You're listening to KFI AM six forty the Bill Handles show on demand on the iHeartRadio f KFI AM six forty bill Handle Here it is a Tuesday morning, July sixteenth. In the last few days, ah Man, as Neil pointed out, what a news cycle this is Saturday night, the assassination of Donald Trump, the parent assassination or the attempted assassination of Donald Trump, and thank goodness he was missed. That poor firefighter, unfortunately was hit with one of
the bullets that the shooter unloaded from the top of the building. And we're going to talk a lot about that later on too. Yesterday I talked about how the Secret Service is in deep trouble on this one. And I have a podcast coming about the history of presidential assassinations, and I put that together and that'll be out. I think that'll be out on Thursday tomorrow or today one of my we just I changed the podcast around because I came in and
recorded a couple of new ones because of the assassination. Out of the seven how many were Republicans out of the seven attempts and some successful, yeah, six six were Republicans. Yeah. The only one that wasn't was JFK. Yeah, you know, I never thought of that. So I never thought of that. And if you look at JFK, if you look at his record, was more like a Republican. He was a pretty conservative Democrat, a very moderate Democrat as a matter of fact, just the civil rights aspect
of this, he's known as civil rights president. He is not. It's his brother RFK, who was the civil rights leader and fanatic and follower. Okay, now as we digress, all right, new vice presidential nominee. Well, they chosen one by Donald Trump, he calls twenty minutes before announcing
on True Social his social media platform. Quote. After lengthy deliberation and thought and considered, considering the tremendous talents of many others, I decided the person best suited to assume the position of vice president, and I states the Senator J. D. Vance of the Great State of Ohio. Now. JD. Vance is one of the most interesting guys. He's only forty. He may be the youngest senator right now in this enate, extraordinarily young. I
think if he wins the election, he'll be forty two. Just turned forty two. And now we're talking about going from the oldest presidential candidates now into the ticket one of the youngest. He is just a very interesting guy, I mean all over the place. He was one of the most critical of the critics of Donald Trump. He's always been a Republican. He's a populist more than he is a Republican. And he ripped into Trump in the Republican Party. I mean, I mean just viciously, and of course changes tune
and has joined the orbit of Donald Trump. And his selection is proof of Trump's remaking of the party. Now he's one of the most prominent boosters and is now air apparent to the Republican Party because the vice presidential candidate is in basically the air apparent. Now we have air apparents, it's not a question of the quality of the person anymore. Look at Kamala Harris, right, she is going to run if Joe Biden walks out the door because of his
age, stumbles out the door, crawls out the door. She is who thinks that Kamala Harris has the aptitude, has the intelligence, has the gravitas to be president of the United States. And that's the only person that's being considered as replacing Joe Biden, and so's it's just a weird thing. So JD. Fans now is the air apparent. I mean, Donald Trump is out the door, whether he wins or loses. If he wins, he's done, because there's two terms. If he loses, then he's done anyway,
although maybe not. He may be running the party till the day he dies. He may be the kingmaker of all kingmakers in the history of the Republican Party, in the history of national politics for that matter. And so now you've got JD. Vance. Now he's from the Midwest. He's from Ohio, which is a fairly safe Republican state, and in many cases he is the real deal when you talk about coming from populous roots. I mean. One of the things about former President Trump, and he talks about the
working man. He talks about the evils of big business. I mean, if you can imagine that he has convinced the working man that he is more on his side than Joe Biden, the most pro union president in the history of this country. And somehow Trump and the Republicans are able to turn around completely. I don't get that. I don't For example, what was last night three point four million working people have been are now not working and they've
lost their jobs because of illegal aliens coming over the border. Do you know how many jobs were actually created? Four point three million actually working new jobs were created. But reality is not part of this. For JD. Vance, it was part of it. And look where he came from. Okay, his grandparents were middle class, his parents not basically no dad. His family life was chaotic because mother slipped into addiction and as cycle through partners.
So Vance graduates high school, enlists the Marines, serves in Iraq, comes home. After that, attends Ohio State University, then Yale Law School, and then goes into big business venture capital. And at the same time he's writing his book, The Hillbilly Elogy, which was a huge, huge and is a huge success. And he talks about a world of despair and decay, but not romantically at all. I mean he does to talk about here
I am, I came from nothing. He talks about just how horrible it is to be there, and people it's in many cases their own fault. They have to bring it up by their bootstraps. And so when you talk about someone who when he when he connects to people on a populist level. He's real. I mean, he's also crazy. He blamed Joe Biden specifically for the assassination attempt. Send it out right, This is Joe Biden's fault,
huh. I mean, come on, guys, And he is much more of a populace and much harder to pin down than is Donald Trump, who talks about populism and conecting to the working man. Came from a very wealthy, wealthy family, has always been wealthy, lives like a king. Yet he is the working man's the hero of the working man and the hero of big business. How do you do both? How can you have both the working man, the middle of the lower classes and big business think that
you're their guy. I can't think of anybody else who is able to pull that off in the history of politics. Okay, now, let's talk about the election coming up, because obviously the RNC is about the nomination of the presidential nominee, and of course it is Trump. He has already won the
votes. Now it's a question of just telling them and being anointed. Now keep in mind that the Republicans, of course, when Trump lost, already had argued and started arguing to court dozens of times to overturn the election and to hold the election of twenty twenty invalid and lost at every point because we're unable to prove any allegation of the election being fraudulent, and there was a
little haphazard. You had different organizations, you have different people, state organization's, federal, public, National Committee, etc. Now it is conservative, and it is conservative, and it is absolutely planned. It has become coordinated and it's professional and is already attacking the election. It is a given that the election is going to be rigged if Donald Trump loses, and they're saying that right now. We know it is a rigged election, and now we
have to fight the rigging of the election. Lawsuit after lawsuit is being filed state legislature, state laws are being passed that allows elected officials read Republicans, to not only can test the election, but in fact recount on their own terms the votes and stop the certification, refuse to certify, and literally halt the election cold. If Biden wins. By the way, if President Trump, former President Trump wins, every one of those lawsuits will be dismissed.
That's a guarantee. So it is a two pronged approach that the Republicans those who want to overturn the election in the event Biden wins, and the approach is happening right now. Lawsuits are already being filed restricting voting ahead of election day, right early voting, because Democrats do better on those days, the Republicans do better day of election. Also short circuiting the process of ratifying the
winner afterwards if Trump loses. And this involves, you know, let's say, a legally dubious attempt to completely undo decades have settled law on how results are officially certified in the weeks before the new president takes office. They want to change that around completely. Not that president isn't overturned all the time. You know, the Democrats and liberals and those that are pro abortion are arguing, look at fifty years of precedent that Roe v. Wade has been overturned.
How horrible a horrible Roe v. Wade overturned precedent. You know, the court overturns precedents. Brown versus Board of Education completely overturned precedent eighteen ninety six plus versus Ferguson, it was okay to discriminate against black people the Supreme Court held that it held to the President that black people, well, we're effectively inferior. Actually it was separated, be equal. They were the same, but as long as you treated them the same, quote, you could
segregate them. That was precedents and it was upheld by the Supreme Court. So this argument of precedent must control, I mean, come on, guys, really, that's what we do is undue precedent. So that one I don't buy. But at the heart of this entire strategy is the drive to convince voters that the election is about to be stolen. We're four months out and they're stealing the election as we look at it. As we see it, you can see the Biden organization and the Democrats stealing the election. There
it is right there, they're committee fraud. Rudy Giuliani pointing to those two Georgia election workers. There they are there, they are stealing the election. May he mix that up, by the way, and that's carried across the country. He gets sued one hundred and something million dollars defamation suit to declare bankruptcy, which, by the way, the court didn't let him declare bankruptcy
because he committed fraud on the court on that one. And you now have the two election workers who are about to grab Giuliani's two houses, maybe not the dumpster he's going to move into that, they're going to let him stay in. And this is what is going to happen. So you will see the election of Trump loses as completely fraudulent, will be attacked and jurisdiction after jurisdiction after jurisdiction in a much more professional organized way than the attack happened in
twenty twenty. And they're going to lose. They know they're going to lose, but anything to delay, to delay certification to convince the American voters that a Trump loss is an unconstitutional vote, that the only constitution, the only way we uphold the constitution in this country is to elect Donald Trump. To
not elect Ronald Trump is the rigging of an election. Is the destruction of Democracy's kind of interesting how the Democrats are viewing what's happening and the Trump campaign is the destruction of democracy, which I have to agree with based on what the Trump organization is proclaiming and espousing. The Trump people are describing his loss as a constitutional attack. His very loss is against the constitution and democracy.
That is how crazy we have become huge news, huge news cycle. Of course, the assassination attempt on Saturday, and I want to do that if we can about that video that one of the one guy who starred in Swamp People or was one of the stars of Deliverance took the video of that one shot video shot of the shooter on the roof. You can see him lying prone in his head and the weapon in his hands. That's it. That's
the only one that exists. And what ended up happening, what they did, and he was interviewed, and I want to compare that to the video taken by Abraham Zepp Ruter in nineteen sixty three of the Kennedy assassination, and it's a very different world. And I think we got to do that because that's a really interesting story. I'm throwing this at Ann Over here, who's sitting next to me. Okay, let us go into what happened in the
classified documents case. As Donald Trump is probably the luckiest person I've ever met. Well, yeah, I have met him, actually I am seeing. I was a moderator of a speech that Donald Trump was at and I was up there interviewing him for a while. Twenty thousand people at the forum or eighteen thousand people, and I was asked to do the interview, and there I am on stage with him and asking him questions. That's a great story too, I should share. Do you remember I was with you. We
were walking to the door. He had a security guy who put his hand on me as you walked in. He said only him. I said, are you going to leave Trump alone? And he said no, and I said, I'm not going to leave Bill alone. And then he gave me his business card, says and he thought I was your security so they didn't give me his business card, and said, hey, if you ever want to go golfing, and he started geting. I'm like, I'm not leaving him alone. You're not leaving your guy alone. I'm not leaving my guy.
And by the way, the autographs that Trump was signing that day, they had baseballs for some reason that he was signing. I don't know why. I think that tied into the sponsorship. Yeah, something like that. And I remember the first question I asked him, which I do with wealthy people, is I said, you're one of the wealthiest men in America. And he said, yes, I am, you're a successful businessman. He goes, yes, I am, Bill. How much money do you have
in your pocket right now? How much money do you actually have in your pocket? And he goes, I don't know. I go put you know, let's let's see how much money you have, and he reaches into his pocket. He goes a couple hundred dollars, and I went, you're one of the wealthiest guys out there. That's the way I started. I remember that. But what does he need money for? That's true? Well, that's true. How much do you have on you right now? All right?
A couple of hundred dollars? I think I always carry. You usually carry about three, yeah, two, three hundred dollars I always carry. And I'll tell you why. It's not that I'm spending it because I use credit cards, but my philosophy of spending money. Let me tell you right now, carry the one now, two ten in twenty one, two three
four six, two hundred and twenty six dollars. And here's the reason of twenty two dollars on me, right, I know, but here's the reason I always have a couple of there for months, I'm telling you here is the reason why I carry a couple one hundred dollars. And this has been going on for many, many years. If I am ever held up by some drug addict who takes a gun to my head and says, gives me
all give me all your money, I want him to be happy. I do not want to whip out sixty cents and have him so pissed off that I get shot in the head I wanted. I want him to walk away a happy camper. By the way, I'm serious, this is not shtick. That's the reason I carry a couple hundred dollars in my pocket. I'm going to roll you today, two hundred today, two hundred and twenty six. I'm just gonna follow you. Put a mask on. I'm going to roll you for that money. But you'll be happy once a week. But
you're going to be Why don't you just carry drugs on you? At that point, you know you're right, I should go here. But what kind of drugs? What if it's a coke addict? Then heroin and you know, so hundred bucks. This is the new stuff out there. You're gonna love the hide. Did we actually do an entire segment on this, yep, I think, so all right, let's do this coming all right now. As I've said, former President Trump is one of the luckiest people out
there as far as the assassination is attempt. Thank goodness, he was lucky. And you could see last night when he appeared at the convention, which by the way, presidents or candidates never do until the last day. But what the hell, and the way it was orchestrated, absolutely brilliant with the songs and him coming down the hallway and entering the convention hall. I mean, just nobody does this better than Donald Trump. I'll tell you that right now. So last night was win. And by the way, if you
notice he actually teared up. I mean this guy literally averted death by just half an inch on Saturday night. When you come that close to death, I mean he said over and over to people in his orbit, who then reported he said, I could have been dead two days ago. That affects you. And then of course the adelation he received last night, he teared up, which I think anybody would. Okay, let's talk about his legal wins. And boy, here's the massive win, and that is the classified
documents case. He took the classified documents from the White House and moved them tomorrow logo and there were search onms because he just wouldn't return them. He just said, no, thank you, I'm keeping them, and negotiations went on. Finally the place was rated by the FBI when he wasn't there, and it was all these documents, and he was charged with forty counts of keeping these documents, some of them so secret by the way that many senior
national security officials were kept in the dark about them. That's the level of classification that he had in boxes, these documents, sitting in storage rooms and just in bathrooms all over the place. So he has been charged and his lawyers have been attempting to at least delay all aspects of the trial. And this is a federal trial, federal judge, and it was a Trump appointee in Miami that oversaw this case and she was on his side from day one,
so it looked like this case was going to go forward. They delayed enough so where the Trump people delayed enough so it wasn't going to go forward before the election. They made sure that it was going to go after the election, you know, to if it turns out that Trump wins I mean, the case is dismissed instantly if it turns out that he lost and was appealing it. He is now a convicted felon which he already is in New York and State court, and then he would be in federal court, and
he has the ability to pardon himself. We think, I don't even know. I just did a top I just did a podcast which I think is going to be released in the next week or two on the pardon of the president in the event that he becomes on the former president, in the event that he wins the election. Okay, so let me spend a minute talking about this case. All right, This was the strongest case that is against Donald Trump. Even his lawyers said, this is the one they're sweating bullets,
so to speak about. And they came in with this long shot argument that everybody even they thought, it's a hail Mary. But we're gonna throw everything we can. This is what defense lawyers do. They throw everything on the wall and hope that something sticks. Well, this one's stuck. And
here is the argument. Here is the legal argument, and it has to do with Special Counsel Jack Smith. And the argument is that since Jack Smith is an independent prosecutor council is not overseen by the Justice Department or the Attorney General. I mean it is this case is so special that we're going to have a special council having Richard Nixon in Watergate. And so here is what Trump's lawyer said, because there is no oversight, because Merrick Garland appointed Jack
Smith as an independent special counsel. Therefore Jack Smith is considered a senior member of the administration, and senior members of the administration must be confirmed by the Senate. All cabinet appointees and undersecretaries have to be confirmed by the Senate. And the argument was, as special counsel, because there's no oversight, he is and should be considered a senior member. And he wasn't confirmed by Congress. And he was paid his office was paid by the federal government. And
only Congress can authorize the payment of special prosecutors. So if there's going to be a special prosecutor, Congress has to confirm and Congress have to authorize payment. And guess what, it didn't happen. Therefore, Jack Smith's very job is illegal. Cannon didn't even go to the merits of the case, didn't even argue whether the documents were illegally taken, were illegally stored, and that Trump, as a former president, had the right to take those documents.
He's a private citizen, and he took highly classified documents from secure areas of the White House and moved them to his house and fought like crazy to keep them. I mean a year. He fought like crazy. And that's what the obstruction charges are about, by the way, or two kinds of charges him just taking him and number two him obstructing the return of them. And
the judge said, didn't even get to that point. The judge said that the entire prosecution Jack Smith, special Crop prosecutor not confirmed by the Senate, is illegal. The whole thing falls apart. Justice Department is going to be is good. Of course, going to appeal, and I think it's gonna win because similar cases. That argument was dismissed handily, I mean dismissed, like come on, really, Cannon loves Trump, and of course this puts
everything over and over. Now if he doesn't become president and pardon himself, and that's another topic, that's a wonderful topic. Does he have the ability to pardon himself? And I think this Supreme Court would give him the ability to say, I pardon myself, and that's going to be on a podcast. But short of that, I think it's going to be overturned on appeal. And I think this case is going to move forward unless until the president
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