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Rep. Cory Mills - September 17th, Hour 2
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The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, early voting has started.
It will now roll out around the rest of the country.
I cannot emphasize enough the importance of voting early, banking your vote, voting by mail.
I know it's not the system we want.
Please stop telling me it's not the system we want because I've been saying it for four years.
But it's the system we're stuck with, and you don't get to change the system unless you win elections.
That is just a fact.
Let me play the insanity of the state-run media mob actually blaming, questioning Donald Trump's, quote, rhetoric and mental state after the second assassination attempt.
The part that they don't seem to realize was against him.
Listen.
But do you expect to hear anything from the Trump campaign about toning down the rhetoric, toning down the violence, or would that be atypical of the former president?
Leading up to this, the former president of Tate had been subject to some critical coverage in the news media for stoking some conspiracy theories about the first assassination attempt.
And now that the second one came along, it's going to be hard to persuade him otherwise that there is not some deeper, darker force at work.
I'm not saying that there is, but this is just his belief system.
And it's only going to be strengthened by the situation.
If Donald Trump wants people, wants Kamala Harris and others to say, to stop saying that he is a threat to democracy, then he should stop threatening democracy.
Perhaps he shouldn't be overturning, trying to overturn elections, overthrow the government, and inciting insurrections if he doesn't want people to be honest about what he is, who he is, and what he's doing.
Can I just tell you something?
Does anyone remember that Kamala Harris, four days after the police precinct in Minneapolis was burned to the ground, tweeted out support for the Minnesota bail fund to release the people involved in the rioting and went on Colbert and said that the rioters weren't going to stop, that the rioters shouldn't stop and that they're not going to stop.
And there were nearly 600 riots that took place in the summer of 2020.
Did we forget that part?
Anyway, here is, we have Joyless Behar, now Joyless Reed, after now the second Trump assassination attempt on MSDNC.
He had one person over there comparing Trump to Hitler.
And then she's saying, well, that MAGA is responsible for the actual violence and the violence is coming from them.
I'm not sure if she reads newspapers or press reports because if she did, she would know that this guy is a Democratic donor and a huge Harris Biden supporter.
Listen.
The irony of it is that the violence, the actual violence we're seeing comes much more disproportionately from MAGA themselves, whether it's January 6th, whether it's them threatening election workers, whether it's the bomb threats coming into schools in Springfield, the violence is coming from them, from their own supporters, yet they try to portray Haitian immigrants as the people to fear.
Unbelievable.
Now, I am really worked up of the new head of the Secret Service.
Remember, the first herd, Kimberly Cheadle, was trying to tell us that it was a sloped roof that kept agents off that roof where the assassin or the would-be assassin in Butler PA was able to gain access with the rifle to fire within a millimeter of Donald Trump's head and nearly killing him.
And now we have in the Holly report information that says, well, that roof was too hot.
It was not a sloped roof, as we have since learned, and yet there were agents on other roofs and other adjacent buildings.
And so none of this adds up or makes any sense.
And this guy, Ronald Rowe, is saying that the security plan for Trump worked, and yet they didn't sweep the wooded area near the fence, the most vulnerable part that is well known to law enforcement as the most vulnerable part of Trump International and West Palm Beach.
wasn't swept, and there were no agents guarding that area to make sure that nobody had access to it.
But according to him, everything went perfectly.
Yesterday was an off-the-record movement, off the record.
And the president wasn't even really supposed to go there.
It was not on his official schedule.
And so we put together a security plan, and that security plan worked.
The security plan did not work.
If it worked, you wouldn't have somebody with an AK-47 and a scope on it within 300-plus yards of the president, which would be the equivalent, if you want to talk about golf, of a one-foot or a tap-in putt.
You can't miss that shot.
And then he goes on to describe assets used by the Secret Service to protect President Trump.
And I'm going to interview President Trump tonight, but it's clear from my sources within the campaign and people around Trump that there have been multiple requests of the Secret Service for extra protection that has been denied repeatedly by the Biden-Harris administration.
Listen.
The increased assets directed by the president, by President Biden, were in place yesterday.
These included the counter-sniper team elements, counter-surveillance place and counter-surveillance agents on the exterior, counter-assault teams partnered with local tactical assets from the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office, and counter-unmanned aerial system elements.
All of these entities were present yesterday.
Well, it didn't work out, did it?
None of what they said.
Anyway, joining us now, Corey Mills, Congressman Florida, decorated Army combat vet and serves on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee.
Gary Byrne, author of The Secrets of the Secret Service, the History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service.
Welcome, both of you.
Corey Mills, would you agree with the head of the Secret Service?
To me, if he believes that, that's a fireable offense.
Well, it's absolutely not true, Sean.
I mean, we've seen where this is the second failure to get a perimeter or a security bubble out far enough to keep the president out of harm's way.
This is also his own admittance that they failed to clear the bubble by going to that area two and three holes ahead or the golf course itself.
But again, Sean, I ask the question, how did this individual know that President Trump would be there on an unscheduled visit?
The other thing is, is how is it that the Secret Service refused to use compatible communications, refused the drone offering of surveillance and things like that when it came to Butler PA?
There are too many missteps here for it to continue.
And I can tell you that throwing more money at a broken system like the Secret Service before we identify the real issue as poor leadership and the prioritization of DEI is a failed approach by government.
And I think that we need a stronger investigation into what took place.
I think the idea, and I think this should be basic one-on-one, and I know the president, and I'll interview him tonight on Hannity.
The president is particularly fond of the Secret Service and doesn't want to question the Secret Service, but we can't have would-be assassins 130 and 300-plus yards away from the president, in this case with a scope and an AK-47.
I think you'd agree with me, Gary, that that's a simple shot for anybody with even marginal skill.
That's right.
Yes, it is.
It absolutely is.
And here's something I'd like to suggest to you.
99% of what America knows about the Secret Service is from movies and from TV.
And President Trump's affection for the Secret Service is admirable, but it is a very broken system.
I detail it very clearly in Secrets of the Secret Service.
And I shouldn't even have to mention the book after based on what's happened in the last 65 days.
It's insanity.
They're not doing their jobs.
Their management is, there's so many levels of management, Congressman.
I swear they have a deputy assistant director for copyright ink and notepads.
It's insane.
That's right.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't know what to do here if this is the most this the area that we're talking about congressman is well known for where paparazzi hang out because it's the only place on the golf course that it has close proximity to any of the holes and that's where the paparazzi that's where you know photojournalists and and newspaper and web people go and they get videos of donald trump playing golf it's well known for
That it's a well-known security you know sensitive area for the golf course, the most security sensitive area in the golf course.
Can you explain how this guy got there?
Apparently, according to the reports today at 1, 30 in the morning and that was there the entire time, and and but for one sharp agent and I would say this is the lucky part, but for one sharp agent spotting the barrel of the gun uh, otherwise I would argue that we'd be we'd be doing a very different show today talking about the assassination of Donald Trump.
Well Sean, you're exactly right.
This individual got through a known area that CNN and other journalists have utilized to film the president.
Why, if we know that this is a known area, was there not an agent already posted there?
And that the golf course cleared is once again questions that need to be risen.
But here's the bigger issue.
It is not just the poor leadership of the Secret Service and the multiple rungs, as being told, but it's an absence in the understanding of the doctrine.
They are judging assets and resources upon what the position and title that is being held, not on the actual risk assessment and the threats that need to be mitigated.
I think we can all argue that president Trump is one of the most loved and most hated presidents and that there are many people who would like to see him taken out and eliminated so that he doesn't come in and clean up the deep state in the swamp.
And so, when we know this and we understand his security detail needs to have additional assets and resources.
It shouldn't be mirrored after that of Jimmy Carter or that of Bill Clinton, because they're not in the same threat matrix.
And I think these are the areas that we need to be looking at and identifying a threat assessment, mitigating measures and looking at how do we expand a perimeter and bubble to ensure the safety and security of the future.
And former president of the United States well, I think that this this, this should have been basic and fundamental.
How do you claim success here when, in fact, it was a frankly a bit of luck that the president is alive today?
You How do you claim success, Gary?
Because you're playing into the ideal that the Secret Service, if you go on their website, it says zero fail mission.
That motto died when John Kennedy was killed in 63, but they still put it up there.
The Secret Service director is trying not to get fired and be prosecuted.
He's putting on a face that's not real.
Of course, it was a complete failure.
Yes, I'm very glad that one of the agents saw the rifle barrel sticking out.
But again, it should have been stopped way before that.
That road should have been controlled.
We learned during Jerry Ford's administration that we had to control the press, but we didn't do it.
And not until Ronald Reagan got shot by John Hinckley hiding in the press area.
And that's what we're talking about.
We're talking about an area where the press goes and uses, and they know about it, and they're ignoring it.
And it's crept up on them again.
They just can't help themselves.
It's amazing.
They really can't help themselves.
All right, quick break.
We'll come right back more with Congressman Corey Mills.
More with Gary Byrne, author of The Secrets of the Secret Service, The History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service.
And your calls coming up, 800-941-Sean, as we continue.
Look, as you or maybe somebody in your family, if you have served our.
All right, we continue now with Congressman Corey Mills of Florida and Gary Byrne, author of Secrets of the Secret Service, the History and Uncertain Future of the U.S. Secret Service.
I don't know.
There's such an urgency to make sure that this doesn't happen again.
I just don't know, Congressman, how do we fix this so that it doesn't happen in a week or a day?
How does this happen?
I think that we go ahead and look at hiring private security of former special operations, whether it be special missions unit guys, whether it be guys out of MarsSock or SOCOM or USICOM.
And I think that he needs to have an internal bubble until we can actually root out what the failures are within the Secret Service from everything from their threat matrix to elimination of DEI and certainly the complete house cleaning of the poor leadership that's in there now.
What's your take, Gary?
I agree with what the Congressman said.
I'm not thrilled about the ideal of using military units, but I think something drastic does have to happen.
And then they said they didn't have the resources.
If they don't have the resources, Governor Ron DeSantis has offered to supplement whatever they need, which would have allowed people to go and at least scope out the area and clear the area ahead of time, and that would have been handled.
And they could have had two people making sure that nobody got anywhere near the wooded and fenced in area near the golf course.
This is not a difficult task, is it?
No, it's not, Sean.
They have the resources.
They're just not allocating them.
They could transfer 50% of the agents from New York, from L.A., and from another large field office to the Trump detail for temporary duty.
I've seen them do it before.
They could do it.
They could beef it up, but they're just not doing it.
Because clearly, and I hate to sound hyper-bull, but God, it's like they don't give a crap.
I swear, you know, the president, the Oval Office isn't protecting Donald Trump.
The head of DHS isn't protecting them, and the Secret Service is not protecting them either.
I'm sorry.
They need to do something like that.
They need to bring these people in.
They need to beef up the detail and stop looking at it that he's just a person running.
He's already been president.
And again, he is one of the most popular people, like him or not, in the world.
And certainly the biggest assassination target.
There's no doubt about it.
I appreciate you both, Congressman Corey Mills, Gary Byrne, thank you both.
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Early voting in Pennsylvania.
Now, as we speak, if you're in the Commonwealth, I hope that any reluctance, resistance you have to early voting, voting by mail, is pushed to the side, understanding that you cannot change the system until you win elections.
And you can't start out Election Day down hundreds of thousands of votes.
And many people on Election Day, you think you're going to vote on Election Day, and something comes up and you can't vote on Election Day.
That could make up all the difference.
Bank your vote, please.
And for those of you that disagree, I respect your opinion, but I want to change.
I want to put more integrity in our election system.
You know the system I want.
You know, I want Election Day to be a national holiday.
You know, I want paper ballots.
You know, I want proof of citizenship, voter ID, signature verification, chain of custody controls, updated voter rolls.
You know, that I want also partisan observers in every precinct in the country watching the voting all day, the vote counting all night.
But we don't have it.
So I'm asking all of you to accept that this is the system we're stuck with, and we better embrace it because if you end up on Election Day in a close race and you're down and it comes down to the early voting, the odds are higher that they're going to take the election and that they will win.
And I don't want that to happen.
Anyway, Pennsylvania, we need you desperately.
All right, let's get to our busy phones.
Our friend Barbara in Maryland is with us.
She was at the assassination attempt in Butler, PA.
Barbara, glad you called.
Thanks for being with us.
Thanks for taking my call, Sean.
You are so hard to get on the phone.
You've gotten so famous now, all of us little peons that are really.
Hey, Barbara, Barbara, I am a peon just like you.
You know what?
I put my pants on the same way as everyone else, one leg at a time.
And, you know, I just, I feel blessed to do what I do, but I'm very grateful for the people that do their jobs every day.
Every job is a service job.
We all have to serve other people.
We serve people by offering news, information, opinion that they're not going to get from the mob in the state-run media.
But what's on your mind today?
Well, I tell you, you know, I've just, I was in Butler, and that was traumatic, more traumatic than I actually thought at the time.
You were right there in the front, too.
What row were you in?
I was on the ground.
I was standing on the ground to his left, right behind him.
I've got tape of them bringing him, you know, coming down the steps.
It was just, it hit me afterwards as to just how close I came to seeing a total disaster.
I mean, it didn't, all of it just didn't sink in.
People did not leave.
And I would have laughed to even leave the field because the traffic was so bad.
I just sort of sat on the back of my Hummer and had a sandwich and watched the stuff.
But what's happening right now?
Well, thank God you had a sandwich with you, you know, at least a little food comfort or something, right?
I mean, that's pretty traumatic to go through.
Thank God we had some vendors who were just shutting up because once they shut things down, they shut everything down.
A lot of people lost a lot that day.
But, you know, I'm just tired of all the rhetoric coming from the left.
Donald Trump has not said or done anything to incite the violence that what they're doing right now.
What they're doing is bringing out every nutcase that we've got in America.
You know, it's like this is what they intend to do.
And I'm at the point where like when you holler fire in a theater, don't you get locked up for that?
It's time for some kind of consequences for these media people.
They should have more responsibility to do what they're doing.
Look at Hillary Clinton fanning the flames after the second assassination attempt or this idiot Don Lemon.
Hillary saying that the press is still not able to cover Trump the way that they should.
And they careen from one outrage to the next.
And I don't understand why it's so difficult for the press to have a consistent narrative about how dangerous Trump is.
What is she implying here?
And then you go to the mob, the media, and we have all these examples that I've been mentioning about Democrats escalating their rhetoric against Donald Trump, trying to blame him for what happened in West Palm Beach at Trump International.
Believe it.
You know, one MSDNC guest is called Donald Trump.
He says he's exactly like Hitler.
Other journalists pouncing on Trump, blaming him for what happened here.
And this is the mainstream media mob, state-run media.
You know, you have Joyless Reed, you have Joyless Behart, Joyless Reed, both would-be Trump assassins are white American Trump supporting men.
No, this guy was a Biden-Harris supporter and Democratic donor.
What the hell is she talking about?
But they go forward.
They just go further.
You know, on MSDNC, the connection between Trump's rhetoric and political violence is undeniable.
They're blaming Trump.
This is how sick the media is.
And this is why I say Donald Trump is up against very, very powerful institutions.
It would be the state-run media mob Pravda.
It would be big tech organizations.
We saw that in 2020.
It would be the deep state.
We watched the 50 former One Intel officials.
We watched a dirty Russian disinformation dossier being used in 2016.
We watched the double standard with a weaponized justice system.
These are powerful institutions that are against Donald Trump, and they're putting their own cinder blocks on the scales of an election.
They don't want this man elected.
And the only way it's going to happen is if we, the people, go out in large enough numbers, too big to rig, and win the election.
And we will.
We're going to show up in very large numbers.
And I got to say this.
I hope so.
I can't guarantee it.
I'm just one guy.
I'm an election judge here in Maryland.
And during this last couple of elections, I've always pushed with people to do early voting because here we have early voting for a week before election day.
And it was just not popular.
But now, and you're saying it, I've seen it.
I saw what was happening.
And I'm just so glad that you are really pushing this.
We have got to do it just what they do.
If they're harvesting ballots, we got to get out there and harvest ballots.
I know Maryland is considered a lost state, so I've just kind of stopped spinning my wheels here.
But every.
Well, Larry Hogan, he's never going to be my favorite senator, but he's got a pretty good chance of winning in Maryland, and he'll caucus with the Republicans.
That'll be helpful.
He's not going to caucus with the Republicans.
He hates Trump.
He's going there to be a John McCain and a Mitt Romney.
I'd rather deal with.
No, I expect him to be Mitt Romney.
I'm not foolish, but if he does caucus with Republicans, it gives them the majority and it gives them the opportunity to have committee chairmanships.
Do I think that he's going to vote 70% of the time the way that I would like?
I don't expect it.
No.
He won't even do it 50% of the time.
It'll be better than a Democrat that's going to be 100% Biden and Harris, right?
Let's get the states we can.
This state right here, as far as Larry Hogan, I don't even want to waste breath on him.
Right now, we've got to make sure that our president is pray for him.
We've got to keep him in prayer every single day and claim the victory for him.
I tell you, nobody has absorbed more swords, had swords thrown at them than David.
I mean, Saul was throwing swords at David forever, and he still got the DK.
President Trump is going to be president.
They're not going to stop him.
And I'm claiming that in the name of Jesus, we're claiming it.
And Beverly, I know you're hearing me too.
We are claiming this victory.
Nothing is going to happen to President Trump.
I'm telling you, he is going to make it all the way, and he's going to fire all those people who are trying to get him now.
They're gone.
I am not.
I am cautiously hopeful and optimistic, but I am not where you are.
These institutions are extraordinarily powerful.
And I am telling every person listening to this show, I've tried to deputize all of you.
I can't do it on my own.
And you've got to get out the Kamala files, the Walls files.
It's a public service.
It's on Hannity.com.
And the more Americans that hear her and him in their own words, the better off we're all going to be.
By the way, have you experienced, I don't know, restless nights, sleepless nights after what happened and what you experienced in Butler?
Because I know a lot of people that have.
You know, surprisingly, yes.
You know, I just, I'm just going to take, fuck this all up.
By the way, it's not surprisingly.
I wasn't as strong as I thought I was.
I wasn't, this thing affected me more than I thought it would.
You know, Barbara, it's normal.
Imagine if you're Donald Trump, what you're going through.
When he stood up and raised his fist, and I mean, we were just waiting to see what was going to happen.
Nobody moved.
We didn't leave because we wanted to know that he was okay.
And once that happened, I felt so elated and so good and happy.
And, you know, but it's just something.
And now I know what PTSD does to people in war and seeing all this sort of stuff.
Yeah, but PTSD is real.
It is very, very real.
If I could tell you how many times over the years I've got calls from just even people I don't know or people that I do know about a relative, a friend, a neighbor, you know, that's on the verge of killing themselves because of PTSD.
And, you know, I have a whole group of people that I rely on, starting with Ollie North, you know, to try and get them, first talk them off the ledge and then get them the help that they need so that nothing terrible happens.
It's awful.
And if you think I sleep on those nights after living through that, I don't.
Barbara, we love you.
Thank you.
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800-941-Sean, if you want to be a part of the program, Leonard in the free state of Florida.
Leonard, how are you, sir?
Good, sir.
How are you doing today?
I'm good.
What's going on?
Well, you know, I've been, my brain's going.
I used to hunt a lot as a kid.
And if I hunted an elk or a deer or whatever it was, you had to know where they're at.
You had to know where your game is at.
If you look at these shootings, somebody is telling people, certain individuals, like these shooters, where Trump's located and what the conditions are going to be.
It's got to be.
How else would a guy living in Hawaii fly over, obtain an unregistered illegal gun, come in and know where to stand and where to sit all night long waiting, knowing who else in the country knows where Trump's going to be on a certain day except his either his private security, the Secret Service, the FBI.
Somebody is informing these people that are talking about going to do something like this.
It's got to be.
Well, I thought an awful lot about this because I was at breakfast with the person that was playing golf, as you know, and I had Steve Witkoff on this program yesterday and on TV last night.
But, you know, I'm looking at the front cover of today's New York Post, and apparently this guy was camped out there for 12 hours, which would have been long before Steve even got his note from Donald Trump that, hey, at about 2.30 in the morning, do you want to play golf maybe tomorrow?
And it was just a possibility.
It wasn't even like a locked-in thing.
But this guy was for 12 hours lying in wait, you know, at the location.
And according to law enforcement, they got a ping from his phone that he had been there for all of that time.
So all of this is very, very disconcerting to me because that was one of the first thoughts I have.
You know, how did this guy know Donald Trump was playing golf?
And it was sort of a spontaneous event.
By the way, some idiot, sweet baby James shows me.
Hannity must have tipped people off.
No, Hannity didn't tip anybody off.
I didn't even know for sure that they were playing, except that they asked me if I wanted to play, and I laughed at them because I don't play golf anywhere near the level they do and I haven't played in it forever.
But anyway, so the fact that he was there for 12 hours is chilling to me.
The fact that they did not sweep the area is chilling to me.
And I know the president wants to give him a pass, but Eric Trump will be on at the top of the next hour.
He tends to agree with me.
That area should have been swept.
Anyway, I appreciate the call.
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