trump.
• 28:10
  She intended that to be as political satire.
• 28:10
  She intended that to be as political satire.
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  And it's really not funny.
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  And it's really not funny.
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  And I'm not saying that because it's President Trump.
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  And I'm not saying that because it's President Trump.
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  I'm saying that because if can you imagine anybody holding up a severed head of President Obama?
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  I'm saying that because if can you imagine anybody holding up a severed head of President Obama?
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  Can you imagine?
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  Can you imagine?
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  Can you imagine?
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  And by the way, there are lots and lots.
• 28:38
  I see so many pictures and videos of people at these protests.
• 28:44
  And they have a noose around a dummy, a mannequin of President Trump.
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  Now, can you imagine?
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  If during President Obama's presidency, people had a noose around a makeshift dummy of President Obama.
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  It would never fly.
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  Or at least it shouldn't.
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  But this kind of stuff is widespread now.
• 29:16
  And in 2017, Kathy Griffin was canceled for this by both the left and the right.
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  And rightfully so.
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  It was wrong.
• 29:26
  It was disgusting.
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  It was gross.
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  It was it was not in good taste.
• 29:31
  She issued an apology after and really was forced to.
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  I don't think she did that out of the goodness of her heart, because she's not a good person, in my opinion.
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  She's so raunchy and just so full of hatred.
• 29:47
  But she issued an apology and said that she crossed the line and the the image was too disturbing.
• 29:54
  Well, now here we are nine years later, and people are celebrating, not only celebrating the assassination attempts on President Trump.
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  They have the the t-shirts, it's a picture of President Trump, and it says you missed, and it has like a bullseye on his forehead.
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  People are promoting this stuff.
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  But not only are they doing that, not only are they inciting violence and celebrating it.
• 30:25
  Like Kathy Griffin, I think Kathy Griffin did what she did nine years too early.
• 30:29
  If she did that now in 2026, the left would they they'd probably put her in the running for president.
• 30:38
  And I'm not exaggerating here.
• 30:40
  I mean, this is where the left is.
• 31:27
  And so when people talk about TDS, Trump derangement syndrome, this is exactly what they're talking about.
• 31:33
  Now again, I don't I don't love that term.
• 31:38
  But you know, there are some times where you look at what people are doing and the way that they're behaving, and you're like, they're actually deranged people.
• 31:48
  I I have literal people who I used to be friends with.
• 31:53
  I say used to be because I just I don't want to associate with them.
• 31:58
  I don't do crazy.
• 32:00
  I'm enough crazy in my own life.
• 32:02
  I just don't do crazy.
• 32:05
  So people who are posting these conspiracy theories.
• 32:11
  I just I don't have time for it.
• 32:14
  Or the energy or the interest.
• 32:18
  It's nuts.
• 32:20
  So anyway, back to Jimmy Kimmel.
• 32:24
  He uh put up a picture, and he says, our first lady Melania is here.
• 32:30
  Look at Melania, so beautiful, Mrs.
• 32:33
  Trump.
• 32:34
  You have a glow like an expectant widow.
• 32:37
  That was Jimmy Kimmel.
• 32:41
  Um crazy.
• 32:43
  These people are nuts.
• 32:46
  And Jimmy Kimmel's not funny.
• 32:51
  And I'm saying that as my opinion.
• 32:54
  He's dry.
• 32:57
  He does his fake cry all the time.
• 33:02
  It's just these people.
• 33:06
  Like they want so bad for this.
• 33:08
  And make no mistake.
• 33:10
  He'll do an about face.
• 33:12
  He'll he'll he'll say something like, oh, we never condone violence.
• 33:16
  Right?
• 33:17
  He'll say that immediately, then a week later, he's gonna be right back to writing these kinds of crappy jokes.
• 33:24
  Uh just insane.
• 33:28
  So he also mocked the Trump's relationship.
• 33:33
  President Trump and Melania.
• 33:36
  He says, Oh, by the way, Melania, this is Donald.
• 33:40
  Donald, this is Melania.
• 33:44
  Uh, just crazy.
• 33:47
  He went on to say she's planning to celebrate at home the same way she always does, looking out a window and whispering, what have I done?
• 33:58
  And then they wonder.
• 34:01
  We don't know why people people are crazy.
• 34:04
  The Republicans made them do it.
• 34:07
  It's because the Republicans are so hateful, right?
• 34:10
  That's the narrative.
• 34:12
  The Republicans are hateful people.
• 34:16
  They're they're violent, they're nasty, they're gross.
• 34:22
  And you know, it's a it's akin to saying the devil made me do it.
• 34:28
  And only they're saying the Republicans made me do it.
• 34:33
  The rep the Republicans made me crazy.
• 34:38
  Of course, they don't say crazy, but this is what I mean.
• 34:41
  It's it's the violent rhetoric, and you hear it over and over and over coming from the left.
• 34:47
  And I I browsed Facebook for a little bit right after the uh the attempted assassination.
• 34:54
  And I mean, immediately.
• 35:00
  People who are mocking Trump.
• 35:03
  And they're like, oh, this one missed this one, missed too.
• 35:05
  This one missed too.
• 35:07
  This one missed again.
• 35:07
  This one missed again.
• 35:10
  This just proves it's an inside job.
• 35:10
  This just proves it's an inside job.
• 35:15
  You know, and then there's the picture.
• 35:15
  You know, and then there's the picture.
• 35:16
  Did you see the iconic picture?
• 35:16
  Did you see the iconic picture?
• 35:19
  There's a picture that somebody took, like, as it was happening.
• 35:19
  There's a picture that somebody took, like, as it was happening, or maybe it was the video and they just took a still shot, but there's a there's a picture, it's a free.
• 35:24
  Or maybe it was the video and they just took a still shot, but there's a there's a picture.
• 35:29
  It's a frame of President Trump and the first lady.
• 35:34
  And it's when the first shot rang out, and she looks terrified.
• 35:39
  She you can see it on her face.
• 35:41
  She looks really scared.
• 35:44
  She's kind of trembling.
• 35:45
  She looks scared.
• 35:46
  She's she's looking away.
• 35:48
  And President Trump is like in his own little world.
• 35:51
  He's just looking up and he likes has a half smile on his face.
• 35:54
  And so people are saying, see, that just proves that he knew it was coming.
• 36:02
  That it was an inside job.
• 36:04
  He knew about it.
• 36:04
  He orchestrated it.
• 36:07
  That's what the conspiracy theorists are saying.
• 36:10
  But I went back and I watched a video.
• 36:14
  And President Trump, to his credit, he doesn't back down to anyone or anything.
• 36:23
  He heard the shots fire.
• 36:27
  I think at first he didn't really it it didn't really register what it was because it was far away, so people just heard a pop.
• 36:36
  And so he kind of looks, and then all of a sudden you see him uh duck down and kind of take cover.
• 36:44
  But they took one still shot the second that it happened, and they're like, See, he he wasn't even phased, he knew it was coming.
• 36:54
  These conspiracy theories have got to stop.
• 36:57
  Uh it really is exhausting.
• 37:00
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• 38:48
  When the assassination attempt happened on President Trump this weekend, there were true heroes who stepped into action.
• 38:55
  And they're getting a lot of criticism, mostly, mainly almost exclusively from the left.
• 39:05
  And you know, they kind of want it both ways.
• 39:08
  They want so badly for this conspiracy to be true.
• 39:11
  They want they want this to be a faked hoax.
• 39:15
  They really want that to be true.
• 39:18
  All right, at the at the same at the same time, they're pretending as if it's not a hoax, and they're saying things like, well, um, the secret service, they they they really let the president down, and all those people in the room.
• 39:34
  Well, which one is it?
• 39:37
  Is it a conspiracy?
• 39:38
  Is it a hoax?
• 39:39
  Did the secret service let people down?
• 39:42
  Like, which is it?
• 39:44
  And I can't keep up.
• 39:46
  I can't keep up with the different conspiracies.
• 39:48
  It's really difficult to keep up with it.
• 39:50
  But I know what I saw, and I've heard different experts speak to this.
• 39:57
  And what I saw was extreme bravery on behalf of the people who took a pledge, they took a vow to stand in harm's way and to protect the president and uh officials, people from his cabinet to protect them with their own lives, and I think that's really incredible.
• 40:24
  I think it's incredible that people uh take up that job as a secret service agent.
• 40:32
  I know people who have worked for the Secret Service, and I I don't envy them.
• 40:39
  I think it's a really difficult job.
• 40:44
  And the things that they have to see and endure and uh go through and uh always always having to look over your shoulder, always have to be on beyond 100% of the time.
• 40:59
  They can't kind of zone out and and scroll on their phone and you know, just kind of chill out.
• 41:05
  It it is a very intense job, very intense.
• 41:11
  And I give them all the credit in the world, and uh they just did a bang up job, they did a super job of stepping in harm's way.
• 41:21
  You you can see one agent literally stands up and he kind of uh puffs his chest out and stands up really tall, and he's acting as a human shield between him and the president, and you you can't fake that stuff, and all these cowards who are calling this out, and these are these are these big conspiracies, and uh it was faked, it's an inside job.
• 41:53
  Uh don't give those people time and attention.
• 41:58
  You know, it really is like Alex Jones who got his pants sued off for the whole Sandy Hook conspiracy, and what he did was absolutely awful.
• 42:00
  Like Alex Jones, who got his pants sued off for the whole Sandy Hook conspiracy.
• 42:08
  And what he did was absolutely awful.
• 42:13
  Uh, he was a terrible human being for the things that he said about the family members.
• 42:13
  He was a terrible human being for the things that he said about the family members.
• 42:18
  I mean, little children's lives were lost in a really horrific tragedy.
• 42:18
  I mean, little children's lives were lost in a really horrific tragedy.
• 42:25
  That was pure evil.
• 42:25
  That was pure evil, it was awful, it was gross, it was uh never.
• 42:26
  It was awful.
• 42:27
  It was gross.
• 42:28
  It was never ever in America should we tolerate violence.
• 42:33
  Never.
• 42:36
  And Alex Jones turned it into some big conspiracy and talked about how the parents were acting, and it was all it was all an inside job.
• 42:45
  And he talked about exhuming the graves of the children who really didn't die.
• 42:54
  Like just bizarre stuff.
• 42:58
  And the guy's a nutcase.
• 43:02
  And the left is right when they call out the Alex Joneses.
• 43:08
  But they can't have it both ways.
• 43:10
  They need to call out their own.
• 43:11
  They need to call out their own people who are inciting violence.
• 43:17
  They need to call out their own people who are coming up with conspiracy theories and doing irreparable damage and inciting other people to violence and laughing about failed assassination attempts on the president.
• 43:36
  That's not okay.
• 43:43
  And it's really interesting because they criticize Christians, and Christians are always the whack jobs, and they're they're crazy, and they're the violent ones, and they're they're nuts and stay away from Christianity and this fake God and all this stuff.
• 44:02
  And what's the alternative?
• 44:05
  They mock God, they mock each other, they mock mankind, they go after their own, just ask Senator Fetterman.
• 44:17
  They attack their own.
• 44:20
  They laugh at violence.
• 44:23
  They incite violence, they commit violence, and then they point fingers at the conservatives, and they say, Well, they made me do it.
• 44:34
  And I just think we can do a lot better than that.
• 44:37
  And this is why I talk about the hidden lightness.
• 44:41
  And I know today is a little bit heavier of a topic than what I normally cover, but it really was on my heart.
• 44:49
  And it was on my heart more so what people's responses were than what actually happened.
• 44:56
  Because honestly, President Trump is, man, he's hardcore.
• 45:02
  And like them or hate them.
• 45:07
  Um, which hopefully you don't hate anybody.
• 45:12
  Uh you can dislike people or dislike their policies, but I don't think there's any room for hatred either here in America.
• 45:22
  But like them or not, President Trump is not phased by these kinds of things, or at least he doesn't act like he is.
• 45:32
  And I'll never forget that scene at the assassination attempt in Butler when President Trump stood up and pumped his fist.
• 45:44
  And I thought that was an act of heroism.
• 45:49
  And he showed that nobody's gonna keep him or America down.
• 45:53
  And people started chanting, USA, USA.
• 45:59
  And he was mocked for that.
• 46:03
  And they called it a political stunt.
• 46:06
  And they called him a whack job, and he's crazy and he's stupid, and he look at the cult, look at the cult of followers who follow him blindly.
• 46:18
  He was criticized for that.
• 46:21
  And I can't begin to imagine what it's like to literally take a bullet.
• 46:29
  I I can't begin to imagine.
• 46:33
  And even when he takes a bullet, he gets criticized.
• 46:41
  He did it wrong.
• 46:44
  That's not the right way to take a bullet.
• 46:48
  It's just, it's it's crazy, and this is not who we are as Americans, and that's why I highlight all the time on the show that we all have the hidden lightness inside of us.
• 47:02
  And it's up to us to let that light shine, not to be cliched, but to let our lights shine before other men.
• 47:13
  Because that's what inspires people.
• 47:16
  And I'd rather live my life as a nobody who inspires a handful of people than a supposed somebody who incites other people.
• 47:31
  And you know, I think that's part of the problem.
• 47:33
  I think that pride really gets in the way of people.
• 47:36
  I think the Jimmy Kimmels of this world, he really thinks he's somebody.
• 47:43
  And that other people are beneath him.
• 47:48
  And it's a shame.
• 47:51
  I just I can't imagine going through life thinking that other people are less important than me.
• 47:59
  I just can't, it's not, it's not in my DNA.
• 48:04
  It's not in part of my makeup of who I am.
• 48:08
  And I I believe that's true for the majority of us.
• 48:13
  I think for most Americans, we're decent human beings who decently care for other human beings.
• 48:23
  We care about them, we care about our neighbors.
• 48:27
  We check up on them.
• 48:30
  Uh, we visit them.
• 48:34
  And what happened this past weekend is not indicative of who we are as Americans.
• 48:43
  And so my warning for people is don't get caught in this trap.
• 48:48
  And it is a trap.
• 48:49
  Don't get caught in the trap of the endless conspiracies and the hatred and the nasty rhetoric and the wishing death on people.
• 49:00
  And the wishing death on people.
• 49:01
  Don't get caught up in those traps.
• 49:01
  Don't get caught up in those traps.
• 49:05
  Because I promise you, that doesn't make you a better person.
• 49:05
  Because I promise you, that doesn't make you a better person.
• 49:07
  It doesn't.
• 49:07
  It doesn't.
• 49:08
  It doesn't make us a better society.
• 49:08
  It doesn't make us a better society.
• 49:10
  It literally does nothing to advance us and to make us decent people.
• 49:10
  It literally does nothing to advance us and to make us decent people.
• 49:17
  It just doesn't.
• 49:17
  It just doesn't.
• 49:20
  And so my hope and my prayer is that we just put our heads down and uh number one, pray for our nation.
• 49:20
  So my hope and my prayer is that we just put our heads down and and uh number one, pray for our nation.
• 49:28
  Pray for our leaders.
• 49:28
  Pray for our leaders, both Republicans and Democrats.
• 49:35
  I mean, a lot of these people are in really, really tough positions.
• 49:40
  It's not popular.
• 49:44
  It's not popular to be a politician.
• 49:47
  They get a lot of hatred from people.
• 49:50
  They get a lot of death threats.
• 49:54
  A lot of nasty phone calls.
• 49:56
  I've I've I've sat in offices of senators and house representatives, and I've I've listened to their secretaries pour their hearts out.
• 50:10
  Talking about how mean people are, the nasty phone calls that they take, the threats that they get, the threats to dox them.
• 50:21
  Pray for them.
• 50:22
  And I mean that.
• 50:25
  You know, even the people who we disagree with.
• 50:29
  Pray for them.
• 50:32
  Yeah, that's who we are as Americans.
• 50:35
  And we have a choice.
• 50:37
  You know, at the end of the day, nobody can say the devil made me do it.
• 50:41
  Or the Republicans made me do it.
• 50:43
  Or the Democrats made me do it.
• 50:47
  Yeah, I heard that excused away during the George Floyd protest.
• 50:52
  And I just my brain can't comprehend that.
• 50:56
  Well, you don't know how angry people are.
• 51:01
  I get it.
• 51:02
  I've been angry before.
• 51:05
  But burning somebody's business down is never my response.
• 51:12
  It's not even it's not even a thought.
• 51:16
  To throw rocks at police officers.
• 51:21
  That's not okay.
• 51:24
  That's not who we are as Americans.
• 51:27
  Don't fall into this trap.
• 51:31
  I recommend staying away from protests that you know are violent protests.
• 51:39
  Stay away from them.
• 51:40
  Don't go.
• 51:42
  Yeah, that was the whole rhetoric.
• 51:44
  If if you don't go to these protests, you don't really care about black lives.
• 51:50
  If you don't go to a Black Lives Matter protest, then you you just don't care.
• 51:56
  That's a trap.
• 51:59
  That's manipulation and coercion.
• 52:03
  Don't fall for it.
• 52:06
  I know people who very much care for everybody for all human life.
• 52:14
  And just because you don't go to a protest doesn't mean that you don't care about people.
• 52:21
  There's a host of reason why people don't go to protest.
• 52:25
  I'll tell you at the top of the list, number one, I well, I just don't like the general attitude at protests, but number two, I don't feel safe.
• 52:37
  I I think so many of these protests are just full of hatred and anger.
• 52:43
  And you see people throwing rocks at people, I don't want to go there.
• 52:48
  Why in the world would I spend two minutes of my time, my valuable time, and go to one of those protests where people are throwing rocks and shouting, hurling insults at people and cussing up and down and wearing uh very vulgar, offensive outfits.
• 53:06
  I just it's not for me.
• 53:08
  I it's just not it doesn't contribute anything to society.
• 53:15
  So my message is don't fall into that trap and always let your hidden lightness come to the surface.
• 53:24
  Find ways to bless people, find ways to help people.
• 53:32
  And you don't have to do it, you don't have to get a camera out and put it all over social media, just do it.
• 53:40
  You know, it's like Nike.
• 53:42
  I like that slogan, just do it.
• 53:46
  No excuses, just do it.
• 53:49
  You know, the world's falling to crap in a handbasket.
• 53:52
  Okay, if you believe that, great.
• 53:54
  Then do something about it.
• 53:57
  Do something to make it better.
• 54:00
  Do an act of kindness, do a random act of kindness.
• 54:05
  Politicians are all corrupt.
• 54:07
  Okay, great.
• 54:08
  If you believe that, pray for them.
• 54:12
  Or visit them, talk to them, talk with them, share ideas with them.
• 54:18
  I promise you that when you actually go and talk to them, if you sit in their office, if you schedule an appointment and take the time to talk to politicians, they're not the monsters that the media makes them out to be all the time.
• 54:34
  They'll have a decent conversation with you.
• 54:37
  They're humans just like you and I.
• 54:41
  So we have this choice, and there's always I feel like there's always a crossroads in front of us.
• 54:48
  And at that crossroad, we can either make good decisions or harmful decisions.
• 54:55
  And I think we should all prefer to make the world a better place.
• 54:59
  We should all prefer to make our neighborhoods better, to make uh the world better, to make America better.
• 55:07
  And if people are attempting to do that, then great.
• 55:10
  Leave them alone.
• 55:12
  Who cares if you disagree with them?
• 55:15
  You know, disagreements are not the end of the world, and we've been trained to believe that if we disagree with people, then they're out to get us.
• 55:22
  They hate us, they're they're gonna destroy our lives.
• 55:25
  And so we need to, in the case of this deranged shooter, we need to take care of the problem before the problem takes care of us.
• 55:35
  That's not okay.
• 55:36
  It's not okay to think that way.
• 55:39
  So we can be part of the solution, and all we have to do is let a little bit of our light shine.
• 55:47
  And I pray, I hope and pray that uh all of you do acts of kindness, and that you just bless somebody this week.
• 55:55
  Turn them, turn the media off, turn the news off.
• 56:00
  Heck, turn your phone off.
• 56:00
  Heck, turn your phone off.
• 56:03
  And just spend some time outside and reflect and bless other people.
• 56:03
  And just spend some time outside and reflect and bless other people.
• 56:09
  I promise you won't regret it.
• 56:09
  I promise you won't regret it.
• 56:12
  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
• 56:12
  That, my friends, is the hidden lightness.
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• 56:21
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• 56:22
  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
• 56:22
  There is a hidden lightness that shines inside of all of us.
• 56:25
  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness.
• 56:25
  When there's so much darkness that envelops the world, remember that it doesn't take much light to expose that darkness and to ultimately inspire other people.
• 56:32
  Join me in being a light.