The recent assassination attempts on Trump raise serious questions. The first involved a shooter with no apparent motive, advanced skills, and no online presence. Secret Service failures are glaring, particularly the lack of surveillance on a nearby rooftop. A second attempt, weeks later at a golf course, involved an assailant with an AK-47 and body armor. These incidents, barely covered by the mainstream media, suggest a potential conspiracy. The lack of investigation into these attempts, and the continued lack of security around Trump, is deeply concerning. Trump’s reaction to these events, demonstrating resilience and a continued focus on his duties, is remarkable. His calm demeanor and focus, especially during his recent inauguration, show a change in him since the attempts. The incidents highlight a worrying lack of accountability within the government.
Speaker 0: I do think that that shooting, I hope will be I hope that'll be examined because
Speaker 1: What's happened with the investigation? We don't know anything about this case.
Speaker 0: I don't know because you're not from The United States. It's very common for, assassins of presidents to have no motive at all. Extraordinary. And the age of 20 to have no social media profile. He never went on the Internet.
Speaker 1: Nothing. Kinda weird. No record at all.
Speaker 0: Yeah. Not all. No cutlery in his own home. Advanced bomb making skills, operating drones, bringing a rangefinder, making a pretty great offhand shot at a 50 yards under duress. It's just normal in America.
I mean, the whole thing is so nuts actually. The fact that the secret service allowed this to happen, which they did
Speaker 1: The guys on the most oh, if you would if if I was running the Secret Service for the day, what's the first place you'd look? Oh, it would be the flat roof with a direct line on the stage. You think?
Speaker 0: And there was not one agent positioned or assigned to look at that. None. They had no idea. But why? Well, because they wanted to kill Trump, obviously.
The Biden administration wanted to kill Trump. I mean, there's no doubt
Speaker 1: Do you genuinely think
Speaker 0: of it? Oversight. Well, I know that. And I know that by what I saw. In other words, if you leave your child inside a locked car car on a hot day and go into a casino and spend three hours gambling and the kid suffocates, I can say, Piers, you killed your child.
You say, well, I didn't mean to. It doesn't matter. You didn't care enough about your child that you went back and rescued him from suffocation. It's demonstrable. Your intent can be divined from your actions.
If you allow a roof a 40, 30, 40 yards away to remain unsurveiled, a guy with a range finder and a drone to come into your area while the president president is speaking. You don't care about saving a life of that man.
Speaker 1: I actually thought what happened at the golf course a few weeks later was even worse in this sense. This is a few weeks after he's actually been shot.
Speaker 0: Yes.
Speaker 1: He's playing at his own golf course where he regularly plays at weekends when he's in in Florida. And he was five minutes away of walking up to a green where if one secret service agent who happened to walk ahead had not seen the barrel of a rifle poking out of a bush, that guy had a loaded AK 47, he had body armor, he was ready to go, Trump would be dead. And that would have been, I think, the biggest scandal ever because that was just weeks after they already he'd already survived an assassination bill. But no one makes much of a fuss about that either.
Speaker 0: How many members of congress did that guy meet with? A lot. He was in Ukraine, which is controlled by the US intel services. I mean, that's just a fact. He was in Ukraine, which is a kind of wellspring of lunacy.
Sorry. I know you support it, but, it's done more to destabilize the West than anything that's happened in my lifetime. And the amount of evil that has emanated from that country, the amount of assassinations that have come from Ukraine, I happen to know, is very high. And so this guy is in Ukraine and having content well, how many members of Congress do you meet with them? What do they talk about?
This is an assassin. No. We don't know.
Speaker 1: So But but, again, again, the media fascinating. The mainstream media, when was the last big piece you read about either assassination? And yet if that had been an attempt on Obama, on Biden, on Harry, on anyone on the Democrat side, they wouldn't stop talking about it.
Speaker 0: Because everybody knows what this is. These are not lone gunmen any more than, you know, Lee Harvey Oswald was a lone gun. The lone gunman killed by a lone gunman two days later. Okay. Okay now.
I mean, it's just hap it's so horrifying that clearly both of these guys were agents of the permanent government in Washington or globally. And there's, like, no honest person who could deny that. It's just so obvious, and I think that people don't wanna wrestle with that because it's incredibly disturbing. I think it's also possible that people in Trump administration don't wanna deal with it. I mean, they're still guarded by the Secret Service.
Yeah. And whatever elements tried to murder Trump are still in the positions they I mean, I
Speaker 1: watched him the other day walking through a Las Vegas casino, and everyone was like, isn't that great? And I was like, wow. Really? They're letting the president walking walk through an open casino with endless amounts of people milling around. I think you can carry guns in Vegas, I think, can you?
It seemed to me a very high risk environment to put a a guy who'd literally just survived two assassination attempts. Is it two? I mean Well, there are more, I think, aren't there?
Speaker 0: I mean We
Speaker 1: don't know about. I don't know that Trump Trump doesn't want people to know about something with
Speaker 0: the reality. I think I think what you're saying is true. So, I think it's even more extraordinary than you're than we really know.
Speaker 1: Do you worry about him staying alive, literally?
Speaker 0: No. Because I think that, if you're gonna lead, you have to be willing to risk your life. I mean, obviously, I I I mean, of course, I I I love Trump personally, so it's like, no. I mean, it I can't imagine a few things worse than Trump being harmed. And so I'm I don't wanna be cavalier about that, but I also think as a factual matter, you cannot lead anything, including your own family, unless you're willing to lay down your life for it.
I've always thought that. I mean, that is what it is to be a leader. I'm putting other people before myself. It doesn't mean that you take senseless risks, of course, but it does mean that you have a measure of physical courage, and Trump is displaying that a lot. And I think physical courage, and Trump is displaying that a lot.
And I think it's essential. I think it's absolutely essential. And you'll hear people say, well, never take any risk. No. No.
No. You wanna lead, you have to that's what the job is, is taking risks.
Speaker 1: Funny enough. I talked to him a week after he was shot, and he I said, it takes a lot. I said, not just to get up when you did, but a week later, you'll be back on a you just finished another rally. And I said, did you not have any second thoughts about getting on a stage with 20,000 more strangers a week after you were shot? And he said an interesting thing, a very rare moment of kind of slight vulnerability that he was admitting.
He said, I knew if I didn't get back out quickly, I may never get back out. Yeah. I thought that was a really honest way. It wasn't
Speaker 0: a week. It was two days. Yeah. Because he was shot on a Saturday, and the Republican convention started Monday.
Speaker 1: Right. I'm looking at my picture.
Speaker 0: That's good. I'm remembering this right.
Speaker 1: And the Saturday afterwards was when he did the first rally afterwards.
Speaker 0: Where is that? He was in the middle of, you know, a a stadium Yeah. Yeah. In in Milwaukee. I was sitting next to him.
And I talked to him that night. I mean, what struck me the most was his attitude the night he was shot. I talked to him late night Saturday night about something else. And he I said, well, that's kind of he just
Speaker 1: got are you okay?
Speaker 0: Yeah. Great. Didn't wanna talk about himself at all. And the first thing he said and went on about it was how brave the people in the crowd were. And I thought, you know, he's often been called well, he's always called a narcissist, but here in his moment of of crisis, he's directing attention to other people.
I thought that was so because as you said, you don't really know a man until there's a lot of crisis. Do you
Speaker 1: think he's changed? I mean, I I've spoken to him a few times, not as much as you would have done. But I I do detect that two things have have changed him as a man. One, getting a second chance at life literally where half an inch and he's dead and the other getting another go at the presidency which was whatever people wanna say. It was completely derailed by the pandemic.
And I think that without that pandemic, he'd have been reelected very comfortably. And so he had a chance to sort of do over at two things, professional and personal. Yes. And I do sense with him, both privately but also what I'm seeing in public, a slightly changed guy. Do you feel that?
Speaker 0: Oh, I strongly feel that. I strongly on on many levels, I've noticed it. I mean, I was at the inauguration and, you know, right near him when he gave that inaugural. I've never seen him read you know, he's an amazing conversationalist, a wonderfully entertaining host in person, and he's a great extemporaneous speaker, but he's never been a great teleprompter reader. He didn't miss as a teleprompter reader, I noticed, he didn't miss a single word in that inaugural.
He was just so calm. Stylistic, but it's I think it speaks to
Speaker 1: And and disciplined.
Speaker 0: And disciplined.
Speaker 1: Which and and really focused.
Speaker 0: Right? With the pitfall look. I mean, Trump has full command of the US government to the extent anybody ever does because it's so huge, and more power in his first week of the presidency than any president in my lifetime more than Reagan.
