Love and Defiance explores how crises amplify blame-seeking, targeting leftist rhetoric—like Central Park’s Julius Caesar production and Hitler comparisons—that the speaker claims stoked violence. Evan Vucci’s post-shooting "fight" photo symbolizes Trump’s defiance against what they see as a coordinated leftist attack on traditional values: masculinity, Christianity, and policies like abortion or open borders. The episode ties Trump’s survival to resistance against institutional elites, media bias (e.g., New York Times censorship), and suppression of dissent—from COVID origins to Hunter Biden’s laptop—while framing his defiance as a moral stand against redefined leftist priorities, like reparations and statue-toppling, over crime. Vucci’s image becomes a rallying cry for their shared fight against perceived cultural erosion. [Automatically generated summary]
I guess everybody wants to say something about the moment that we're in.
And I thought like the worst thing that can possibly happen to America in a moment of crisis is that we should be clavenless.
I mean, what could be possibly worse than that, right?
So I thought I should say something.
And, you know, obviously we have this hive mind now where everybody says something.
And the effect is that you get all of human nature sort of pouring out in a moment of crisis.
We all saw President Trump, former president and future President Trump.
We all saw him get shot and his amazingly courageous reaction to that.
And we all pour out the things that are in our hearts.
And it creates this sort of general sense of what human nature is like.
And that's not a bad thing.
It doesn't mean that everything that human beings automatically do is wrong or that what they automatically do is right.
It's just these are the things that we automatically do.
You see them on the internet.
And so what do you get?
You get this kind of first people want to create a sense that this could have been prevented.
They want to say, well, if someone had done this, if someone had done that, they want to spread out the blame.
That's not always wrong.
I mean, obviously, something went wrong here.
The Secret Service should have been able to cover this elevated place from which this guy shot at President Trump.
And, you know, they didn't have that covered.
And there's something wrong with that.
And I think that should absolutely come under question.
But also bad things are going to happen and not everything can be prevented.
So we know that, but we know it's human nature to sort of say what went wrong, who's to blame.
And the other thing we do is we like to focus blame on anything we hate.
Anything that bothers us is the reason that this terrible thing happened.
And it is a very, very terrible thing.
I've lived through a lot of these.
I saw Kennedy shot.
I saw Reagan shot.
I saw RFK shot, Martin Luther King shot.
I mean, these are awful, awful moments that change history and that mark history.
And they never go away.
You know, it's not like human nature changes.
It doesn't.
This is something that's always with us in history.
And again, we want to blame the things that we dislike.
That makes perfect sense.
And that, too, is not always wrong.
It's not always wrong.
I mean, I think that we all know that the left has generated a lot of hyper rhetoric that has created more tension that we need.
That's always been true in politics and in American politics, especially.
There's always been a sense that this was Armageddon, that, you know, we're fighting against evil.
That's typical.
But repeatedly, repeatedly, they have portrayed Trump's assassination as a possible thing, as a good thing.
They stage Julius Caesar in Central Park with Donald Trump as Julius Caesar being stabbed to death.
And Johnny Depp said, when was the last time an actor shot a president?
We know that they've been talking about this in a long time.
And I do think that that's wrong.
And I think that they own so much of the real estate in communications that that has created an atmosphere where this is just more likely to happen and they should be ashamed.
It's shameful to compare anyone to Adolf Hitler unless you can show me the fields of bodies that they've created.
Hitler was a uniquely evil man.
He created a uniquely evil situation.
And I think comparing somebody you disagree with to Hitler is a terrible thing and shows a glitch in your thinking.
And so, you know, there are things that we notice and that we oppose that actually are to blame.
But it's also an instinct to just say, well, this is, you know, I hate feminism.
So this is feminism's fault or I hate DEI or whatever it is and do that.
And then there's a third thing, which is the kind of voice of wisdom that says everything that the people automatically say is wrong.
And that Gerard Baker was a little guilty of that in the Wall Street Journal.
I'm a big fan of Gerard Baker's.
Nothing I say is to denigrate his excellent writing, his excellent thinking, but we don't always agree as with anybody.
And, you know, he said, he wrote a column saying we should avoid ascribing Trump's survival to God.
We should avoid conspiracy theories and we should avoid condemning heated rhetoric.
And I think he's one third right there.
I think conspiracy theories tend to blossom in this information overload world that we live in, this world where anybody can say anything and immediately believe and immediately be taken as being credible.
It's easy to come up with conspiracy theories.
It's easy to see, you know, dark machinations, especially in a world where information is being manipulated as much as it is.
So it's so, yeah, we should be really, really cautious about that.
Someone was attacking me on the internet.
He's always demanding evidence.
Well, yes, I am.
I do demand evidence.
And I think that that's conspiracy theories.
But seeing God in this moment, no, I think I do see the hand of God in this moment.
I think at least I can say in the opposite direction that if God had meant Donald Trump to die on Saturday, he would be dead.
I think I can say that.
And it's not that I speak for God or I know what is in his mind.
I most assuredly do not.
But I think we are justified in thanking God for his providence and for making sure that we didn't lose this guy, you know, that we didn't find ourselves in a situation where there would be no way to reconcile with the people we disagree with.
You know, there would be no way to find a way forward.
And that would be a terrible thing.
And I know, like, I pray every day that God will forgive us for Roe v. Wade, which I think made us into a bad country instead of a good country.
And I think that hopefully that that's maybe there's something we can find in that.
But I don't think it's wrong to see the hand of God in this.
And I also think that the rhetoric, as I said before, I think that is a problem.
And that even though it's an automatic knee-jerk reaction to say your lousy rhetoric, it has been absurd.
It is absurd.
And it's not something that started with Donald Trump.
It amped up with him, but they were calling Mitt Romney the most bland of all rhino politicians.
They were calling him a murderer and Hitler and George W. Bush was Hitler.
This is what they do.
And it's wrong.
And they have too much informational power, too many high, high, too much of the high ground in our communication system to act so irresponsibly.
These are people who owe everything they have to this country.
They should treat this country with more respect.
And they've even developed theories saying, no, we should not be objective.
No, we should tell people what to think.
They have no business doing that.
They have only the capability.
They have the capability and the power to report the facts.
They don't.
We've seen them censor the facts.
We've read Nellie Bowles' book about how the New York Times told her she couldn't cover violence while before Biden was elected.
We know that they are jiggering information and they should stop.
And that's, and that's, there's nothing wrong with condemning that.
But I want to talk about my experience of this.
And I don't want to tell you what to think.
You'll find your own ways to think what you think.
But I want to tell you what I think.
That's basically all I can do.
Saturday was my birthday.
And I know what you're thinking.
You're thinking, how could you possibly get any older?
And the answer is, I just don't know.
I think of Jesus who said before Abraham was, I am.
I can't say that, but before Abraham Lincoln, I can say that.
And, you know, I was shocked to find myself having yet another birthday that seems almost supernatural.
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And I went out with my wife.
My family won't be here until next week.
They're going to come and celebrate next weekend.
But this weekend, my wife and me, and we went out to a, She took me out to my favorite restaurant in town.
And before that, we went to a bookstore.
I like being in bookstores.
And I was in a bookstore when Reagan was shot.
I remember that.
I was standing in a bookstore when Reagan was shot.
And this time I was in this bookstore and I got a text from my sensei, the guy who trained me for my black belt in karate.
And it was just a picture of Trump with blood on his face.
And I thought my sensei often sends me little political jokes.
And I thought it was some kind of joke.
But I put my phone back in my pocket and then paused and thought, wait a minute.
And I took it out and looked and saw what had happened.
And we then went out to dinner, my wife and I.
And I saw, I could see on my phone, everybody was saying something, this instinct that we have, that we now all have a voice, which is a good thing.
And everybody was saying something.
My friends were saying things.
The only one who wasn't, of course, was Shabbat.
So Ben probably didn't even know it had happened for many hours.
But everyone else I knew had a comment.
And I found I had nothing to say except when I saw this picture by Evan Vucci, the Pulitzer Prize-winning Associated Press Photographer.
He was in Iraq.
He covered the disgraceful George Floyd riots.
And he took this insane picture, insanely perfect picture of Donald Trump, who was shot in the ear, obviously a bullet that could have gone into his brain, missed him by maybe centimeters, if that.
And he was knocked out of his shoes, which is something that actually happens if you go down fast.
And he was surrounded by Secret Service people.
And we all know, we've all seen this picture.
And he said, wait, wait, wait, don't take me off the stage.
And he raised his fist and said to the people, fight, fight, fight.
And apparently he may have said USA.
I didn't see him say that.
But this guy, Gucci, caught this iconic picture of the former president and future president raising his fist in the air and looking defiant and strong against this threat of death, you know, this threat of death.
And, you know, I saw that picture and I said to my wife, you know, I remembered back in June of 2020, that great picture of Trump walking out like a boss through the, where the George Floyd riots had been right outside the White House and walking over to St. John's church and holding up the Bible.
And I remember the hysterical reaction because that picture of him walking, striding out there was such a cool picture, such a picture of courage that the press immediately knew that this was a communication defeat for them.
And they rushed to say, oh, he had tear gassed these people and he had them cleared away.
All the all lies, as we know, they just, it's all lies.
But they just had to neutralize that photograph.
And I remember the picture of Trump standing on the balcony when he got COVID, standing on the balcony of the White House, taking off his mask, you know, and of all the hysteria.
Jake Tapper, in the only moment of his career that will ever be remembered, because it was the most important moment of his career, telling people to be afraid.
You can be afraid.
Let COVID dominate your lives because he wanted to get rid of that idea of Trump of saying, don't be afraid.
Have courage, live with courage.
And it was a beautiful moment of him taking off.
It was a beautiful, dramatic moment.
He knew it.
He didn't do it inside.
He did it out.
You know, he's a showman.
He understands these things.
And they did everything they could to neutralize that.
I've frequently on my show have played over and over again this attempt to neutralize Trump's courage in the face of COVID when everybody was preaching fear.
Stay home.
Don't go to church.
You can go to the liquor store.
You can have a riot, but do not, do not go to church.
That'll kill you like that.
And, you know, they're using fear, promoting fear.
And Jake Tapper has become the picture, the poster boy of that effort because of what he said, but only because it was condensed.
Everybody else was doing the same thing.
It was that attempt to neutralize Trump's communication prowess because he's so good at it.
He actually counters all the power that they have by the power of his ability to communicate.
And so I saw this picture, this Vucci picture of Trump shaking his fist with the blood on his face and saying fight, fight, fight.
And his mouth, you know, curved into that thing, which could have been another word.
It looked like he was going to say another word, which would mean in some ways the same thing.
And I thought to myself, they are going to do everything.
Let them let them do everything they can.
I thought, you corrupt sons of bitches, do what you can to kill this picture.
Tell them at Facebook, don't you can't run this picture because it'll inspire other extremists.
You know, you can't run this picture because it'll glorify violence.
You can't, I thought, oh, they're going to pour out.
And I thought, do your worst.
Do your worst.
You will never, ever, ever erase that picture from the minds of Americans.
That is the picture of the 2020s.
That is going to define this era.
This is a picture that just says something indelible.
And I found, I found that I had nothing to say.
I thought maybe I should go on and say something, just, you know, whatever, you know, God help President Trump, you know, anything.
But I had nothing to say that was not in that picture.
That picture said for me everything that I wanted.
And so I kept retweeting.
I kept sending it out.
I copied it.
I was sending out whatever I put out, I sent it out.
And then I thought, you know what?
I have nothing to say except that picture.
I'm just going to have dinner with my wife and celebrate my birthday because that's probably it for me.
So I thought I better celebrate when I can.
And so I then later, you know, I went home and got up the next morning, went to church.
And I was thinking to myself as I was driving to church, if that picture says everything I want to say, what does it say?
What does it say for me?
And that's important because I'm not a man of unleashed emotions.
I'm a person who likes to think very slowly and consider what I think.
And I don't dismiss my emotions.
Sometimes they're a good radar of what's going on.
Sometimes they tell me what's going on, but sometimes they mislead me.
And so I'm careful.
I don't just think because I feel something that that's the fact of the matter.
I understand that sometimes emotions can be deceptive.
So I thought, what does this picture say for me that's true?
Now, when I talk about politics, the left, I condemn the left or I condemn Democrats, I'm not attacking citizens to the left of me, people who vote Democratic because they believe what they read in the New York Times or because their family voted Democratic, or maybe because the Democrats serve their purposes and their self-interest more than the Republicans do.
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You know, I mentioned Nellie Bowles and she says, well, I will like gay marriage and the Republicans against that.
So, you know, I want to be with that.
Some people want abortion and so they vote for that.
Those are not the people who bother me in the least.
You know, this is a huge country.
People disagree.
People have different points of view.
Their consciences tell them in different ways.
Their histories and trajectories take them in different ways.
And those are not the people I go on the air to talk about.
I'm talking about a relatively small cadre of people who run the news media, Hollywood, the entertainment media, universities, social media like YouTube and Facebook, and who do not represent the mainstream of this country, right or left.
They really don't.
They don't represent anything except themselves.
They win by infiltrating institutions, by pretending to be like the rest of us.
Obama did this.
He hid his voting record.
Remember all those abstentions on his voting record?
We didn't know who he was.
He had no history.
He had no paper trail.
We couldn't find out anything about him.
And anybody who tried to find out anything about him was called a racist.
When we found out he went to a church that was racist, it was like, oh, no, we mustn't allow that to affect our minds.
He gave this absolutely dishonest speech about that church.
And we were told, what a brilliant, brilliant speech.
I thought, it's all lies.
It's all lies.
I remember David Brooks saying it was like a symphony.
I thought, yeah, it was a symphony of lies.
It's all lies.
He goes to a racist church.
He goes to an anti-American racist church.
And we should know that.
But he was completely a hidden guy.
He was a shadow candidate.
And that's how they, the only time they win elections when they do this.
Joe Biden.
Why is Joe Biden president?
Joe Biden is president because they knew that Bernie Sanders was too radical.
They knew everybody else was too radical.
Joe Biden had been around so long that he still represented the past Democratic Party, which was kind of a little bit more moderate and not taken over by the radicals yet.
And so they thought, well, we'll run him, but then he's going to govern just like Obama did from the far left.
And that's what he did.
He is not Lunchbox Joe.
He's not the ordinary guy.
He's governing like a socialist.
That's what he's doing.
And that is how they dominate the country and they dominate the culture and they lie their way into power.
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And then they have that deep state that is continually generating regulations and more and more power for itself.
And they're my opponents.
They're the ones I talk against because they're the ones who tell us we can't get along.
We can't argue and disagree.
They're the ones who tell us blacks and whites have to hate one another.
They're the ones who keep racism alive with all their power.
And I defy them.
I defy them.
And those are the people that I think are the problem with the country.
And I don't think they're the Jews.
I don't think they're the elites.
I think that they are people in these positions who hold this point of view, who have acted, if not in concert, they've acted in a concert of interests to take over our institutions of communication, most especially, but of all the institutions that communicate culture, you know, Hollywood and the academies and all these places.
And now for these past years, they've been running the government, running it whether through the deep state when Trump was in, or running it now through the presidency.
And they've used the government to do terrible things.
They arrest and imprison their political opponents, Trump, Bannon, Michael Flynn, little old ladies who oppose abortion.
They send them away to prison where they'll die.
People who wandered into the Capitol January 6th, people who had January 6th on their calendars.
You know, I mean, they put these people in solitary.
They put them away for incredible amounts of time.
They silence people on social media who said that COVID was a lab leak, the vaccine wasn't tested, Hunter Biden's laptop wasn't real, who said it was real, who said the election was rigged, never mind stolen, just people who said it was rigged.
They arrested people and silenced them.
And I defy them.
I defy them.
That's what this picture says.
That's what this picture says for me.
I defy them.
Because no matter what the kid who shot at Trump wanted, no matter what, you know, he sounds to me like some crazy kid who doesn't know what he's doing, but I have no idea what he wanted out of this, what his ideology was, which is another thing we like to do.
We like to make sure the ideology is right.
And of course, if he's a white man doing a right-wing thing, then we hear about that.
If he's a transgender person, then we bury it, you know, because that's because they own the information market.
But I don't care.
His motive was to kill President Trump.
And when President Trump raised his fist in the air and said, fight, fight, he said, no, I'm not dying.
I'm still here.
And for that, he was speaking for me because I defy these people.
These are the people they tore down statues of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, and they put up statues of a drug addict who died resisting arrest as drug addicts tend to do.
And I defy them.
And that's what that picture says to me.
And that's why I have nothing to say except what was in that picture.
They have denigrated masculinity and femininity and marriage, and they have tried to elevate abnormality by selling porn to middle schoolers.
And then they call it banning books when we say no.
And I defy them.
And that's what that picture says to me.
I defy them.
That's what that picture is, that fight, fight.
This is what I fight.
And this is what I believe Donald Trump stands for.
For a lot of us, for all of us maybe, who defy them, even from different positions.
They kill babies.
I've been saying this at the Daily Wire since I got there, you know, and they'll say, well, if you say that, you know, the left is going to say this.
And they kill babies.
They kill babies.
They call that a human right.
The least defended person, the most helpless, the most silenced person, a baby in the womb, they'll tear him apiece and say, well, that's a human right.
What argument do they have for that?
What argument do they have that strips that baby of his humanity, of being a human being, so he has no rights?
They call sexually butchering children health care.
What science do they have?
They have nothing except the power of the culture.
That's all they have to declare it so and then do it.
And it's an atrocity.
And I defy them.
And that's what that picture says to me, that picture of Donald Trump.
They've loosened our election laws and they've made our elections suspect.
In France, they just had an election where there was a major reversal.
Nobody complained because they still have security.
They still look very carefully.
They vote on the day.
They vote with ID.
And then they silence us if we say, hey, you're making it easier for us to cheat.
They call us bigots.
They call they open our borders and let anybody come in.
And they call us bigots if we protest against that.
They crippled poor people with drugs and by preaching against marriage and against God, things that uplift poor people and raise them above their situation.
And I defy them for that.
And that's what that picture says.
And they tell us to be afraid of everything, everything, everything, everything.
Be afraid of getting the flu.
Be afraid of using gasoline.
Be afraid of using a car.
Be afraid of eating steak.
Don't live.
Living hurts everyone.
Just die, little baby.
Die in the womb because otherwise you're a problem.
Die, old man, or you're depressed, teenager.
We'll put you to death.
I just defy all of that.
I defy them.
And that's what that picture says.
And, you know, Donald Trump is right about this.
They can't get all of us yet.
They can't arrest all of us yet.
They can't quite silence all of us yet, but they can get him.
And that's what they're doing.
That is what they're doing with their rhetoric and with their extreme actions and with their silencing people through HR and on the internet and on YouTube.
They can get at him and make him, just like they've tried to do with all our basic opinions, with all our opinions about marriage, all our opinions about God.
They've tried to say that, oh, if you believe in God, you're a Christian nationalist.
And if you're a patriot, you're a nationalist and you're a bad person for all these things.
Be silent, be silent, be silent.
Donald Trump represents all of those things to them.
And that picture of his defiance and his incredible durability against the absolute breaking of norms and the breaking of our system and the misuse of the law and the lies.
That picture is the picture of our defiance.
And that picture is the picture of my president.
That is the picture of my president.
I don't hate any of the people that the left elevates, the minorities, sexual minorities, racial minority.
I don't hate any of those people.
But I'm not going to be told that good is evil and evil is good and true is false and babies aren't babies and men aren't men and women aren't women and God isn't God.
I'm not going to be told that.
And when Trump raised his fist, that's my fist.
When Trump said fight, fight, those are my words.
He's speaking for me.
And obviously, I'm not like Donald Trump.
I've lived a very different life from Donald Trump.
I am an elite.
I am an educated, cultured person who loves the arts, who loves beauty, who'd rather be sitting around with a Chardonnay reading poetry, right?
I'm faithful to my wife.
I go to church every Sunday.
I am not like Donald Trump.
not the man I would have picked to represent me.
He's clat because of class.
That's why, because of my class prejudices, he's not the man I would have picked to represent me, but he was picked.
He was picked and he does represent me.
And he certainly represents me now.
And so let me just end with this.
I'll leave you alone to go on your day because this is the most important thing.
Talking about God, talking about the will of God.
And I don't know God's plans.
I'm telling you, I've never tried to, I tried never to speak for God.
He told me that he would take care of judgment and I should just love my neighbor.
And that's how I try to live.
That's exactly how I try to live.
But I do have this one fact about me that we hear a lot about.
I'm old.
I have seen the shape of life.
I have seen the shape of life.
And there is one thing about God that I can tell you that I'm sure is true.
And that is that he will turn evil to good if you let him.
If you let him.
This is true in your life and it's true in history.
He doesn't erase evil.
This is where people get this wrong.
You'll hear some preacher say, well, there was a Holocaust, but at least the state of Israel came out of it.
So hooray.
And it's like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Israel is a great miracle.
It's a biblical miracle.
It's a wonderful country.
It's a country fighting for its life.
I support it in every possible way.
This is not a controversial opinion.
It's in the Bible.
This is absolutely the simple truth.
And the only people who can't see it are people who are so twisted by ideology or hatred that they can't see the obvious truth of this.
Israel is a great country.
The Holocaust did give it a spur into existence, even though it was coming into existence anyway.
But that doesn't erase the evil.
Every person who died in the Holocaust and the 2% of the population wiped out by World War II because of the Nazis and Hitler, those people don't come back.
That grief doesn't go away.
And the same thing is true in your life.
The pains that you experience, God will turn them into wisdom.
The sorrows that you experience, God will use them as a path for joy if you let him.
But they don't go away.
You're still going to have pain.
You're still going to have sorrow.
The memories of those sorrows, the traumas that have been created in your life by those, they'll still be there, but God will give you a path through them to the good if you let him.
The devil does the exact opposite.
Okay.
And this is what I'm talking about in this world.
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And this is what Donald Trump represents for me now.
And in that picture, especially, but really in everything he's done, in everything he's done, the devil takes your good instincts and uses them for evil, which gets you twice.
He takes your charity and your kindness and your liberalism in the best sense of that word, and he uses them for evil.
And that not only creates the evil that he creates, but it also puts your good instincts in bad repute.
It gives them a bad smell.
So Hitler destroyed, you know, censored modern art, for which I say absolutely, but he used good taste to do a bad thing, which not only does a bad thing by censoring artists, but also does a bad thing by making good taste look bad.
This is the funny thing about Trump.
Trump has never done this.
Trump doesn't say anything racist.
He doesn't hate black people.
He doesn't hate Jews.
He's been the best friend the Jews ever had.
He doesn't negate people.
He's waved his rainbow flag or Muslim people.
And yet, people who do hate those people see something in him that they like and they attach themselves to him.
But the fact that he doesn't do it, that too is an act of defiance and an act of love.
And that too makes him my president.
I don't want the left, by which I mean the cultural left, the cultural elite, the poobahs who control our information systems and our entertainment systems.
I don't want them to take my generosity from me by using it for evil.
They can do the evil that they do, but they are not going to make me eschew my love for my neighbor or for my country or for freedom or any of those things.
They use minorities as a bludgeon, right?
use our belief in equal treatment and to say, oh, you know, you have to pay reparations.
You have to feel guilty.
You have to hate America.
You have to tear down these statues because people were mistreated.
I oppose them.
I defy them, but I'm not going to abandon my generosity.
I'm not going to start hating black people on their behalf to defy them.
I'm not going to let that happen.
Trump hasn't let it happen to him.
It's not going to happen to me.
That rainbow flag they stuff down our throats.
It's an abomination.
This is not what we should be celebrating and elevating.
We should be elevating motherhood and marriage and men and women loving each other and building families.
But I'm not going to abandon my tolerance for people who have sexual abnormalities.
They have to live their lives.
They have to find their way to salvation in fear and trembling, just like the rest of us.
I'm not going to bully them.
I'm not going to condemn them.
I'm not going to do anything.
I'm going to let them live and hope that they live good, happy lives in my generosity.
I'm not going to become the opposite of what the left is because the opposite of what the left is is just the left.
It's a circle.
It's not a line.
And the idea that I have to close my eyes to trouble in communities like the crime in black neighborhoods or the violence in the house of Islam or the bullying and violence from the transgender crowd, that is absurd.
I'm not going to close my eyes to those things.
I'm going to call them out because they're part of my country.
They're things that are happening in my country, but I'm not going to let them make me hate blacks or Muslims or people with gender dysphoria.
They're not going to make me the mirror image of who they are.
That's not going to happen.
I am going to love God and my neighbor, and I will be free, and I will let other people be free, and I'm not going to be afraid.
And in this, above everything else, I defy them.
And in this, above everything else, Donald Trump is my president.
A guy tried to kill him.
And you're not wrong to think that an entire section, small section, but powerful section of our society has been trying to negate him.
Maybe they're not calling for his death, but they've been trying to negate him, to make him anathema, to make him something that is unacceptable.
But really, what they're trying to do is make normality, morality, the Christian heritage that has come down to us, the American heritage that has come down to us.
They're trying to ban that because in his freedom, in his belligerence, in his defiance, Trump represents all those things.
And I'm with him now 100%.
I think everybody who really cares about the straight and narrow path of this country continuing in the traditions that we have should be with him.
And that picture represents everything I think.
It represents everything I think.
I've spoken for half an hour now, still have not expressed what is expressed perfectly in that picture.
I defy them.
I will fight them.
I'm with Donald Trump.
And that's all I have to say about this.
I know the news will continue.
We'll get more information.
We'll find out more about the shooter and about this Secret Service, about all that.
But for right now, all I want to say is that picture is everything because it is everything that Trump is and everything that the clericy, the elite cultural institutions, everything that they hate and they're wrong and it's wicked.
And I defy them.
All right.
I'll see you on Friday.
I'll see you before that because I'll be at the RNC.
It is good to talk to you.
Stay cool.
Stay frosty.
Keep your head in a swivel.
And don't let them get you.
Don't let the bastards get you down.
I'll see you later.
A slight turn of the head allows President Trump to live.
The liberal media blame conservatives already, and no one seems able to explain how such a security lapse occurred.