Ezra Levant examines the July 15 Trump assassination attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, where Secret Service failures—like smaller officers fumbling with guns—sparked outrage amid conspiracy theories and media missteps. The FBI’s investigation is questioned due to its unconstitutional Mar-a-Lago raid, while rally attendees’ restraint contrasts sharply with past BLM riots. Footage reveals delayed security response and knives found despite screening, hinting at systemic vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, protests in Kulak, Ireland, over plans to house 500–1,000 migrants near children’s venues expose growing tensions, suggesting Trump’s rally chaos may mirror broader societal fractures under progressive policies. [Automatically generated summary]
We talked to our friend Rachel Parker, who was right there in Pennsylvania at the rally when President Trump was shot.
We'll have the loaddown from her, including incredible videos that she filmed on location.
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Tonight, the latest on the assassination attempt against Donald Trump.
It's July 15, and this is the Esther Levant show.
Shame on you, you censorious bug.
As you know, it's been a couple of days since Donald Trump was shot at a rally in Pennsylvania.
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Just absolutely astonishing to see the coverage of an assassination attempt in today's modern world, not just social media where everyone learned about it and where conspiracy theories or false reports were quickly debunked much faster than the mainstream media got even the story basics out there.
It was truly a triumph of social media over legacy media, not just for speed and accuracy, but also for fairness.
I mean, it was just absolutely astonishing to see things like the Washington Post, which incredibly, Jeffrey Bezos, who owns the Washington Post, tweeted his sympathy to Trump.
But of course, his newspaper claimed there was no motive here.
And we really don't know what's going on.
It was, I think it was the end of the legacy media in many ways.
The entire world was on Twitter.
In fact, Elon Musk tweeted that they reached a record, a massive record in users globally and in America.
I mean, here's something that would have been impossible short years ago: a photo of the bullet in midair, whizzing by Donald Trump's head, having just hit his ear, an inch away from his head.
Unbelievable.
There were a lot of unbelievable things.
We saw the Secret Service just melt down.
And many say it's because of the new DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion mandate of the Secret Service, where normally you have big hulking guys.
I mean, think about security in the real world.
If you've ever been to a nightclub, the bouncer is always a massive rock of a man.
Half the purpose is to deter, but the other purpose is if things get rough, he can just throw people around.
You never have small people as security and never small, physically small women.
And they seem to be fidgeting, not knowing what to do, not being able to holster a gun, picking up their sunglasses.
A lot of strange things.
And the Secret Service being very evasive.
Here's a clip from a Secret Service press conference yesterday where they were asked about the shooter and how the shooter could get within 150 yards of the president.
And the Secret Service spokesman literally said, oh, that's not our department.
That's outside our perimeter.
Talk to the local cops.
Can you imagine that as their answer here?
Take a look at that insanity.
Thank you, Chief.
And just to reiterate what the Chief said: local ordinances in the state of Wisconsin do not supersede state law.
Wisconsin is an open carry state, and therefore the city of Milwaukee and no other jurisdiction in this state can supersede that state law.
Folks should be aware, though, that proactively before the convention gets started, we did take action at the local level to ban items that we could ban.
So we used our authority already at the municipal level to take that sort of security precaution that we were able to do.
But in terms of banning weapons in the outer perimeter, that is not within our purview because of state law.
Let's talk a little bit more about that shooter on the rooftop.
He was visible for two minutes before he shot.
Two minutes where people were pointing and shouting.
Take a look at this video.
People pointing, shouting to the fact that there was a shooter on the roof.
If they could see it, why couldn't police?
In fact, there was a report that a policeman went up there, was scared, and went back down.
Take a look.
Look.
Miraculous Survival Moment00:15:39
Right there.
See him?
He's laying down.
See him?
Yeah, he's laying down.
And Scott, here we're being fighting like hell to get his sentences.
What's happening?
And it's going to be able to take back the line on it because if we do, we're going to make America better than other people.
We're going to take it.
Yeah, look, there he is.
Because we have millions and millions of people in our country that contribute here.
Dangerous people.
Criminals.
We have criminals.
Right here.
Get on the woods.
Much tougher than it is.
Obviously, the shooter shot the bullet, and he is the guilty one, but I think it is extremely unlikely that he acted alone.
And the description of him so far doesn't seem to click.
A 20-year-old with no social media footprint whatsoever, no manifesto left behind.
Oddly, he appeared in a BlackRock TV ad.
What are the odds?
Just very, very strange.
But I think that there's a phrase, I hadn't really heard it a lot until yesterday, stochastic terrorism.
And I think one way to understand that phrase is for four or eight or more years, we've had a drumbeat in the mainstream media and other mainstream establishments that Donald Trump is a tyrant, that he's a Nazi, that he's like Hitler, that he's authoritarian, that he will kill you, that he breaks the law, that he will be a fascist, that he will jail his opponents.
And the irony about all these claims is actually what's being done to Trump.
He's the one who's being arrested, prosecuted, who's had his home raided by the Democrats.
He never did that when he was president.
He didn't prosecute Hillary Clinton, even though Hillary Clinton quite evidently committed a number of crimes.
It was Trump whose mar-a-lago was raided by the FBI.
But the drumbeat that Trump is terrible.
Trump is a danger.
Trump must be defeated.
Trump is the enemy.
It's almost, I mean, a comparison that comes to my mind is how Hamas indoctrinates young people in Gaza from the time they are children, kill the Jews, hate the Jews, slit their throat, shoot them, be a martyr.
If you indoctrinate someone for 20 years, as they do in Hamas, don't be surprised if they commit acts of terrorism and then barbarism.
And I'm not saying it's quite that far in America, but you've got more than 330 million Americans.
And if you have a constant drumbeat, this is an evil man, someone's going to do something.
It's almost like that CIA program, MKUltra, where they, you know, the Jason Bourne movies were based on that idea of using hallucinogenic drugs to get people to basically do anything, turn them into killing machines.
There's a lot of questions to be answered for sure, and I don't actually trust the FBI to answer them.
You know, Joe Biden doesn't have a lot to recommend himself these days, especially with his disastrous performance in the leaders' debate.
But he does keep pumping away at that hate rhetoric.
I don't know if you remember these images from a Biden speech a few months ago.
It looks positively, I don't know, satanic, even Nazi in its iconography.
Biden tried to make light of it, calling that dark Brandon, but it is dark, and he dehumanizes and delegitimizes Trump.
They prosecute him.
They want to jail him.
They call him a felon.
They do this to make him lower and less.
Reid Hoffman, an enormous Democrat donor, just last week was saying that he wants to, quote, really martyr Trump, to make him an actual martyr, not just a metaphorical martyr, but to actually martyr him.
And that's another way of saying killing him.
So are we surprised that someone actually pulled the trigger?
Now, what's happened since that moment has been, in some ways, even worse.
Trump, in an amazing act of courage, stood up, pumped his fist, and said, fight, fight, fight, before being shuffled off the stage.
And I think that shows obviously some showmanship, but it shows courage and presence of mind under fire.
It is absolutely courageous to stand up when he had no idea what was going on, face the crowd, and cheer before being let off.
Absolutely, that took courage.
And his comments that he has made on social media have been, frankly, magnificent.
They have been high-minded.
They have not been vengeful or bitter.
They have not been accusatory either towards the Secret Service or towards the Democrats.
He hasn't been negative.
He's risen to the occasion.
His opponents have not.
My former friend David Frum, writing in The Atlantic, was just atrocious, blaming the victim.
Stephen Marsh wrote in the Globe and Mail that Trump is the violent one, and beware of Trump's vengeance, and we're about to get chaos from Trump.
Okay, that was written yesterday.
There wasn't a single riot overnight, not a single riot, not a single act of vengeance, not a single shooting or stabbing or window smashed because of what happened.
The chaos and the vengeance is on the Democrat side.
They're projecting.
They actually wanted Trump to die.
And now they're, it's absolutely bizarre.
An incredible thing is MSNBC, that American talk network, has suspended its entire roster of daytime commentators because they acknowledge, according to a CNN report, that they don't trust that their pundits won't say insane, extreme things.
They literally don't trust their own journalists not to say some kooky thing like Trump deserved it.
Canadians can be awful too.
I mentioned the articles written by David Trump and Stephen Marsh.
Here's a UBC professor who is lamenting that the shooter missed.
I mean, these are the tolerant people.
These are the stop bullying people.
But we've known that.
We've seen over the last 10 months that they're absolutely fine with Nazism and anti-Semitism and street violence as long as it's on the left aimed at a Canada and America.
What's incredible and perhaps not surprising is that the violent left has not missed a beat.
They're right back at it in places like Portland and Milwaukee.
Milwaukee, where the Republicans are holding their convention right now.
There are protests on the streets.
There are encampments on the streets.
We're sending a couple of rebel journalists to cover it.
I think you'll see that they haven't been slowed down one ounce or one inch.
I am quite certain that they will tell our reporter, Yankee Pollock, who's going there, that they wish the assassination would happen.
Just moments ago, I'm recording this in the late afternoon.
Trump announced his vice presidential pick, a senator named JD Vance, who is famous for being sort of a Midwestern, populist, conservatives, working-class conservative.
And he's an excellent campaigner, a very principled make America great again, America first choice.
But I think the reason his choice is so brilliant is he's what I've seen some people call assassination insurance.
And it's terrible to say it, but it is a factor in America where four presidents have been murdered and others like Ronald Reagan have been shot and thankfully survived, that you have to think of who would become president if the president was killed.
And in the case of Joe Biden, if the president were killed, incapacitated, died peacefully, whatever, it would be Kamala Harris, who was absolutely atrocious by every measure.
And I think a lot of people who despise Biden would say, yikes, yeah, it's probably better that Biden stay on than Kamala Harris gets it.
Well, if you're talking about assassination insurance, Donald Trump is a late, I think he's almost 80.
I think he's 78 or 79 or 80.
And I mean, he's still firing on all pistons.
I mean, he's still got his wits about him.
He's still got his courage.
I mean, look at what he did on stage in Pennsylvania.
I think the shock of the moment probably would have killed Joe Biden himself.
But if, God forbid, Donald Trump were to die or even worse, God forbid, be assassinated, JD Vance, a generation younger, but tougher in many ways, would solidify the America First agenda as opposed to some centrist choice to balance the ticket who would positively invite assassination.
So I think that's an inspired appointment.
The world is churning.
It's fascinating.
I heard the craziest report I've heard over the last few days is that Justin Trudeau actually phoned Donald Trump.
I find that hard to believe, but I can't remember where I saw that, but it was reported credibly.
I'm astonished by that.
It must have taken a day of convincing for foreign affairs staff to tell Trudeau, look, you may hate the guy, but he's probably going to be the next president, and you're going to have to deal with him.
Just grit your teeth and try and be polite for a minute.
I was startled, actually.
It took Melanie Jolie, our foreign minister, more than a day to put out even a tweet.
Anyways, thank God Trump is alive.
I think the Republican America First Conservative Movement is energized.
I think that there was something somewhat miraculous about Trump's survival, and he turned it into a very courageous moment.
Like I say, we will have a reporter and a videographer in Milwaukee.
I'm actually headed to Ireland tonight because there are massive riots against an immigration encampment.
I'll tell you more about it.
I'm grabbing the flight tonight.
I'm going to fly through the night.
I'll land in the morning.
I'm going to go to the scene of the riots and try and give you the reports there.
Obviously, that's not the top story in the world.
The top story in the world, it's what's going on in the United States.
And we will have that covered.
We've got a couple of journalists making their way there tonight, too.
So we've got the stories covered for you here, hither, thither in the ons.
Stay with us.
Up next, our friend Rachel Parker, who was on location at that rally in Pennsylvania when Donald Trump was shot.
Stay with us.
The assassination attempt against Donald Trump is huge news around the world because everyone knows that the whole world is in the balance of what happens in November's election in the United States.
And no matter what the Democrats have done through their political smears, through their journalistic smears, through their prosecutorial smears, none of it has stopped Trump.
But of course, you can stop any man by killing him.
And it came within an inch of happening on the weekend.
Absolutely incredible.
And wouldn't you know it?
One of our Canadian friends was at that rally in Pennsylvania.
Little did she know she would be having a front seat in a historic moment.
I know that I'll always remember where I was when Donald Trump was almost assassinated.
Joining us now is our friend from True North, who happened to be in Pennsylvania.
I'm talking about Rachel Parker, who joins us now via Zoom.
Rachel, great to see you.
Thanks for having me, Ezra.
Well, I tell you, you were right in the center of history on Saturday.
Why don't you tell us a little bit about, first of all, what you were doing, why you were down there, what it was like before those shots rang out.
Just give us a minute on the background.
What were you doing there?
Yeah, so I had gone down to the rally in Butler with my two brothers.
Actually, I'd asked them to come and help me with some camera work.
We drove down from St. Catharines.
I'm at my mom's house in Ontario right now.
So it's about a four-hour drive.
And I wanted to go because I am starting a new podcast with True North called Rachel and the Republic.
And I wanted to get some on-the-ground content of the American election.
I've just started covering American politics.
And I think you really miss a lot when you cover everything remotely from home all the time.
So I wanted to go.
I wanted to talk to some Americans, get their pulse on the election, you know, ask basic questions.
Is Joe Biden up for the job?
Why are you voting for Donald Trump?
Do you think Donald Trump needs to change his messaging?
So we arrived in Butler, Pennsylvania around 2.30, started doing interviews as soon as we hit the ground.
It was a pretty normal political event as far as rallies go.
It was definitely a larger magnitude than anything I'm used to.
I don't think we see crowds of quite that size up here in Canada.
I know that Pierre Polyeb has received a lot of praise for polling people in the thousands, but there's people, estimates were ranging from 12 to 20,000 people at the rally in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday.
So an absolutely insane amount of people showing up to hear their president on a very hot day, 34 degrees Celsius.
Numerous people passed out from the heat.
And, you know, everyone was in a great mood.
Everyone was having a great time.
People were really excited to be there.
It was at this point in the campaign that a lot of the lawsuits that we've seen just being levied at President Trump from every angle have been falling apart.
And so I think the momentum of the campaign is really picking up.
People feeling very optimistic.
And I think a lot of people felt like they were showing up at a rally to support who would likely be the next president of the United States.
Yeah, and not to mention Joe Biden imploding before our very eyes, not just in the debate, but in every press appearance thereafter.
There must have been an excitement and a confidence.
You can never take things for granted.
And when Republicans, when they have to win beyond the margin of cheating, beyond the margin of lawyers, but it feels optimistic.
Now, tell me what it was like when the shots rang out on the video footage.
It sounds like a pop, pop, pop sound.
Take a look at what happened.
Did you hear the shots from where you were?
What was it like?
First of all, where were you seated in relation to the president?
Were you back in the crowd?
Were you near the front?
And did you hear the shooting when it rang out?
So I was set back a little ways from the crowd in the media booth.
So I had a very good view of former President Trump from where I was standing.
And certainly I could see a crowd of thousands in front of him.
There were so many people there that not everyone was able to even make it in front of the media booth.
Obviously, you typically like to have the media booth at the back so it isn't obstructing view for anyone.
But there was still a number of supporters who were behind me and to both sides of me.
So, even in the shot that I was able to capture that day of the crowd, there were still thousands of people standing behind me.
So, I did have a very good view.
I did hear the shots ring out.
As you know, the president was speaking for just a few minutes talking about the sad state of America under current U.S. President Joe Biden when the shots rang out.
They were to the left of me.
I heard them immediately.
The crowd immediately recognized that they were bullets.
Everyone began to duck, and I narrowed in looking at the president to see what was going on.
And of course, he fell to the ground to protect himself immediately.
You see those Secret Service agents run on stage, jump on him to protect him with their bodies, which is a very, very brave act to run into ongoing bullet fire.
I know that there is conversations about the ways that the security and certainly the Secret Service failed on that day.
And I think those are important discussions to have, divorcing the fact that that was a very brave act of those men.
And there was one woman pictured there as well.
So in that moment, you know, after those initial eight bullets rang out, it was a bit quiet.
Everyone was kind of wondering, did that really happen?
Were they fireworks?
And of course, I'm looking focused on the stage and I'm noticing that the Secret Service is not moving.
Protecting The President00:15:21
Trump is not getting up.
My understanding of a situation like this is that I expected in the case of gunfire that the president would be immediately whisked away to safety.
And because they remained on the podium for so long and even for a few seconds without moving, I thought maybe the worst had happened.
I thought maybe the president had been struck by a bullet and killed.
A few moments later, we know that wasn't the case.
He stood up along with the Secret Service agents.
And then we have that absolutely incredible and viral and powerful moment, one of the most amazing moments in American political history when Donald Trump, his face, his ear, blood streaking from his ear, puts his fist forward and starts pumping his arm, chanting, fight, fight, fight.
And the energy in the crowd was one of relief and also just euphoric as the people who came to support their former and likely future president realized that he was still alive, although he did look injured.
And, you know, everyone begins to clap and cheer and start chanting USA, USA.
And it was at that point that the Secret Service finally take him away.
It was definitely slower than I anticipated.
I thought they would be removing him much quicker than they did, but they were able to get him away safely in the end.
And we know that now his, his ear was grazed by a bullet, but of course he is and will be okay.
Just incredible.
And a lot to talk about, about the conduct of the Secret Service, who were Secret Service, who were local police.
The new head of the Secret Service is a actually, she comes from corporate security at PepsiCo.
So not exactly used to defending presidents.
And her big focus is on DEI, diversity, equity, and inclusion, including promoting marginalized groups.
There was some video footage, including this footage here, seen millions of times showing some of the smaller female officers fumbling with their guns, fixing their glasses.
There may be an explanation for what we see in that clip, but it certainly was distressing.
And I tell you, that bullet came within an inch of killing Trump.
In fact, a quarter of an inch.
Yeah.
And if he just had tilted his head or hadn't tilted his head, I think he would be dead.
Let me ask about the would-be assassin.
A lot of questions about who he was.
Is he really a 20-year-old with no social media footprint?
Was he really a lone actor who managed to get on a roof?
We see lots of footage of people pointing to him and hollering, there's a guy on the roof with a gun.
We heard witnesses saying that they were shouting, trying to bring that to the attention of police.
Did you see any of that, or was that simply outside your field of view?
Did you hear any of that?
Apparently, there were up to 50 people calling for police to take out that man who was crawling on a roof.
Did any of that come to your eyes or ears before the shooting?
I was not aware that there was any threats at all until I heard the bullets ring out.
And in fact, the crowd was so big and there were so many people to get through that the area that I was standing in after the initial threat of bullets had passed, there was many people saying they're discussing if it was in fact bullets that they heard or if they had heard fireworks.
And you'll remember that the media in the early moments was describing it as a popping noise because we were so unsure what had happened.
And, you know, at this point, there had already been some members of the audience behind the president who had been struck, including one beautiful American patriot and volunteer firefighter who was killed.
We know that now.
But for those of us on the crowd side of the crowd that I was on, we were not aware of the situation and there was still speculation that maybe it wasn't in fact bullets.
There was some speculation that maybe the president was bleeding because of how hard his Secret Service had tackled him.
It did take quite a bit of time for that information to come out and for us to be certain that yes, there was a shooter and the president was struck in the ear.
So certainly from where I was seeing, I was not aware of the threat of the shooter.
And it was only later when I finally had internet service again and I was looking online that I saw those videos.
And it's just, it's striking.
And, you know, you just can't fully grasp the level of incompetence that occurred for a shooter to be on a building while a former U.S. president and the Republican presidential nominee is on the stage.
There is no reason that Donald Trump should have been on that stage with a live shooter in the nearby region.
I've seen reports saying that the Secret Service has a policy that they don't shoot first.
I've never heard that before.
I don't even believe that.
They should absolutely be shooting if there's a shooter who's looking to take out a former U.S. president and the Republican nominee.
And even if that is the case, why was the president on the stage?
The president should never have been on that stage if there was even the slightest possibility of a threat in the area.
So certainly just a stunning level of incompetence or maliciousness at play.
And those are questions that the American public is asking and certainly deserve to know the answer to.
And by the way, there is absolutely a politicization of the Secret Service.
We know, for example, that RFK Jr., whose father and uncle were both assassinated running for president, he has repleted, repeatedly requested protection from the Secret Service, and it has been refused by no one less than the Department of Homeland Security chairman himself, Secretary himself.
It is absolutely a political move to threaten and weaken RFK Jr.
But same thing with Donald Trump.
In fact, there was a motion or a bill put forward to strip Trump of any Secret Service protection.
This was a Democrat sort of gotcha move that is that it looks absolutely evil in the wake of what happened on Saturday.
Well, listen, I want to get to some of the videos you shot.
The first one I know has been seen millions of times because it was so raw and so quick and also, I think, summarized what a lot of Americans and indeed people around the world felt, which is who is to blame for this?
Well, obviously the shooter is to blame and whoever he was working with or for, I don't believe he was on his own.
But who had for years now, really for a decade, demonized Trump, compared him to a tyrant, compared him to Hitler, said he was a danger to democracy?
Who, other than the media?
And you caught someone who was furious with the media.
Let's take a look at that clip now.
You remember what you call him?
This is your warning!
This is your fault!
It was called!
This is your fault!
It is your fault!
This is your fault!
It's your you!
You know, it's tough to disagree with that, at least in a moral sense.
Obviously, those reporters, and particularly the very ones standing on the stage, did not kill anyone and most likely didn't want anyone killed.
But there is no doubt about it.
There has been a drumbeat for years.
And listen, I don't want to be so dainty to think that when you say we're putting a bullseye on them, that you mean a literal gun's bullseye.
But the language that the left has deployed and the Democrats have deployed and the media has deployed against Trump for nearly a decade absolutely is militaristic, totalistic.
Reid Hoffman, major Democrat donor, says, I want to actually martyr him.
Like, there's not a lot of wiggle room there.
What do you make of that guy's feelings?
Obviously, he was full of emotion and anger.
I think he came pretty close to the truth on that.
What do you think?
So, it's interesting.
That was the video that blew up the most out of everything that I had posted.
And if you go back and look at some of my other content, you'll notice as I was describing that scene for you where the crowd's chanting, USA, USA, once they realize that former U.S. President Donald Trump is okay, it looks at that moment like he will be okay.
He's then whisked away by his Secret Service.
Immediately following that, hundreds of people in the crowd turned around to the media, especially those reporters standing on the platform and the risers, the big broadcasters, and began waving their arms at them and yelling, shame, and this is your fault.
And that clip that we just played was taken a little after that.
You can see the audience has largely left at this point, and that man was still yelling at the media.
So, that was hundreds of people in the crowd was their immediate response after an assassination attempt on a former U.S. president.
That's remarkable.
That's remarkable that the American public is that angry recognize how disturbing and what the damage their lies have caused.
And for anyone who felt sympathetic for the media in that moment, it was hard to continue those feelings of sympathy when you saw the way that the media portrayed the attempted assassination of Donald Trump with headlines like Trump fell or Trump got scared after hearing popping noises.
And even hours after the truth had come out, they were still reporting Donald Trump said that he was shot.
No, he was shot.
Are you blind?
I can see it with my own eyes.
You just have to watch, all you have to do is go back and watch some video image.
You can see the bullet lying by his face.
They just continued to lie about it, and they could not bring themselves to tell the truth about what happened in Butler on Saturday.
Yeah.
And it wasn't just, you know, hardline ideological newspapers.
Jeffrey Bezos, one of the world's richest men, the owner of Amazon, who bought the Washington Post as a kind of a political seat at the table, he tweeted his support to Trump.
But then the next day, his own newspaper ran a banner headline that the motive of the shooter is unknown.
The motive is unknown, really.
We really don't know what this is all about.
It could have been, you know, just astonishingly stupid that takes the American people as stupid.
And I think in this case, it's just too far.
I see all over the place, at least on social media, people who were reluctant or shy to support Trump just saying enough of that.
This is too far.
And this is the time for me to come to the occasion.
And even in hard blue, as in Democrat jurisdictions like San Francisco and LA, people wearing their Trump hats, people, because this isn't just about a candidate now.
This is about someone tried to destroy democracy itself.
And they almost did.
I want to show one more clip.
You did a bunch of what we call streeters, just man on the street conversations.
Here's one, and let's see what he has to say.
A little crazy here.
It's amazing.
People thought it was fireworks.
Man, I thought it was fireworks because I looked over.
I was right by the fence.
Not too far from the fence.
And bang!
It was like five shots or six shots total.
And then everybody hit the ground.
Let's go.
Let's go.
All right.
But I don't know what this is going to do to the campaign.
You know, I hope a plus on Donald Trump's side.
Who would do this?
Who would do this?
I mean, there was security all over the place.
I don't know what they say.
I didn't see anybody.
They said there was somebody in the trees and whatever, and I saw them all rush over, but that's about all I saw.
Are you worried that Trump might not be able to continue holding events like this because his life is in so much danger?
Well, I think he's used to taking risks with the security run.
I mean, that's a possibility.
In fact, I was thinking on the way here, what if somebody would bring a gun?
Like, did they check every NIS security?
Have you given contraband yet?
And they said, yeah, we got a couple knives and stuff, but I thought you saw the list.
Don't bring that stuff.
Don't be stupid.
Of course, there's enough witnesses around here to see what was going on.
Yeah, there has been a call for an investigation.
I know Josh Hawley was among the first to call for a proper investigation in the Congress.
The FBI says they'll do all the investigating.
I'm not sure if that gives me any confidence.
Of course, the FBI is deeply implicated in a lot of Biden's schemes to harass and entrap Donald Trump, including, I think it was just today that the FBI raid on Trump's home at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, was declared unconstitutional by a judge.
That entire prosecution claiming he had classified documents, the entire thing was illegal, said a judge.
The entire prosecution, the entire raid.
And so to give the FBI that conducts illegal, unconstitutional raids against Donald Trump to put them in charge of the investigation here, I think is absurd.
I saw Eric Prince, the founder of the former mercenary force called Blackwater.
He said, look, you just got a clean house, he said in a long Twitter rant.
Basically, everything Trump has to get real about security because it's not going to come from the FBI and the Secret Service.
Hey, I got one question for you.
I haven't seen any, but maybe I've missed it.
Have you, Rachel, seen a single report of a riot or a kind of vengeful, violent act anywhere across the United States?
And I haven't, and let me know if you have.
And can you compare that with what you think might have happened if, say, a Democrat candidate had been so nearly assassinated at a public event?
I mean, the left projects their violence and their tyranny and authoritarianism onto Trump and the Republicans.
But it's actually astonishing that in a country of a third of a billion people, there's been no violent reaction to this.
That's astonishing to me.
I think we all know what the response would have been if there had been an assassination against a Democrat politician or even, say, U.S. President Joe Biden.
We would have seen riots in the street, similar to what we saw back in the days when BLM was still at its height.
I'm sure we'll see that rise up again in the week coming to the November 5th election.
Same type of riots that we saw following the death of George Floyd when Americans took to their streets and destroyed their cities, and often primarily black American cities.
They destroyed cities.
Many of those cities have not returned to the place that they were once in.
They've been absolutely shuttered.
Businesses have been shuttered.
The economy has been shuttered in many of these places.
In contrast, we haven't seen any rioting from Republicans following the failed assassination attempt of their candidate.
And even more than that, I would say, Ezra, one of the things that struck me most about the events in Butler, Pennsylvania on Saturday was how calm everyone remained the entire time.
In the initial moments after I heard the bullets ring out, you hear a bit of screaming, you hear a bit of screaming, and when you hear the Secret Service returning fire, and otherwise, it's just very quiet.
I initially thought we were going to see a stampede of people running out of the grounds.
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I was, you know, worried about people getting run over.
You saw none of that, no trampling.
Everyone remained extremely calm.
And people really just wanted to stay and to learn what had happened.
And most importantly, to ensure that Donald Trump was going to be okay.
In that last interview, you played.
You can see the police.
They are yelling at us to get out of the grounds.
We now know that was because they found a suspicious package and that it looked like there was some really rudimentary bomb making going on with the shooter.
So you can understand their urgency to clear the grounds and ensure that the spectators remain safe just in case something did go off.
That didn't happen, of course.
But everyone wanted to keep staying around.
Everyone wanted to know what happened.
Everyone wanted to talk to each other.
And you could already see people working on processing this information and working to keel kind of together as a nation.
Very much the opposite, I believe, what we would have seen if this assassination attempt had happened at a Democrat event, or certainly later on, we would see the riots in the streets with the young people.
I think everyone who attended that day weren't concerned about themselves.
They were concerned about the president and they were concerned about each other.
Well, I tell you, it was incredible that you were there and that I know you did a lot more videos than we showed.
I'd encourage people to go to your Twitter feed to see them.
And I presume you're publishing these things as well on the True North website.
Is that right?
Yeah, we're working on, you saw me kind of holding up the mic there.
We do have better quality footage on the stuff I've posted to X.
So we're working on compiling that now and hopefully getting it onto YouTube today.
Got it.
And the best place to find that is tnc.news.
Is that right?
You got it.
That's true north.
Well, Rachel, it's great to see you.
Of course, thank God you're safe.
And almost everyone was.
I know there was a terrible tragedy of someone getting killed on the weekend.
And of course, Trump himself lightly injured, but perilously close to an assassination.
Thanks for sharing your firsthand observations with us.
Can I just ask you before we let you go, what you have planned next?
You mentioned you're starting a new series of podcasts about, I think it's about the presidential season.
Give us a taste of what we can expect from you in the weeks and months ahead.
Yeah, we'll be taking a dive into, of course, the American election this week on Wednesday.
We'll be taking a look at what's going on in the RNC.
We'll have Trump's vice presidential pick today.
We're already hearing rumors that that was JD Vance.
We'll see if those are confirmed later this afternoon when that is announced.
Could be happening as we're speaking right now.
So basically, just taking a look at the major issues of the campaign, I do hope to be going back into the states.
I will admit, I was actually, it was very difficult for me to get accredited to attend the rally.
Obviously, I could have gone as a general admission, but it was nice to have the access of the media booth there.
Certainly, especially the view, giving everything that played out the way that it did.
So hopefully going to some more events in the States, but going to have to try to get a hold of the Trump campaign and work on getting accredited a little more easily for some future events.
All right.
Well, we look forward to it.
Thanks again for sharing all these things with us and stay safe out there.
It's a wild world and I appreciate you documenting it for us.
Thanks so much, Ezra.
Talk soon.
All right, there you have it.
Rachel Parker with True North, who was on location at the fateful rally in Pennsylvania.
Stay with us more ahead.
Well, isn't Rachel great?
I really admire her, and I look forward to following her reportage from the United States.
Our friend Yankee Pollock is on his way to Milwaukee now, along with Ephraim Monsanto, who's coming down from Toronto.
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They're going to do their best to report on the scene.
I think a lot of the action will be actually outside the convention, the protests and counter-protests in the streets.
We'll have that covered for you.
And as I mentioned earlier, I'm actually running to the airport right now to hop on a night flight to Ireland because things are popping off there.
Just to give you a little reminder, I was at a place called Kulock where a huge empty factory was going to be turned into a migrant housing.
They were going to put 500 men, 500 dudes, in this factory in this poor neighborhood, just across the street from like some kids' places, like a kids' theater and a kids' restaurant and like a kids' arcade.
And the local people are saying, what are you doing?
And the police moved in to clear the blockade.
There was arson.
Here's some of the footage from when I was there two months ago.
Take a look.
It is an encampment.
There are men who rotate through here.
There are flags.
There are signs.
Who are these men and what are they protesting?
They're Irishmen from the neighborhood of Kulak who are protesting an empty warehouse that used to be owned by a paint company.
It's a massive warehouse in which is planned a migrant residence.
What they plan to do, the government, is turn this warehouse, which used to store paint, into a home for 500 to 1,000 migrants, including some single men.
They seek to put modular homes into this building.
And these people in the local community are saying they can't bear that.
Some of them say to have this many single men in this neighborhood with nothing to do is a risk, especially given that right across the street is the bowling alley, the Burger King, the place where all the kids mill around.
Putting hundreds of military-aged foreign men unemployed right across the street could upset the neighborhood, could cause issues ranging from safety to access to services.
This is not a wealthy part of Dublin.
And here's some of the footage from today when riot police and the locals had a standoff.
Well, it wasn't a standoff.
It was a riot.
a look.
In fact, they pepper sprayed one of the people I interviewed when I was over there.
So that's where I'll be tomorrow.
I'll have my report to you from there.
I hope you find that interesting.
We'll publish it all in real time or you can see it at migrantreports.com.
All right, that's our show for today.
So much going on in this mad, mad world.
Until tomorrow, on behalf of all of us at Rebel News, say you at home.