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Best of Hannity: Donald Trump Jr. - December 25th, Hour 3
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of what was a phenomenal speech last night, introducing now the vice presidential candidate, JD Vance.
But Don, I've known you for nearly 30 years.
I don't know who gave a better speech, you or your daughter.
I mean, it's a pretty close toss-up for a very competitive family.
It is.
In a normal instance, I'd be disavowing.
I've never met her.
I don't want her competing with me.
But no, it was I've had, I guess, a lot of proud moments this week.
First, obviously, the reaction with my father over the weekend and him coming back up strong.
But no, as a father, to watch my daughter do that, and it was interesting.
People are like, oh, it was a good political move.
I was like, it wasn't a political move at all.
I'd never even think about putting my daughter up on that stage for her first speech ever.
She called me, Sean, on Monday morning early, and she was the one who was with me when I found out about my father having been shot.
She's the golfer, so she's always with him and plays, probably sees him more than any of the Trumps, frankly.
And by the way, I heard she's a phenomenal golfer, a top college recruit.
I have...
I had two kids that were D1 athletes.
I mean, I'm sure as a dad, there's nothing that makes you prouder.
And after last night, I guess that made you prouder.
Oh, 100%.
And so she calls me on that Monday.
She's like, I feel very strongly about this, Dad.
I want to speak at the RNC.
I'm like, oh, really?
Your first speech ever?
You want a 40,000 person live audience or whatever it is?
Well, there's only a couple of tens and tens of millions watching at home, but no big deal, no pressure, honey.
Not at all.
And so I called my dad and, hey, can I give her some of my time?
He goes, she's a winner, 100%.
She'll crush that.
And she did.
It was just really amazing to see.
My only goal, Sean, was to not sit there and start crying because the memes they would make about me crying.
That's true.
Look, I know you and your dad a long time.
And on Monday, when he entered the arena here in Milwaukee, I saw him a little choked up.
And then they panned to you.
And I've known you a long time.
And I don't think I'd have any different reaction myself.
I mean, you came within a millimeter or two of losing your father, who you love dearly.
I know you love dearly, and I know he loves you dearly.
You are a very close family, and you said, you know, you happen to be fishing.
You told me the other night on TV, but tell us the story.
Yeah, it was strange.
So the daughter that spoke last night, uncharacteristic for a 17-year-old, you get this call once every once a year, and she was just like, hey, can me and a couple of friends, you take us go fishing on the boat.
And I was like, 100%.
Like, if I get that call, it's very rare.
And so what I do, it's like, we're going to just cancel everything and do that.
And we go out there, and we're having a great afternoon on the water and catching fish.
And I just get a call from Kimberly.
He was like, your dad's been shot.
And I just said, wait, and that means a lot.
Did she not know what to, because when I first saw Don, honestly, and your dad's a friend of mine, and you know that.
I thought I said to the person, I said, they just killed him.
They just killed him.
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
That was in my head when he went down.
And then when he stood up, I thought the bullet was in his head.
Yeah, or somewhere else.
You can get shot in the chest, and it takes a while to bleed out.
I just didn't know.
Well, I saw his ear and his face bleeding.
I thought they shot him in the head, and I thought he was going to drop again.
Yeah, so I didn't know.
You know, I saw him come up to fine, I was like, man, that's a badass.
And then, but I didn't, you know, this is afterwards.
We got in, and it took about 90 minutes till I could even get through to any of the people that were near him to find out if he was actually alive or not.
That's a long hour and a half of unknown.
So we got in, obviously, got all my kids together, and I'm trying to explain to my other kids, 10-year-old, you know, daughter, like, your grandpa's been shot in the face.
It was rough.
And then, you know, finally got through to him, and he was okay.
And I just said, man, you are the biggest badass I know.
I mean, everyone thinks they're going to, every man in America wants to react that way after having been shot.
Every man thinks they'll do that.
I'd say, you know, one in a hundred, one in a thousand take a bullet to the face and get back up to science.
It was just, it was an incredible thing.
I just said, you know, it could not have been more proud.
And then, you know, just it was a very, it was a very heavy phone call.
I mean, all positive, but I had to break the ice a little bit because it was almost getting too much.
I just said, so most importantly, how is the hair?
Don, the hair is fine.
Did you really say that too?
What did he say?
Yeah, I mean, I just totally inappropriate, but I was like, you know, I was like, okay, like, we.
No, that's breaking the ice.
He has a little bit, a lot of blood in the hair, but other than that, the hair is good.
I mean, we can laugh now, but I mean, it was tense.
I don't know about you, but I have anger and fury in me at the head of the Secret Service, and I've been hitting this hard, and I'm going to get into more details.
But the idea that, oh, I take full responsibility, it was a slope roof.
It was hardly a slope to roof, number one.
Sean, I know these guys, and I'm a shooter, right?
I had a secret service detail.
I've trained with the counter sniper guys.
They're like buddies of mine.
They're not worried about a four-degree pitch group.
Like, this is not something they would, they'd be embarrassed if they had to say that, oh, we were worried.
It's an OSHA requirement.
Like, these guys are, you know, it's nonsense.
And it was even worse yesterday before I did my triggered podcast on Rumble.
Marshall Blackburn was walking by, and she's a good friend.
And she goes, Don, I got to tell you, I just got off the phone call with the Secret Service or the head of the Secret Service.
And she goes, you know, at 5.51 or at 5 o'clock, they knew there was a suspicious guy.
At 5.51, they saw him with a rangefinder and what seemed like a rifle.
At 5.53, they saw him on a roof set up.
My father got on the stage at 6 p.m.
Like 10 minutes later, they knew and they still let him get on the stage.
The first shots then went off at 6.11.
So for 20 minutes, they knew and nothing happened.
And then they lost, they knew he had the rangefinder, then they lost track of him, and then the slopes.
Let's say you're going to buy the slope roof nonsense.
Okay, let's just give them that for a second.
Then why didn't she say that?
And then we decided to put them inside the building.
Well, why didn't you put them on the perimeter outside the building?
Why didn't you have sniper eyes on the roof of that building?
Why didn't you have a drone flying above that building?
This is basic 101, Don.
Yeah, I mean, again, I don't want to be the guy to get conspiratorial, but it's sort of like Wuhan Lab League theory.
Like, of course, it's like, like, there's no other, there's no other plausible.
Of course, there's something.
And, you know, again, that doesn't take away from some of the guys that are great.
You probably know Sean Curran, who's the head of my dad's detail.
That guy's a great guy, a patriot.
The guys that jumped on your dad for crying out loud.
How great were they?
You pick up teams from other areas that they do different stuff.
So, I mean, whatever happened, man, I am a very, very pissed off son.
And I know these guys because I've had a detail.
I've been around my father's detail for eight years.
Like, that doesn't happen.
It doesn't happen.
And it certainly doesn't happen to a presumptive nominee where they step up the footprint even more.
So something dastardly has to be going on because there's almost no other explanation for that kind of lapse, that kind of breach.
Again, I thought perhaps, you know, hey, this happened in the middle of his speech, and he's been talking for an hour.
And so maybe a lot of the almost all cops are super MAGA.
I mean, the amount of selfies I've taken here in Milwaukee with cops walking by every time, it's incredible.
But maybe, hey, if he's speaking, maybe they got into it.
Maybe they're watching the speech.
Maybe they're not paying as much attention for some reason.
No, no, no.
They knew before he ever got on the stage.
And so it wasn't like their attention was withdrawn during that.
That's insane.
It's just not acceptable.
Well, I'm also told from pretty good sources that in the days and weeks ahead, we're going to learn that there have been multiple requests by your father and his team for extra security, and each request had been denied.
We'll find out more about that.
Let me transition for just for a second because I know you don't have a lot of time.
All we keep reading today is that it looks like the Democratic elite establishment, you know, the Washington establishment, the Hollywood establishment, the money people within the Democratic ranks, you know, don't really seem to care if they disenfranchise all of the Democratic primary voters, and they're doing everything and anything they possibly can do to push Joe out.
That likelihood seems greater today.
So that means, you know, we are just a mere, what, 60 days until early voting begins in Pennsylvania and 109 days until Election Day.
And you're telling me that we don't know who your father's running against?
If you've watched the Democrats over the last few years, Sean, you should realize that they don't care about democracy.
It's all sound bites for them, right?
They say these things.
The same people they call us fascists are the ones trying to lock up and jail their political opponents.
They're trying to bankrupt my father.
They're trying to use lawfare.
They're the ones that are acting like actual fascists.
So them doing anything possible to win, even if it breaks all the norms and rules, it doesn't matter.
They'll do all of that.
They're not just going to concede this thing.
But I do think they'd have to go to a Kamala Harris.
I don't think they can bypass sort of their checkbox candidate given how much emphasis they've put on those things over the last few years.
So I don't know that I feel any worse running against Kamala Harris.
I think that's probably still a pretty good thing for us.
They have harassed you.
They have harassed your brother.
They have harassed your family.
They have harassed your father.
I've never been this worried about our country or the state of the world, to be honest.
I'm not, Sean.
I mean, obviously, it's not like they can just change every policy that they've ever had for the last two years by switching in another candidate.
The reality is this, these are Democrat Party policies.
They've given us open borders.
They've brought on the fentanyl crisis.
They've destroyed our economy.
They keep doing it.
It doesn't matter if they plug in another candidate that's just simply going to do the same garbage that they've been doing.
It's all the same.
This is all Democrat Party policy.
So I don't care if it's Joe Biden.
I don't care if it's Kamala Harris.
I don't care if it's Gavin Newsome.
It's all the same.
These policies have failed America over and over again.
I agree, and I keep making the same point.
All right, quick break more with Donald Trump Jr.
on the other side, 800-941-Sean is a number.
As we continue, we're in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Day four, Donald Trump speaks tonight.
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Hannity on Fox as we continue from Milwaukee.
We continue now with Donald Trump Jr.
He introduced JD Vance last night.
His daughter also spoke at the RNC convention.
It's day four, his father will speak tonight.
Let me ask you one question.
Last night was a pretty special night.
I've been to a lot of conventions, and I think this is probably the smoothest one I've been to.
And, you know, I keep reading that you had known and been friends with J.D. for a long time.
When I interviewed him, I'd interviewed him before, and I supported him in his candidacy, but I didn't really get to know him that well.
And, you know, I read a book basically every day just preparing for this radio program and the TV show.
So I'm busy every day.
And I'd never had time to read Hillbilly Elgy.
And then when his name surfaced repeatedly as a potential VP candidate, I decided to watch the movie because that's all I really had time for.
And I was blown away.
And I called you, and I wanted to have a conversation with you about it because you are that close to him and maybe played an influential role.
I don't know.
I mean, I don't know what happened behind the scenes, to be very honest, but I keep reading that you did.
But you saw something in him that I really didn't know or see because I didn't know him as well as you.
But when I did an interview with him on Monday night when he was picked, he just blew me away.
I mean, beyond impressive.
He starts in Appalachia, ends up, you know, a Marine, goes and fights for our country, comes back, goes to Ohio State, top of his class at Yale, very successful businessman, Ohio senator, now vice presidential candidate for your father.
I mean, what a life story.
Most people don't survive growing up that way with a drug addict mother and an alcoholic mother.
No, and I mean, it's such a pervasive thing in our country right now that that happens.
So, you know, I think he's a great guy for that.
He understands those forgotten men and women that we were talking about.
I mean, he came from that.
He's living the quintessential American dream story, but he still remembers that.
So yeah, I've gotten to know him a lot over the last few years when he was running for Senate.
We'd already known each other pretty well by then.
And I sort of went all in with my father, sort of cashing in whatever political chips I may have with him to be like, trust me, this guy's going to be a rock star in the United States Senate.
He's going to fight for us.
And it started off differently.
Even JD sort of admits.
He's like, hey, I bought into the narrative about Trump back in 16, and I'd read Hillbilly LG back then.
And I was like, this guy'd be a great politician one day.
He gets it.
And when he was sort of against Trump initially or sort of just buying into those soundbites, I was like, oh, that sucks.
This guy seems like the perfect guy.
We got to know each other.
And he was the first to admit.
He's like, hey, man, I was wrong about these things as Trump started pushing these policies.
He was like, he's getting it done.
And so it wasn't one of these Republicans that was against Trump, which was all of them, frankly, right, initially.
He was the first guy to be like, I was wrong.
Trump is right.
I'm fighting for these same things.
We're going to do it.
I mean, I think it was a big part of why he then chose to get into the political arena myself.
So I pushed very hard for that.
I think he articulates so much of our message so well.
He goes into CNN and hostile media territory, and he does a better job explaining America First, explaining Trumpism there than most of our guys do on, you know, let's call it more friendly media.
So he's an amazing guy.
I think he's going to be an incredible candidate.
He's going to be an incredible vice president.
And he's also young enough to carry sort of that America First mantle further, you know, down the road.
And that's such a critical goal statement here.
I don't want to go back to the old ways of the Republican Party, never-ending wars, never-ending debt, all this nonsense.
We've got to keep the America First movement going forward.
Well said.
Don Jr., I'm glad your dad's okay.
I hope we get to the bottom of this.
And Election Day is a mere 109 days away, 60 days till early voting.
I urge people, this is an inflection point for our country.
Appreciate it, Don.
Thank you.
Appreciate it.
Great to be with you.
Thank you so much.
All right, 25 to the top of the hour, 800-941 Sean, if you want to be a part of the program.
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All right, day four, it is the night that Donald Trump takes to the stage in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, or as Linda says, Milwaukee.
And anyway, it's going to be a pretty interesting night.
You know, we just talked to Don Jr.
about a lot of issues, but I can tell you one issue that is in the forefront of my mind is what has happened with this case and how is it possible in this day and age for an assassin to get 130 feet away from the leading presidential candidate and former president.
There is no excuse at all for this.
And I don't believe the government is going to be capable of fairly investigating itself.
We need outside investigators.
Let me play you Congressman Corey Mills' comments on this issue.
My point is that this was too easy of a solution.
And when I think about 160%.
I'm just so uncomfortable with even having to say it.
I'm uncomfortable with having to say it.
Trust me, my whole point is that I would like to look at this and say, where was the mistake made?
How can we correct it in the future?
Why was this actually done?
But I think that this does warrant a J-13 type commission where we can actually look at it and say, let's investigate and find out why this happened so it doesn't happen anymore.
This is not about a political thing.
This is about we had an attempt to assassinate a president.
We really need to understand what a serious matter is.
And this was a milliseconds per millimeter difference between this being an attempt and this being an assassination.
Do you believe in divine intervention?
So I am a person of faith.
I can't explain one.
I hope that it was a corrugated roof and maybe he slipped off on one of the edges of the corrugated roof or he was rushed.
The whole thing, I think, just needs to have a better explanation so the American people and everyone can feel comfortable.
I agree completely.
There is no excuse.
Now, it gets even worse in my mind.
The head of the Secret Service, Kim Cheadle, should be fired, should have been fired immediately.
Joe did say that he did meet with him.
The only problem is him is a her.
And he didn't apparently remember that, but he hasn't had a cabinet meeting in 10, 11 months anyway.
And here he is, the head of the Secret Service, Kim Cheadle, explaining, oh, yeah, the buck stops with me, but I'm going to stay on as director.
And we didn't put people on the roof because it was the sloped roof.
Should that roof have been secure, period?
That building in particular has a sloped roof at its highest point.
And so, you know, there's a safety factor that would be considered there that we wouldn't want to put somebody up on a sloped roof.
And so, you know, the decision was made to secure the building from inside.
Who is most responsible for this happening?
What I would say is that the Secret Service is responsible for the protection of the former president.
So the buck stops with you?
The buck stops with me.
I am the director of the Secret Service.
You plan to stay on, absolutely.
I do plan to stay on.
And what about the fact that she says the sloped roof?
Really, that is an insane argument.
Anyway, joining us now to discuss this is Congressman Corey Mills of Florida, decorated Army combat veteran who serves on the House Armed Services and Foreign Affairs Committee, and also Sean Parnell, retired Army infantry captain.
He served in Afghanistan and was in the front row of Butler PA when this was all unfolding before his very eyes.
I'm sure the shock and horror of all of it will remain with him for the rest of his life.
And he's a former U.S. Army Airborne Ranger who served in the legendary 10th Mountain Division for six years, retired as a captain, had two bronze stars, one for valor and a purple heart.
Gentlemen, welcome both of you to the program.
Sean, I'll start with you.
You were there.
You were in the front row.
I could only imagine, you know, from my understanding, and maybe you can give us your perspective on this, is multiple shots were targeting the area where Donald Trump was.
It wasn't just the one shot that hit him.
Yeah, that's right, Sean.
Thank you for having me.
There were six shots, I think, right off the bat.
And I could hear the rounds crack right over my head.
So they were supersonic.
I could tell that the sniper was likely not far away.
I knew it was sniper fire instantly.
But the succession was, here are the shots.
I see President Trump grab his ear and go down instantly.
Secret Service was on him a second later.
And then I just started.
And by the way, those guys were amazing.
They did their job.
You know, they were willing to take a bullet for the president.
The shooting was continuing while they did that.
And that's when the one gentleman got killed.
Two others were injured.
Yeah.
And so what happened, people who got hit leave behind me.
And, you know, so within seconds, having been in many of these situations before in Afghanistan, I'm trying to ascertain the position of the shooter.
And Sean, within seconds, it was building or water tower.
And I'm telling you this, if I knew that in the moment, if I knew that in the chaos of the moment, surrounded by 30,000 people who didn't know what was going on, we had casualties right behind us.
It is simply incomprehensible to me that the United States Secret Service did not know that in some sort of advanced prep.
It's just absolutely inconceivable.
The question that was put towards Kim Cheadle, and again, I will remind Joey that Kim Cheadle happens to be a woman, and he said, I spoke to him.
No, it's not a ham.
So I'm doubtful that conversation even took place or if he even remembers it.
But the idea that they're making excuses for this, the perimeter has to be defined as any area that can be a threat towards a primary, as you call it, that you're trying to protect.
The primary in this case being Donald Trump.
That's the perimeter.
Well, this was outside the perimeter.
130 yards is like a two-foot putt, if you want to use a golf analogy, or the equivalent of a layup in basketball.
You don't miss a layup in basketball.
Although I occasionally miss one when I played varsity ball, depending on how focused I was on any given day.
But in all reality, the guy went to the range we now know earlier in the day, bought the rounds that day.
They knew that this guy apparently had a range finder with him, and they let him go.
They identified him as a suspicious individual, then lost sight of him.
And rather than wait to secure him, they let the president go out there and he was a sitting duck.
It's a miracle that this guy's alive today.
It is a miracle, Sean.
I mean, I'm telling you, so the president is up there on the stage.
I was with him 30 minutes prior, and he's up there on the stage.
He's doing his thing.
He's like, you know, I hate these teleprompters.
I'm going to go off script.
I tell my people these teleprompters are boring.
He cranes his head once to look at a screen.
He's got these big screens on his left and on his right.
He looks to his right, points.
He's like, ah, you see the immigration graphic?
That's my favorite graphic.
And he turns around.
He says, you see that arrow?
That's my favorite arrow.
That's the lowest point of immigration in this country.
And then he turns back to the screen, Sean.
And in that second, that's when the rounds are fired.
That's when he grabs his ear, and that's when he goes down.
The Secret Service is on the street.
So that means between the time that the shop was about to be taken and then taken, that's the exact second as to his head turn, which probably threw off the shot because it's kind of hard to miss from 130 yards with any rifle of that caliber.
Exactly.
And Sean, I'm telling you, I've been thinking about this since the rally happened, trying to unpack how something like this could possibly happen.
But it was the president's tendency to go off script that ultimately saved his life.
We talk about this all the time because, you know, I leave six or seven minutes every night in my monologue to go off script.
I don't stick to a script.
I write out a monologue, but then it becomes extemporaneous.
My whole radio show is extemporaneous.
And in that moment, that saved President Trump's life.
And then it just became about from there, you know, because the Secret Service had their mission, and they shunting President Trump off and protecting him.
Local police were treating casualties.
And so we had 30,000 people in that rally who were just trying to wrap their head around the fact that they had been shot at for the first time.
And when you do that, everybody kind of has this realization and it's like this.
Holy cow, somebody just tried to kill me.
Tried to wipe out everything that I was, everything that I am, everything that I ever will be.
And as you grapple with the realities of that, it can be kind of shocking.
And people forget, Sean, it was 95 degrees out.
I mean, it was oppressively hot.
So in the panic of the moment, we had elderly folks that were passing out.
We, of course, had the casualties that were shot that we were trying to triage.
We had to evacuate people that were heat casualties, carry people.
It was overwhelming.
And then we had to lead the evacuation.
Me and a couple other combat vets that were there lead the evacuation of the people out to get people out safely.
And then there were wheelchairs on the ground, people who were not, they weren't like Sean.
They weren't left behind, but there were elderly folks in wheelchairs being pushed by elderly people.
I mean, it was just...
I was surprised they let anybody out without checking everybody's phone.
I really was.
I thought that was something that should have happened.
All right, quick, very quick, come right back.
We'll continue more with Congressman Corey Mills, more with Sean Parnell on the other side.
I will continue now with Congressman Corey Mills of Florida and Sean Parnell is with us, retired Army infantry captain who was part of the legendary 10th Mountain Division for six years.
Let me bring in Congressman Corey Mills of Florida.
Congressman, you see what the Secret Service leadership, not rank and file, and there's a difference.
What they're trying to do is say, well, no, we handed that off to local law enforcement.
Excuse me.
That's not their job.
This is the job of the United States Secret Service.
Now we're learning that there have been multiple requests by the Trump team for more reinforcements for these rallies.
And there's going to be a paper trail, I am told, from my sources that comes out in the days and weeks ahead that's going to prove all of this.
And there's got to be accountability here.
I mean, they came within a millimeter of assassinating the number one candidate for president and a former president.
And it is the biggest security failure I can think of in our lifetime.
Well, you're exactly right, Sean.
And, you know, look, I've conducted thousands of advances and countersniper.
I ran a countersniper team for the State Department for a while after I'd left the military.
I had served in the 82nd Airborne Division.
I had served with attachments of Joint Special Operations Command in Iraq.
And, you know, when you look at this, one, the thing that I'm calling for with the J-13 Commission is to essentially go forward and launch an investigation because I do not trust the FBI to do this investigation.
I do not trust the Secret Service.
And I don't think that we'll ever get the transparency where they'll try to overclassify things so it's not transparent to the American people.
This needs to be, in its entirety, transparent to the American people so we can have confidence that this was not anything which was ill-intended or nefarious and that it was the gross negligence that was going on where that could be corrected.
I think that we can't take anything off the table at the moment.
And I'll tell you, Joe Biden couldn't tell the difference between Cheetah and Cheetos.
This individual is so lost.
And the fact that she isn't taking, you know, responsibility and accountability are two very different things.
We're not looking for a mea culpa here.
We almost had the former president assassinated.
And it was by divine intervention that that millisecond or millimeter didn't cost him his life.
At 160 yards, I can tell you right now, as someone who's run countersniper operations, I can take your standard off-the-shelf rifle that has a three-moa, and that 1.6-inch grouping of the MOA at 160 yards, so it's essentially 100 yards for every inch grouping.
At 3 MOA, I'm still only looking at 4 or 5 inches in my grouping capabilities.
The average head is 6 by 8.
The average shoulder is 20 inches across.
The average head to waist is 40 inches.
I know marksmen from that distance that can literally shoot a bullet through a wedding ring perfectly.
I've never actually picked up a rifle.
I can take something out of Walmart, hand it to you.
That's a 556, 223, or a 308 or a 30 Cal.
And I can tell you right now, within 10 minutes of you picking up that rifle, I can get you to hit a pie plate at 160 to 200 yards without even thinking.
Easy.
It's all basic workmanship.
So the fact is, is that I want to request and subpoena the actual advance plan.
I want to see exactly what their green-yellow route was.
I want to see exactly what the counter-sniper's data logbook shows with regards to its range fan and its range sketches.
When you get up on a counter-sniper team, the first thing you do when you hit the ground is you start doing a countersniper or sniper data book log where we actually go ahead and do a range scan and say, here's the things at 100, here's the things at 2, here's the things at 3 that we perceive as an unmitigated threat.
This building, Sean, is perfectly adjacent with a direct, unobstructed line of sight to the stage.
That is beyond negligence.
This is why, and I'm not trying to be the tinfoil hat conspiracist, but I'll tell you the difference between a conspiracy and a fact about six weeks in this day and age.
But the reality is that there is no plausible reason that you would leave this roof without someone either on the roof or at a minimum if resources is the issue.
You put a patrol car that's locked in the parking lot with the lights on as a deterrence.
As Sean can tell you, how about you just surround the damn perimeter and stop blaming local police that were, you know, pretty much the duty for the day was traffic control.
I mean, it's ridiculous.
It's their job.
It's not the job of local law enforcement.
I just have to run.
But listen, please, Congressman, don't give up on this investigation.
It's only begun.
We've got to hold these people accountable.
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