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July 15, 2024 - The Dan Bongino Show
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An Apocalyptic Security Failure (Ep. 2286) - 07/15/2024
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Get ready to hear the truth about America on a show that's not immune to the facts with your host, Dan Bongino.
Hey folks, sorry about the delay, but this is a really important show.
We want to make sure we get it right today.
Make sure we get it absolutely critically right today.
What happened this weekend is obviously an apocalyptic, global, cosmic, catastrophic freaking security failure, and I'm really, really pissed off with some of the commentary on television.
Oh, we don't want a Monday morning quarterback?
Fuck that Monday morning quarterback shit.
This isn't a football game.
We're not talking about the Jets versus the Giants.
We're talking about the life of the former and potential next president and changing and altering the history of humankind as we know it by potentially losing the next former president and causing a civil crisis we haven't seen in decades.
This isn't the time for bullshit or cutesy time.
I know you've been waiting for this show all weekend.
I've got a great show for you lined up.
We're going to go through this whole thing and this absolutely apocalyptic security scenario.
Remember this.
Listen to me.
An uneventful failure.
Is never a success.
And the fact that they didn't succeed in killing President Trump, there's nothing successful about this thing at all.
I'm going to tell you what you're not hearing anywhere else from an insider.
I'm going to give you some breaking news.
I think I'm breaking on the show.
Stuff I'm getting from sources.
And then also some other big news.
The VP may be announced today.
Just bear with me.
We're running a little bit late today, so I apologize.
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All right, Keith, let's get this party started.
So, hey, are we having problems with the sound?
No?
Okay, good.
I'm getting submerged.
Okay, just, yeah, just refresh.
There's still, I'm still getting some no sound on that.
So if you're reading the chat here, you know, okay, good.
All right, so guys, let's get into this, what happened this weekend.
I spoke to President Trump.
This morning, he is, I'm telling you, in unbelievably good spirits.
He's a warrior.
I think I let him know on your behalf.
I told him we have a really large MAGA crowd out there that listens to our show.
And I said to him, you're all proud of him.
I said to him, you've got, you know, nerves, man.
You've got balls of steel.
I didn't know any other way to say it.
And I'm telling you, he's in good spirits.
I have some breaking news about this catastrophe that happened this weekend because that's what it was.
Number one I have from sources are that very few people who were at that event, who were poststanders, who were security personnel, very few were actual Secret Service agents.
This is just a really stunning development.
I want you to think about what I just said.
The guy with probably the highest threat level on planet Earth, up there with the Pope, Obama, people with...
Incredible name ID. Everybody's going to recognize who have big security footprints.
We were out there with very, very few Secret Service poststanders.
Many of them, what we used to call back in the day, OTAs, other treasury agents, they wound up being outsourced security personnel from other agencies.
Not that these aren't good people, but folks, are we serious?
We don't have Secret Service agents protecting the Secret Services.
Probably at this point, most threatened protectee.
That is absolutely insane.
I'm not sure you heard that.
I said it anywhere else.
I think I spoke about it a little bit on Jesse's show last night.
But here's another thing I'm hearing from sources.
That this subject, they had been monitoring him since he came in around that external perimeter area.
This subject, it was the shooter.
They lost track of him, apparently, and he was hiding in a building about 300 yards away.
Folks, if they had this subject on, say, their radar, that you had a potential threat, I think the questions right now are fairly obvious.
Why was President Trump even on stage at that point?
He should have not been on stage.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, if you know you're in a situation with a potential threat out there, just delay the event for a little bit.
I mean, listen, we've got to talk candidly about this stuff.
Again, I don't want to hear about Monday morning quarterbacking anything.
This isn't a freaking football game, man.
This is the life of the President of the United States.
This isn't a joke.
I saw some guy online talking about how, oh, people make mistakes.
We don't get to make mistakes.
What are you talking about, make mistakes?
This is the Secret Service.
There's no opportunity for mistakes.
Do you remember what the IRA said, the Irish Republican Army, when they said with Margaret Thatcher when they missed her with the bomb plot?
They said, you guys got to be lucky every day.
We only have to be lucky once.
We don't have the opportunity to make mistakes.
This is an absolutely apocalyptic security failure.
I warned you about exactly this.
Need I remind many of you about episode 2079?
Which was back in August of 2023. Gee, throw that up on the screen.
Look at this.
I want you to go back and do me a favor and listen to this episode.
There it is.
Speeding towards assassination.
Look at the date, folks.
August 31st, 2023. I mean, I was told back then that the security around Donald Trump was not meeting the threat level.
I warned back then.
I mean, they couldn't listen.
This was public information.
People were feeding this to me.
And then when we said it, by the way, me and Tucker, these assholes in the media, like this NBC guy Dan Arkin, wrote pieces like this in NBC News, calling me and Tucker conspiracy theorists.
Put that headline up there.
Conspiracy theorists saying that we were suggesting without evidence that there was a threat of a Trump assassination.
You know what the evidence was?
Asshole Dan Arkin.
You know what the evidence was?
Secret Service personnel who wanted to blow the whistle on the fact that the security was not meeting the threat level of Donald Trump.
That was the evidence.
He could have called and asked about that, but instead he had to write an asshole piece.
Let's cut through all the bullshit now and walk through this frame by frame and talk about what happened.
And I promise you, you're not going to get this perspective of anyone else because no one else I know on the radio actually did this for a living.
It's not a knock on them.
It's just true.
Let's go to this NTD News.
This is, by the way, I believe the definitive perspective of what happened this past weekend when we almost lost President Trump, okay?
I'm going to walk through it.
I'm going to stop this at various points.
Guy, put the NTD News video up on the screen.
Let's talk about questions first, like where was the perimeter surveillance, and let's watch what happened.
We'll watch about a minute of it.
I know you may have seen this before, but I'm going to reference it multiple times, so check this out.
okay so obviously he's talking there goes around the ducks the body people cover maximum to the protectee they're following the rules here maximum to the protectee minimum to the problem this is a different video you probably haven't seen but you'll see there's obviously some chaos people start to hear gunshots they realize what's going on right now The Secret Service is covering the body, which is the right thing to do.
You see these guys coming on stage right now?
Those are additional shift agents.
You're also going to see two guys in black uniforms.
They got the black BDU ninja suits on.
Okay?
I want you to listen to what's happening here.
Okay?
You see them on stage covering, looking for additional threats.
Because remember, they don't know the threat's been neutralized.
There may be more, okay?
So that's the cat team, the counter assault team.
So you see them up on stage.
Now you get, that is not one of our guys, that's a local SWAT guy.
The CAT team, the countersault team was a two-man element, so that's a third guy.
Why are there balloons on the screen?
What is that?
Okay, now they're picking him up.
He's not a light guy, and they're getting ready to evacuate him.
And now the iconic image, President Trump, who's had enough of his bullshit, and these people messing with him, trying to kill him and blow his head off.
You're going to see...
Okay, let's stop here, okay?
I'm going to refer back to that video often.
So, a couple of things right there.
The mission of the shift around the president.
The shift around the president, you have two different sets of security personnel from the Secret Service, okay?
You have a shift.
Consider the shift the body, guys, okay?
I'm not going to say how many there are.
You can probably count and do the math yourself, but I feel no need to put that out there.
The people who responded to the president are the body people.
They're the ones who covered him.
They did what they were supposed to do.
Cover and evacuate is the rule.
Cover the president and evacuate.
They were putting him behind that bunting on the stage, which appears to be armor, making sure that there was no threat right in front of him.
They waited for the cat team.
You'll hear them say, if you listen to that video very closely, Hawkeyes on the stage or Hawkeyes here.
Hawkeyes, you know, it's out there.
It's their code name.
So they were up there.
It's not like classified or anything like that.
You can hear it, but...
That's who they're talking about right there up on the stage, okay?
So they're waiting for that team.
They're then looking to see if there's any other threats.
He gets up and then they evac him.
Let's talk about some stuff though that happened and what led up to this and then we'll reference that often, okay?
Where was the perimeter surveillance?
Folks, we have a white building in the middle of the day.
We have a sniper on the building at 130 yards.
130 yards is a rookie shot.
A 9-year-old kid from Missouri with a.22 could take out a squirrel at that distance.
Probably no problem.
Probably without a scope.
There is absolutely no way that the Secret Service should be putting out public statements indicating right now that that wasn't their responsibility.
Brother, everything is your responsibility, okay?
Keeping the president alive is your responsibility.
If a rookie sniper at 130 yards can come within a millimeter of taking out the potential future president of the United States, then let me tell you something.
That's your freaking responsibility.
Where was the perimeter surveillance team and how did they miss this thing?
How did they miss it?
He was on a white roof in the middle of the day.
There is absolutely no excuse for them to have missed this thing.
None.
Zero.
I told you in the beginning of the show, I think it's breaking here, from a source, they had been tracking this guy from the minute he approached the event.
They lost him.
Why was President Trump even on the stage?
Does anybody have an explanation for that?
Here's TMZ video from TMZ. Well, I just said TMZ video.
I want you to listen to the response of the crowd.
How did security personnel on the ground, how is it that the crowd was acting as their surveillance team and picked out the threat and they missed it?
Can anybody explain this?
These aren't even trained security personnel.
They're just rally goers.
They're the ones telling you, you got a guy on a roof getting ready to kill someone?
Check this out.
Ross, get over here!
Ross! Ross, get over here!
Ross! Ross, get over here! Ross!
What are you doing?
I hope he's turning this way.
- Go away, be careful, guys.
- Ross! - Ross! - Ross! - What are you doing? - Ross! - Ross! - Where's that?
- Ross! - Where's that? - Ross! - Somebody go right there.
- He's right there.
- He's right there.
- Oh no. - Oh no. - Oh my god.
- Are we in the car?
- Oh my god.
- Yes! - Oh my god.
- What the fuck is going on?
- Ross! - Dad, where's that?
- Ross! - Oh my god. - Where the fucking shit?
Dude, that's exactly why we need fucking Trump here.
Oh, fucking secret service don't fuck around, man.
You gotta find the heck of it.
Holy shit.
Yeah, they're undercover.
Where's that one?
That's it, right?
Thank you.
Guys, we have specific Secret Service security personnel and law enforcement personnel who are dedicated to a surveillance function to surveil people.
How is it that this was missed?
I don't understand.
The guy's on the roof.
We got the crowd calling this guy out.
Where was the aerial surveillance?
Where were the drones?
Where was this forward-looking infrared?
Where was the thermal imagery?
Are you really suggesting to me, the Secret Service and their spokesman, this guy Gugliemi, that this is the best technology you have where a guy can creep up on the president from 130 yards away and get within a millimeter of popping his head open like a freaking watermelon?
Are you kidding me?
Is this a joke?
It gets even worse.
The BBC interviewed this guy, and this guy's saying that it was pointed out to multiple people on the ground.
How did this not make it back to the Secret Service room?
That makes an executive decision to say, hey, we're going to keep him off stage for a few minutes while we mitigate this potential threat.
How was he allowed on stage?
Why is no one asking this question?
Why was he allowed on stage with a potential deadly threat sitting out there just outside the perimeter, but within the zone we should have been securing?
Listen to this BBC interview again.
It's about 30 seconds of it.
And this guy clearly says multiple people saw this guy.
Where was...
So question number one, so I keep everybody focused.
I'm sorry.
I've been so excited to do this show for all the wrong reasons.
I wish I didn't have to.
Where was the perimeter surveillance team?
How did they miss this?
Check this out.
You weren't inside the event, but you were just outside.
Tell us what you saw.
So we had a party here all day.
You can see behind us at the Brinkels Farming Greenhouse here.
We had a party.
And we all decided, hey, you know, when we hear Trump up there, we're going to walk up through the field, stand by the trees up there under the shade, and listen to the rally.
We couldn't see him, but we could hear him.
So we walked up and probably five to seven minutes of Trump speaking, I'm estimating here, I have no idea, you know, but we noticed a guy crawling You know, bear crawling up the roof of the building beside us, 50 feet away from us.
So we're standing there, you know, we're pointing at the guy crawling up the roof.
And he had a gun, right?
He had a rifle.
We could clearly see him with a rifle, absolutely.
We're pointing at him.
The police are down there running around on the ground.
We're like, hey man, there's a guy on the roof with a rifle.
And the police are like, huh, what?
You know, like they didn't know what was going on.
You know, we're like, hey, right here on the roof.
We can see him from right here.
We see him.
You know, he's crawling.
Where is the perimeter surveillance team?
Hey, hear me.
I'm getting feedback in my ear.
There we go.
Where's the perimeter surveillance team?
How did they miss that?
Folks, we shouldn't be relying on people in the crowd who were there for an event to act as a perimeter surveillance team.
I want everyone to stay focused because there's going to, and I don't mean that in a kind of a jerk way.
Please, you know that.
I'm not trying to be an asshole.
But we have congressional hearings coming up on this, and this is a huge deal, okay?
We have to stay focused with the questions, not just outrage about what happened.
I'm outraged.
You're outraged.
We almost lost our guy, okay?
I get it.
But outrage isn't going to solve the problem.
I'm not suggesting you don't get pissed off.
I'm just suggesting we channel it to something productive.
If we don't have questions that can get answered, then I've got news for you.
This is going to happen again.
Where was the perimeter surveillance team?
Second, I want to see the aerial surveillance plan.
Why was there no surveillance from this guy?
Are you telling me you couldn't have went to Amazon and got a $200 drone off Amazon and figured out that there was a guy on the roof?
How did we miss a guy on the freaking roof in the middle of the day?
He wasn't in a fucking ghillie suit hiding in the woods, folks.
He wasn't sitting there in a ninja suit at night covered up with dirt.
He was in broad daylight.
Where was the aerial surveillance plan?
Drones.
Spotters.
How did the spotters miss this guy?
Where was the helicopter assets?
Where was the forward-looking infrared?
Where were the thermals?
Folks, this stuff works during the day.
You ever see the movie Predator where they fake all the thermal imagery?
Where was the thermal imagery?
This is the best technology you have.
A guy can walk up onto the roof with a freaking ladder.
I want you to listen to this FBI press conference.
Listen, I have zero faith in the management of the FBI, okay?
But it's in the FBI's best interest to conduct a thorough investigation and get to the bottom of it because it doesn't reflect poorly on them.
It's going to reflect poorly on them if they screw it up.
This reflects poorly on the Secret Service.
Watch this reporter ask the FBI representative and spokesman the exact same question.
Hey, how the hell did this guy get on the roof?
Where was the aerial surveillance plan?
You better not tell me you didn't have one.
Someone better get under oath and explain what the hell this aerial surveillance plan, along with the perimeter surveillance, which we addressed first, was.
Check this out.
It sounds like law enforcement only knew he was up there until shots were fired.
Is that what you're hearing?
So that is the assessment at this time.
So are you surprised that a sniper was able to fire off a handful of shots at the former president?
Again, we're still working through the security apparatus that the Secret Service had in place.
What potentially happened?
that there's going to be a long investigation into exactly what took place and how the individual is able to get access to the location.
From what you've been briefed on, it sounds like law enforcement only.
Nobody has any answers.
Listen, I don't want to call into account this guy's integrity from the FBI. Be irresponsible.
I don't know him.
I've never met him.
I will call into account Christopher Wray and others for screwing us over.
But I'm telling you, they have zero interest right now in making the Secret Service look good, the FBI. I'm not suggesting they're doing this for any other reason.
I'm not impugning anyone's motives.
I don't want to be an asshole for stuff.
You know, we don't even know what happened.
The investigation just started.
So, until this guy proves me wrong, I'm going to assume he's going to try to do the right thing and find out what happened.
But he seems genuinely perplexed like you and I do.
How the hell did this guy get on the damn roof?
He's not even a security guy.
He's an investigator.
It's a different function.
Where was the aerial surveillance plan?
Question one, where was the perimeter surveillance plan?
Question two, where is the aerial surveillance plan?
I'm going to take a quick break, my last one, and I'm going to get back to the third question.
Do you know what protective intelligence is?
Well, I'll tell you, that's my job.
Protective intelligence is intelligence work you do on threat assessments.
Before we go to a location, if the president's going to go to Butler County, Pennsylvania, wherever he is, there's a protective intelligence squad in that office that goes out and looks at any threats in the area.
Was there a file on this guy?
How'd we miss it?
Folks, you don't find it odd that we're spying on Americans with metadata and FISA files and 702 and all this other bullshit, and we seem to miss every freaking threat?
Every freaking threat we seem to miss.
So why are we spying on Americans?
We shouldn't be spying on Americans anyway.
Holy Moses.
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200,000 people.
Holy Moses.
Imagine what would have happened.
Sorry about the technical snafu.
We could have been at 250, but this is great.
200,000 people.
Where was the protective intelligence file?
I want you all to take a time out from whatever you're doing right now.
Put your phone down.
Put your computer down.
If you're driving, drive the car.
Don't get hurt.
Folks, you realize we have this extensive network of surveillance that entraps Americans, this 702 surveillance, this metadata, we have big metadata files, we have all this stuff.
We should not be spying on Americans, period.
I am a civil libertarian in that respect, period.
You get me?
But don't you find it a little bit offensive that they are spying on Americans, and they're spying on Americans, and they're still actually missing threats to America!
Which this young man who shot at the president and future president would have changed the course of American history if he would have killed him.
And we still missed it.
Here's Kim Cheadle.
This is a short one.
This is about 10%.
The disgraced director of the Secret Service who should resign immediately.
Here is Kim Cheadle on ABC, remarkably not that long ago, saying, you know what?
There's really no credible threats.
How do we keep missing this stuff?
Check this out.
So there's nothing specific and nothing credible out there right now, but we are tracking all threat streams, and we certainly work with our partners at the FBI and other intelligence agencies that supply that information to us.
So you're working with the FBI. They have access to this enormous file and all this stuff.
And again, we missed this?
Folks, I'm not saying that this should be an excuse to spy on Americans.
I hope you understand that.
I'm saying actually quite the opposite.
I'm saying we shouldn't be spying on Americans because even though we do and we shouldn't, we still never find the bad guys.
So we might as well at least respect the civil liberties of Americans and not do dumb shit.
Is this not hitting anyone?
It's kind of weird.
We have this massive global surveillance network and yet we keep missing the threat on Kavanaugh, the threat on Donald Trump.
Everybody keeps slipping through the cracks.
They're too busy spying on Moms for Liberty and school board parents and things like that.
So question three, was there a protective intelligence file on this individual?
They're saying there wasn't.
Okay, how did we miss it?
What's the point of doing all this then if we're going to keep missing the big threats?
Here's number four, the one I think a lot of you have been thinking about.
The counter-sniper team.
I'm trying to get a hold from sources about how many Secret Service counter-sniper teams are on the ground.
What I'm hearing right now is there were maybe two in one local team.
I'm not sure right now, and I don't care to speculate, if those guys, the counter-sniper team that took out the shooter, I'm not sure if those guys were Secret Service or local.
Regardless, regardless.
The rules of engagement are the same.
And there is a lot of nonsense going on right now about what the rules of engagement are.
Some people put out online that the Secret Service counter snipers are not allowed to shoot until the sniper shoots first.
Ladies and gentlemen, that is total bullshit.
Let me explain to you from the inside the rules of engagement.
The rules of engagement for a Secret Service uniformed division officer, because agents, I don't know if you know this, but there are no agents on the counter sniper team.
It's uniformed division, okay?
Okay.
The rules of engagement are the exact same for any other police officer in the Secret Service or agent.
If you see the risk of a serious physical injury or death, you can take action to stop the threat with your firearm.
Does everybody understand that?
So if you're sitting on a roof, and we know you're not a police asset, and you have a gun, and you're scoped in on the president or future president of the United States, Donald Trump, is it not reasonably assumed at that point that you're intending to cause death or a serious physical injury?
Yes, the sniper did not need permission to shoot.
Now, some of you may ask, fairly enough, why was the delay?
Why was there a delay in taking the shot?
All I can tell you is what I'm hearing from sources.
I'm just putting it out there for you because this information needs to get out there from whistleblower type sources, okay?
I'm hearing that the crest of the roof was blocking the line of sight and they couldn't get a clear shot.
Which is, if you look at the scene, kind of maybe makes sense.
However, the guy shouldn't have been up there in the first place, number one, and he had to also get his barrel over the crest of the roof to make sure that the round made it past the roof and made it to President Trump.
So that's what I'm hearing from my sources.
I want you to see this view from behind the stage, though, and you can see and hear how long it took to engage this attacker once he started shooting.
Check this out.
To our country.
Probably 20 million people.
And you know, that's a little bit old, that chart.
That chart's a couple of months old.
And if you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
Get down, get down.
USA! USA! USA! USA!
USA!
I saw that view before, but you'll see there's a latency period between when the attacker engages and the counter sniper team takes him out.
Folks, there's no time for that.
The guy was on a white roof.
Again, I don't think you've heard this anywhere else.
I'm hearing from sources that the reason there was a delay is there was a line of sight issue from the counter sniper team back to they didn't think they'd be able to hit him.
Until he showed his face again.
So you take it for what it's worth.
I'm here to give you information so we can make an informed decision.
But question four, why did the counter-sniper team fail to spot the shooter?
That question stands no matter what.
Leaving the latency period behind is why it took so long to engage him.
Why was he there in the first place?
The CS team's job is to counter snipers.
There's a spotter there that's supposed to spot these threats.
Now, when he got on the roof, people were pointing him out.
And what we would call a counter-sniper response team was responding to the threat.
Because remember, the counter-sniper guy on the roof, you may go up there and you may have a painter up there painting the roof.
You don't want to shoot the guy and kill him.
So what they'll do, typically, now this guy had a gun, it's different, but say it was a threat and it was ambiguous and we didn't know what the guy was doing on the roof, okay?
Say he's up there with a paintbrush, okay?
They have a response team to go up and investigate.
Hey bro, what are you doing up here?
I'm hearing that this counter-sniper response team actually was making their way up onto the roof when the guy was shot and the counter-sniper response team may have been fragged too.
We'll see if that's confirmed, but these are pretty reliable sources.
This is what's even more bothersome.
Gee, skip to the he's got a gun, the very chaotic scene.
There were multiple people out there who pointed out in advance that this guy had a gun that was on the roof.
Here is another piece of video.
Listen, very chaotic.
Check it out.
You hear it?
Listen.
Wait, stop.
Can you restart that?
Okay, good.
Listen.
Now listen for the gunshot.
Folks, this isn't even close.
The crowd saw them before the counter-sniper response team and the spotter.
Why did the counter-sniper team fail to spot the threat?
This isn't time for Monday morning quarterback, and I can't say enough.
It's not a damn football game, brothers and sisters.
The freaking life of the country and the future president.
Now I want you to watch the video of the sniper team engaging.
Now, we're going to address the rules of engagement again, because again, the ton of misinformation out there is really starting to pollute the dialogue going on.
They don't need permission to take out a threat.
You know what?
When you're watching this, I'll put it up in a second.
I'm going to give you a very easy example.
Most of you know a police officer in your life.
Ask him a simple question.
They roll up on a 911 call.
There's a guy who's got his girlfriend.
He's got a.38 and a gun to her head with his finger on the trigger.
Does the guy need to shoot the girlfriend before the police officer can engage?
No!
Why?
Because there's a threat of serious physical injury or death that the police officer is legally entitled to stop given use of force guidelines that are pretty consistent around the country and across federal law enforcement.
Because he's a counter sniper on a protective detail means it doesn't mean anything.
The same rules of engagement apply.
Watch the video now and you'll see the latency period from him responding.
Check this out.
Listen for the shot.
If you want to really see something that said, take a look at what happened.
- Take a look at what happened. - Folks, you see what happened there.
Now I think I've explained to you and you haven't heard this anywhere else.
And, you know, it's probably at this point until we can confirm everything, but I'm pretty confident in my sources.
The reason that latency period happened was, again, a line of sight issue.
They couldn't get a clear shot on them.
So you're hearing a lot of stuff out there, but I'm pretty confident that's the truth.
This is important though.
He should not have been up there in the first place.
I'm not making excuses for anybody.
I'm not interested in, you know, sitting here and providing air cover for anyone.
I'm only here interested in telling you the truth.
That is probably the explanation for what happened.
Folks, I want to get to a couple of these too because the media has been absolutely disgusting.
Keep your eyes on the FBI investigation going forward.
I don't trust the management, but I trust that the guys on the ground are going to try to do the right thing.
But listen, the media coverage of this has been abhorrent.
However much you can't stand these people, I promise you it's not enough.
You probably shouldn't be able to stand them even more.
Here's the first one.
Here's Martha Raddatz on ABC magically trying to blame Donald Trump, trying to turn this around and make this an anti-Trump story.
Check this out.
President Trump and his supporters have contributed to this violent rhetoric as well.
Absolutely, George.
We were just looking back this morning at some of the things that former President Trump has said.
He warned last March of potential death and destruction if he were charged by the Manhattan District Attorney.
Our country is being destroyed, as they tell us, to be peaceful.
Trump in January warned of bedlam in the country if the criminal charges against him succeeded.
And of course, in March, He said, now, if I don't get elected, it's going to be a bloodbath for the whole.
That's going to be the least of it.
It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.
That will be the least of it.
He said he was partly joking and that that was taken out of context.
But those are indeed his words.
And you have heard it from supporters as well.
And supporters are certainly in some parts angry.
And let's remember January 6th in so many ways for the campaign.
January 6th will probably be in the background after yesterday's event.
This is a very difficult time for this campaign.
I'm sure this week in Milwaukee that President Trump will highlight this and President Biden is going to have to figure out how to go forward with his campaign and what exactly they say.
Folks, however much you can't stand these people, it's not enough.
President Trump came within a millimeter of having his head explode like a watermelon on national television by some lunatic who tried to shoot him with a rifle from 130 yards away during a massive government security failure.
And a lawfare operation against him.
And this is the best these garbage filth people in the media can do, is try to turn it around and spin it to blame Donald Trump and mention January 6th, where, by the way, he's sent to go march peacefully and patriotically.
Are you on meth?
Did you do a couple lines before you went on the air?
Are you freaking people crazy?
Folks, please, I'm asking you, power through, ignore these people, move forward, get this guy elected, we're going to clean this mess up.
And fortunately, it gets even worse.
Gee, let's skip to Wolf Blitzer.
Here's Wolf Blitzer on CNN doing what he pretends is journalism.
Really questioning, you know, was Donald Trump like a shot in the ear here?
Like, this is your journalism.
Not maybe getting to the bottom of why you calling him a fascist and a Nazi may have inspired some lunatic, because I actually wait for facts, to fire on Donald Trump and potentially kill him.
You're not worried about that.
You're worried about other stuff.
Check this out.
Now, if someone is shot with a bullet that pierces the upper part of your right ear, wouldn't that bullet also continue onto someone's skull and create a much more dangerous situation?
So that's a great question, Wolf.
And, you know, what the intent of a shooter with a rifle in an attempted assassination is to get that bullet to go into the head and across.
Really?
I mean, what are we questioning?
The veracity of Donald Trump's statements that he was shot in the air?
Does it really matter if he was shot, a piece of his ear was shot off, or it hit a teleprompter and a piece of glass sharded his ear off?
Does it really matter if a glass shard hit his ear?
Does it really make a difference?
Is this what we're calling journalism, or is this dipshittery?
Folks, these people are enemies of the truth.
They always have been.
They're not even remotely interested in getting to the bottom of what's going on here, okay?
I'm telling you, ignore them.
Power through.
We've got a VP pick coming later today.
Folks, this is an important day.
We have Judge Eileen Cannon just scrapped this disastrous Jack Smith tyranny.
We've got too much to worry about than these idiots.
I'm only putting this out there to just, again, make the point to some people who are still on the fence.
That if you're watching this show, you know the truth.
If you're watching that bullshit, you're questioning right now.
Was President Trump shot?
Did he do it to himself?
Did he incentivize an attack on himself?
Yes.
Yes, he did.
He asked people to go out and assassinate him.
You fucking morons.
Here's another one.
Here's CNN's Jamie Gangle.
This is the most disgraceful one.
You guys ready for this?
This is an atrocity.
Here is Jamie Gangle attacking Trump after he's shot in a year and nearly killed for getting up and telling people to fight back.
Oh yeah.
Strong objection, Jamie Gangle.
Very good.
I'm glad you guys nailed this one.
Check this out.
I do want to say there was one thing that when I watched the tape, I found odd because of all of the heated rhetoric.
And that is that after he was hit, former President Trump got up and said, fight, fight, fight.
I think what we're hearing from people is that's not the message that we want to be sending right now.
We want to tamp it down.
I would just know one thing on this, kind of to that point.
They want to tamp it down.
The guy was nearly shot in the mother head. - Ugh!
And you want him to tamp it down?
Dude, seriously, are you doing lines before you get on the air?
What the fuck is wrong with you?
Tampa, they almost killed them!
This is your media!
By the way, remember this gem from Nicole Wallace?
Nicole Wallace from MSNBC? Nicole Wallace, who magically said...
I mean, this is Merlin-like thinking.
That, yeah, the threat of violence is definitely a conservative thing.
Really?
It is?
Have you watched any of this?
The Steve Scalise shooting?
The Kavanaugh thing?
Trump having his head nearly blown off on national television?
Hat tip Mays Moore for picking out this one from the past.
Check this out.
The permission structure for violence.
You've got polls about political violence.
Democrats don't think it's a good idea.
Only Republicans.
Only people inclined to consume conservative media are now, I think, upward of 50% say that if necessary, violence is okay.
You've only got the conduct on one of the two sides.
This woman should be...
Listen, I shouldn't even say it because I... I'm not even going to say it.
You know what?
You have her on the air at MSNBC. We don't give a shit.
Have her on the air.
She's entirely indicative of the insanity of your network.
This woman should go on the air and apologize tomorrow for this abject stupidity, but she won't.
Her and Morning Schmo are apparently in a little bit of a crisis with MSNBC now.
Anyway, I guess they don't trust what they're going to say.
Folks, the Democrats are, sadly, and have been to BLM, Antifa, and their street thugs for a long time, the party of violence.
This show has resolutely, completely, every single day, every show, condemned political violence.
Have we not?
We have done it all the time.
Go back and look.
We always have, and we always will.
Once we cross the political violence red line, there is no turning back, and I'll be no part of it ever.
That has been consistent because I mean it.
It's not fucking virtue signal, man.
It's the real deal.
Once we cross that line, there's no going back, and I'll take no part in it.
I didn't dedicate my life trying to prevent Democrat and Republic presidents from getting hurt or killed to come on the radio or my podcast and do the exact opposite.
Not happening.
It's not morally or ethically in my backbone or a single strand of my DNA. These people, however, are full of shit.
They have always incentivized violence against this guy.
Threat to democracy, fascists, he's Hitler.
What would you do if you knew you could take out Hitler?
Yeah, now you know why we got crazies.
Thank you, Anita.
250,000 people.
Holy shit.
How the hell do we have 250,000 people?
Are there even 250,000 people who watch stuff?
This is crazy.
We filled up like four or five football stadiums.
Yeah, the world is listening right now.
I want to show you something else, how sick these Democrats are.
You know Congressman Benny Thompson, and I use that term loosely.
Congressman Benny Thompson, who was the head of the January 6th Tyranny Committee, remember when he wanted to pull Secret Service protection from President Trump?
I told you why, right?
They wanted to throw him in the clink in jail with no Secret Service protection to ensure he got hurt or killed.
Oh, you don't believe me that happened?
Gee, receipts, please.
He's going to be the master of all receipts.
Mississippi Free Press.
Representative Benny Thompson wants to ban Secret Service protection for imprisoned presidents.
Really?
The one you're trying to imprison?
Because you wanted him hurt or killed.
That's why, Jack.
I want to go back to the video of the assassination attempt, too, because I don't want to leave you with any open questions.
I want this to be the definitive account with a number of people on the inside starting to blow the whistle on what happened.
I want to run through it one last time in the beginning, and I want to just hit these points and questions, because folks, if we don't get answers to these questions, I'm telling you as your friend, your brother here, that this is going to happen again.
I'm not name-dropping, but again, I spoke to President Trump this morning.
I hate when people do that.
And he is in absolutely incredible spirits.
I know Brett Baer said that on the air.
He spoke to him.
Mark Levin spoke to him.
It's not a joke.
He is...
I've never...
It's the craziest thing.
He was almost killed, and I've never seen him so excited to change the country for the better.
It's the craziest thing.
Let's go back, play the video again in the beginning.
I just want to go over these questions one last time.
From the shot until the, yeah, the NTD video, the evacuation thing, okay?
So he's talking, he looks out to the right, thankfully.
Guy's scoping in on him right now.
That's where the round...
You'll see the cover and evacuate.
Okay, that's what they're supposed to do.
Cover the president and evacuate.
You then see the counter-assault team, a two-man element, come up on stage.
They're doing what they're supposed to do, provide cover for the protectee.
Remember, what's that?
The tractor there?
They'll probably use it for some kind of high ground or something.
I don't know.
It may just be a visual element.
But you'll see the CAT team now.
The CAT team's job, the SWAT team, is to stay behind and fight, okay?
If there's another threat, you see what they're looking?
That counter-assault team, they're doing the right thing.
They're scanning the crowd.
Watch when they go on stage, you're looking for another threat.
You see what they're doing?
They're looking to say, is there another threat in the crowd?
Because remember, if the Secret Service sees another threat from the crowd and someone, God forbid, starts shooting with a.45 or a 9mm from the crowd, the Secret Service has to get the president out of there.
The CAT team are going to be the ones that stay behind.
So we don't stay there and fight, okay?
That's not our job.
The CAT team's job is to stay there and fight.
That obviously is a local element you see right there.
Now, he's obviously pretty heavy, so they're trying to get him up.
I mean, he's a big guy, President Trump.
Have you ever seen him?
He's a really big guy.
So they're trying to get him up.
He loses his shoe.
They're covering the body as best they can.
He's a really tall guy, which probably means we should get bigger guys on that detail, right?
So they then evacuate later.
But again, the questions stand at this point.
Where the hell was the perimeter surveillance team?
How did they not see this guy?
It's an open event.
Here, like this agent, they're not big enough.
I'm sorry, but the female agent's not big enough to be on the details.
There's just no way.
She can't cover his face.
I mean, he's still exposed right here.
So get him off the stage, move him, get him out of there.
Why was he there?
Why was he even on the stage in the first place?
Where was the perimeter surveillance team?
Where was the aerial surveillance plan?
Was there a protective intelligence file?
Why are some of the agents clearly smaller than the president?
If you're going to be a bullet magnet, then you better be at least his size or bigger.
Why did the counter-sniper team fail to spot the threat?
What took so long to engage?
Was it a line of sight issue?
What were they doing up there?
And again, why was there only a two-man counter-assault team?
This guy needs a full counter-assault team of Secret Service trained protectees.
I've got some ideas tomorrow on how to fix the Secret Service.
If you want to get a preview, it's on my social media today.
266,000 people.
Holy Moses.
Man, I know.
We don't even have...
This is like a nuclear explosion.
Folks, I love you.
Stay tuned for radio coming up again here on rumble.com slash Bongino.
And just a note, I've got...
Well, he said he'd do it, so I'm going to just say it.
Should I say it, Key?
I'm just going to say it.
He said he would do it.
So we got a primetime special tomorrow, 7 p.m.
Eastern Time.
Eastern, 6 p.m.
local here in Central Time.
We'll be back here on Rumble, and my guest is going to be...
The great Tucker Carlson.
So we'll be back here for the pod and radio.
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