Sean Hannity addresses the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting, asserting President Trump wisely rescheduled his speech after learning a perimeter sweep would leave gaps for a second shooter. He condemns Cole Thomas Allen's radicalization by left-wing rhetoric, comparing Democratic and media language to Nazi terminology that inspires violence. While DOJ charges include attempted assassination and U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro praises law enforcement, Hannity criticizes prior security failures at Butler and the Trump Golf Club, urging Democrats to drop their ballroom lawsuit and denouncing a "legacy media mob" encouraging opposition. Ultimately, he frames the incident as proof that political violence is intolerable when fueled by dehumanizing discourse. [Automatically generated summary]
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We expect a DOJ update on the White House Correspondents' Dinner shooting.
We have a lot of different angles we have to get to today, not the least of which I don't really care about the manifesto of a lunatic, except that it reveals two specific things that I think we've got to pay attention to.
One, you can tell by the ramblings, the rantings, and the ravings of this individual.
That he is somebody that has been greatly influenced by the incendiary, radicalized rhetoric of the left.
I mean, you can really kind of almost sum it up into, you know, Nazi fascist, racist Gestapo, because that's what we've heard.
That's all we ever hear.
That was Kamala Harris' closing arguments, and we've heard it every day ever since.
And they are never held accountable for all of this.
Now, I did say this last week, and I'll repeat it.
I've never been to a White House correspondence dinner, was not at this one.
And my record remains intact.
And it's very simple.
I'm not particularly fond of other people in the media.
And I know they're not fond of me.
And I don't hold back in my criticisms of them.
And the few interactions that I have had over the years at media parties, I mean, they mostly hate me.
I mean, let's be blunt.
And I'm not that fond of them.
I don't really want to hang out with them.
I don't consider that a fun night.
Well, this is historic.
Donald Trump was going to go.
I can tell you because I spoke to the president, this would have been a speech for the ages.
It would have been a roast for the ages.
And I think it would have been phenomenal.
It's sad, all the things that obviously happened.
My first comments out of the box is while I wasn't there, immediately I texted the president.
And within two, three minutes, when he got into the holding room, which was at the hotel, He called me after I had texted him.
And I got to be part of and got to listen to a lot of the deliberation surrounding what the president was going to do next.
The president could not be more.
This guy is ice in his veins when it comes to moments like this.
A lot of people, I don't know, I would imagine if most of you had a moment like this in your life, your adrenaline would be pumping and you would be, you might be a little bit upset by it, but he wasn't.
Not even a little.
In a way that was not at all inappropriate, if I can explain that the right way.
He was even at times joking.
Well, I saved a lot of people's lives.
You know, he was trying to make light of it, I think, just kind of relieving some of the pressure of the moment was my interpretation.
And we got to hear the deliberations.
And then pretty early on in that discussion, he asked me what I thought.
And he was the one alone voice.
Voice that was being adamant, no, we're going back out.
We're going to go back out, and I'm going to give this speech, and that's it.
And then, when you speak to this president in particular, and I've known him for 30 years, you have to get the guy's attention.
You just can't say, sir, I think that, no, it doesn't fly.
And so, in a very, very direct, firm tone, I said, sir, we've been friends for 30 years.
You absolutely positively can't leave him wiggle room, cannot go back in that room as of this moment.
We don't know if this is a lone shooter.
We don't know if there's a grander conspiracy.
We don't know if there's guns planted in that room.
And by the time they would sweep the room, we don't know how long that would take.
Probably five, 10 hours on the short side of it.
And at that point, that was kind of like the moment where he said, Well, I can go back to the White House and speak, and then I'm going to reschedule.
Right off the top of his head, I think it should be less, I think within the month.
And that's what he ended up coming up with the idea.
He ended up suggesting it.
He ended up saying it.
I heard the deliberations.
There were some people around him.
They're like, Yes, sir, whatever you want, sir.
I'm like, No, no bad advice, not good advice.
But I know everyone's trying to do their best in a hard situation, and that's it.
Here's where, and I did relay the story, and then I was able to talk with.
High ranking officials in the FBI.
I knew very early that a Secret Service agent had been shot.
We still don't know who shot that agent.
Some have suggested it might be friendly fire.
In the end, it may be.
I don't know.
I'm assuming it was this lunatic that was responsible for it.
However, we don't know for sure.
Maybe when this DOJ presser begins any minute, they have the guns that were used, and there were numerous weapons that this guy had with him at the time.
Here's my problem with all of this.
And it's first, I have to commend all of the brave men and women in the Secret Service that acted so quickly in the moment.
And they were there in mass.
They were there to protect cabinet officials.
They were there to protect the president, the vice president.
I'm not sure how the vice president got off the dais five seconds ahead of the president.
I would think the first thought is to get him and the first lady off of that dais quickly.
And anyway, so I know everyone's doing their level best.
Those people will all, and I've met them.
I.
They are the creme de la creme.
They are the best of the best.
These are people that will take a bullet for the president.
I have nothing but deep admiration for them.
This is the third time, however, that this has happened.
And we have got to have a deep, deep dive into what is going wrong.
And I can tell you what's going wrong.
Now, in the incident in Butler, where the president came within a millimeter of losing his life, what did we learn?
That somehow.
130 yards away from where Donald Trump was to be speaking.
Well, this is Todd Blanch, Janine Pirro, Kash Patel, taking to the podium.
Let's listen in.
Lots of additions, some of them great, some of them not so great over the years.
But here's Todd Blanch, the acting attorney general.
Let's listen in and we'll get your thoughts on the other side.
Of government, the ability of a free press and public officials to come together in celebration and not fear.
The act was stopped because of the courage and, excuse me, That act, that horrible act, was stopped because of the courage and professionalism of law enforcement.
The officers who responded without hesitation and did their jobs as they were trained to do.
Secret Service agents promptly tackled and detained the suspect, Cole Thomas Allen.
The president and all the protectees and participants at the dinner were safe.
One brave officer was injured.
And is receiving care and has been released from the hospital.
I want to make this clear.
This man was a floor above the ballroom with hundreds of federal agents between him and the President of the United States.
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The Department of Justice approaches incidents like this with urgency and clarity of purpose.
Violence has no place in civic life.
It cannot and will not be used to disrupt democratic institutions.
Or intimidate those who serve them, and it certainly cannot continue to be used against the President of the United States.
We are investigating this matter fully.
We will apply the law fairly, and we will ensure that accountability is swift and certain.
But we also should recognize what did not happen law enforcement did not fail.
They did exactly what they are trained to do.
This was not an accident, it was the result, as we know now, of preparation.
But the men and women who protected us that night were trained, professional, and had an enduring commitment to the rule of law.
Today, the Department of Justice filed three federal charges in United States District Court against Cole Thomas Allen.
The first count is attempted assassination of the President of the United States.
This count is punishable by up to life in prison.
The second count is interstate transportation of a firearm to commit a felony.
This is punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
And the third count is discharge of a firearm during a crime of violence, which is punishable by a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment of 10 years, a maximum of life, and the 10 years is consecutive to any other sentence imposed.
Just to go through very quickly the timeline, which many of you in this room already know, the defendant Allen made a hotel reservation at the Washington Hilton for April 24th through April 26th.
On April 21st of this year, he traveled by train from Los Angeles to Chicago and then from Chicago to Washington, D.C. On April 24th, he arrived in Washington, D.C. at approximately 1 o'clock in the afternoon and checked into the Washington Hilton.
Approximately at 8 40 on the night of April 25th, Alan approached a security checkpoint on the terrace level.
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Of the hotel, which is again a floor above where the dinner was taking place.
He ran through the magnemometer holding a long gun.
As he did so, US Secret Service personnel assigned to the checkpoint heard a loud gunshot.
One Secret Service officer was shot in the chest but was wearing a ballistic vest that worked.
This heroic officer who was hit fired five times at Allen, who was not shot but fell to the ground and was promptly arrested.
I want to thank everybody who worked tirelessly on Saturday, Sunday, and continuing today.
This includes members of the FBI, and Director Patel is going to address that in a minute.
It includes members of the Metropolitan Police Department who were immediately on the scene the chief, the mayor to make sure that law enforcement was available to do their jobs and had all the tools they needed to do so.
And lastly, the United States Attorney's Office here in DC, our U.S. Attorney Janine Pirro, and her team.
A prosecutor stayed up all night long, didn't sleep all day yesterday, making sure that we got what we needed from all over the country.
Included search warrants in California, search warrants here in D.C., multiple interviews that have been conducted already of witnesses and of family members of the charged individual, and continue to work hard today.
This investigation is ongoing, it's not complete.
A lot of the information that the media is hearing through leaks or sources, some of it is true, some of it is not true, and at the right time, you will hear information from us as appropriate.
I'd like to ask our U.S. Attorney, Jeanine Pirro, to say a few words and then followed by Director Patel.
Thank you.
Thank you, Mr. Attorney General.
Cole Allens.
All right, this is the DOJ update on the White House Correspondence Dinner shooting.
We will stay with our coverage for stations along the Sean Hannity Show radio network.
In the criminal justice system starts today.
Todd Blanche just indicated to you the charges.
Those charges are.
Only three charges that are in the complaint that has been presented in federal district court about an hour ago.
There will be additional charges as this investigation continues to unfold.
But make no mistake, this was an attempted assassination of the President of the United States, with the defendant making clear what his intent was.
And that intent was to bring down as many of the high ranking cabinet officials as he could.
This is the kind of situation that we cannot tolerate.
And as the Attorney General has just indicated, it could have been so much worse but for the reality that we had the Secret Service as well as the Metropolitan Police Department and the FBI.
Now, the facts make it very clear what this intent was.
You may recall that it was on March 2nd that the President indicated that he would be attending this public event at the At the Hilton.
And on April 6th, that's when Cole Allen first made a hotel reservation at the Washington Hilton for three nights the 24th, the 25th, and the 26th.
It was on April 21st that he traveled all the way from the West Coast from his home near L.A.
He gets to Chicago on April 23rd and has been indicated he arrives in D.C. on the 24th.
And he checks into the hotel at about 3 p.m.
He stays overnight.
He is very much aware that the president and the first lady entered the ballroom at 8 p.m.
And it was at 8 40 that he made a decision to rush the ballroom.
And thank goodness, law enforcement, the Secret Service, was able to prevent him from getting into that ballroom.
He was not injured other than some kind of scrape on his knee.
Now, As indicated, these are the weapons that the defendant had on his person.
You can see that's a 12 gauge pump action Mossberg shotgun.
It's a.38 semi automatic.
He had at least three knives and all kinds of paraphernalia.
So, any suggestion that he wasn't there to do harm is absurd.
We will prove when he purchased these guns, they were purchased in California.
Why is that relevant?
It is relevant because he crossed interstate lines with those firearms.
And those are the firearms that he used on the night of the 25th, or attempted to use at the very least.
Now, the manifesto also makes clear about his expected rules of engagement.
You know, you can look at it and read it, and it may seem kind of la la la, but at the end, make no mistake, he says, I am targeting the administration officials.
They are my targets, and I'm prioritizing from the top down the highest ranking from the lowest.
And I will not hesitate.
To get involved in any kind of encounter with anyone who blocks me from the president.
Now, finally, let me say one thing.
Within days of the president nominating me to be the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, I was at the scene of a double homicide where one Elias Rodriguez crossed state lines from Chicago with a firearm to commit a felony in the district.
He's now indicted for the murder of two individuals, Laurent Leshinsky and Sarah Milgram, here in Washington.
Not long after that, another individual, Ramanella Lock and Wall, crossed state lines again with a firearm with intent to commit a felony here in Washington.
He traveled from the state of Washington.
He is now indicted with the murder of Sarah Beckstrom, a National Guardsman, and the attempted murder of National Guard Andrew Wolf.
Today we have Cole Allen, another individual charged with crossing state lines coming from California with a firearm with the intent to commit a felony here in the district.
Let this be a message to anyone who thinks that Washington, D.C. is the place to act out political violence.
And if you are willing to do so with a firearm and cross state lines, we will find you, we will track your steps from the inception of your plan, and we will prosecute you to the fullest extent of the law.
Washington, D.C. is not the place to travel to commit acts of violence.
The Constitution and the laws of the United States permit us.
To register our views through our voices and our votes.
What they don't permit is making your views known through violence, especially violence directed at the President of the United States.
This is anti democratic at its core.
Thank you, Judge.
Excuse me, thank you, General.
This one hits a little differently.
We were all there, many of you were there.
Many of you watching were there as well.
The president was there.
The vice president was there.
The cabinet was there.
And what you saw described by the general and the U.S. attorney is absolutely true.
The president spoke on late Saturday evening with the message of unity and a backing of law enforcement, and we have followed through on that message of unity and the effectuation of law enforcement across this country.
This FBI is grateful to the United States Secret Service, the Department of Homeland Security, and our interagency partners, including the Metropolitan Police Department, for swiftly jumping into action.
All of us on there put us in a unique position, but all of us also acted uniquely.
The Washington Field Office jumped into action immediately, sending a mobile command center to the scene along with our evidence response technicians who showed up in speedy fashion to make sure we could collect the evidence that the prosecutors in the department needed to make this announcement today.
Also on scene, you were told about the brave heroics of the United States Secret Service and other members of law enforcement, and that should be celebrated by every single American.
They did exactly What they were trained to do.
They stopped a massive attack from becoming even worse.
They stood in the way, they safeguarded America, and they should be nothing but applauded for their bravery and their dedication to their mission and their selfless sacrifice to this country.
The FBI, along with standing up mobile command units, evidence tech response team, and Washington SWAT on scene, also established our NC3, our National Crisis Coordination Center, almost immediately.
And almost immediately in parallel, we stood up our command center at the Washington field office under ADIC Darren Cox's leadership.
Throughout the evening, we immediately began working with our Department of Justice.
Partners to find the evidence necessary to effectuate the legal process necessary and enter into the suspect's room at the Washington Hilton successfully and lawfully and obtain the relevant evidence for exploitation that was on scene.
Back at the headquarters division and the Washington field office, we were coordinating a national scale investigation that literally spanned from coast to coast.
As you heard, FBI agents along with the interagency were immediately dispatched to the suspect's home in California where we conducted interviews that provided critical information about this horrific attack.
We also dispatched investigators and agents to New London, Connecticut, where we conducted further interviews that provided necessary information that you will find in this criminal complaint, as the United States Attorney has just laid out.
While officers were working diligently through the night to conduct those interviews, we were also conducting interviews of witnesses on scene.
Those interviews are ongoing.
As you know, there were almost 2,000 people there.
We are sifting through and prioritizing who to talk to, and we will get to each and every one of you with any bit of relevant information.
Again, we ask everybody who has any relevant information, like I did on Saturday night with the president, 1 800, call FBI.
Any piece of information is information we want to have and must receive.
On top of the on scene response by this FBI, the headquarters response, and the Washington field office response, the FBI flipped on its enterprise wide response to this critical incident.
What does that mean?
We dispatched fixed wing assets across the country so that we could immediately transport evidence that was acquired in California and Connecticut and sent it to our laboratories in Quantico for analysis.
We collected the shell casings on scene, including the firearms and the weapons that the judge talked about.
Those were also sent to our Quantico laboratories for immediate analysis.
America should be proud that this FBI acted with the urgency that was needed for the moment that we had to answer.
The president rightly said that we will act in a unified fashion, and it's because of President Trump's leadership and backing of the blue, every single person in law enforcement that I stood with.
All right, we're going to continue our coverage of the DOJ.
This is Kash Patel, the FBI director, the latest details on the attempted shooting.
The attempted assassination on Saturday night, more of our coverage, and then we'll get to the other news of the day and your calls coming up.
And say thank you for doing their job.
Thank you for training endlessly to make sure they meet the mission requirements.
And for me, as the director of the FBI, I want to thank our headquarters components for working diligently with our prosecutors and make sure that the American public knows it's not just federal agents that do this work.
Agents sprung into action, got out of bed, and haven't slept since.
These prosecutors haven't slept since, and I promise you they're not going to be sleeping.
They are going to give you every piece of evidence.
As the journal said, we will make public when appropriate to protect the integrity of this investigation to make sure that due process is served and we will meet the highest standards of the Constitution as we always do.
And that is when we will continue to disclose information.
I know the public has a yearning for information, but just remind yourself of how much information you have already received, how transparent this administration has been in less than 48 hours.
You know almost every single thing we know.
And what we have not told you yet, we will tell you in short order.
So, once again, from me as director of the FBI, I want to thank the interagency.
I want to thank the United States Secret Service and their director, Mark Wayne Mullen, the Secretary of Homeland Security, the Attorney General, United States Attorney Pirro, and Ada Cox for springing into action on a night that should have been celebrating free speech.
But we will be doing it again shortly, as the President said, and we look forward to seeing you all there.
Pirro.
Two questions, please.
Beyond the evidence and what the judge described as the manifesto, what other evidence can you point to that Tells us that the president was the primary target of the suspect.
So we're a day and a half into the investigation.
As we talked about earlier, we were able to get multiple devices from various locations the hotel room and also where he lived in California.
We have started that process.
There's nothing more that would be appropriate to share at this time until we have thoroughly gone through it, which we're doing, and we'll share that information as appropriate.
In the future.
Second question, go ahead.
Beyond the assassination attempts against President Trump, you've had someone try to burn down the mansion where the governor lives in Pennsylvania.
You've had those state lawmakers attacked in Minnesota.
You've had two Israeli embassy staff members murdered in the city here.
You had the Charlie Kirk assassination.
You had the National Guardsmen killed in the city.
Can you, each of you, describe the current threat environment and what DOJ's stance is about it?
Well, you just described the current.
Threat environment pretty accurately, which is that the political violence and rhetoric has got to stop.
And that's something President Trump said right after the incident on Saturday night.
It's something that Carolyn Levitt talked about a couple hours ago.
It is something that is, when you have a president who, and many people in this room, if we're going to be honest about it, have done it as well.
They're just as guilty as a lot of people on X. When you have reporters, when you have media just being overly critical and calling the president horrible names.
For no reason, and without evidence, without proof, it shouldn't surprise us that this type of rhetoric takes place.
If you look at what it appears that this defendant had in his past, we're talking about somebody who is college educated, who has a job, who is otherwise living his life, and we'll find out more about him, as I expect, in the coming days and weeks.
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But he chose to do what he did, and so our threat environment is we are ready.
I mean, I'm not gonna go through what Director Patel just talked about with the way we responded.
But this was something that we will always be prepared for, and it's sad that it has to happen, but it's not a new thing, unfortunately.
Have you been able to determine whether the gunman fired shots?
If so, how many shots he fired, and whose bullet hit the agent?
We want to get that right.
So we're still looking at that.
It appears, and I don't want to overstate because we are still looking at this, that there were five shots that law enforcement fired.
All the evidence is being examined very carefully and expeditiously, and we'll know more soon.
We do believe that, as the complaint lays out, that the suspect, that the defendant, fired out of his shotgun, and we know that that happened.
But as far as getting into exacting ballistics, I'm not going to do that today because it's still being looked at and finalized.
Thank you for taking my question.
You personally have called for a construction of this ballroom at the White House, the president has called for this as well.
Today, the National Trust president put out a statement, says that they're grateful that everybody's okay, but, and I quote, we are not planning to voluntarily dismiss our lawsuit, which endangers no one, and which respectfully asks the administration to follow the law.
Ballroom construction is continuing unabated until June 5th at the earliest because the injunction is on hold.
Where does the Justice Department go from here?
And then I have a follow up on that.
Well, we filed a motion today asking the court to do what the plaintiffs refused to do.
We absolutely believe that there is no better example of why this ballroom is necessary.
All right, that is the DOJ now just taking questions from the media as it relates to the latest developments, what they've been able to share, questions about the shooting and the shooter at the White House Correspondents' Dinner that took place on Saturday night.
All right, so let me get back to the security aspect of this.
What are the three incidents, Butler, Trump International, and the White House Correspondents' Dinner event?
What do they all have in common?
Well, they all have in common that we have amazing Secret Service agents that are willing to risk it all.
In the case of Trump International, how this guy ever saw a guy hiding out in the bushes is unbelievable.
But that's not where the problem lies.
The problem is not with the agents, the problem is in the hours and days leading up to a location where the president is going to be.
In the case of Butler, how is it possible?
That somebody with a long rifle was able to get a ladder and climb on a roof a mere 130 yards from the president.
That should never happen.
To me, there's no excuse for that.
That is where sweeping comes in.
Once you sweep an entire perimeter, then you have to secure that area.
And that's where a perimeter has to be the appropriate length.
How long can somebody fire a long rifle if it's an outdoor event and hit their target?
In many places, you know, sharpshooters can fire from over 2,000 yards away, depending on what equipment they're using.
But in Butler, it was 130 yards.
That's like a layup, if you want to use a basketball analogy.
It's not a shot that even a reasonably trained person would ever miss.
And the president came within a millimeter of his life.
They moved to Trump International.
There are certain holes on this golf course that are known locations where paparazzi would often hide.
And the paparazzi, you know, often did hide and they'd take videos of Donald Trump and they'd take pictures of Donald Trump.
That area was never swept, even though Donald Trump was playing golf that day.
And I went to breakfast that morning with Steve Witkoff, who's now the Mideast envoy.
We had breakfast together.
He's begging me to go play with them.
And, you know, an hour and a half, two hours later, I get a phone call.
They tried to do it again.
And then we find out later that that treed area was not swept.
Again, if we're looking for how to prevent this from happening, there are three common things that have happened in each instance.
And in this particular case, the perimeter was very close to where the actual location of the ballroom was.
I mean, this guy comes running by.
Now, the entire hotel was not swept.
So if you don't sweep, you can't secure.
If the perimeter is not long enough, then you've got to make it bigger.
There's obvious that there's a failure in the lead up to these events.
It's not the agents that are there that will take a bullet.
They're not the problem.
They acted, they did their job.
It's the lead up.
Why does this keep happening?
I'm not casting aspersions.
I'm saying we see one common, familiar thing happening in three attempted assassination attempts against Donald Trump.
That would be called a failure.
What they're currently doing is not working.
And yes, this president's controversial.
He's also consequential.
And the media hates him.
You know, Dan Bongino is going to join us tonight on TV, you know, as well as the FBI director, Kash Patel.
But anyway, he said the shooting, you know, at this dinner, you know, there will be a review of securities.
A former Secret Service agent in his own right arguing investigators will need to examine whether the event perimeter was not wide enough.
And the odd thing is, they do know how to do it and do it perfectly.
And I know because going to many, you know, Republican national conventions and Democratic national conventions, I mean, they have multiple perimeters.
You have to get through one layer, then another layer, then another layer.
Usually you go, you get Wanda twice, Mag twice, credentialed three, four times before you can ever even think about getting to the location wherever it is that I'm going to be filming.
And more often than not, the agents, you know, hi, Mr. Hannity.
Yeah, no, I'll need to see your credentials.
And by the way, empty your pockets.
And no, no, no, your jewel is not allowed in.
And so on and so forth.
Whatever.
It happens to be.
Now we've got another problem.
And I'm calling it out.
It has to stop.
And that is for the third time, we've had an assassin that has come far too close to killing the president, President Trump.
It is now a pattern.
The suspect was a radicalized lefty.
You can read his manifesto.
You can see his postings online.
Yes, of course, thank God nobody was seriously injured.
But there's, you know, you talk about a cat nine lives.
How many more times is this going to happen?
And I am sorry, but this cannot go unchallenged.
And I'm glad the White House took this on today because the entire narrative of the Democratic Party, the mainstream Democrat Party, the mainstream Democrat Party, Of the legacy media mob is Gestapo, Nazi, fascist, racist, sexist, misogynist, homophobe, xenophobe, Islamophobe.
They want the dirty air, water, and to kill grandma and grandpa.
Barely a day goes by.
You know, no kings, Hitler, Gestapo.
You hear it all the time.
Now, it's not that I worry that the people saying it are necessarily going to be the people that do it.
However, There are many people in this country that are not mentally well.
They're not healthy.
And they begin to get desensitized to this rhetoric.
They begin, at some point here, to believe that this is all real.
It's not real.
It's not true.
It is demagoguery at its worst level.
You know, they've tried to, you know, they've called ICE agents, Nazis, brown shirts.
They've all done it.
These are mainstream Democrats that are doing this daily.
You know, you wonder why UnitedHealthcare CEO is killed and then people support this garbage.
It's pretty unbelievable.
Now, earlier today, Caroline Levitt mentioned the names of Democrats.
Let's play this.
The entire Democrat Party has made their pitch to voters across the country that Donald Trump poses an existential threat to democracy, that he is a fascist, and that they compare him to Hitler.
I mean, these are despicable statements that the American people have been consuming for years.
And so many mentally perturbed individuals are led to believe these words are truth and then are inspired to act.
On it.
I have a whole host of examples that we can share with you after.
It is pages and pages of major Democrat Party elected officials saying, such as Rep. Hakeem Jeffries just this April, this month, said, We are in an era of maximum warfare everywhere, all the time.
Governor Josh Shapiro said heads need to roll within the administration.
Senator Alex Padilla said people are, quote, dying because of fear and terror caused by the Trump administration.
Senator Elizabeth Warren, President Trump is making the country look like a, quote, fascist state.
Senator Adam Schiff saying President Trump using a dictator playbook.
Senator Ed Markey calling President Trump a dictator, saying that this administration's actions are authoritarianism on steroids.
Governor J.B. Pritzker, never before in my life have I called for mass protest disruptions.
These Republicans cannot know a moment of peace.
You have Rep. Presley saying, We'll see you in the streets.
Rep. Monica McIver, a Democrat representative on Capitol Hill, we will not take this from Donald Trump.
He thinks he's a dictator.
We are at war.
These are Democrat elected officials calling for war against the president of the United States and his supporters.
I could go on and on.
But again, when you have people in positions of power that are saying things like this every single day for years, you are inspiring violence by people who are already mentally ill.
And that's what we've seen against this president for far too long.
Dehumanizing and literally creating an object of rage.
You know, it all started, I think, an awful lot about blowing up the White House in 2017.
Madonna, Kathy Griffin, with her, you know, photographed herself holding a bloody severed head of Donald Trump fantasizing about beheading.
Maxine Waters, I will go and take Trump out tonight.
I have played all of this, you know, or just Senator Schumer.
I want to tell you, Gorsuch, tell you, Kavanaugh, you have released the whirlwind.
You will pay the price.
You won't know what hit you.
Disgraceful performance.
Remember Shakespeare's in the park back in the day?
This has been going on.
Since the moment this man came down this escalator.
Now, the only Democrat that is saying stop, drop the Trump derangement syndrome is John Fetterman.
That venue wasn't built to accommodate an event with the line of succession for our government after witnessing this attempted assassination.
It is time for Democrats to drop the TDS and build the White House ballroom for events like this, which would be the safest thing.
Now, by the way, probably he'll love it because he wants to be a martyr.
I'm not sure if he survives this, to be honest.
The first lady has called on ABC, and some of you are going to say, why is she doing this?
To punish Jimmy Kimmel.
He does a sketch just the other night, apparently.
You know, and the sketch aired Thursday evening, two days before, now the third attempt on the president's life.
And Melania Trump called him a coward, said, enough is enough.
Said he hides behind ABC because he knows the network will keep running cover to protect him.
It's time for ABC to take a stand because he said that, you know, she had the glow of an expectant widow.
Is it any wonder reports that Erica Kirk, obviously very upset over what happened the other night, can you blame her after all she's lived through?
One CNN commentator claiming on air that Trump wants us dead.
As SC Cup said, there's moments, but what is she talking about?
You know, all these people, well, Republicans do it too.
Give me the example.
You know, oh, I don't like the Donald Trump tweet, doesn't cut it.
So we'll see what happens.
Then the president himself, you know, we'll see what Disney does here.
You know, but this is the third time a group of 250 so called journalists called for a forceful demonstration of opposition to Trump at the White House Correspondents' Dinner.
This is a legacy media mob.
New York Post reported Forget covering protests.
Reporters think they should be the ones making the ruckus.
A group of over 250, quote, journalists, they're not journalists.
You know, members of the Beltway Press Corps, they are being encouraged to forcefully demonstrate opposition to President Trump.
Confronting Harvey Levin00:02:34
Who knows what they had planned?
I know what the president had planned.
And by the way, this would have been a kick ass speech by the president.
But anyway, these reporters demanding the White House Correspondents Association ensure he doesn't feel welcome.
Something was planned.
I can almost guarantee it.
The White House was ready for it, just in case you're interested.
But this is the culture that they have created.
This is who they are.
And this is, you know, Acosta reporters should prepare to walk the F out.
Well, why are you going to go if you want to walk out the room and put up a stink?
You know, it really is disgusting, despicable.
Now, here's the thing you're going to say, well, words, they're not responsible.
They didn't do it.
You're right.
You have to hold people accountable for their actions.
I agree with that to a good extent.
But I will tell you something.
And having been.
The focus of numerous attempts to get fired in my career, numerous attempts at boycotting this show and my TV show, numerous attempts to silence me.
I've been lucky.
I partner, I have great radio partners, I have great TV partners.
They've never given in to the pressure.
I've never even been approached about it, to be very blunt, or told what to do or say.
You know, you have a one time Democratic Assembly candidate in Wisconsin who owns a brewery promising to give away free beer the day Trump dies.
Did it get any sicker than that?
DOJ calling on the National Trust to drop its lawsuit against Trump's new ballroom.
You think maybe?
Maybe a good idea?
Maybe a better place, safer place?
Bulletproof everything?
Bomb proof everything?
Because that's what the president is building and it's not costing taxpayers a dime.
By the way, I got confronted by Harvey Levin's TMZ today.
Did I tell you?
I go, Harvey!
Tell Harvey, I say, I love Harvey.
I love Harvey.
And I start messing around with him.
And I actually had them laughing.
It was pretty funny.
It's just sad.
And something's got to be done.
We have a lot more to say about this.
But for those people that are susceptible to this dehumanization that is taking place, this incitement that takes place, you cannot tell me there's not a direct connection because there is.