President Biden has now conceded he would drop out of the race if a medical doctor tells him he needs to. Plus, Sean does his best "Joe Biden" impersonation.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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| Day three, Republican National Convention, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | |
| 110 days until election day, and 61 days until early voting begins in the Commonwealth, the great state of Pennsylvania, Linda's home state. | |
| And here we are. | |
| We can't say with any degree of certainty who the Democratic nominee ultimately will be. | |
| I think in the end it's probably going to be Biden. | |
| I'll tell you why in a minute. | |
| Probably. | |
| But it's still probably 50 50. | |
| We did hear from the congenital liar, the pathetic liar that he is, one of the worst human beings on the face of the earth, especially in Congress. | |
| From Adam Schiff, who publicly has now called on Biden to drop out of the race, he says President Biden has been one of the most consequential presidents in our nation's history. | |
| This is the same jackass that is still pushing Russia, Russia, Russia. | |
| Uh, even though he they knowingly lied and they got caught and he doesn't care. | |
| Um now, this I'm not sure what to read into this. | |
| I'm not reading a lot into it. | |
| New York Times has been pushing hard to for Biden to get out of the race. | |
| We know that Barack Obama's got his his fingerprints all over George Clooney and giving the wink and the nod and the okay for Clooney to rot write that op-ed, calling for Joe to, you know, leave the race. | |
| It was so interesting, so kind of them. | |
| If they thought he was such a cognitive mess, why did they wait three weeks until he had a crappy debate and the polls didn't look good for him uh before Clooney came out? | |
| Uh, if he thought that he was a shadow of his former self, the great patriot that he is, who, by the way, also is an ignorant Hollywood elitist jackass along with his wife, uh, after they called for a trial for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. | |
| Uh, they want to bring him up on war crimes. | |
| I'd like to know if somebody knows George Clooney and his wife, would you ask these these ignorant elitist jackasses a question? | |
| What part of murder and kidnapping and rape and beheading don't you understand? | |
| I'd like I just would like a little answer to that because based on their population compared to ours, it would be extrapolated out. | |
| That would be 40,000 dead Americans. | |
| Uh and if an American president responded with overwhelming force, which is what I would want an American president to do. | |
| I wouldn't expect Joe Biden to be capable of doing that. | |
| But what would you want an American president to do? | |
| I would want them to go and kick their ass and win that war and uh put up the red, white, and blue. | |
| That's what I would want. | |
| Oh, Hannity, you sound like a warmonger. | |
| No, I believe in liberty. | |
| I believe in freedom, and don't mess with the USA. | |
| Toby Keith, we're gonna put a boot right up there. | |
| That's it. | |
| Simple, and we're gonna win the war. | |
| Uh no more wars like Iraq anymore. | |
| That's over. | |
| Military technology has advanced to the point. | |
| We don't have to send young men door to door in Baghdad or Fellugia, uh, knocking on doors, stepping over IEDs, getting into Humvees that are not up armored, and getting their legs blown off and their arms blown off and their faces distorted. | |
| Uh no, we have the ability to sit in air conditioned offices right here in the United States, and we can hit with pinpoint accuracy any target we want to hit. | |
| Just saying. | |
| But I digress. | |
| But it was Barack Obama who did in fact give the okay. | |
| It's Barack Obama that's been talking to Nancy Pelosi and Chucky Schumer. | |
| Uh that's why they've been offering only tepid support. | |
| Uh Nancy Pelosi saying, uh time is running out. | |
| Well, she's actually right on that, and I'm going to get to that in a second. | |
| So I'm not sure what to make of this New York Times report. | |
| They've been they've been pushing very hard to get rid of Joe Biden. | |
| Headline, Biden says he'd consider dropping out of a medical condition emerged. | |
| First of all, it's not news. | |
| He said it before. | |
| Um now he said none of his doctors have told him he has any serious medical condition. | |
| Yeah, because he's got Dr. Feelgood, you know, one of the best friends of of Jill Biden as his main doctor and this special Parkinson's expert that just happened to visit the White House for no apparent reason eight separate times. | |
| Uh that guy is a Biden donor, so you doubt we're going to be hearing the truth from them. | |
| It's sort of like, what do they tell us the truth? | |
| They didn't know about Joe's cognitive decline prior to this. | |
| We've been point we've been playing the videos since before the 2020 election. | |
| I'm not saying everybody watches the Hannity show. | |
| If you have if you have any rudimentary perusal of social media in any way, you you know that Joe's a cognitive mess. | |
| There are memes, there are videos, and it just is one after another after another after another. | |
| So anyway, he said in this interview that was released today that he would re-evaluate whether to stay in the presidential in the presidential race if a doctor told him directly he has a medical condition that made that necessary. | |
| And Biden has said that none of his doctors have told him that, and that would be, of course, Dr. Jill Biden. | |
| Why does she insist on being called Dr. Jill Biden? | |
| She has a PhD. | |
| Linda, do you have a PhD? | |
| Not yet, but I was thinking about it. | |
| Oh, goodness. | |
| You can call me Dr. Linda. | |
| How fun would that be, right? | |
| You have what? | |
| You have a couple of masters through crazy. | |
| I do. | |
| I have a master's and I have an MBA. | |
| An MBA. | |
| Oh, great. | |
| But I'm not a doctor yet. | |
| By the way, if and you needed all of those qualifications for this job? | |
| Really? | |
| That's not nice. | |
| This is a hard job. | |
| I'm working my ass off. | |
| I didn't just say you didn't work your ass off, but you didn't need the qualifications for this job. | |
| Listen, at some point I'm gonna cure everything. | |
| You either can do the job and work hard or you didn't. | |
| Dr. Linda is here for liberal needs. | |
| I'm gonna cure them all. | |
| All right. | |
| Uh but Biden has repeatedly been saying none of his doctors are telling him that. | |
| They're not gonna tell him that. | |
| And they've been saying just the opposite. | |
| He's a healthy, active, robust, 81-year-old male who remains fit to successfully execute the duties of the presidency. | |
| And oh, I I he was examined after the debate. | |
| Oh, they said I'm fine. | |
| I just had a bad day. | |
| I had a bad day. | |
| Wasn't a good day. | |
| It's a bad one bad day. | |
| Anybody can have a bad day. | |
| It's a bad day. | |
| What? | |
| Seriously. | |
| Come on, man. | |
| Come on, man. | |
| I'm getting better. | |
| That's the Michael J. That's the Michael Jackson voice. | |
| It freaks me out. | |
| No, the Michael Jackson voice. | |
| It's a little cookies and milk and we got some movies, starting a fire, getting bad, little boys. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| It's three o'clock. | |
| Not related to me. | |
| It's it's beautiful. | |
| It's the way the whole world should be. | |
| Oh, it's so creepy. | |
| What is going on in the world? | |
| Uh sad moment at the I don't know if you saw the moment where Rudy took a tumble at the RNC. | |
| Um, he doesn't look well to me. | |
| I know I know it's wishful thinking on my part. | |
| This man was a hero at 9-11. | |
| I don't know what he did or didn't do. | |
| I don't know about his taxes. | |
| I don't know about any of this crap. | |
| I don't know what they're investigating. | |
| I really I really don't. | |
| But you know something? | |
| He's he's in bad health. | |
| He's elderly at this point in his life. | |
| Can you leave him the hell alone? | |
| And and just just as a way of saying thank you for how you led our country on 9-11. | |
| Sadly, that probably won't be his legacy. | |
| Last night was interesting. | |
| Nikki Haley, Governor Ron DeSantis, huge U-turns. | |
| Uh as the media said, No, they weren't huge U-turns. | |
| Ron DeSantis supported Donald Trump the day he got out of the race. | |
| Wasn't a U-turn. | |
| Nikki Haley had already endorsed Donald Trump. | |
| Not a U-turn. | |
| And nobody cares what Adam the congenital liar Schiff has to say. | |
| One interesting side note as we're getting the program started today. | |
| Liberal Joe, as we had mentioned, they was pulled off the air on Monday. | |
| They said, Oh, they were going to run other programming uh NBC news related around the clock. | |
| No, the only show they preempted was Liberal Joe. | |
| And now Liberal Joe and Mika are complaining and felt like they've been lied to. | |
| So there's a little showdown of the okay corral that's emerging. | |
| You know that because of outlaws and lawmen that I did the special on Fox Nation. | |
| Um and anyway, he may I wonder if they're gonna survive. | |
| Now think about this. | |
| They let the inmates over at MSDNC run the asylum. | |
| Remember when they hired Ronald McDaniel and Ronald McDaniel, but every hoe God, we can't hear from Ronald McDaniel. | |
| You know, and oh the the vapors. | |
| Oh, the a Republican. | |
| Oh ding. | |
| I mean what? | |
| I'm in the city. | |
| They were pretty nice to Eric Trump the other day. | |
| Even Eric Trump talked about it. | |
| No, he was talking about fake news CNN, wasn't he? | |
| Yeah, but he also had one with uh who was it? | |
| One of our other favorites, Nicole? | |
| Was it Nicole? | |
| Nicole would never be nice to him. | |
| Let me look it up. | |
| I know by the way, I've always gotten along with Nicole. | |
| She actually ran the McCain campaign. | |
| I have no problem with I I I honestly don't have a problem with lunatics on television. | |
| You know, I don't know. | |
| I'd say you are gentle. | |
| I believe I believe in in freedom of expression and freedom of speech. | |
| And I celebrate it. | |
| That's why I've never supported a boycott. | |
| I don't call for firings and cancellations. | |
| I just don't do it. | |
| And you know, I think people, if they make mistakes, ought to have the the ability to at least make it right. | |
| But you know, they go in with this kill mentality. | |
| The people they want to kill the most and the people they want fired the most, and the people they want boycotted are conservatives. | |
| We've had the ex we've we've dealt with this crap my entire career. | |
| I've had to deal with this garbage. | |
| You know, although it kind of stopped after this great audience of ours, all of you out there. | |
| It ended up costing me a lot of money, but it was worth every penny. | |
| But this great audience that we have, and you are great, and I d I I feel like I've I live an undeserved life, and I work hard and I just do the best shows I can possibly do. | |
| But there was an I guess the attempted boycott of me, a big one. | |
| And I don't if for no reason that I can recall. | |
| Linda, do you remember the reason? | |
| Yes. | |
| All right, maybe we won't talk about it then. | |
| Was it warranted in any way? | |
| No, no, no. | |
| They just they thought that uh you were related to the certain product, and they thought that they were coming after you for talking about certain things, and it was all it was just a huge misunderstanding. | |
| Okay. | |
| So anyway, so Carrig bailed out of my show, and if they said so publicly. | |
| No, that might get a fact wrong. | |
| I don't know. | |
| You are. | |
| You are. | |
| So I stand corrected. | |
| The story is everybody thought that Keurig was a sponsor of our show. | |
| And at the time, there were people calling for uh boycotts of the Hannity show because they just were going through this crazy time. | |
| If you remember, they were boycotting everything. | |
| And so they started taking their curios out and bashing them and shooting them and running them over with their pickup. | |
| So they were shooting him with shotguns, it was it was baseball. | |
| You remember this, right? | |
| Yeah. | |
| But the problem my favorite was dropping it from like five stories down. | |
| Out apartment windows. | |
| It was just weird. | |
| But um, we explained to the audience that they were not a uh sponsor of the time, but they did make a statement that did say No, they were a sponsor of Fox News, and they only sponsored the morning show because it's coffee. | |
| That's coffee. | |
| So say it again. | |
| It's green. | |
| What is it? | |
| Green Mountain Hill or Green Hill. | |
| What is it? | |
| Say car Green Mountain Coffee. | |
| Say coffee again. | |
| No. | |
| So long story short. | |
| City are we in from Milwaukee. | |
| I'll say it your way. | |
| No, I say it the right way. | |
| And not for nothing. | |
| I'm gonna roll the tape from yesterday. | |
| You say it my way too. | |
| Milwaukee. | |
| Milwaukee. | |
| It's the same thing. | |
| That's how you say it. | |
| That's how you say it. | |
| We're in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. | |
| No, now you're saying it different. | |
| No, you're not making it. | |
| I'm gonna roll the tape. | |
| You can't do that. | |
| He can get the tape from yesterday because you know we're gonna call him on it. | |
| But anyways, a huge mix up. | |
| And anyway, so all these people and you know what? | |
| This audience was so amazing. | |
| And then I said, Well, I can't let those machines are kind of expensive. | |
| So I ended up anybody that wrote us and showed that they ruined their coffee machine in support of me, I replaced it. | |
| And they wouldn't even give me a discount. | |
| How many no, they gave us a discount. | |
| Ironically, he doesn't work he doesn't work there anymore, so I can say this now. | |
| I ended up talking to a guy at their company who's a die hard conservative, and he loved you. | |
| So he was like, You're my cousin, right? | |
| I was like, Yeah, I'm your cousin. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So we got a hookup because we bought like a thousand machines for all these guys. | |
| Okay, that got weird. | |
| No, he hooked the sister up because you know he hooked a sister up. | |
| Yeah, because not only he was also from where I was from, and he loved you, and he felt really bad. | |
| He goes, This is crazy. | |
| People are breaking their machines. | |
| Right. | |
| So we got we replaced everyone that we knew that people could verify. | |
| A hundred percent. | |
| All right, I uh gotta take a break here. | |
| By the way, JD Vance uh will speak tonight at the RNC. | |
| It'll be on Hannity tonight, nine Eastern on Fox. | |
| And uh I I'm really looking forward to a speech. | |
| I've talked to somebody that's familiar with it, said it's killer. | |
| It's a great speech tonight. | |
| I'm looking forward to it. | |
| Uh 9 Eastern, we'll be there. | |
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| And I'm Carol Markowitz. | |
| We've been in political media for a long time. | |
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| That's why we started normally a podcast for people who are over the hysteria and just want clarity. | |
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| The R&Z Convention. | |
| J.D. Vance takes the stage tonight. | |
| We'll have full, complete coverage, 9 Eastern, on Hannity, on the Fox News Channel. | |
| We have many, many, many questions surrounding what has happened with the Secret Service. | |
| We don't have a lot of answers. | |
| Well, I have one question I'd like to know are there any other people involved? | |
| Are there any co-conspirators? | |
| Was this a lone wolf? | |
| I don't we don't know. | |
| We know Congress is beginning their investigative process. | |
| Uh it's, you know, it would in first some new evidence does indicate Fox News.com had this that maybe this guy Thomas Crooks had a political agenda. | |
| I'll explain that to you when we get back. | |
| And the widow of the Trump rally shooting victim refused to take Joe Biden's call. | |
| You know, that news, Pennsylvania police gathered inside the building as the Trump shooter climbed to the roof. | |
| Makes no sense, does it? | |
| Zero. | |
| From that short distance. | |
| But that was outside the perimeter. | |
| It was in uh local jurisdiction. | |
| No, that's Secret Service jurisdiction. | |
| All right, so let me go back and this is still a topic de jour. | |
| A high school classmate of this would be Trump assassin, Thomas Crooks, has now told Fox News that crooks made derogatory comments about Trump, called Trump supporters stupid. | |
| If accurate, the new account would be the first evidence indicating that the attempted assassination of the presidential front runner was politically motivated. | |
| I have a question at this point. | |
| It's Wednesday. | |
| This happened Saturday. | |
| Why do we have next to zero answers? | |
| Why do we know so little about the would-be assassin? | |
| Why isn't more information forthcoming? | |
| I understand the need to protect an investigation. | |
| I get that part. | |
| How is it that we have a Secret Service director that admits it's all uh this is on me, but I'm not going anywhere. | |
| And then actually admitted, yeah, we saw the roof. | |
| Um it was slanted. | |
| It looked dangerous for our agents, even though there was another roof that was at a steeper angle that her agents were on. | |
| Uh agents have no problems with getting on roofs. | |
| Certainly, assassins didn't have a problem. | |
| Uh they didn't bring up the issue of uh, but we put them inside the building. | |
| Well, that still allowed this guy to scope out the facil the area ahead of time, bring a ladder and a rifle a hundred and thirty yards away, which is uh kind of like a layup or a two-foot, you know, tap in putt, whatever sports analogy you want to use, or maybe crossing the plane at the one-yard line, uh, which can be difficult for some teams, which Linda does not understand. | |
| And this guy was able to bring a ladder and a gun, and the only people that saw this guy were people that were in the crowd. | |
| And they tried to warn law enforcement. | |
| The guy climbs up the ladder with his rifle. | |
| And my question is, why didn't they have the perimeter of that building that even the Secret Service director knew about, Kim Cheadle, and say, okay, well, nobody's gonna get on that roof. | |
| If we're not going on it, neither is anybody else. | |
| Or they could have done that, and what they should have done is had snipers with rifles and eyes on that building the entire time. | |
| They could have also used drone footage. | |
| They could have kept a drone right on top of it. | |
| And then somebody could be sitting in the convenience of an air-conditioned car watching the roof the entire time. | |
| This never would have happened. | |
| Easily preventable, just like Joe Biden's illegal immigrants. | |
| Easily preventable. | |
| You come within a millimeter of assassinating a former president, top presidential candidate, and we still don't know anything about the guy responsible. | |
| Because I recall in past shootings, we usually know within in hours something about the shooter. | |
| We don't have to wait five days, and it's it's like an information void here that is just it's unacceptable to the American people. | |
| Is there any chance that there was any other involvement? | |
| I don't have any evidence of it. | |
| I haven't seen any evidence of it, but we do know that human a human source of our intelligence community warned of an Iranian plot to assassinate Donald Trump in just the last couple of weeks. | |
| You might want to investigate that pretty quickly and see if there was any connection. | |
| And that hasn't happened either. | |
| Anyway, uh this Vincent uh I can't say his name, uh Torah Mino is how you say it, I guess. | |
| Anyway, I brought up the fact that I'm a Hispanic and you know I'm for Trump, and he said, Well, you're a Hispanic. | |
| You shouldn't, so shouldn't you hate Trump? | |
| No, he's great. | |
| He's a great president. | |
| He called me stupid, meeting the assassin or insinuated I was stupid. | |
| It happened during a discussion in an English class at a high school and during the 2016 campaign. | |
| And he also pushed back on reporting that crooks, the assassin was a complete loner. | |
| He had a friend group. | |
| He said, although it was both small and concerning, they did make threats to shoot up our school. | |
| So, you know, what why don't we know more? | |
| We seem to know more about other shooting examples. | |
| New York Post told the story about this hor by the way, our prayers are with the these families and their victims. | |
| I mean, it's terrible. | |
| Um, when somebody big gets shot, you know, it's sort of like, oh, uh actress so and so's plane went down and six others. | |
| How would you like to be the six others that are not mentioned? | |
| Well, there were people that were shot and killed here. | |
| Anyway, the poor heartbroken woman, God bless her, we're praying for her and her family. | |
| Corey uh Comper Torre, a hero fired, the hero firefighter that was shot dead by this sniper at the rally, wanted nothing to do with Biden when he called after the tragedy. | |
| Why didn't he ever call Lake and Riley's family? | |
| Why didn't he call the family of the mother of five? | |
| Why didn't he call the family of the 13-year-old raped in broad daylight in Queens? | |
| Uh why didn't he call the family of the 12-year-old girl that was tortured, fought back, 12-year-old girl fought back at brutalized for two hours and then murdered again by all in every case unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants. | |
| He didn't call any of those people. | |
| That was on full display last night. | |
| Powerful speakers last night telling their stories about their lost loved ones because of Joe Biden's uh insane open borders policy. | |
| We've been telling you. | |
| Now, I also am standing by my prediction that I pray to God I'm wrong about. | |
| When you have 11 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants coming from countries with terror ties and our top geopolitical foes and 180 countries total, I hate to tell you uh that is called a national security risk of monumental proportions. | |
| And we know we've already caught people with terror ties at the border. | |
| It's we're gonna get hit. | |
| Another 911 is coming. | |
| And Joe will already has blood on his hands. | |
| Every unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrant that rapes and murders is on him and on his border czar, Kamala Harris. | |
| Pennsylvania police gathered inside the building as a Trump shooter climbed to the roof. | |
| Local police counter-sniper team stationed inside the building where the assassin Thomas Cooks climbed onto the roof, fired at Donald Trump. | |
| The building was apparently a factory in Butler, Pennsylvania that was used by local police as a watch post for snipers to scan for threats. | |
| As the former president was only 130 yards away. | |
| Now, cops were inside, not on the roof, and not around the perimeter. | |
| There's no excuse for this. | |
| The guy was spotted on the building twenty-six minutes before he opened fire. | |
| One cop from the Beaver County emergency service unit even taken a photo of the gunman before the shooting. | |
| How does that how is it we haven't heard from these people yet? | |
| What the hell is going on here? | |
| You know, but I take full responsibility, but I'm not quitting. | |
| And it had a slope, and we put the agents inside. | |
| Well, the you can't shoot a rifle at a at a presidential former president and presidential candidate from inside the building unless the doors open. | |
| So stupid. | |
| On the day he was shot, Trump's Secret Service detail was made up of temporary replacements. | |
| This is another report. | |
| Real clear politics. | |
| Apparently, the Secret Service is stretched so thin that the agents assigned to guard Donald Trump that day were not part of his regular detail. | |
| I happen to know somebody that was on his regular Detail until just a few weeks ago. | |
| That got moved. | |
| I know that. | |
| I also am hearing my sources, uh, a number of them that are saying that they're trying to blame the Secret Service agents, even the ones that dove on the president and risk their lives. | |
| So we'll see where that goes. | |
| Passing the buck is now begun. | |
| We need an independent outside the agency investigation by real investigators that understand protecting primary targets and understand what snipers do and understand assassins. | |
| That's what we need. | |
| Real clear politics, inflexible Secret Service protocols, overworked agents, and a decision against deploying more counter-snipers to President Trump's rally in Pennsylvania, all contributed to creating the opening for the gunman to wound Trump, kill a bystander, and seriously injure two others, according to several sources in the Secret Service community, as reported by Real Clear Real Clear politics and real clear investigations. | |
| According to the sources, the agency was relying heavily on supplemental special agents, not Trump's regular team of special agents and local law enforcement. | |
| It's not local law enforcement's job to make sure that the perimeter is secure. | |
| Well, Hannity was outside the perimeter. | |
| No, it wasn't. | |
| The perimeter is any range in which you can reach the president or reach the target. | |
| That's the range. | |
| That would be the perimeter. | |
| Outside of that, if you don't have the ability to fire that far and hit a target, then that's not that's out of the perimeter range. | |
| Now the Secret Service is reportedly also underfunded in another report, Real Clear Politics, undermanned, strength stretched thin to adequately protect Trump. | |
| And uh I am told by another source that there is a paper trail of numerous efforts in from Trump world to get more security for the president. | |
| That was denied every time. | |
| We will find we will find out this information in the days and weeks ahead. | |
| I'm giving you a preview of coming attractions. | |
| And Kimberly Cheadle got her job after a push by Joe Biden, according to another report that came out in the New York Post. | |
| Kimberly Cheadle now facing this congressional outcry, which is beginning today, and we'll go into next week. | |
| Uh calls to resign. | |
| She's no, she should be fired. | |
| Joe should fire her for allowing stops with me. | |
| Okay, you're fired. | |
| Anyway, to uh landing, you know, apparently landed this role, and according to CBS in 2023, she was oh, we're gonna we're gonna remake the the Secret Service and we're gonna make 30% of our agents, I believe she said at the time, female, so we have a DEI director. | |
| No, this is not a DEI hire. | |
| This is who is best qualified to be a Secret Service agent. | |
| Now, a friend of mine on the Secret Service is happens to be a woman. | |
| Very tall woman, very athletic woman, somebody that is very fit and very competent. | |
| And I'm just telling you, belongs on the Secret Service. | |
| Rock star, you know, was willing to risk their lives like we saw that on Saturday, too. | |
| So uh anyway, so the director, you know, got her job apparently because of a relationship with Jill Biden. | |
| Four sources close to the Biden family, including people who interacted with Cheadle during the Obama Biden administration, said she was well liked by the future first lady and her most senior aides, including you know certain people. | |
| Cheadle served on Dr. Biden's second lady detail and Anthony push for her, and that's how she got hired, according to this report in the New York Post. | |
| Biden gets shamed into granting the Secret Service protection to RFK Jr. | |
| Well, it took him a long time, as per usual, to catch up to us. | |
| One FBI staffer caught posting a meme regretting that Donald Trump survived Saturday's shooting. | |
| This was in The Daily Mail. | |
| FBI staffer accused of posting a vile message where she expressed regret that Donald Trump was not killed in the assassination attempt on Saturday. | |
| And Jenna Howell, who reportedly works for the FBI's research identity department, posted an image of the Grim Reaper trying to pick a Trump doll from a claw machine, according to the Federalists. | |
| The caption reads, Oh, so close. | |
| Wow. | |
| Adam Schiff warning Democrats will be wiped out with Biden at the top of the ticket. | |
| Possible, he goes, I can see any scenario unfolding. | |
| Joe Biden ignoring his top advisors, relying on Hunter and Jill Biden for guidance. | |
| A New York Times piece has been out there, and that's where his closest, you know, consultants and advisors, who they happen to be. | |
| Michael Waltz, Secret Service sources say the agency refused to send all the agents needed for Trump's Saturday rally. | |
| Telling you, my sources, I'm not wrong. | |
| Am I usually wrong? | |
| Nope. | |
| Joe's a cognitive mess. | |
| I was right. | |
| Russia collusion, a hoax. | |
| I was right. | |
| Pfizer warrants. | |
| I was right. | |
| 55 former Intel officials. | |
| Yeah, we actually interviewed the guy, the the Apple repair shop guy. | |
| I was right again. | |
| Democrats moved to lock in Joe Biden's nomination weeks before the actual convention. | |
| Once he has the delegates, they can't tell him to do a damn thing. | |
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